Portfolio of Keith Elder
Tradeweb - A $5.5-Million Dollar Annual Hedge Cost Avoidance for Rocket Exchange
By integrating with Tradeweb, Capital Markets users can seamlessly capture and approve accurate, real-time TBA prices from the go-to source for TBA prices. This is crucial for generating accurate Rate Sheets and effectively hedging our loan pipeline to a tune of $5.5 million in annual hedge cost avoidance.
Durations - A $6-Million Dollar Inch with Simplified Duration Management for Rocket Exchange
As markets move, interest rates move. As interest rates rise, the value of existing lower interest rate bonds like mortgage-backed securities decrease. This relationship between how bond values and interest rate changes is called “duration,” and is a key metric used by the secondary market to make investment decisions.
QText
QText was a text messaging interface in LOLA with the ability to send/receive text messages to clients plus view message history.
ERB - English Rules Builder
ERB (English Rules Builder) is another rule engine I created to allow business analysts to write rules for Marketing to be processed by Mobius.
Messenger
Messenger provides a standardized way for applications to send a variety of messages including, email, text messages, and in the future can support additional needs like instant messaging. Messenger was built first to send text messages to any cell phone. It provides the infrastructure to handle large volumes of SMS Text messages using Sonic to queue messages delivered to cell phones via a third party. All messages sent are saved for auditing purposes which can be then consumed or shown in other applications like Mobius.
QBook
QBook - Imagine if Twitter and Facebook got married and had a child that lived inside of corporate America? That was the idea behind QBook.
ORB
ORB - Object Rules Builder is a rule engine that I initially built to handle and execute rules in CARI. It leveraged the Workflow Foundation APIs part of .NET 3.0.
CORE
CORE - A team responsible for centralizing the *ilities for in-house applications and storing application metadata and application management.
CARI
I started working on CARI in January of 2005 and deployed it to production in August of 2005. I was the only Engineer assigned to the project and David Little was the only Business Analyst working on the project initially.
SharePoint
From 2004 - 2018 our intranet, Rockworld, was built on top of SharePoint. I helped bring SharePoint into the company, train team members how to use it and ported our old intranet to it.
Rockworld
Rockworld is the company's intranet. I built Rockworld in late 2004 and brought SharePoint into the company with it. I then trained all the company team member's on how to manage and leverage SharePoint.