Alex Lerner
29 Engle Rd
Paramus, NJ, 07652
(201) 265-6443
 Microsoft
Certified Product Specialist
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Microsoft
Certified Solution Developer
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Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer
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SOFTWARE
Windows NT 4.0/Visual_C++, COM, ASP,
MTS, Java
.
Attended Java class taught by Sun
Educational Services.
Excellent knowledge of
MS Visual C++, MFC, raw COM, ATL,
ActiveX and Active Server Pages
technologies.
EXPERIENCE
Merrill Lynch Global Program Trading
Group, NY, NY Feb 1999 - present
Responsible for the support and
enhancement of a multi- threaded
Application Server used to provide
central Sybase connectivity for Merrill
Lynch Global Portfolio Trading desks
located around the world. Server business
functionality includes Order Allocation,
New Order List, Basket Busts, etc. The
app server is a Windows NT Service and is
based on the ATL framework. Client
connectivity is provided through raw
sockets (Winsock). Other App Server
functionality includes database
connection pooling and FIX protocol
implementation. (VC++ 6.0/DBLIB)
Designed and implemented a complete
"proof of concept" prototype
demonstrating a 3 tier
architecture approach using
Microsoft Internet Explorer - Portfolio
Loader ActiveX – Corba server middle
tier – DBLIB/Sybase connection back
end. Implemented all tiers of the
prototype:
Implemented a stateless
asynchronous multi-threaded COM/Corba
bridge ActiveX component
connecting Visual Basic clients and Corba
(Inprise/Visigenic v3.3)
server. (raw COM/VC++6.0/ATL)
Created a figuration engine ActiveX
component (VC++6.0/ATL) by porting GNU bc
calculator source code to Windows NT
environment
Provided ongoing trading floor support
for the Global Portfolio Trading desk.
Developed custom post-trade VB reports
per client specifications (VB5/Formula1
ActiveX/ODBC/RDO).
Lehman
Brothers Global Program Trading Group,
NY, NY Feb 1996 - Feb 1999
Used Visual C++ 5.0 and COM
technologies to implement various
projects requested by the users:
- Team member responsible
for the design, development and
implementation of 3-tier
architecture applications in
Windows NT / Unix environments.
Implemented Execution Order Entry and
Retrieval, Portfolio Loader and Security
Master applications used by Lehman
Program Trading team. Used Winsock
(TCP/IP) to provide
communication with Unix servers. Provided
application support on the trading floor.
(VC++5.0/Objective Grid/TCP_IP)
- Ported Equity Derivatives financial
library from SunOS to Windows NT. Wrapped
the library as a XLL DLL to allow access
from Microsoft Excel. Provided user
training and assistance in DLL usage and
further modification. Implemented a COM
wrapper for the library to allow
easy access from VB and VC++.
- Implemented WOSA XRT 32 bit OLE server
and client components to provide live
data feed from Reuters Data service to
Microsoft Excel.
- Implemented numerous ActiveX
controls and ATL based binary
components.
-Assisted other groups at Lehman with NT/COM/ATL/C++
expertise.
Bankers Trust, NY,
NY July 1994 - Feb 1996
Senior Developer and Architect
A member of a 6 person development
team responsible for the design and
development of Windows NT 3.51 based
Client/Server Debugger used for Sybase
Tabular Data stream analysis. The program
incorporated a full featured TCP/IP and
Novell IPX LAN analyzer with capabilities
of displaying application layer messages
as API calls. Personally responsible for
the design and implementation of the user
interface and various Windows OLE COM
objects. Implemented custom and
standard OLE interfaces.
Visual C++ 4.0, Windows
NT 3.51
Designed and developed
a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) dialer
DLL for unattended connection to the
bank's remote access utility using FTP
PCTCP OnNet SDK.
Visual C++ 1.52,
Windows 3.1
Developed HTML
WEB pages and modified existing Java
applets.
INSCI, Inc., White
Plains, NY Feb. 1994 - July 1994, June
1991 - June 1992
Solely responsible for the design and
implementation of a Windows Text and
Image Retrieval Workstation which
retrieves documents from an optical disk
jukebox attached to a UNIX server on the
network. The communication layer was
implemented using 3rd party TCP/IP for
Windows libraries: Netmanage Chameleon,
FTP TCP/IP, Novell LAN Workplace, MS LAN
Manager and Wollongong Pathway.
