Resume of Jerry L. Langland Ph.D.                     

Financial Systems Architect specializing in the design, implementation and management of Portfolio, Risk Management and Electronic Trading Systems with a focus of Straight Through Processing and 360° visibility.

Investments Knowledge:

  • Design systems (11 yrs) for Futures, Options, Commodities, Separately Managed Accounts, Equities, Fixed Income and Funds.

  • Focus on VAR Management, Trading, Performance Measurement Portfolio Accounting and Back Office Accounting Integration. 

Quantitative Analysis: 

  • Analysis and dissemination (7 yrs dedicated 9 additional years adjunct to other systems) of extremely large scale data sets using empirical modeling.

  • Applied Monte-Carlo simulation, multi-variate non-linear regression and other mathematical techniques to large scale data sets.

  • Developed VAR and Performance Reporting engine to support real time Attribution and Risk Management.

Technical Architecture:

  • Architect (16 yrs) designing and utilizing large scale data acquisition, distribution and analysis systems.

  • Programming (23 yrs) in multiple languages and platforms: C/C++, Delphi, VB, Java, Fortran, scripting, SQL, COM, CORBA, MTS, MSMQ, MQSeries  (21 years in MS platforms).

  • System Administration (17 yrs) with experience in W2K/NT/PC, VMS, and UNIX environments.  Internet (17+ yrs).

Organizational and Project Management: 

  • Directed multiple development teams (14 yrs) for Financial Services Systems and Quantitative Analysis. 

  • Successfully directed multiple mixed teams (internal, consultant and vendor) to implement large scale projects.

  • Managed multiple, mission critical, partner and vendor relationships, led integration efforts with channel partners and service providers.

  • Successfully managed relationships for joint development projects with multiple Big 5 consulting companies.

  • Key liaison and project manager on over 30 enterprise projects linking Risk Management, Trading and Back Office functions.

  • Developed strategic growth,  integration, implementation and support plans, budget projections and needs forecasting reports.

  • Built and managed teams establishing system policies, quality assurance, 24x7 coverage to support data centers, subscription services and Wide Area Networks.

Recent Experience:

Software Guru, Inc. and SHG Services, LLC                                                                                  August 2002-Present

President of Software Guru, Inc. IT Consulting firm specializing in the SMB and Financial Services markets.
  • Provide high level consulting on data aggregation, manipulation and measurement and analysis techniques, software and systems.
  • Provide application development support to both financial services firms and the traditional SMB market.
  • Provide firms with managed teams of highly skilled, difficult to locate specialists for application development.
  • Provide 24x7 data center production and corporate systems support.
  • Recent and current client lists includes Benefits Consultants, RIA's, Financial Services ASP’s, Portfolio Auditing Services, Internet Television and Broadcasting Company as well as multiple traditional Small to Mid Sized businesses.
Co-Founder and Member Manager of SHG Services, LLC a Financial Services Consulting Firm.
  • Provide Outsourced Back Office, Portfolio Accounting and Performance Measurement Services
  • Provide integrated Security Master and Pricing services in both an outsourced and ASP model. Provide high level pricing and portfolio modeling consultation and assistance.
  • Provide custodial and FCM data aggregation and normalization and transformation services.
  • Provide high level financial services consulting to Advisors, Brokerages, Benefits Consultants Financial Services ASP’s and Family Offices.

 

 

EnvestnetPMC Inc.                                                                                                                  June 2001 – August 2002

Director of Systems Development, November 2001 to August 2002

Ÿ          Developed integrated, secure network to capture and import disparate data feeds from custodians, data feeds, for STP system.     Development in SQL Server, Delphi, NT-Shell, PGP.

Ÿ          Evaluated Service Provider environment portability to .Net framework. Prototype and comparison testing of VB.Net, C#, Java, DTS, C, SQL parsers, translators , loaders and application middleware components.

Ÿ          Developed and led implementation of corporate Enterprise Resource Management plan to integrate CRM, Accounting, Help Desk, Client Services, Operations and proprietary Financial Trading and Accounting System into a single 360◦ client-centric view.  Development in Siebel and SQL Server.

Ÿ          Successfully integrated the IT infrastructure and teams of two financial services companies after merger. 

