- Enterprise Software Products and Solutions

- Semiconductor Device Software and Hardware

- Environments

- Networking Engineering and Management

- Data Centers

Enterprise Software Products and Solutions
Select application products and solutions Tommy Fox has created and delivered to customers.

• Customer Management and Revenue Generation Applications

• eCommerce – Enterprise multi-tier B2B, B2C and EDI sites with eCatalog integration (B2B transaction levels of $1.Billion + in first year)
• Supply Chain and Distribution Chain Management – 5 levels of distribution/supply chain integration and transaction support
• Trading Partner Networks and Management ( XML) – for 12,000 distributed customer systems w/ security integration
• Business Portals and Extranets – for business marketplaces and for consumer marketplaces
• eCataloging – representing 3,000,000 part numbers in 6,400 product lines with continuous catalog updates for in-store and online use

• Business Optimization Applications

• Business Intelligence - data warehousing and data mining delivering users the ability to analyze and manage inventory, sales, margins, customer buying profiles and product velocity
• CRM for National Accounts and internal operations with eLearning, knowledge-bases, online manuals and search tools
• eLearning solutions as external business portal incorporating flash technology allowing low bandwidth transmission and flexible platform and display support for online learning

• Financial Applications

• Electronic Wire Transfer System for top 10 US banks - applications, systems, support
• Fraud Management system for card company  using artificial intelligence profiling
• EDI systems for top manufacturing and electronics distribution customers
• Securities Trading Frameworks/Applications/Systems - trading clients – windows and Web, market data systems – flexible FAST format and handling > 500k messages/second, alerting and auto-trading systems using rule and scanning engines, transaction order management system – real-time service based architecture and low latency (100 microseconds)
• Financial Decision Analysis Software – enable business managers to make decisions with risks and uncertainties. Application methodology, analytical modeling/dynamic sensitivity and scenario analysis tools
• Retail Tier-1 - point of sales, wireless, kiosk, back/central office solutions for major tier 1 retail customers implementing business, marketing, and operations processes and workflow
• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Floor Control
  • Manufacturing Operations and Control Level
    • Data Collection and Acquisition - full factory data collection and acquisition from many types of controllers and from human input from floor terminals
      
    • Process Management - workflow process monitoring for machine asset use optimization and reduction of process gap induced product waste
      
    • Recipe, Performance and Floor Design Systems - plant layout optimization, production performance including quality and mixture controls
      
    • Documents, Engineering Change Orders - managing document flow and electronic orders and signoff
      
    • Material Management - integrated to the supply chain, mapped to company BOM and systems handling from inbound warehouse through the plants
      
    • Operational Management - dashboards for management display and control using factory data collection information
      
  • Business Planning and Logistics Level
    • Product Tracking - real time product and product flow tracking; business intelligence
      
    • Middleware and Communications - integration middleware for messaging, communications, data collection; XML standards management, service oriented architectures (SOA)
      
    • Production Planning and Scheduling - production capability and capacity planning and scheduling including real-time planning and rescheduling for adjustments for material, equipment availability, process segments, labor and customer shifts in demand
      
    • Dispatching Production and Resource Allocation - WIP control and machine asset/labor allocation
      
    • Dashboards and Controls - aggregating tracking, scheduling, quality data, resource allocation and operational data into management monitoring and dynamic real-time decision support systems
      

• Manufacturing Enterprise Software and MES Integration
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
    • ERP Systems – for inventory and demand management and integration to MES systems
      
    • Bill of Material Systems – for complex part numbers and configuration validation checking to support order entry systems
      
    • Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence – for product management, product velocity monitoring, marketing analysis and customer reporting
      
  • Sales and Service Management
    • Order Management Systems – transactional systems with configuration checks for order build verification with real time feeds of business to manufacturing transactions to MES systems such as planning and re-scheduling systems
      
    • Distribution Chain Networks – for order collection and tracking
      
    • Ecommerce – for transactional ordering between B2B partners in distribution chains and other divisions
      
    • CRM – with product knowledge bases and fault/issue tracking and reporting systems
      
  • Supply Chain
    
    • Logistics Management - of orders and shipments for supply and distribution chains
      

