Richard Crane

Fidelity Trader+ (sometimes called Fidelity Trader Plus) is Fidelity Investments’ advanced trading platform designed for active or sophisticated investors who want professional level trading tools. It replaces and modernizes Fidelity’s older platform Active Trader Pro and integrates trading across desktop, web, and mobile environments.

Working on the next generation Trader Desktop for one of largest financial services companies in the world. Next generation platform includes a real-time client application based on Windows Presentation Foundation. Server-side technology includes Java, Scala, AKKA, REST, Jersey, TomCat, GemFire, Oracle, and TimesTen.

Defined and implemented a next generation architecture for a major asset management company located in New York City. There were many architectural considerations we faced.

We considered metadata schemas, document and hierarchical, entity-attribute-value (EAV) approaches for storage of products. This led to a review of many database solutions including MongoDB, MarkLogic, and SQL Server.

Client-side we built a modern web-based application using AngularJs. Angular Grid, and… Show more

Defined and implemented a next generation architecture for a major asset management company located in New York City. There were many architectural considerations we faced.

We considered metadata schemas, document and hierarchical, entity-attribute-value (EAV) approaches for storage of products. This led to a review of many database solutions including MongoDB, MarkLogic, and SQL Server.

Client-side we built a modern web-based application using AngularJs. Angular Grid, and Angular Dynamic Forms. Connectivity back to the server was using a combination of standard REST services and OData services.

Server-side we considered multiple stacks include ASP.NET WebAPI, Breeze, MarkLogic, and NodeJs. For NodeJs we considered the MEAN stack (MongoDb, Express, AngularJs, Node). Eventually we settled on .NET using Entity Framework with Breeze and SQL Server to built a data-centric API layer. Show less

Chief Architect and Lead Developer for the next generation in mobile photo sharing. Designed to take out Instagram. Technologies include Xamarin, iOS, Android, Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS, etc.), PostgreSQL, ASP.NET Web API, OAuth, and much more.

Think of Herald as a vertical version of the ticker you see on your favorite news channels. Herald continually scours for relevant news from hundreds of sources to bring you news and opinions as they're happening.

Enjoy the holidays with the sounds of an old time musicbox.

Songs:
Silent Night
O Christmas Tree
First Noel
Jingle Bells
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Brahms Lullaby
Edelweiss
Hark The Herald
Good King Wenceslas

Language Support: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German

Swipe left/right to listen to a different song.

Create your own haunted house with this collection of 12 sounds. This collection includes a witch's cackle, door creaking, thunder, owl, bats, zombies, chainsaw, cauldron, crow, scream, cat, and a sinister bell toll.

Get ready for a fun way to protect your phone from theft. Set your phone down, tap a combination, and go! After three incorrect passwords or if the phone is moved an alarm will sound until a correct password is tapped.

Features Include:

Sound Alarm - alarm sound plays when the alarm goes off
Visual Alarm - When alarm goes off, the screen flashs red
Movement Alarm - pick up the phone, the alarm sounds
Navigation Alarm - navigate away from the app, the alarm sounds cell… Show more

Get ready for a fun way to protect your phone from theft. Set your phone down, tap a combination, and go! After three incorrect passwords or if the phone is moved an alarm will sound until a correct password is tapped.

Features Include:

Sound Alarm - alarm sound plays when the alarm goes off
Visual Alarm - When alarm goes off, the screen flashs red
Movement Alarm - pick up the phone, the alarm sounds
Navigation Alarm - navigate away from the app, the alarm sounds cell phone windows phone Show less

An ASP.NET HTTP Module for HTTP Compression. The primary reason for using this is if IIS Dynamic Compression is not supported in your environment. This HTTP Compression Module also supports WebResource.axd compression.

Delivered a High Performance Computing solution to support Partners Healthcare medical research. Expanded the solution to demonstrate that research on virtual colonoscopy could be enhanced for mass market use. Goal was to take research code base and make it production ready and reduce time from hours to only a few minutes require for mass market use.

Create the ability to scale MATLAB models built by Intuitive Analytics to insane levels. We scaled the model internally using MATLAB's parfor capability and extended that to a grid computing cluster. We then took the model and exposed it using both REST and SOAP web services.

Technology used .NET, Java, Apache CXF, Jackson, Maven, Eclipse, MATLAB, MCR.

Modernization of a legacy portfolio management system, Portia. Focus was on reducing legacy technologies, creating a multi-tier architecture, and improving user experience by adopting more modern UI technologies. This allowed Thomas Financial to compete against more modern portfolio management system in the market and even win back losses.

Developed and implemented the SharePoint Adapter for BizTalk to enable workflows between Microsoft Office, BizTalk, and SharePoint. The adapter was picked up by the BizTalk team and further developed and included in the BizTalk product.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the easiest way to produce and consume Web services on the Microsoft platform. With .NET 3.5, WCF has been extensively revamped--and Visual Studio 2008 gives developers powerful new tools for utilizing it. Essential Windows Communication Foundation shows developers exactly how to make the most of WCF with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

Worked on the entire pipeline for Wayfair including suppliers entering product information, algorithmic pricing, competitive analysis, and global product cache running in Google Cloud Platform.

Worked for Emerson Process Management to create a highly secure and automated installer for their DeltaV LogBooks application. We needed to automate the installation and securing of Internet Explorer, Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows 2008 SP2, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 7, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2014.

Focus was on implementing and installer that used the Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards to install and secure various the application and… Show more

Worked for Emerson Process Management to create a highly secure and automated installer for their DeltaV LogBooks application. We needed to automate the installation and securing of Internet Explorer, Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows 2008 SP2, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 7, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2014.