Ÿ          Relocated Trading Desk operations to Chicago and associated systems and compliance facilities.

Ÿ          Managed IT Infrastructure and Systems team with multi-million dollar budget to support all corporate IT systems and data centers.

  

Technology Consulting Manager, June 2001 to November 2001

Ÿ          Managed corporate technology relationships in large scale client build outs, perform needs analysis, RFP and Due Diligence Process management.   Clients included American Express, DTB, Fidelity, Schwab, APL, and others.

Ÿ          Defined product, technology and security changes and modifications to meet client needs.

Ÿ          Analysis and architectural design for integrating portfolio accounting systems (Internal, APL, Advent, GIM II, PAM). Development in SQL Server, Informix, C/C++, Javascript, Cold Fusion.

Ÿ          Redesign database security model adding hierarchical client structure (Enterprise, Firm, Branch, Advisor, Investor) allowing for security and permissions to be adjustable/cascaded at all levels.  Development in Transact-SQL (MSSQL), Cold Fusion.

Ÿ          Evaluate and analyze acquired company’s product line, IT infrastructure, employee performance.  Create technology integration recommendations, employee retention plans, manage acquired employee morale for Technology team.

Ÿ          Manage technical requirements, procedures and practices for corporate integration following merger.

  

Insignis Inc.                                                                                                                          December 1995 - June  2001

Vice President IT Strategy and Senior Network Architect.

Ÿ          Financial Market Modeling/VAR of futures/options products.  Hedging and trading strategies, portfolio optimization.  Development in C, Fortran.

Ÿ          Lead architect, project manager and principle client contact at the SVP level for multiple broker-client-custodian subscription based financial services network.  Initial rollout to General Motors, Chase Manhattan,  Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter, Salomon-Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs,  Merrill Lynch, Cargill Investor Services.  Development in C/C++, awk,  Java, Lotus Notes, VB, Tranact SQL.

Ÿ          Lead architect, project manager and principle client contact at the SVP level for real time (STP) trading and portfolio management system for multiple clients, including Barclays Bank, Cargill Investments Services and others.  Integration with exchanges and service providers such as the CME, CBOT, PC Quote, CQG, Reuters.   Development in Delphi, C/C++, Java.

Ÿ          Managed multiple teams of developers and systems administrators in the deployment and support of financial services applications.

Ÿ          Developed distributed trading system for Futures, Commodities and Equities using a messaging based middleware and SQL Server backend.  Development in Delphi, VB, C/C++, ASP, XML, MS SQL, MSMQ, COM, MTS.

Ÿ          Integrated trading system with Risk Management, Portfolio Accounting, and Performance Reporting systems to facilitate Straight Through Processing.   Development in Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, ASP, XML, VBA, Excel, Access, COM.

Ÿ          Designed and implemented fully automated multi-broker back office Reconciliation, Performance Reporting and Risk Management system for $30B notional value futures and commodities portfolio, to combine and normalize disparate broker formats such that it was delivered directly to clients overnight for sophisticated Value At Risk reporting and performance management.  Development in MS SQL, Lotus Domino (LotusScript/VBA}, Excel-Access-VBA, Java, Javascript, awk, perl.

Ÿ          Develop support infrastructure for $35B equities and Fixed Income Performance Reporting service.  Development in Transact-SQL, Delphi, C/C++, dBase, Paradox, Access, NT/Shell, network.  Principle client was CNA.

Ÿ          Financial and corporate modeling and research to support first round funding. Evaluation of product alignments and integrability for corporate M&A.

Ÿ          Migrated original company product from Sun/Sybase to NT/SQL Server, built all new GUI interfaces.  Development in Delphi, C, SQL Anywhere, Sybase.

Ÿ          Responsible for budgeting, revenue projections, and technical due diligence.

  

Research Associate, University of Iowa.                                                                                                        1990 - 1995

Ÿ          Designed and implemented multiple high speed, distributed, 24x7 UNIX and VMS based transactional message queuing systems for extremely high speed data acquisition and analysis.  Development in Fortran, C, Visual Basic, Excel, sh, awk.  System transaction processing rates of 100 to 10,000 transactions per second. Up to 1 Gb/minute compressed data acquisition and recording capability.