Team member responsible for the
design and implementation of a Windows
Scan Workstation. Both products were
released on schedule and are currently
being sold. Kofax Imaging Libraries,
MS Visual C++/MFC/Windows 3.1 SDK development
environment.
NCR Inc., Network
Division, Lincroft, NJ June 1992 - Feb.
1994
A member of a 3 person development
team responsible for the design and
development of network management
workstation software used to manage
intelligent network devices manufactured
by NCR. The product was released on
schedule and is currently being sold. MS
Visual C++/Windows 3.1 SDK
development environment. Ported the
finished product to HP OpenView
platform.
Timeplex, Inc.,
Woodcliff Lakes, NJ October 1990 - June
1991
A member of a 2 person development
team responsible for building a software
simulator of "T1 private
networks" communications hardware
built by Timeplex. The capabilities of
the product include alarm generation,
creation of network nodes, network
upload/download, datalink and channel
creation. The simulator was developed
using CNS C_talk Views (a hybrid
of Smalltalk and C) and Windows 3.0
SDK. Personally responsible for all
aspects of the design and implementation
of the User Interface and Intertask
Communication (DDE) portions of the
project. MS C 6.0/Windows 3.0
environment. The product was released on
schedule.
AT&T Information
Systems, Red Hill, NJ April 1990 -
October 1990
Accumaster Bandwidth Management System
A member of a 2 person development
team responsible for the design and
coding of a Windows 3.0
workstation used to setup and configure
T1 line networks. The capabilities of the
product include channel creation and
tracing, circuit tracing, alarm handling,
extensive report generation. Windows 3.0
SDK/MS C 6.0
Crosfield
Composition Systems, West Nyack, NY May
1987 - April 1990
Software Engineer/Project Leader
Managed a four-person software team
responsible for design and coding of the
state of the art newspaper applications
under OS/2 Presentation Manager/MS
C5.1 environment. The product
included a WYSIWYG editor, File Manager
of the newspaper stories stored in Sybase
database on a VAX, and Desktop Manager.
Personally responsible for the internals
of the editor, integration of spell
checker and thesaurus engines into the
editor, Intertask Communication (DDE)
between modules, and integration portions
of the entire project.
Laser Data, Inc.,
Tyngsboro, Mass freelance project, 1989
Designed and developed a Windows
2.1 prototype of a DDE image
server to be used as the heart of a
series of products for CD based document
image retrieval system. The features
included communicating with proprietary
graphics compression/decompression board,
support of multiple DDE clients, display
of bitmaps over 1MB in size.
Publishing
Technology, Inc. (Colorstone), Fort Lee,
NJ April 1986 - May 1987
Developed new conversion programs to
output combined text and high resolution
images for magazine quality color
printing. Developed file format
converters for Scitex Response/250 and
Response/300, Hell Chromacom, Digital
Data Exchange Specification format, and
contone to tape (CT2T) format. Began
working with MS-Windows SDK. Extensive
customer contact.
AT&T IS,
Software Certification Group, Freehold,
NJ October 1985 - April 1986
A team member responsible for the
development and implementation of
certification standards of third party
software to insure AT&T quality
standards. Among software tested were
Informix-4GL and Informix C-ISAM file
accessing method. Developed a complete
test suite of programs for every
documented Informix-4GL and C-ISAM
function under UNIX System V/C
environment.
Perkin-Elmer, Data
Systems Division, Tinton Falls, NJ June
1984 - October 1985
Debugged, modified, and ported
Fortran77 source code of graphics
software packages from VAX to
Perkin-Elmer workstation running under
UNIX System III environment. Debugged
Fortran77 F7D compiler written in
Perkin-Elmer assembly language.
EDUCATION
Fordham Graduate School
of Business, New York, NY
Attended 9 courses towards Master of
Business Administration degree majoring
in Quantitative Analysis.
Polytechnic
Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Attended 6 courses towards Master of
Computer Science degree
Polytechnic
Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Bachelor of Science, May 1984
Major in Computer Science. Minor in
Management.
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