Focus was on implementing and installer that used the Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards to install and secure various the application and operating system. Show less

Web parts and other product assets used to create an Intranet-In-A-Box for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. Technology leverages AngularJS, TypeScript, and jQuery to build web parts based on the SharePoint Hosted App Model.

Application is responsible for multi-day trades and rebalances based on models. Gained the trust of Global Equity (aka Quant) by addressing immediate quality issues affecting the business. Within months we demonstrated continuous up-time and zero failures in production. Current focus is on modernizing major components of the application. Application is a functional partitioned set of RESTful services using JAX-RS inside Glassfish.

Technologies include Java, HTML5, .NET, Backbone… Show more

Application is responsible for multi-day trades and rebalances based on models. Gained the trust of Global Equity (aka Quant) by addressing immediate quality issues affecting the business. Within months we demonstrated continuous up-time and zero failures in production. Current focus is on modernizing major components of the application. Application is a functional partitioned set of RESTful services using JAX-RS inside Glassfish.

Technologies include Java, HTML5, .NET, Backbone, Scala, JDBC, JPA, Guice, JSON, GSON, Jetty, Bamboo, Gradle, Jacoco, TestNG, Sonar, and SQL 2008/2012. Show less

APEX is an exposure reporting tool for fund-of-fund management. Provided a new architecture for Greenfield development based on more modern technologies such as HTML5, Knockout, KendoUI, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, and SQL Server 2012. Focus on feature parity with high quality and new features critical to the business. Application was deployed on-time with promised features by the team.

Asset Allocation Optimizer (AAO) is an application for trade construction of fund-of-fund and separately managed accounts. Turned this project around immediately by focusing on what mattered to the business and empowering others to do the right thing. The team was finally able to deliver on functionality that was promised for five years.

Technologies include WinForms, Windows Presentation Foundation, ADO.NET, and Entity Framework.

Architect and lead developer (one of four) responsible for the next generation of Fidelity's Active Trader Pro over an 80+ person development team. Product was built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight for deployment to desktop and web. Helped architect core client framework features including asynchronous messaging, multi-threading, and user interface interaction. Mentored other developers and architects in delivering a quality product.

PerformEx’s customizable technology allows customers to have an incredible depth of view into all their trading activity around the world by offering highly detailed risk forecasting, real‐time intra‐trade analytics and historical performance reports. These capabilities, along with PerformEx’s real-time alerts, significantly increase customers’ abilities to respond swiftly to changing market condition and make better investment decisions.

Working in close collaboration with Vopak, Emerson Process Management has developed a software solution for the management and optimisation of bulk liquid terminals. The new application is based on the Logistics module in Emerson’s Syncade™ platform, which provides intelligent links between IT and industrial automation technology. This software application has been deployed for the first time at the recently completed Vopak fuel distribution terminal at Amsterdam Westpoort in the Netherlands… Show more

Working in close collaboration with Vopak, Emerson Process Management has developed a software solution for the management and optimisation of bulk liquid terminals. The new application is based on the Logistics module in Emerson’s Syncade™ platform, which provides intelligent links between IT and industrial automation technology. This software application has been deployed for the first time at the recently completed Vopak fuel distribution terminal at Amsterdam Westpoort in the Netherlands, where an efficiency improvement of up to 30 percent has been achieved. Show less

CCURE 9000 is a security and access control application used throughout the world. I have had multiple engagements with the CCURE 9000 team. Initial interaction addressed their next generation networking architecture needs which addressed performance and low-bandwidth communication requirements. Years later I was able to help them with their event-based communication and persistence architecture. They then sought me out at my new company to help them architect and prove out a cloud-based… Show more

CCURE 9000 is a security and access control application used throughout the world. I have had multiple engagements with the CCURE 9000 team. Initial interaction addressed their next generation networking architecture needs which addressed performance and low-bandwidth communication requirements. Years later I was able to help them with their event-based communication and persistence architecture. They then sought me out at my new company to help them architect and prove out a cloud-based version of their application using Windows Azure. Show less

Worked with the VP of Engineering at Akamai to help integrate Akamai's edge caching technology with .NET. The result was an architecture and design for Akamai's Edge Caching for .NET.

Worked with Ebay on their migration of the International and US databases to a single database structure within SQL Server. Challenges included maintaining performance of US-based queries while reducing the number of databases used by Ebay on SQL Server. Just so happens, Monster.com had the same exact need. The result was a future feature recommendation to the SQL Server product team now known as UCS-2 compression.

Led several engagements with MathWorks to help them scale their software onto clusters of Microsoft servers. The end result was guidance and reference implementations that allows Matlab to scale on clusters of servers. Subsequent engagements led to integration with Microsoft Windows HPC Server and the creation of MathWorks Matlab Production Server.

Multiple engagements over several years to improve the overall performance and architecture of Monster.com. Recommendations included both website recommendations as well as back-end SQL Server indexing and performance.

Developed the testing and simulations for National Airspace System functionality including collision avoidance, fixed metering, and en-route metering.

Led an engagement to help the Reuters.com team with performance testing. Gave recommendations to improve the performance of their application which resulted in a 50% reduction in network traffic and a 200% increase in scalability.

Led a 5 week performance testing engagement on a UNISYS ES7000 (16-way) for State Street's Fund Administration website. The result was 11500% performance and scalability improvement. When done they were able to meet their demand on an HP (4-way) server.