• Decision Support

• Production Operations Planning, Scheduling and Re-Scheduling (airlines, automotive, manufacturing.) – what-if scenarios and dynamic planning/re-planning optimizing cost, service, revenue (e.g. Gate management, Maintenance Ops., Flight Information Display, Gate Agent Systems, Back-office Airline Communication and Application Frameworks, discrete manufacturing)
• Operations Assets Real-time Allocation and Management – decision down-stream impact modeling with scenario analysis and re-planning (e.g., airlines system wide – Irregular Ops)
• Analytical Decision Analysis Management Tools – modeling with dimensional support, risk analysis, dynamic sensitivity analysis

• High tech tools and infrastructure

• CASE Tools (computer-aided software engineering) – full diagrams to production code for multiple environments (OS, communications, data bases and clients) supporting 50,000 users
• Messaging middleware point to point, multicast, queuing, publish/subscribe, low latency, dynamic configuration; TIBCO, MSMQ, MQSeries, Latency Buster Messaging, Ultra Messaging for Enterprise and other MOM
• Software Communication Systems handling real-time, low latency and batch application communication over WAN, LAN, satellite, and wireless; integration with applications including transactional integrity, multipoint failure and security; TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, WMI, SNMP, FAST, SOAP and other numerous protocols; most all applications created have required communication subsystems development; network engineering at the network hardware layers and for firewall, extranets, VPNs and intrusion detection
• Knowledge Engineering – tools and services (artificial intelligence) for decision inference, diagnostics, symbolic modeling, list processing
• Rule Engines with dynamic rule parameter tuning by users for real-time rule tuning
• Stream-based Event Processing – applications and engine enhancement (StreamBase, Esper open source) allowing complex queries to real time information flow
• Enterprise Monitoring, Management and Deployment – application alert monitoring, software and data deployment, configuration management and application management

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Semiconductor Device Software and Hardware
The following are environments Tommy Fox has managed.

• Customer Integrated Development Environments – IDEs, emulators and test platforms for application development and integration
• Device Testing –automated testing environments
• Device Design – CPU and interface device logic design
• Board Level Hardware and Software Integration – covering board design and application programming of devices
• Digital Signal Processing – extensive work with TI DSPs for speech systems and integration to higher level application software

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Environments
The following are environments Tommy Fox has managed.

• Architectures – Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web services, SOP, ASP, client/server, distributed computing, Peer-to-Peer, Plug-in, n-tier, symbolic, Neural Networks, enterprise architecture frameworks (Zachman)
• OS – Windows, UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, AIX), Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat), cell phones, embedded systems, VMware
• Hardware – Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, TI, embedded
• Transaction and application servers and environments – CICS, Tuxedo, J2EE, BEA, WebSphere and .NET
• Languages – Java, C#, C++, object oriented, XML
• Data Bases – Oracle, RAC, DB2, SQL Server, LDAP
• Security and Web Services –Netegrity, IIS, Apache
• Clients – Windows, Web, Applet, Flash, ASP, JSP
• Methodologies/Processes – Rational Unified Process, UML, Quality Software Project Management, Capability Maturity Model, software development lifecycles – waterfall, RAD, extreme, agile methodologies

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Networking Engineering and Management
The following are networking environments that Tommy Fox has managed.

• Network engineering and design
• LAN, WAN, satellite, wireless, Internet, VPNs, firewalls, security, intrusion detection
• Enterprise Monitoring and Management solutions

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Data Centers
The following are Data Center environments that Tommy Fox has managed.

• Customer Site and Hosted Data Centers – established, designed and managed 10 data centers with redundancy/failover, clustered systems, multi-location, and multi-product and multi-customer
• Customers and Internal Data Centers including design, operational management, migration, consolidation
• 24x7 operations with SLAs (service level agreements) – one Data Center solution achieved zero downtime for first 3 months of operation (the hardest time to keep them up)
• Monitoring and Management Systems – integrating monitoring and managing for network, systems, data base and applications
• Operation Processes – install, maintenance testing, cutover, shut down, failover and recovery processes
• Security – security policies, threat detection, VPNs, digital certificates and keys
• Budgeting and Capital Planning – budget planning and execution, data center P&L, operations staff cost center, capital plan; server, disk and network capacity and performance plan
• Data Center Migration/Consolidation – migrated multiple production data centers from one physical facility to another including all dedicated communication line movement with significant operational planning and execution

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