Ralph Rodriguez = Head Of Technology Systems and Design
About
Ralph
Starting as a computer systems administrator at AT&T Bell Labs and JP Morgan. Continuing as an IT Consultant at Nomura Securities International in NYC, which lead to becoming the head of technology and facilities for all of Nomura Securities USA offices, reporting directly to the CEO. After a very successful career in tech and finance Ralph shifted gears to design and operate his own highly rated restaurant “Marco & Pepe” (running for 17 years). While running the restaurant he realized how critical the POS (point of sales system) and wholesale vendor products price comparison is to small operators and developed two cloud based applications to address this need, Revo Markets and Revo POS. Ralph has continued to use his project management and design creativity with various projects including; Design and technology systems for the OwnRetailery.com Mobile platform and the production of several real estate single family Interior design and renovation projects.
Design is intrinsic to life
and when it's for business,
it must deliver the client's goals.
Ralph Rodriguez
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Some tools I use
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During initial requirements and ideas gathering I use Pen & Paper, any system regardless of complexity can be described in 1 page
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Design & Presentation; Gimp, InkScape, Rhino 3D design and rendering, Photoshop, Illustrator
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Computer Tech systems; Linux, Amazon AWS, Adobe Dreamweaver, Php, MySql, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bash, Python, C
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Project management; Trello, Slack, Microsoft Project, Or any current App for keeping a project team in sync.
A Little More About Me
Ever since I can remember, I have been playing with design and technology, making separate systems work together and do useful things. As you can see from my experience, my knowledge does not come from schooling, it comes from doing, working many hours creating stuff. I really enjoy what technology and good design can do to solve real business problems and I will search high and wide for solutions.
10 years in Wall Street, Reported directly to the CEO. Responsible for all Nomura systems and facilities in the USA. Led firm through exponential systems growth required to transition from small branch office to profitable American-managed full-service investment bank in the US. State-of-the-art corporate systems differentiated firm from the competition, contributing to the firm becoming an industry leader and highly profitable in a number of Wall Street arenas, most notably Fixed Income Arbitrage and Commercial Real Estate Lending. -Business offices included; New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bermuda, Sao Paulo, and Toronto. -Managed 150 people through 8 department heads: Unix Systems Group, PC Systems Group, Networking, Market Data Group, Voice Technologies Group, Facilities Group, Fixed Income Software Development Group, Help Desk.
Designed, Owned and operated Marco & Pepe Restaurant for 16 years. The Design Objective was to "Should feel like a tapas bar in the center of the Sevilla Spain historic district". It was a total success, a great place for the growing neighborhood of Jersey City NJ to meet and enjoy life. Running a restaurant was at times more challenging than installing super computers in wall street!, some of the operational challenges that must be dealt with included; Menu design, Food and operating cost management (managing your cost is key to survival and why I wrote a Web App wholesale pricing and ordering system RevoMarkets.com), Bring new innovation on food and drink, Train staff on the importance of delivering an experience, Frequent facilities and equipment repairs, Sales transaction cost reduction (this is how I wound up writing a POS Web App RevoPOS.com, to save $$ on the high Credit Card transaction cost that is included with all commercially available POS in the market place.