Alfred Scholldorf, Ph.D., joined Global Relay in 2009 as Global Systems Architect. Under Dr. Scholldorf's direction, Global Relay has built a high performance SIP-to-SIP instant messaging clearing house called &lquo; Message Hub&rquo;, making it easy for customers to collaborate in real-time, securely, and in compliance with regulatory. requirements.. Dr. Scholldorf brings more than 20 years of experience in Microsoft LCS, OCS and other real-time messaging software and systems design & architecture from financial systems powerhouse Thomson-Reuters. His last position at Reuters was that of VP and Global Head of Systems Architecture for the Collaboration Services team, which developed Reuters Messaging, Reuters Chat and the associated systems and infrastructure services.. Prior to this, Dr. Scholldorf worked on numerous other projects within Reuters including design of systems for the automated matching of orders in the interbank foreign exchange and exchange-traded commodity futures and options markets.. Throughout his career, Dr. Scholldorf has been committed to building global-scale, high performance systems using the latest in technology. He has mentored many people in the art and science of performance analysis, combining a rigorous scientific software design approach with practical cost-effective benchmarking and measurement – a blended approach which he has proven essential to achieving system architectures that withstand the test of time.. Dr. Scholldorf has a Ph.D. in Physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a B.S. in Physics and Math from Clarkson University.
