Discussion section: (add references, two paragraphs each)

1)      Research some job ads for IT professionals in a company and/or geographic location that you would like to work in.

Which types of jobs would you be the most interested in, and why?

Where did you find the best ads? (e.g., Monster.com, Careers.com)

2)      What were some of the Lessons Learned about business continuity planning that can be derived from organizational experiences following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or other similar events?

3)      (Note: you need to look at the file called “brief”.word)

THE GOAL IS TO IMPROVE MY “brief” document (grammar, clarity of key points, quality of details, etc.)

My Project Idea:

My idea for the project is an investment company (Platinum Investments). We all know it takes money to make money. We were just given a million to work with. I say we spend as little as possible into infrastructure and consider IaaS and use the rest to make us money. We will have our website hosted by someone like GoDaddy, (Platinuminvestments.com) and use AWS (amazon web service) to handle the storage.

We will have a team of professionals that are watching and analyzing stocks, along with recommendations. We could have a three-tier membership system silver, gold, and platinum. Silver offers daily updates and recommendations of lower level, slower growing stock. Gold offers hourly updates, hot stocks, and detailed earnings information. Platinum is for large mutual fund investments geared toward large returns with minute to minute information, personal broker, and access to premium stocks and all the metrics available about every stock.

If we go with my idea we need research done on AWS and GoDaddy. Along with a 6-month plan for our company and how we intend to grow. My recommendation is expand quickly, therefore relying on other companies for scalability.

Since we live in a Mobil world we should also look into apps.

Requirements:

Congratulations! You and a few of your best friends have just received $1,000,000 in Venture Capital (VC) which is intended to cover your team’s expenses for the first 6 months.

As a team, your initial task is to design an IT Architecture for your small startup company. The company will provide a trading platform and Buy, Sell, and Hold (BSH) recommendations for all of the stocks in the Russell 2,000. Your recommendations are provided at the end of the business day for your Silver customers, hourly for your Gold members, and every minute for your Platinum members. As such, your computing platform will need real-time access to stock market data on which you will base your recommendations. You may choose to integrate the services from other providers into your platform (for example, stock background information (e.g., Morningstar), current and historical stock prices, current and historical news stories, and a stock trading platform.

You will need to create an IT Architecture that does not consume too much of the VC funds (which would leave very little for other expenses, like your salaries). In addition, you will need to create an architecture that is in compliance with all applicable security and other standards – to ensure your customer’s funds are kept safe from hackers. You may want to refer to:

·         AWS Compliance

You will also need to create an IT Architecture that can quickly adapt to an influx of new customers when you have your “SuperBowl moment” (i.e., a big influx of new customers). That moment will come for you when the stock market declines by 10% sometime in the next 3 months, and your advertisements on a popular financial news channel generates a lot of interest in your stock-picking software during difficult times in the market.

Oh, and I’ll need to see your first draft IT Architecture in two weeks.

Your final IT Architecture is due at the end of the course.

To ensure I recognize the benefits of your IT Architecture

4)      Summarize key points of the “brief” document into two slide on the “powerpoint.ppt” document.

Add two slide that identify key point of the “brief” document. Ensure you include references.