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Mojica is a “bottom-up” Information Technology Executive with an early IT start as a Unix SA and developer managing systems running PICK OS for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) where he was a systems analyst writing computer programs to generate statistical models based on world-wide gross theater receipts, bidding patterns and attendance data to support anti-trust litigation which spanned 10-20 year damage periods. Lots of data for this time-period.
This is where he got his start in programming (1983) in C and PICK/BASIC (self-taught) to analyze massive amounts of data to determine anomalies in bidding and award patterns; the primary system used was a DEC 2020. He also used early versions of Visicalc running on mini’s as a spreadsheet tool to support complex statistical analysis.
Working around lawyers for a few years caused him to become a frustrated lawyer himself so he took the LSAT’s and scored 90th percentile, but found computer programming more challenging and instead went on to take some formal education courses in C and Computer Science at SUNY’s Harlem Campus 125th and Lenox in the Harlem State Building instead (1983,4/night school), while still working at a law firm, in the Anti-Trust Litigation/Defense area for the major motion picture companies.
There he remained entrenched in developing litigation support systems and complex algorithmic models against movie theater bid data to develop patterns across time, geography, genre, and other categories to prove theorems in support of defense litigation. He learned quite a bit about anti-trust and copy-rights law through osmosis and he continued to move along the IT track within the legal industry and went on to a more prestigious Wall Street firm (Herzfeld & Rubin P.C.) as an application developer writing FOCUS (IBI) code for VAX and PC systems (again self-taught).
The application development consisted of large database centric and document scanning and imaging systems for legal case management that was utilized by 100’s of local counsel offices around the globe. He developed early electronic legal case management systems, algorithms for settlement determinations and developed software applications used by attorneys to track and share excruciating data details of complex automotive product liability claims for the manufacturer’s defense actions.
Working at a prestigious Wall St. law-firm he had friends working in IT in the Wall St. broker dealer industry. They were mostly working in trading floor environments, and he later moved to work in the Wall St. financial services industry (still IT related) and joined what was at the time the worlds largest brokerage firm, Nomura Securities. He was still doing software development but at the same time taking over responsibilities for the Unix and PC Lan infrastructure side of the house, dealing with real-time delivery of market data, trading floor technology, and doing more architectural design of the infrastructure, planning and support.
For context, this was a time period when Novell was still the PC Lan of choice, IBM PS2 MCA architecture was popular and Unix Pizza Boxes were going from Sparc 2’s to 5’s and many firms were moving off of Wang WP to Novell and Word Perfect. It was during this period where Peter developed and sold his first commercial software product. It was developed for internal use first, and later became a commercial software utility used to perform data migrations from Wang WP, NEC and Barrister Word-processing systems (which he supported in the law firms) to PC based WordPerfect which was becoming the word processor of choice at the time. This was a time period where many companies were shutting down their Wang’ VS system used for word processing and and moving to LAN's on Wall Street.
His early software development experience also included systems level software development of 4GL compilers, code generators and report writers for popular database systems PC Focus, Paradox and Symantec Q&A. During this time frame.
As a side note, he was also a professional musician, trumpet player, playing in latin salsa dance clubs around NYC.
Mojica is a “bottom-up” Information Technology Executive with an early IT start as a Unix SA and developer managing systems running PICK OS for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) where he was a systems analyst writing computer programs to generate statistical models based on world-wide gross theater receipts, bidding patterns and attendance data to support anti-trust litigation which spanned 10-20 year damage periods. Lots of data for this time-period.
This is where he got his start in programming (1983) in C and PICK/BASIC (self-taught) to analyze massive amounts of data to determine anomalies in bidding and award patterns; the primary system used was a DEC 2020. He also used early versions of Visicalc running on mini’s as a spreadsheet tool to support complex statistical analysis.
Working around lawyers for a few years caused him to become a frustrated lawyer himself so he took the LSAT’s and scored 90th percentile, but found computer programming more challenging and instead went on to take some formal education courses in C and Computer Science at SUNY’s Harlem Campus 125th and Lenox in the Harlem State Building instead (1983,4/night school), while still working at a law firm, in the Anti-Trust Litigation/Defense area for the major motion picture companies.
There he remained entrenched in developing litigation support systems and complex algorithmic models against movie theater bid data to develop patterns across time, geography, genre, and other categories to prove theorems in support of defense litigation. He learned quite a bit about anti-trust and copy-rights law through osmosis and he continued to move along the IT track within the legal industry and went on to a more prestigious Wall Street firm (Herzfeld & Rubin P.C.) as an application developer writing FOCUS (IBI) code for VAX and PC systems (again self-taught).
The application development consisted of large database centric and document scanning and imaging systems for legal case management that was utilized by 100’s of local counsel offices around the globe. He developed early electronic legal case management systems, algorithms for settlement determinations and developed software applications used by attorneys to track and share excruciating data details of complex automotive product liability claims for the manufacturer’s defense actions.
Working at a prestigious Wall St. law-firm he had friends working in IT in the Wall St. broker dealer industry. They were mostly working in trading floor environments, and he later moved to work in the Wall St. financial services industry (still IT related) and joined what was at the time the worlds largest brokerage firm, Nomura Securities. He was still doing software development but at the same time taking over responsibilities for the Unix and PC Lan infrastructure side of the house, dealing with real-time delivery of market data, trading floor technology, and doing more architectural design of the infrastructure, planning and support.
For context, this was a time period when Novell was still the PC Lan of choice, IBM PS2 MCA architecture was popular and Unix Pizza Boxes were going from Sparc 2’s to 5’s and many firms were moving off of Wang WP to Novell and Word Perfect. It was during this period where Peter developed and sold his first commercial software product. It was developed for internal use first, and later became a commercial software utility used to perform data migrations from Wang WP, NEC and Barrister Word-processing systems (which he supported in the law firms) to PC based WordPerfect which was becoming the word processor of choice at the time. This was a time period where many companies were shutting down their Wang’ VS system used for word processing and and moving to LAN's on Wall Street.
His early software development experience also included systems level software development of 4GL compilers, code generators and report writers for popular database systems PC Focus, Paradox and Symantec Q&A. During this time frame.
As a side note, he was also a professional musician, trumpet player, playing in latin salsa dance clubs around NYC.