Special Projects Gallery Welcome to "The Gallery"... Here you'll find
selections of our work and descriptions
|
||
| Financial (stock market) Projects | ||
| StockWatch "Technology Preview" - Information
Acquisition, Integration and Analysis The purpose of this application is to provide "something more" for people who actively trade on momentum in the stock market "Day Traders". Here are some of the objectives of our early work:
The goal is to build something to integrate resources, many disparate and cumbersome, presently used by Day Traders into a "more information at your fingertips" toolset. We are also investigating ways to capture, process and distribute data that is not currently available.
StockWatch Product Information Here's what StockWatch does now:
If you're interested in learning more about StockWatch or would like to be involved in its evolution, please send email to nbates@tiac.net or /msg "nbates" in #mbtrading or #daytraders. Good Trading! PS. I thank RHD and the Team @ MB Trading for their continued support throughout this project. |
||
| Commercial Projects | ||
| LifePlans Family Caring Network - Systems and Solution
Design The LifePlans project was a complete technology re-engineering effort. In the beginning they were running an Oracle database on a Banyn network server. The setup had already reached its full capacity, now taking ~30 hours to complete a run of daily reports. There were also many new requirements stemming from a new contract for Long Term Insurance assessments. The LifePlans daily assessment processing activity was expected to quadruple within 2-3 months. Their existing environment was was 2 client PC's and one server PC system. We designed and implemented a new client-server architecture:
For software there were two applications and associated databases with 2-3 years worth of data which needed to be migrated, then re-written (for performance and architectural reasons). A number of applications were written to fully automate (with the exception of some incoming paper Faxes) the entire 'n' step operation of receiving an assessment request, entering the customer and client information and assigning the client information to one of 2500 country agencies (and an associated account manager). Once a client was assigned then the agency was required to schedule an interview with the client within 'n' number of days. All states needed to be tracked; client not home, client rescheduled, client sick, client deceased, etc. On a nightly basis all of the information changes needed to be uploaded to an IBM mainframe. In addition, to avoid the need to Fax assessment requests, agencies required that Order Stations be equipped (new software and hardware) and shipped to their local offices. These systems were queried by LifePlan's new servers early each morning and all of the new data was automatically added into a local system database. All of this required new development:
All in all quite a job... Bottom line: Our Customer 'LifePlans' was very happy with what we provided them. They recovered their full investment (hardware, software and development expenses) in just few months and also performed a quantitative analysis of their operational efficiency (before and after the project) and were ecstatic with the results! Special thanks to Kevin and Denise Liston for their help and support with this project! |
||
| Military Projects | ||
|
B2
Stealth Bomber - Flight Radar and Active Countermeasures Embedded kernel design, mission-critical networking, device drivers and ADA to C software porting for a re-host of B2 simulator software onto Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha AXP platform. |
|
|
International
Space Station - Horizontal Test Simulator Rapid-prototyping, system integration, network design, embedded kernel design, device driver development, X-motif, Assembly, C and C++ programming for NASA, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. |
|
|
Tactical
Display and Terminal Designs - Advanced Graphics Several projects: Stroke to raster display conversion (analog/digital) hardware and softwared design, 2D to 3D convergance, terrain mapping algorithms, array processor design, dual-processor hardware and graphic memory design, kernel design, firmware design, multi-port arbitration and prioritization core logic and MIL-STD-1553 network architecture. |
|
|
Digital Computer and Network Designs - Advanced Radar Systems Several Projects in support of Ground Radar and Advanced Attack Forward Area Radar (AFAAR) Systems. Digital Radar Receiver design, array processor design, embedded and system level software development, network protocol TCP/IP stack implementation. |
|
|
SHORAD Early Warning - Advanced Communication Protocols Rapid prototyping: Hardware and software design with integration and field tests at White Sands proving grounds in New Mexico for Command, Control and Countermeasures (C3) communication systems. |
|
|
Trident Submarine - Command, Control and Countermeasures (C3)
Mission Critical hardware, software and network communication protocol designs integrating mainframe computer systems and graphic display terminals with submarine control and navigation, active and passive sonar sensors and weapons fire control systems.
|
|
|
M247
Vehicle - Data Acquisition, Signal Processing and Communication Mission Critical hardware and software design with field tests for realtime target acquisition and identification - network protocols, polar to rectangular conversion algorithms, modulation, packetization, distributed communication, encryption, synchronization and failover algorithms.
|
|
|
||
