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Lumesis Names Vincent Aubrun CTO & VP of Engineering

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Lumesis Names Vincent Aubrun CTO & VP of Engineering


Addition of Veteran Technology Professional to Executive Team and Expansion of Sales & Marketing Supports Accelerating Growth

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Lumesis, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud-based financial services technology firm for the Municipal Fixed Income Marketplace, today announced the appointment of Vincent Aubrun as Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering. In this newly created position, Aubrun will lead all technology initiatives at Lumesis to deliver increasingly powerful and comprehensive software solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of its clients. In addition, Lumesis has significantly increased its Sales & Marketing team as the firm’s growth accelerates.

“The expansion of our Executive Team to include someone with Vincent’s knowledge and skills highlights the success of our DIVER platform and our vision for the future,” said Tim Stevens, co-founder and President at Lumesis. “Vincent’s rich experience will add to our ability to provide innovative solutions to the asset managers, insurance companies, banks, mutual funds, broker dealers and other buy and sell-side institutions that we serve. Vincent brings more than 25 years of expertise in leading application and infrastructure architecture, software development, and systems integration of open source and proprietary technologies. His experience is ideal to help drive our growth strategy and platform development efforts. As Lumesis continues to enhance and expand our product offerings and increase our client base, it is critical to have the right expertise and leadership in place to drive our technology forward.”

“I am excited to join Lumesis in this phase of the company’s growth and evolution,” said Aubrun. “Lumesis presents an incredible opportunity for the muni-bond marketplace, bringing together a vast amount of data and multiple tools to create a powerful and scalable platform. This set of solutions dramatically improves the analysis and communication of risks and opportunities for everyone in the market. I look forward to building on Lumesis’ success by leveraging leading-edge developments in software technology and seamlessly integrating our solutions with those of our clients.”

Prior to joining Lumesis, Aubrun was the CTO of Calypso Technology where he led the transformation of the core product technology and architecture leveraging Open Source solutions to deliver scalability, multi-tenancy and Web interface. He also created a SaaS offering based on the Calypso product. As CTO of Misys Treasury and Capital Markets, Aubrun set technology and architecture strategy for

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Microsoft Surface Pro reviews: Device is good, not great, critics say

The Surface Windows 8 Pro arrives on store shelves Saturday starting at $900, and the verdict is in for Microsoft’s marquee PC-meets-tablet device. Microsoft, like the rest of the stalwarts in the PC industry including Lenovo, Acer and Dell, is attempting to create a Windows 8 device that perfectly melds a tablet and desktop PC into one device. Unlike the ARM-based Surface RT, which is primarily for running touch-based apps, the Surface Pro has an Intel chip and can run almost any traditional Windows desktop program. The Pro also has the Windows 8 modern UI interface for those times when you want a touch tablet.

Walt Mossberg

So how did the Surface Pro do as both a tablet and a Windows desktop PC? Five reviews of the Surface Pro by The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, Engadget’s Tim Stevens, The Chicago Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko, Time’s Harry McCracken, and PCWorld’s own Jon Phillipssay the device falls short in both usage scenarios, but it has its high points and may be a good choice for some people.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld