Selected Projects

The following projects performed by Mr. Tung are representative of the experience we can bring to bear on the needs of our clients.

E-Commerce

Youbet.com, Youbet Network

The Youbet Network is widely recognized as the most sophisticated online interactive gaming product available today.  By integrating the standalone entertainment applications with the service based ASP model, Youbet created this high performance, feature rich interactive horse racing application.  The application delivers live audio video, odds, past performances and wagering to handicappers and racing enthusiasts across the country.  The performance and feature-rich experience is made possible through the combination of a variety of technologies including OLTP, distributed computing, multimedia and expert systems.  As V.P. of Engineering and later C.T.O. of Youbet.com, Doug Tung oversaw the development of this product from initial prototype to product launch.  In 2001, the Youbet Network handled over $100M in transactions.

Magna Entertainment, Horse Wizard

Developed for Magna Entertainment, Inc., Horse Wizard is a kiosk-based wagering application.  The gaming system, which launched in 2004, is deployed on over 500 gaming kiosks located at 5 site in the U.S. and Europe.  The game provides a pari-mutuel wagering experience in a slot machine style format.  Internet Systems Group was retained by Magna Entertainment, Inc. to manage the development of the DirectX based game front end (including integration with the gaming cabinet and peripherals) and the web services-based game control infrastructure which facilitates the game control and video distribution to all kiosks from a central location.

Futuristic Entertainment, Hot Walkers Racing Gaming

Internet Systems Group was retained to develop a comprehensive product plan, build working prototypes, and secure regulatory approval for this comprehensive gaming product offering.  The product line includes wireless, satellite, internet and kiosk based devices interconnected by a wide area network and connected to North America racing information sources and transaction processing hubs.  The content of the entire network is directed from a central location and includes transaction processing, live information feeds, audio/video & sophisticated player tracking & retention capabilities.

New Media

Bandai/Saban, AnpanMan

AnpanMan is the popular lead character of a long running Japanese cartoon, affectionately referred to as "the Mickey Mouse of Japan."  Published by Bandai/Saban and contracted with Cortina Entertainment, AnpanMan is a CD-ROM based multimedia title featuring AnpanMan and his cast of food-oriented characters for the Macintosh and Pippin platforms.  The title, presented as an interactive cartoon, is an entertaining and technically significant work for its time, featuring 1000’s of independently scripted animation cels, interacting together through a variety of visual & audio effects in virtually limitless ways.

Electronic Arts, 3D Atlas

3D Atlas is a multimedia reference title for the 3DO platform.  Published by Electronic Arts, this groundbreaking product combines high tech satellite image processing; film, video and stills from around the world; sophisticated display and rendering algorithms; and an easy to use graphical interface to the world statistics database into a single CD-ROM.  As principal of Gamma Interactive, Doug Tung developed this product as part of an international development effort with Electronic Arts, University College of London, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Multimedia Corporation (London).

Global Training Technologies, End User Basics, Advanced End User

End User Basics and Advanced End User are 2 modules of a comprehensive computer- based training package for Lotus Notes.  The package runs under Windows and teaches an end user or advanced user the important knowledge and skills necessary to be able to apply Notes effectively within an organization.  The package is designed to assist Fortune 100 companies in large-scale rollouts of Notes and distributed workgroup technology.  The software features include: a course book-style presentation of textual training content; interactive animated demonstrations; skill assessment and system- wide progress monitoring ; a simulated Lotus Notes interface for hands-on exercises; and full color graphics and animations. Gamma Interactive was retained by Global Training Technologies to develop the entire package for commercial distribution.

Client-Server, Seminars and Team Building

Nissan Motor Corporation

Doug Tung delivered technical seminars on client-server development methods to a transition team of developers from the data processing group.  Doug then provided MIS mentoring and team building services to guide the team through the development of an advanced legal information management system.  This system, utilizing Microsoft Windows and client-server database technology, provides litigation support and other legal support for key Nissan departments.  The system replaced an antiquated mainframe system resulting in significant savings in IS charge backs for mainframe services and support while providing significantly more functionality.

Irell and Manella

Doug Tung delivered technical seminars and provided engineering support services to the data processing department of this prominent law firm for the development of a commercial quality legal support system.  This system provides a full range of law firm support functions.

