CLIFFORD A. FARMER

farmerc@wndmll.com    http://wndmll.com/

1130 Darczuk Dr.Garnet Valley, PA  19061

 

OBJECTIVE       To engineer technical solutions and manage the development of new business systems.

 

EXPERTISE       C#/.Net, Visual C++, Oracle, SQLServer, OCX, Web design: ASP/.Net, HTML, CSS, IIS, JavaScript.

 

EXPERIENCE –

Susquehanna International Group, Bala Cynwyd, PA

6/00–pres.: Senior Programmer, Electronic Options Trading

SOQRATES—.Net/C# replacement of option quoting/trading tool, QuoteMaster, below.

QuoteMaster—extended an existing stock option specialists quoting tool for a new electronic trading protocol just opened by the CBOE called Hybrid 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.

            Prototyped ‘next generation’ system in C# with VC8 and evaluated several data caching and transferrance products, including Gigaspaces, ZeroC ICE,

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.

Note: all components above utilized Visual C++ V8, MFC, TIBCO Rendezvous v.7.2, RogueWave SourcePro cross-platform components, Stingray Objective Grid, Oracle 10 on Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/XP.

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 - Present

9/99–pres.:    Sales Tax Clearinghouse: Designed and implemented website and service to calculate, collect, file, and remit sales taxes over the Internet, 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.

 

5/96–pres.:    Windmill Software: Designed and run several commercial web services: http://ISTest.com Online Technical Applicant Testing Service, the Sales Tax Clearinghouse at http://theSTC.com, and the Singles Network at http://ProfilesInLove.com, using HTML, C++, DHTML, JavaScript, DCOM, and NT.

 

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), Schenectady NY

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    Union College in Schenectady, NY - B.S. in Computer Science/Bio-Chem; M.S. in Computer Science.               7/07