MarketCAP

MarketCAP was Time0's offering as a core platform on which digital marketplaces could be built. It encompassed low-level services such as logging and thread-management, business logic in EJB beans, and Web services such as login.

The MarketCAP team consisted of about 15 people, scattered over several locations. I was part of this team from January 1998 - April 2000, serving as its Lead Engineer from April 1998 onwards.

I continued to make individual technical contributions to MarketCAP (see work at Perot), but, as Lead Engineer, my focus was very different:

• Setting overall technical direction while balancing functionality, simplicity and efficiency
• Communicating this direction to the group and monitoring its progress
• Communicating the work to other groups within the company, for their endorsement and feedback

The two years as Lead Engineer on the project was instrumental in sharpening my skills for reducing issues to their essentials, crisply communicating these essentials, and obtaining consensus.

MarketCAP (and its predecessors) was used in several client projects.