RTD

Doug Tung provided mentoring, team building, and engineering support services for the development of a transportation scheduling system.  The purpose of the system was to allow bus route planning staff to quickly make changes to bus schedules.  Changes can occur because of school closures, disasters, and other changes in demand forecasts.  The system keeps track of the detailed route of every bus within the district and can quickly prepare new schedules for drivers as well as the public.

County of Ventura

Doug Tung delivered technical seminars on client-server development methods to a transition team in the county data processing division.  Doug Tung then provided mentoring and team building services to guide the team through the development of a parcel tax collection system.  This system, which manages the collection of property tax for all parcels in the county, has replaced the mainframe system originally designed to perform that function.  Property tax is the chief source of revenues for county government and this system may be the first successful system of this type based on client-server database technology and a GUI user interface.

City of Eugene

Doug Tung delivered technical seminars on client-server development methods to the data processing organization in Eugene, Oregon that supports city government and several utilities and other public services.  Doug then provided high-level engineering planning services for the team's planned transition to client-server technology.

Mattel

Doug Tung delivered technical seminars on client-server development methods to a transition team from the data processing division.  As with all his seminars, attendees learn to apply client-server technology, using examples and exercises tailored from the clients planned pilot projects.  In this case the client-server database was UNIX Sybase and the front-end application was PowerBuilder.

Paramount Pictures

The largest movie and television production studio in the country retained Doug Tung to design and manage the development of a comprehensive executive information system.  The system allows production accountants to feed weekly financial data through middle manager approvals all the way to the CFO of the organization.  The system integrates seamlessly with each accountant's work environment and allows them to quickly submit documents up the chain of command.  The documents are then presented to viewers and managers as part of a hierarchical “library” of current information.  Reminders can be automatically sent to document submitters if they fall behind schedule.  Due to the sensitivity of the information, the system maintains comprehensive security controls both on the WAN and on the SQL server.  In addition the system is designed to periodically download financial data and news to supplement the library of  “executive information” with additional decision-making data.

Other Software Engineering

Morgan Samuels Company, Six-Sigma Process Management

Internet Systems Group was retained to provide automation support for Six-Sigma based process management and improvement for Morgan Samuels Company, and executive search firm.  The system monitors and records changes in the CRM and engagement tracking systems used by the firm.  Rules/heuristics are then applied to the change data to monitor the flow of activities through the defined "executive search" process.  This data is used to measure process performance against established targets.  The data is made available as an executive dashboard and underlying database against which detailed process analysis can be conducted.

United Tote, TRDW Platform

The TRDW System is a comprehensive data warehousing environment for the racing transactions.  The system provides a competitive advantage to the United Tote by allowing its customers to do sophisticated analysis and reporting of transactions via intranet, reporting API's and 3rd party reporting tools.  The system provides high performance reporting over a large historical data set by taking advantage of selective data views and OLAP/MDX.  Internet Systems Group was retained to develop and implement the product plan, software, systems and network architecture required to collect, secure, analyze and expose this data.

Neurosurgery Associates

As principal of DWT, Doug Tung was retained by this highly respected neurosurgery practice to design and implement state of the art medical imaging software that will allow surgeons to perform invasive neurosurgery with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The system allows surgeons to perform surgical planning and image manipulation with imaging data collected from MRI and CT imaging systems. 

The system, deployed on a GUI operating environment, was developed using C++ and Assembly language.  Among the technical capabilities of the system are:  the cataloging of images, features, surgical paths, target points and their locations in 3-dimensional space;  coordinate transformation systems to construct images from various perspectives; and optimized algorithms for representation and manipulation of these images.

Brentwood Associates

Contracted by one of the largest venture capital firms in the United States, DWT was retained to develop a cash bated accounting system for three of their partnerships. After an analysis of the requirements, a spreadsheet implementation was chosen utilizing the existing Fortune series minicomputer. The software was then designed, coded and tested to ensure its integrity. A comprehensive users manual and organized training programs were developed to thoroughly prepare users for operation of the new application.

Creative Software Enhancements

This software marketing company retained DWT to develop California Payforms and to complete development of Federal Payforms accounting enhancement software. These applications, when used in conjunction with Great Plains accounting software, automate the preparation of the Federal Form 941 and the California State Forms DE3 and DE3B, Quarterly Returns for Employers. The software packages were developed using the C language and Btrieve record manager. Douglas Tung performed the technical work on this project.

