SUMMARY:

• Customer - focused IT professional, expert and innovative leader in the development and delivery of high performance document delivery applications. Acknowledged for capacity to conquer technical challenges, analyze viable alternatives, and provide innovative solutions that reside well within clients' financial and time framework.Chosen member of a core development team tasked to design, develop and implement a series of document delivery applications which would include 1000+ redesigned origination, application, and compliance documents.
• Spearheaded development efforts by creating performance based objects that reduced document generation times and provided best practice examples for other team members.
• Designed all data interfaces for both data input and document selection which provided the ability to have one request generated any number of packages and documents in any format.
• Led development efforts in working with Marketing to implement branded style documents based on business channel.
• Instrumental in creating reusable page templates that allowed developers to focus their efforts on just the actual page content.
• Created library of objects used to populate over 400 calculated variables in an efficient and predictable manner.
• Complete ownership of performance tuning and configuration settings for the production engine.
• Instructed junior developers on important Dialogue functionality and provided training to non-development users who needed access to the dialogue document library.
• Vigorously enforced performance guidelines by conducting nightly code reviews and provided follow-up sessions with team members to clarify the importance of the following the guidelines.
• Took the initiative and developed a Document Testing application in C# which provided developers the ability to use shared scenario. The system also captured snapshots of test cases, debug logs and document output. This functionality spanned all environments and is used to debug production issues.
• Developed a PDF security application in C# to expand the security options based on proposed security requirements. This allowed security options to change based on a documents destination (Web, CDMS, Email)
• The delivered document applications resulted in a 99% reduction in generation times for all packages containing on average 25 to 100 documents. Reduced 72% of servers used and lowered server utilization from 90+% to 20%.
• Lead a team with the objective of delivering a proof-of-concept document application to showcase the functionality and performance of the Confidential Exstream product.
• Volunteered to lead the project through the entire development life-cycle and to own and correct any post release issues.
• Worked closely with middle-tier developer and business data analyst in a RAD environment to produce the data structures.
• Designed and Developed 50+ documents and supplied daily feedback to marketing so that changes could be implemented the following morning.
• Organized and executed performance against the testing completed application and made configuration changes when needed.
• Delivered the first draft of the best practices documentation for use in all future document projects.
• The delivered application not only performed beyond expectations, the quality of the documents produced received high acclaim from all senior leadership.

STRENGTHS:

• 20+ years of information technology experience in Application Development.
• 7 years in-depth experience in document design and development using Confidential Dialogue.
• Skilled in developing complex, high-profile, multi-page documents.
• Worked with output types Postscript and PDF with Simplex and Duplex pages.
• Proven abilities in software design, development and architecture.
• Results-oriented with a proven record of providing innovative solutions for complex technical challenges that reside well within clients' financial and time framework.
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Experienced in Agile, Waterfall, and Rapid Application Development approaches.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Confidential Exstream 6.1, .NET C#, Powerbuilder, Blaze Adviser, Java, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Oracle SQL, SQL Server, Sybase
• XML (DTD, Schema, XSLT), Adobe SDK, Postscript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered comprehensive technical and functional questions and provided technical advice. Participated in the evaluation and editing of over 250 questions which culminated in the creation of both a vendor/product questionnaire and scorecard.
• Organized and directed each vendor technical presentations which involved groups of technical experts from both companies. Completed the technical and functional portions of the questionnaire with accompanying documentation.
• Worked with project leader on the final funding presentation and attended the presentation given to senior leadership to provide answers to their technical and functional questions.
• The project and team members where given high acclaim by senior leadership for the level of detail provided during the funding presentation. This became the project template for all future vendor selection projects.
• Lead architect supporting a project team assembled to re-engineer the existing document management infrastructure to support an upcoming project delivery that would significantly lower costs by automating the borrower document verification process.
• Developed a wide range of stress tests and coordinated the execution of the tests against the existing hardware infrastructure.
• Organized and executed all stress tests to hardware and replication to capture capacity benchmarks. Worked with team to publish hardware specification documents including all costs and provided this to the project team.
• Coordinated the purchase and installation of servers and replication software for the project.
• Supervised and provided technical support during the loading of 50 million pages of documents running 24/7 over 1 month time-frame.
• The implementation was completed successfully with no user disruption and the re-engineered infrastructure performed exactly to the specifications. This set the way for the proceeding project to be delivered one month later.
• Leader on a project team with the objective to automate the current appraisal underwriting process and reduce the time underwriters spend manually verifying appraisal documentation.
• Facilitated meetings between Confidential developers and team developers to work through message formats for incoming and outgoing transactions.
• Volunteered to develop the underwriting rules engine using the Blaze Adviser tool and produced a web maintenance application and Java classes used to interface with the rules engine.
• Trained other developers in Blaze Adviser for later transitioning of ownership.
• Once implemented the system reduced the time spent underwriting appraisals from an hour to several minutes.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Systems Analyst / Developer

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Systems Analyst / Developer

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Developer

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Developer