Ÿ          Performed large-scale data analysis using multi-variate non-linear regression, Monte-Carlo simulation and other techniques.  Development in Fortran, C, Visual Basic, Excel, sh.

Ÿ          Development of multiple PC applications in Borland C++ using Protogen CASE tool. 

  

Contract Work.                                                                                                                                                1984 – 1990

Ÿ          System Integration, network installation and management.  SunOS, Novell, PC, various microprocessor systems.

Ÿ          Custom programming 

Detailed Skill Summary: 

Analysis: VAR analysis, financial market and trend analysis, derivative price modeling, multivariate non-linear regression, Monte-Carlo simulation, business/revenue modeling, business process to electronic system mapping

Applications:  Siebel, Lotus Notes/Domino, MS BackOffice (IIS, SQL Server, ISA/Proxy, SMS, Exchange, Site Server), MS Conferencing Server, Sharepoint, Great Plains, Argent, ArcServe, Veritas, Innoculan, Norton AV, McAfee, Trend, MS Office, MS Project, Lotus Smart Suite, Visio, Mathematica, Matlab, Bryce, Poser, various CAD, others.

Consulting: Over 14 years consulting experience, 8 years in financial services IT consulting at Fortune 500 level or higher.

Databases:  MS SQL Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, SQL Anywhere, Sybase, DB2, dBase, Paradox, Access, Interbase, Informix, Oracle, ODBC, BDE, OLE DB, ADO.

Financial Service Protocols: FIX, MFA, MATIF/GL, LIFFE, DTB, ORAPI/ODAPI, PATS, PCQuote, Trading Technologies.

GUI Environments:  W2K/XP/NT/Windows, X11, Mac OS, OS X.

Hardware:  Intel/PC, VAX, RS6000, SGI, Sun, Macintosh, CISCO, Marconi, Checkpoint, Nortel, PBX.

Interfaces/Electronics:  LAN/WAN Hardware (Routers, CSU/DSU, etc.), Digital/Analog Computer Interfaces (CAMAC, FastBus, RMH, VME, NIM), SCSI.

Internet:  17 years experience in designing and using Internet applications based on all Internet protocols.

Libraries/API/Middleware/Protocols:  .Net/COM/DCOM/ActiveX/OLE, Active Directory, MS Message Queue, MS Transaction Server (MTS), MQ Series, Neon, TCP/IP Sockets, WINS, NetBIOS, HTTP, SMTP/POP, DNS, FTP, LDAP, UUCP, NNTP, CERN, MFC, OWL, BGI, X11, Motif, VMS RTL.

Management:  Creation of outgoing/response to incoming RFI’s and RFP’s.  Writing and review of architectural requirements and architectural design documents, proposals, project plans, resource allocations, cost estimates, discovery documentation.  Hiring and interviewing of technical personnel.  Technical mentoring and management of developers and administrators.  Full life cycle development experience on multiple projects.

Mathematical:  Large scale statistical analysis, multivariate non-linear regression, Monte Carlo simulation, systems of ODE’s, PDE’s.

Networks:  TCP/IP,  Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, DECNet, Novell IPX/SPX

Operating Systems: NT/2000, DOS/Windows/95/98, VMS, UNIX (AIX, IRIX, Solaris, Linux), Primos, Mac OS, CISCO and Gandalf Routers.

Programming:/Scripting: Delphi/Pascal, Visual BASIC/BASIC-VB.Net, FORTRAN,  C/C++, Transact-SQL, Excel/VBA, Lotus Notes, VBScript, Lotus Script, C#, Java/JBuilder, HTML/CGI/ISAPI, XML, Visual Interdev, ASP, Cold Fusion, UNIX shell scripts, DCL, Access,  awk.

System Administration:  NT/2003/2000/XP, Notes/Domino, MS SQL Server, IIS, Exchange, VMS, UNIX, Novell.

  

Education: 

Ph.D. with Dissertation in Experimental High Energy Physics.  University of Iowa 1995.

M.S. Physics.  University of Iowa 1992.

B.S. in Mathematics and Physics with specialization in Astrophysics. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 1988.