Portfolio of Keith ElderProjects
A collection of projects where I have served as architect, developer, or served as leader of development teams during my tenure.
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.
Pricing Execution Website and Playbooks
I created our train's playbooks, exported our existing Confluence spaces and created the train's website using mkdocs.
Robotic Process Automation
RPA, or Robotic Process Automation is the automation of repeatable computing tasks typically done by humans. Watch a full presentation on RPA I put together along with several separate demo videos.
Michigan State University Capstone Project 2018
I developed and designed a capstone project for a team of students at Michigan State University entitled "Walter, you gotta go". For the fall semester of 2018 I met weekly with the students to support them in delivering the project for their final for the class. The students came to Quicken Loans and presented it technology in December of 2018.
DevOps
I lead the cloud DevOps initiatives to support deployments for the cloud with Electric Cloud.
Universal Messaging
Universal Messaging is our Enterprise messaging platform. I worked extensively to integrate it with Rock Framework along with Brian Friesen. We assisted team Nexus with POCs during the vendor bake-off as part of the Center of Excellence.
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.
QChat
QChat was a real-time web-application based on SignalR and Asp.Net MVC. When launched, the company only had Microsoft Communicator to communicate, which had its drawbacks.
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.
Texting Short Codes
I worked with telecom carriers and marketing to establish two short codes for our company. These enabled the business to send texts to clients and team members. The code for texting our team members spelled THEGUY(843489). The guy short code was used for technology to send alerts. Messenger was used to send texts to clients and integrated with Responsys, a third party vendor.
Mobius
Mobius was a Marketing Operations application I was the technical lead for that allowed Marketing and Technology the ability to harness marketing and client data in a way that we have not been able to previously.
Sonic ESB
Sonic ESB was our Enterprise messaging system until replaced by Universal Messaging in 2015. Sonic integrated with AMP and was the only way for us to get messages in and out of AMP.
Github Enterprise
One day in November 2008, I found a presentation Linus Torvalds (creator of git), gave at Google on how and why he created git. I was intrigued because Linus created the Linux operating system. I knew he had very distinctive use cases he was trying to address with distributed source control.
Rock Framework
Rock Framework is a collection of utilities and functionality that .NET engineers use to build applications.
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.
WhoAmI Service
A service that used integrated active directory to lookup the user that was calling it.
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.
Active Directory Service
An active directory service for locating and finding team member information in apps.
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.
Roster Search
Application used from 2004-2018 for team members to locate other team members within the company. It was replaced with SIFT when the new Rockworld launched.