The Treasury Team of RBS .

Building a New Dealing Room

My first project for the Treasury was to develop the specifications, costing, contracts and contingency plans for a 400 seat dealing room that RBS was built in London.

Deal Capture

I then started analysis of an update to the Treasury's deal capture systems. Rapid-prototyping deal entry in Clipper with programmable key pads a bit like those used in bars to enter drink orders. Then I put together a team of three programmers using BSD Unix on PC's, a GUI, C, and TCP/IP sockets to developed a distributed client/server deal entry system which used 3270 emulation software on a PC to "enter" deals into the Bank's mainframe.

Deal Capture and Exposures Products

It became clear that the Treasury needed more than a means to capture deal information to the Bank's mainframe accounting and payments systems, so I went on to do analysis, with the Treasury, of turn key systems running on Tandem computers.