Chris Tanger

Current

• CTO at Technocisive Corporation

Past

• Associate Director - OMS Trading System Architect and Developer at UBS
• Vice President - OMS Trading System Software at ABN AMRO
• Senior Systems Engineer at Calyon Financial

• Support Engineer at Patsystems
• Software Engineer at IPACT

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company
• Blog

Chris Tanger’s Summary

We provide software development solutions specializing in electronic trading systems, market data distribution, and network/web communications software.

Software and software systems development

Web development
Automatic web site crawling and bot development
Automatic site data extraction and gathering
Internet and web communications systems
Web site and systems development

Development to trading system APIs.

Scalable, high frequency, low latency, and high throughput trading and market data systems software consulting.

Software system optimization, refactoring, improvement, and enhancement.

Improvement of software through the implementation of radical ideas that result in a high ROI

Development of software designed to significantly reduce or eliminate support costs

Extensive use of TCO reducing methods:
Integrated context sensitive help
Application intelligence gathering that enables highly efficient use of development resources through precision targeting:
Application performance data collection and analysis
Event/Error reporting
Application feature usage statistics

Architecture and development of scalable, secure, low latency, internet futures trading server software, communications architecture, and APIs for financial transactions and market data distribution using C#, a multithreaded model, asynchronous socket IO, data compression, network packet size optimization, and both RSA and AES cryptography for authentication and data encryption.

Chris Tanger’s Specialties:

Application intelligence
Performance data collection
Event/Error reporting
Application feature usage statistics
Analysis through OLAP and MOLAP tools
C#
C++
T-SQL
Assembly language
Visual Basic

Chris Tanger’s Experience

• CTO

  Technocisive Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)

  We provide expert custom software solutions.
  
  
  Specializations:
  • Financial Electronic Trading Systems Development
  o High frequency, low latency, real-time financial trading systems.
  o Trading system APIs.
  o Market data distribution
  • ASP.NET Web site and Web service development
  • Languages
  o C#.NET
  o Visual Basic.Net, VB6
  o C++
  • .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5
  • SQL Server
  • Network communications software
  • Sockets, UDP, TCP/IP, and ICMP development
  • Ping, Trace Route
  • Network communications optimization for low latency, high throughput, reliability, and resiliency via the internet, EVDO, EDGE, GPRS, RADIANZ, WAN, GAN and LAN regardless of network quality
  • Multithreaded programming
  • Highly scalable low-latency Client/Server Architectures
  • Data encryption including real-time
  • Data compression including real-time
  • ZIP, GZIP, BZIP
  • SSL, HTTPS
  • Managed code optimization

• Associate Director - OMS Trading System Architect and Developer

  UBS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

  October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Leverage software technology to minimize cost of doing business while facilitating ease of use and deployment.
  Design and develop secure, scalable trading system architectures.
  Research technologies that may further reduce total cost of ownership while enhancing the user experience and confidence.

• Vice President - OMS Trading System Software

  ABN AMRO

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Capital Markets industry)

  April 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  • Conceive of, envision, recommend development, and deliver innovative high ROI trading software and order routing systems
  
  • Architect and develop scalable, secure, low latency, internet futures trading server software, communications architecture, and APIs for financial transactions and market data distribution using C#, a multithreaded model, asynchronous socket IO, data compression, network packet size optimization, and both RSA and AES cryptography for authentication and data encryption
  
  • Development team leader
  
  • Gather user requirements and anticipate clients’ business needs, prioritize, and lead development of solutions to fulfill those needs
  
  • Assist clients in connecting to our systems and developing to our APIs at all levels coding through business needs
  
  • Last level support team for production systems

• Senior Systems Engineer

  Calyon Financial

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Capital Markets industry)

  September 2000 — April 2003 (2 years 8 months)

  Management of trading systems.

• Support Engineer

  Patsystems

  (Public Company; Capital Markets industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

• Software Engineer

  IPACT

  (Public Company; Capital Markets industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Additional Information

Chris Tanger’s Websites:

• My Company
• Blog

Chris Tanger’s Interests:

Entrepreneurship, Learning from others, Anthropology, Economics, Foreign Affairs and Policy, Software Development Methodologies, Business/Management Architecture and Theory

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