IBM

As a subcontractor to a product launch consulting firm, DWT assisted in the development of the Quickscan training resource and Skillscan Knowledge appraisal systems for IBM's North American Dealer Network. This software was developed using the C language. Douglas Tung performed the technical work on this project.

Korn-Ferry International

As a subcontractor to an accounting systems consulting firm, DWT developed a comprehensive income consolidation program to calculate California tax liability for the global operations of this international executive search firm.

Confidential Client

 As a subcontractor to an accounting systems consulting firm, DWT was retained to develop a parts quoting and trading system for an aviation brokerage firm. The system allows parts brokers to quickly match buyers and sellers of aviation parts in real time.

Confidential Client

 This motion picture producer and distributor retained DWT to maintain and enhance customized software that automates their accounting, contact management, advertising, order entry and shipping departments. Douglas Tung performed a large portion of the actual coding. The project also involved the management of several staff programmers.

Network Engineering

Bank of America (formerly North Carolina National Bank [NCNB])

Doug Tung played a key role in this project by one of the nation's largest banking firms to coordinate the conversion of their enterprise wide network from 3Com to Novell. The system involved the migration of over one hundred (100) file servers located across the southeastern United States and their associated wide area connections; and a re-design of the topology of the entire network. The conversion itself was performed over the course of a single weekend.   Additionally, the project required the coordination between a number of outside consultants from several firms and an extensive in-house IS organization.

Capitol Records

DWT was retained to do a detailed study of the Los Angeles based computer network for this well known music production and management company. The project included a detailed requirements analysis, recommendations, and acceptance testing to stabilize their current environment as well as the development of a long term strategic plan. The network consists of several hundred token ring nodes, 3270 gateways and fiber connections to nearby buildings.

The Andrew Jergens Company

DWT was retained by this manufacturing company to engineer and install the computer network for their Burbank manufacturing plant. The network was implemented to allow essential manufacturing and administrative data to be shared by  various Jergens (Burbank) departments, as well as to facilitate data communications with their headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The system was implemented as a Novell token ring network. Wide area connections were an implicit part of the design and will be implemented in a later phase as part of their long term strategic plan. The project involved the management of both network engineers and tell-communications subcontractors.

 Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin

 This nationwide corporate valuation and finance organization contracted DWT on projects involving the maintenance of their corporate headquarters’ 100+ node ARCNET network as well as the assembly and configuration of file servers for their New York, San Francisco, and Chicago offices. These other offices were connected using external asynchronous dial-up routers. All technical work was performed by Douglas Tung.

Economics Research Associates

DWT was retained to administer and maintain this nationwide land management consulting firm's corporate computer network and proprietary management information system. The system manages all job costing, proposals, and general accounting.  In addition, the system is responsible for maintaining a 35 year history of qualitative data on proposals and assignments. Douglas Tung performed the technical work on this project.

Morehead Marketing and Training Services, Inc.

DWT was retained by this product-launch and training systems consulting firm to design, install and maintain a Novell local area network. This network streamlines the production of high quality proposals and reports, the most crucial products of this firm. The project involved the management of a systems engineer and cabling personnel as well as the development and training of a LAN administrator position.

Steinberg, Nutter & Brent Law Corporation

This bankruptcy law firm retained DWT to improve the utilization and effectiveness of their existing personal computers. A requirements analysis suggested the design and installation of a local area network. The system was implemented as a Novell Ethernet local area network with in-bound and out-bound asynchronous communication services. Software applications were selected and customized for accounting, electronic mail, mailing list management, systems management and certain legal applications to accompany their existing base of word processing and time & billing software. The communication services facilitate remote access from other locations and legal research using LEXIS and WESTLAW. This firm has gone on to substantially expand both the size of their network and their annual billings with tremendous success. This project and subsequent support has involved the management of a systems engineer, telecommunications, and N support personnel.

Neurosurgery Associates

DWT was retained to design and install a local area network for the administrative offices of this well respected medical practice. The network facilitates all administrative functions including: medical billing, accounting, general clerical and patient file location. On-line support and data entry from an outlying office in another hospital is supported by an external communications gateway.

J. Michael Roney & Co.

DWT was contracted by this insurance company to design, install and maintain the local area network for their Pasadena offices. The network was designed to allow multi-user access to the broad range of industry specific software utilized by the firm. In addition data communications is used to directly access policy information and other information maintained by their major underwriters.

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