Michael Neuffer 

Murex Technical Analyst 

German citizen, 

born: 15.04.1971 

Zum Schiersteiner Grund 2

55127 Mainz

Germany

phone:  +49-6131-540117

mobile: +49-171-1406664

mailto:neuffer@neuffer.com

http://www.neuffer.com/

11/2006 

- today 

Murex and Unix Architecture, Performance tuning and Murex support 

Performance tuning of a MxG2000 2.11 – Oracle 9.2i implementation; performance tuning of the MDCI and MLC; development of purge procedures; improve, stabilize and tune EOD; performance tuning of the reports; general production and EOD support.

Environment: Siemens AG, München

Role: Murex Technical Analyst, architect, developer, support

   04/2006

- 10/2006 

Murex SME, Architecture and Design, Troubleshooter 

Implementation of a Murex 2.11 FX prototype for FO, BO and Risk Control including Murex Limit Controller (MLC), Actuate reports and realtime marketdata. Design and implementation of an online deal feed from EBS to Murex. Support and debugging of the deal migration from legacy systems (Fenics, Tomcat,…). Performance tuning of the Murex Installation and the Sybase servers.  

Environment: Aozora Bank, Tokyo, Japan

Role: Murex SME, Analyst, Consultant, Troubleshooter

  05/2003

- 03/2006 

Murex support, Murex and Unix infrastructure design and implementation 

MXG2000 upgrades from 2.9 to 2.10 to 2.. Implementation of Bonds, ABS and Schuldscheindarlehen (promissory notes), static data interface and price feed for Bonds, ABS and SS. Day-to-day Murex support (2nd & 3rd level) for FO, BO Risk Control and Accounting users.  RTI support, MxML support, OLK support, development of reports (Mreport) and interfaces, various cleanups and trade purges. Unix, Sybase & Murex performance tuning and development of various tools and infrastructure improvements. Migration of production and development infrastructure from London to Frankfurt, EOD support, EOD migration to TWS. Migration Sybase 12.0 to Sybase 12.5.3 (64bit, 4k pages), Operation and maintenance of various Murex environments (production, test/development, integration), housekeeping.

Environment: Helaba Frankfurt

Role: Technical Analyst, architect, administrator, developer, support

  08/2002

 - 5/2003

Murex support and report development 

MX Rates 1.17.x, MXG2000 2.9 & 2.10, development of interfaces and reports. Performance tuning of the Murex Application and Sybase Database. Development of various little tools.  

Environment: DZ Bank Frankfurt

Role: developer

  04/2002

- 07/2002 

iSCSI and WLAN R&D 

Research on iSCSI and WIFI development for ScioByte enterprise solutions 

Environment: ScioByte, midsized IT consulting house

Role: CTO, managing partner, senior developer

  03/2002

Brocade Training /Testing 

Hands-On Training on Silkworm 12000. Testing/validation of new internal firmware releases, rebuilding/simulating the NASDAQ SAN infrastructure. 

Environment: Brocade HQ, San Jose

Role: Student/Tester

  11/1997

- 03/2002 

Murex system support and infrastructure design 

Murex Currency, Derivatives, MXG2000 2.8, SimPlus, SimBonds; System architect, performance tuning of the whole system – storage, OS, database, interfaces, overnight report batches etc.; migration over several hardware generations: Sparc10-E10000, Solaris 2.5.1-8, Sybase 11.0.3.3-12.0.0.1 and Murex releases: 1.15-1.16-1.17-MXG2000; xBASE to Sybase database backend migration on Murex Currency and Murex Equity;  EOD procedure automation; specification, development and maintenance of the infrastructure surrounding the Murex installations and their interfaces to systems like Gloss, Devon, Swift, Computron etc.; support for incoming and outgoing trade feeds via OLK; overnight support; technical application support;  front-, middle- and backoffice user support; production responsibility. ’97-March ’98 single-handed support of all Murex installations alone with just one developer on the Equity side and one developer on the Currency side to help out on business issues. From Q2 1998 on development of a 10+ support and development team. During this period the  team managed by me was directly assigned to the department head.

Environment: Commerzbank & Commerz Financial Products (CFP)

Role: Technical Analyst, senior system engineer, team leader

  01/1998

- 06/1999 

Infrastructure Design 

Design of a large SUN E10000 based infrastructure according to “Mindestanforderungen an das Betreiben von Handelsgeschäften der Kreditinstitute“ (MaH) requirements  

Environment: Commerzbank

Role: senior system engineer

  08/1997

- 12/1997 

UNIX System and  Summit Application Administrator

High availability design and implementation, performance tuning of the UNIX and Database system. Design and implementation of a high availability cluster for Summit and the Sybase server. Consulting for application interface programmers. Technical Summit support. End of Day support. Sybase Support. 

Environment: Commerzbank

Role: Technical Analyst, senior administrator

  07/1997

- 08/1997 

UNIX and Network Consulting 

Performance measurements and analysis of various infrastructure designs and development of recommendations for improvements. 

Environment: Commerzbank

Role: Technical Analyst, consultant

  05/1997

Hardware Performance consulting 

Performance measurements and analysis of various infrastructure designs. Development of recommendations for improvements to allow the replacement of SGI Equipment by cheaper standard PCs based on Linux for the digital cut and display workstations.  

Environment: Industrial Light and Magic

Role: consultant

  06/1996

- 04/1997 

Database engine development 

Design and implementation of a database engine with HA clustering and data partitioning capabilities. Support for the Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux Operating Systems included the design and development of Distributed Lock Managers and modified or new SCSI drivers and SCSI infrastructure. 

Environment: Atlas Telecom, Key supplier of telecom industries

Role: designer, developer

  01/1996

- 06/1997 

Internet service providing consulting and maintenance 

UNIX and Database consulting; custom programming; design and implementation of the internal network; configuration and installation of various servers and services; email, DNS, FTP maintenance, WWW, file servers and login servers. 

Hosting of the Debian GNU/Linux projects core infrastructure. Design, implementation and maintenance of its services (master FTP server, mail, mailing lists, DNS and Web) including the new maintainer process. 

Environment: iConnect Inc.

Role: chief operating systems engineer

  10/1995

- 03/1996 

Database application development 

Development and support of a payroll management system in Gupta (Centura) SQL / Windows, development of course material for SQL training courses. 

Environment: GodeSys, midsized IT consulting house

Role: programmer

  1992

- today 

Linux kernel programming 

Mostly SCSI related work.