New York
Insights from the Student Photographer
Michael Kristan
- Major: Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Home town: Westborough, MA; Class of 2007
- Project Title: DML to SLX Integration at JPMorgan Chase
- Abstract: This MQP aimed to assist JPMorgan Chase with the successful completion of a high priority securities lending software integration effort. In the pre-design phase, work was carried out to map data fields between the two systems and to analyze the anticipated effect of this project on server performance. Concurrently, a thorough project plan was created to be used in a critical path analysis. Struggles in creating this led to the recommendation of a process for better managing projects.
- Project sponsor: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- WPI faculty advisors: Arthur Gerstenfeld (MG) and Michael Ciaraldi (CS)
- Number of students I traveled with: 10 in New York, 4 in London (concurrent work in a sister site)
- Number of students in my team: 2 were in my project team, 1 Computer Science (me) and 1 Industrial Engineer
- In NYC, I lived in Battery Park, Lower Manhattan, New York
