CLIFFORD A. FARMER
farmerc@wndmll.com • http://wndmll.com/
SKILLS I have
been professionally engineering client/server business systems and applications
for over 30 years, mostly using C#/C++ on Microsoft platforms, including web
and database services. I take
responsibility for converting vague goals into solid implementations using agile
engineering practices, often as technical lead with a small team. Two of my specialties are design for
usability (UI) and performance optimization at both high and low levels of
operation.
EXPERTISE C#/.Net
4/Linq/VS2010/Resharper, C++, SQLServer, MySql, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, with
libraries incl. AjaxControls, WinForms, Infragistics, TIBCO Rendezvous,
GigaSpaces/JQuery, and practices in TDD, Agile development, and continuous
integration using Perforce, NUnit, and TeamCity.
EXPERIENCE
Independent Consulting through my own company: Windmill
Software, 2011-2012
2/12-4/12:
Neat: A short-term project to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in a
C#/.Net 3.5 application using VS2010 Performance Explorer. The application uses
WPF, NHibernate, and SQL CE, and the development environment includes Jira, Review
Board, and TeamCity.
7/11-1/12:
Realpoint:
developed a new web site for the uploading, management, and review of financial
portfolio data via Excel spreadsheets, and supporting documents, using ASP.Net 4.0, EDMX, and SQL Server 10. Most
of the code was in C# to process the
large Excel spreadsheets using ADO
to import into the database and then later retrieve and reintegrate data into
spreadsheet templates to be downloaded and augmented.
Susquehanna International Group at
Bala Cynwyd, PA
6/00–7/11.: Senior Developer, Electronic Options Trading
I was
the technical lead or sole developer on a variety of mostly client-side trading
components, integrating market data, pricing parameters, and trade data for
high performance control and feedback of quoting and trading activities.
Following are some of the larger projects that I was responsible for:
TDI
(Trade Data Infrastructure)—I led a small team as well as designed and
implemented the capture, processing, and monitoring of 1M trades/day using C#/.Net 4/VS2010, TIBCO Rendezvous messaging, a GigaSpaces
transactional repository, and MySql
database archiving.
SOQRATES (SIG
Options Quoting)—I wrote and was responsible for a large component within a
robust trading platform to integrate financial events into options pricing
models, using C#/.Net 4/VS2010. Because of the need to provide instantaneous
feedback while still processing large amounts of data, this process required a
high degree of multi-threading, asynchronous communications, and queueing,
along with the commensurate error handling and recovery. The architecture relied heavily on base
service creators using strong interfaces for (DI) Dependency Injection as well
as TDD (Test-Driven Design) using NUnit that required mocks for many of the disparate
components. There were about 20
developers using Perforce, NUnit, and TeamCity build management.
COORS
(Customer Option Order Routing System)—programmed client-side control and
monitoring of trade routing using C#/.Net
3/VS2008, GigaSpaces/JQuery, MySql, and
Infragistics.
QuoteMaster— C++/VS2005 extended an existing option
specialists quoting tool for a electronic trading protocol that allows
specialists and market makers to automatically step up to competing quotes and
orders based on configurable delta, edge/opportunity, size, and timing
parameters.
AvgeImpliedVols—designed
and developed server-side components and client and configuration front-ends to
compute and display the “average implied volatilities” of stock indexes based
on the “at-the-forward” volatilities of their members, which are the basis for
index options valuations.
MOSES—developed
a real-time stock options valuation, opportunity estimator, and trading tool.
Trdweb—designed
a suite of web based query tools to mine the new trading, instrument, account
management, and statistical data being gathered in new corporate Oracle
database, using C++, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Java, VB, and Oracle 10.
Independent Consulting through my own company: Windmill
Software, 1990 - 2000
9/99–pres.: Sales Tax
Clearinghouse: Designed, implemented, and continue to operate the
website and services to determine the appropriate sales taxes for sales
anywhere within the U.S, using C++, ASP, DCOM, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, SQL
Server.
8/97–1/00: NovaCare:
Supported the processing of clinic/payer transactions, using VisualC++, SQLServer, on NT. Streamlined processing to triple throughput
and ultimately the number of clinics they can handle.
7/95–7/97: Commonwealth
Land Title Insurance Co.: Designed and developed the Delta Title
Production System, using VisualC++/MFC,
SQLServer, Office/VBA, HTML/J++ on Win95. Analyzed operating requirements, designed an
extensible order tracking and document preparation system to be used in over
200 branch offices, and managed a team of 15 developers, testers, and
documenters. The system includes a
configurable data dictionary, a forms designer, forms data entry, document
preparation, universal data interchange, and imaging.
7/94–6/95: CLT\National Residential Title Services:
Designed and implemented Title Order Manager, incorporating document imaging
(retrieval and manipulation), OCR, email, EDI, and work flow technologies,
using SQL\Windows 5.0, Visual C++, Sybase on Win3.1 and Win NT.
6/94–9/94: Day One: Designed and implemented
Windows-based forms entry software, similar to TurboTax, using Visual C++ 1.5.
9/93–9/94: CLT\Appraisal
Services: Designed and implemented an appraisal order management system
using SQL\Windows 4.1, Visual C++, Sybase, and Wang Open\image on Win3.1.
1/93–7/93: StarNet:
Developed software for the production, delivery and display of multimedia passive and interactive cable TV channels: regional
news, TV Guide listings, and PPV 'barker', all now on Suburban Cable
systems. (C/SDK/DLL/Targa/VB).
1/93–5/93: Aldus Corp:
Implemented the "Printer Styles addition" for PageMaker V5.
(C/SDK/DLL).
5/92–12/92: Feith Systems & Software: Developed a workflow system for their document imaging database system, and
wrote OLE 1.0 client & server
code for mailing/viewing documents. (Win 3.1 SDK/DDE/OLE/Informix SQL).
6/92–8/92: Windmill Software:
Published the Win32 API Pocket Guide.
3/92–9/92: Betz Equipment
Systems: Developed a water treatment process control front-end. (Borland C++ and Application Frameworks on
Windows 3.1)
1/91–12/91: Sadtler Research
Labs: Developed Windows-based chemical analysis applications with served
databases over Novell and DECnet.
7/90–11/90: Weitzel & Co.;
Developed MS-Windows-based real-estate MLS system, DOS & TSX.
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Hudson MA, Semiconductor Engineering Group/CAD-Logic Simulation.
1986-1990
Principal Engineer
- System architect for the
corporate Logic Simulation system, DECSIM-II; defined group standards for
portability, code review, and documentation; prototyped DECSIM-II in C/C++ on
VMS and Ultrix.
1983-1986
Senior Software Engineer
-
Developed system interfaces for DECSIM's debugger and other system-level
operations.
-
Designed CAD's Generic WireList format and access routines.
Self-Regulation
Systems (SRS),
1978-1982
System Architect
-
Designed and implemented an interactive, graphics, real-time, multi-display and
session recording biofeedback system, using 6502 machine code on an Apple ][.
EDUCATION
1978-1982 combined BS and MS in Computer Science 4-year program at Union College in
Schenectady, NY 1/12