Career Summary

28 years of full scale SDLC experience in government, educational, telecommunications, banking, insurance, and corporate software environments. Learn quickly, flexible, self-motivated, organized, and quality oriented.

Salvaged late project through parallel development, unit test, integration, and documentation efforts using 11 people, delivered in 1/3rd estimated time.
Hired team, trained, set up development/test environments, executed design extraction, managed development, test, and deployment to production for two SaaS systems. Delivered in 6 months.
Performed scheduling, status reporting, and issue management on multiple projects.

User declared detail design flawed 1 month into development of a 6 month project. Performed requirements analysis, high and low level design, and coordinated activities of internationally based virtual development team. Delivery slipped 2 weeks.
Technical Lead on multiple projects. Lead database designer on multiple projects.

Performed requirements analysis, design, and user acceptance testing for internationally based client.
Coordinated 50+ volunteer virtual organization.
Provided 24x7 remote Tier-3 support to sys admins.
Delivered life cycle project documentation on multiple projects.

Cut 6 months from projected development time through code re-use & standards; delivered in 3 months.
Senior software developer on multiple projects working from requirements through installation.

Participated in planning and execution for a 3 mini-computer, major product upgrade (O/S, COTS, in-house) that was performed over a weekend and resulted in only 3 trouble calls on Monday.
Performed multiple weekend upgrades of a high volume 24x7 system.

UNIX (Linux, BSD, HP/UX), VAX/VMS, Windows (2000, NT, 95/98, XP) Actionscript, Ada, C++, C, COBOL, Flex, FORTRAN, HTTP, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, SQL, T-SQL, VBScript, XML, MySQL, MS SQL Server, ORACLE, PostgreSQL, Sybase, VAX/Rdb, CloverETL, Ant, Apache, CVS, Druid, Eclipse, ErWin, Excel, IIS, Hibernate, Hyperion, Jira Joomla, JRun, LDAP, LoadRunner, MFC, PowerPoint, MS Project, QuickTest Pro, RapidSQL, Selenium, SOAtest, Spring, Subversion, Symfony, Toad, Tomcat, Visio, XMLSpy, X-Windows, Websphere

Confidential,May 2011 to Aug 2011
Confidential,Business Analyst
Capture Business Requirements for data conversion/integration into the Data Warehouse. Develop mapping documents. Create test plan and ETL conversion verification. Research data issues and create scripts for corrections.
Confidential,November 2009 to May 2011
Confidential,Senior Business Analyst
Researched Monitoring and Impact Evaluation processes and provided an overview concept paper for current approaches. Collaboratively architected an open source platform for knowledge base sharing, interactive communication, database integration, ETL, dashboards, and dynamic end user report generation. Ushered development through to production release using agile approaches creating the corporation’s first data warehouse based reporting system.
Other clients. – Technical writing, business analysis, quality assurance activities.
Innovative Employee Solutions Jul 2008 to November 2009
Confidential,Senior Business Analyst
Documented requirements and procedures. Coordinated identification of group tasks. Tested automated conversion results for functional correctness. Tested functional, security, and usability of conversion UI tools. Developed training material. Provided training and technical support.
Confidential,Feb 2008 to May 2008
Confidential,QA Analyst
Maintained current status information on test update process for over 200 tests across 4 developers. Automated conversion of regression data to new format. Identified standardized optimized implementation methods for test modification.
Confidential,Feb 2006 to Dec 2007
Quality Assurance Architect
Established deployment process, quality review process, test methods. Reviewed implementation of the deployment environment and provided knowledge to development staff on requirements for eventual deployment. Managed deployment process. Defined, wrote, and maintained User Acceptance Testing process and execution. Coordinated and provided status on system stress testing specifically designed to identify load failures.
Project Manager/Developer
Interviewed, hired development staff. Researched, identified, ordered purchase of support environment (software and hardware) for the development process. Identified task assignments and set schedule. Designed, developed, deployed small SaaS application. Researched and resolved implementation problems introduced by open source tools.

Confidential,March 1995 to Feb 2006
Confidential,Technical Lead
Task and resource allocation; schedule, status, and issue reporting; identification of and distribution of requirements, high, and low level design; development of and verification of SQL queries for reports, coordination of development, and execution and coordination of integration, and testing, for an Oracle based business knowledge system
Confidential,Technical Consultant
Review state of the art for resource allocation/distribution algorithms. Identify options, evaluate best of breed for specific use, investigate licensing.
Confidential,Tier III Technical Support/System Engineer
System installation/migration/upgrade plans and execution (NT, SQL Server, IIS). Resolution of operational problems at remote sites: O/S, interfaces, and DB systems.
Confidential,Technical Consultant
Research and deliver a white paper on current Software Engineering management techniques, methods, and support technology
Confidential,Technical Lead
Conclude project with s integration and operational delivery testing
Confidential,Senior Software Engineer/President
Marketing, design, and development of web pages. Oversaw regional technical group for Y2K issues and presented information to small and mid-size businesses on how to address the issue. DB query and report generation, and created a WWW page visit tracking system.
Confidential,1996 to 1997
President/Treasurer
Oversaw strategic planning, policy development, insurance & legal matters
Set up accounting system and banking relationships, fill out & file 501C(3) , handle member applications and payments, and pay bills
Database Manager
Design membership database, develop perl CGI code, install, tune, and manage subscription services. Locate and train replacement
Volunteer Coordinator/Mail List Manager
Create management, define policies, recruit, assign duties, and monitor activities
Reallocate list traffic, locate volunteers, standardize configurations, establish procedures, communication methods

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science