Arthur
Altman · Professional
Credentials
Credentials
as Analyst and Business and Computer Consultant
Sales and Management Executive · Securities Analyst · Investment Technology · Business Analyst
Integration of strong investment,
financial, business, analysis, administration, marketing, research, and computer
backgrounds allows me a major advantage in determining problem situations,
communicating across departments, and arriving at problem and solution
perspectives often not seen by of others. Years as an owner of a computer
products and services business, with considerable hands on programming and
design experience, allows me to understand the problems of the business owners,
and aids in communicating effective solutions to others.
Management and Business
Experience
In my first jobs I was put in charge of computerization
and given departments in each position I was hired in. Built my own company and
managed all financial and business functions. Strong Purchasing and negotiating
talents.
Became a premier dealer in most of the
products I sold and supported. In recent years I emphasized the Medical office
administration market, and became one of the nations, premier Medical Manager
dealers, servings hundreds of practices, and several hospitals and billing
services.
Built highly reliable, redundant, computer
servers. Designed, developed, programmed customized and managed others.
Excellent programmer, analyst, problem solver and technician. Experience in Internet and web pages.
Business
Analyst, Securities Analyst, and Investment Research
Strong finance, fundamental,
technical, econometric, theoretical and research backgrounds. Researched
construction, building materials, home building, real estate machine tools and
transportation technologies. Also was responsible for data processing services
and mini computer industries. I developed selection and evaluation tools for
security analysts and portfolio managers
Sales experience
Grew up in family business and had strong sales experience since
childhood. (Hired driver at 14 and developed profitable rural wholesale sales
route, which was a major factor in expansion of family business.) Several other
successful sales efforts, including sales of inventories I bought from
companies going out of business, easily covered my college expenses. While sales was not part of my initial
career, it became a very important part of my obtaining several long term
consulting contracts with investment firms, which financed my early business
efforts.
Also sales was obviously of major importance in my consulting, as
well as in marketing the hardware and software products I represented. (Even
with good sales personnel, I was often involved in closing large sales.)
Microcomputers for Business
Provided full service solutions to my
business clients. Built, installed, customized,
trained and supported business systems for investment, law, medical, and
general business offices. Dealer and developer for RealWorld Accounting (Now
Great Plains) Sold and serviced several other general business clients I have
been involved with.
Sold, built installed and maintained
integrated Unix/Windows networks and accounting systems for a variety of
businesses. Sold and serviced leading medical office billing/management system.
Supported hospitals, doctor’s offices, billing services, and several business
applications. I also was a member of the Blue Cross advisory board.
Technical
and Support Services
Full hardware and software support has
been a theme common to all of the products and services I have sold. This
included installation, training, customization, and ongoing service. I have a
very strong aptitude for solving hardware and software problems and have done
both on Micro and Minicomputer systems.
Strong Computer Background
Product selection. Installation &
Training, Service & Support, Customization. Problem Solver. Built
workstations and servers. System & data base design. Excellent programmer,
analyst, expert on networks, Internet programming, web page design. Very strong
data base design talents.
Market
Research
Market and Advertising Research at
Gillette. Introduced stratified sampling technique that reduced survey costs by
20 percent. Was put in charge of computer work, brought computerization down to
department level.
Investment Technology,
Securities, analysts and
portfolio management and evaluation tools.
Did
full initial design and implementation of systems at institutional investment
departments at Aetna Life and Casualty, Commonwealth Edison Pension Fund,
Chicago Title and Trust company (now Lincoln National) and several smaller
departments. Ran 2 computers, one used primarily for management of accounts at
a large Chicago Broker/Clearing form, the other sold nationally to hundreds of
institutional investment clients.
Created
several analysis, evaluation, portfolio performance measurement, accounting,
and management systems, for The Hancock, Wells Fargo, American Airlines,
General Dynamics, Citibank, Detroit Bank, Harris Bank, the, Esmark American
Airlines, General Dynamics, Montgomery Wards, MorningStar, Zachs, and dozens of
other financial institutions. Worked with and developed tools used for
investment analysis, portfolio, security and analyst performance measurement
and evaluation, and Cost of Equity Capital (COEC) determination and evaluation
tools.
Did
billing, trading, stock loan systems, option valuation tools and reporting
systems for option and trading firms, the CBOE, and several traders. Developed
many security analysis and selection and portfolio management tools, and
integrated technical/fundament reports using Compustat, and Value Line,
Telstat, Muller and other databases.
Designed
developed and maintained major securities pricing, trading, fundamental, and
technical information data bases on two time sharing systems used by investment
firms and trading firms nationwide. Also created, developed and ran stock
indices used by Pension and Investments, Crain’s Business insurance and Crain’s
Chicago Business.
Academic
MA math.
MBA marketing, 100 graduate credits in Math & Statistics. CFA exams
1&2. Internet Marketing
Developed
national legislation system, which was demonstrated and sold to the State of
Illinois (News articles available). Member
(past) of Blue Cross Advisory Board, U.S Selective Service Board, AIPAC
Board.
Unix/Linux/NT/Windows/mainframe
integration – Over recent years I have been using windows workstations on
Unix servers. This takes advantage of Unix’s far superior reliability and speed
for servers, while allowing users the ease, flexibilities, and wide software
selection available with windows.
Windows
95/98/NT/2000 – Familiar with Microsoft and several other products (see
software). Installed dos, most windows versions, most Microsoft products, and
variety of other Dos/Windows/Unix products.
Unix/Linux- Worked with
SCO, Interactive, and AIX UNIX, and a few early releases of Linux. I have more
recently been working with Caldera’s Linux, but would feel comfortable with any
Linux, or Unix. The new integration of SCO into Caldera’s version 8 currently
seems the most promising versions for future use.
Micro
Unix – I Started with SCO UNIX in1980s, and since Unix
was patterned after IBM and DEC operating systems I was almost immediately
familiar with it, and loved it. Over the years I became increasingly involved
with Unix and have developed many specialized shell scripts and techniques .For
the past 2 years I have become increasingly Involved in UNIX networking, and in
Unix to NT integration.
Micro
CPM/MPM – Turbodos (Multi-user CPM) - Mmost - Dos - Concurrent Dos - Novell – Unix –
Early Networks
Have been using micros
and micro networking systems since their inception. Familiar with the systems,
interfaces and the technology behind loosely and tightly coupled networking.
This makes new systems quite easy to learn.
Worked with
networking concepts since the 80’s. Started with networking IBM, HP, and DEC
computers via phone lines, and went on to networking micros and mini computers
Tested original Novell hardware (yes it was), pre 1.0 release software. Was
featured in a Wall Street Journal add for Northstar computers using version
1.0.0 Novell. Install and maintained several Novell systems. Microsoft made
networking considerably easier and more flexible.
Main
frame/Mini - IBM 370 (CMS) - DEC 20 (TOPS) - HP 3000 (MPE)
I
was a recognized expert in developing and supporting financial databases and
applications, and worked with hundreds of satisfied clients, most referred by
other clients or computer services. Developed a very large stock market
database, option trading, and stock loan systems used by brokerage firms, option
traders and securities investment departments. I also did my own hardware and
OS software maintenance on the HP 3000 system.