Leveraging his experience as lead developer/designer for Thomson Reuters Monitoring & Analysis System (TRMAS), Ken has been heavily involved with deploying ITRS Geneos in market data environments. Correctly implemented, monitoring moves systems management away from "break-fix", reactive mode to a more modern paradigm of true proactive management. It does this by

1) Gathering meaningful metrics from multiple OSI layers
2) A well configured analysis layer
3) Right sized presentation layers - high level, medium level and low level

A correctly deployed implementation provides granular event correlation for system wide fault analysis as well as vital baseline data for risk analysis.

As modern hardware processing design has moved to adding more cores - as opposed to increasing speed - accurate, sub second multi-core monitoring has become vital. Core millisecond granularity is powerful information and has been a recent focus of his work and is now integrated into custom market data ITRS Geneos deployments ( see dataview screenshots below).

Specialties:

Enterprise RMDS/TREP_RT system design.

TRMAS and ITRS Geneos enterprise system deployment in market data environments.Proactive network management -market data is NOT like other network data.

Performance tuning using a suite of analysis and monitoring tools..

A broad knowledge of infrastructure components and network protocols - especially TCP/IP analysis

Network & Information security - holds two Masters degrees in this fascinating subject. This is a vital business area that is becoming increasingly important with market globalization and financial regulation.