Richard Crane

Founder/CTO at MILL5

Richard Crane is the current Chief Technical Officer at MILL5. Richard has also been the Chief Architect at Insight and Architect Extraordinaire at GMO. Richard has a broad range of experience in the technical aspects of various applications and systems. Richard is also one of the primary authors of Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Richard first began their professional journey at Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, LLC (GMO) as the first hire into the Enterprise Architecture team. There, they were responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems met business needs. This included tasks such as research, portfolio management, compliance, trading systems, client systems, and more. In order to guarantee quality for the 120+ development organization, Richard established standards and provided guidance and mentoring to staff members.

During their time at GMO, Richard worked directly with Asset Allocation and Global Equity to make sure that development teams were sufficiently meeting the needs of the business. The applications involved in this process included trade construction, portfolio implementation, and exposure reporting.

The technologies that Richard has experience with include Microsoft .NET 4.5.1 and C#, ASP.NET, TFS, HTML5, JavaScript, SQL Server, Oracle Java 6/7, GlassFish, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JDBC, JPA, Bamboo, Clover, TestNG, Scala, AKKA, Jetty, JUnit, Logback/Log4J/SLF4J, Google Guice, AngularJs, MongoDB, Cassandra, QlikView, SmartCo, LineData Longview Trading System, CRD, eReportal and SimCorp.

Links

Previous companies

Insight Enterprises logo
GMO logo

Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote & Office

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Ownership
  • creativity
  • reliability
  • integrity
  • work ethic

My communication style

  • Open
  • polite
  • positive
  • direct
  • transparent

My pet peeves

  • Secrecy
  • ungratefulness
  • unreliability
  • selfishness
  • laziness

Fun fact

I used to dance on TV when I was young.

Timeline

  • Founder/CTO

    Current role