TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Ubuntu, macOS, Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2000/XP/NT/98/95/3.x, MS - DOS

Languages and related skills: Java, JavaScript, Bootstrap, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Struts, JSP, JFC Swing, Flex, XML, UML, SQL, DHTML, Rational Unified Process, Agile Unified Process

Java & JavaScript: Eclipse IDE, NetBeans IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland JBuilder, IBM VisualAge for Java, Symantec Visual Caf, Microsoft Visual J++, Sun Java WorkShop, Sun Java Development Kit, Sun Java Servlet Development Kit, Sun JavaServer Web Development Kit, Sun JavaBeans Development Kit, Lotus BeanMachine

C & C++: Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++

PHP: Zend Studio, Smarty Templates, phpMyAdmin

Visual Basic: Microsoft Visual Basic

Multimedia: Adobe Flash, Aimtech Jamba, Camtasia, WaveLab, MovieMaker

Development Tools: Eclipse IDE, NetBeans IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio, Git, BitBucket, Mercurial, Atlassian Crowd, Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA, Stash, SourceTree, HipChat, VirtualBox, Visio Technical, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, iPlanet Server, JServ Server, WebLogic Server, Tomcat Server, Resin Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft SQL Server, EasyMock, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe version control Administrator, Visual Intercept Administrator, CVS version control, Perforce version control, TLIB version control, SourceForge, SCCS, Bugzilla, Wise Windows Installation Administrator, Crystal Reports Administrator, RoboHelp, Microsoft Project, ObjectSpace, ObjectStore, CXL Libraries, BoundsChecker, Javakey Security Management, Javadoc API Generator, Ant Build Tool, SecureCRT Telnet, Putty SSH, WS FTP Pro, WinSCP, Multi-Edit, Eudora Pro Mail, Microsoft Outlook Mail, Pegasus Mail, Laplink Professional, Breakpoint Hex Workshop, Microangelo Icon Studio, Xigla Absolute Banner Manager, Liferay Enterprise Portals System, Yammer

Databases: MySQL, Microsoft Access, Borland Paradox, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle

Documentation Tools: The entire Microsoft Office Professional Plus Suite including Visio Technical, Google Apps Suite, DocBook, Adobe Acrobat, Camtasia, Movie Maker, Draw.IO, Omnigraffle, Confluence, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, WaveLab, SnagIt, RoboHelp, XMind, Liferay, Oracle Enterprise Content Management System, SharePoint, SourceForge, WordPress.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst and Documentation Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis and documentation for existing global shipment processing software obtained through an acquisition. Used Visio to produce process flow and sequence diagrams, XMind to produce MindMaps for data access and IO routing, Camtasia and Movie Maker for editing recorded whiteboard video
• Excel spreadsheets for listing details for all data connections both internal and external, and MS Word for documenting the overall descriptions for the existing software application and for the new version being developed for future use. Prepared a comprehensive outline of the user interface for the existing application. Hired by and reported to the Director of Acquisition Integration Services.

Business Analyst and Documentation Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed technical documentation system for the DevOps Infrastructure Team as part of their Digital Innovation initiative, which included migrating all systems from Docker Swarms to Kubernetes Clusters. Documentation included User Guides for System Access and Team Onboarding, Kubernetes Clusters and Federation, Jenkins Roles and Security, Prometheus Monitoring Systems, and Logging Systems using the ELK Stack. All work performed on macOS, used Draw.io and Omnigraffle for diagrams, MS Word and Confluence for publishing, JIRA, Tempo, Crowd, Git, BitBucket, and was a Jenkins Administrator. Also produced a Developer Roadmap to be used for onboarding new developers into the new systems.Documentation Specialist and Senior Technical Writer

Documentation Specialist and Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included design of documentation system and documentation templates, handling of required updates and maintenance of technical user manuals, configuration manuals, and creation of presentation slide sets for demonstrating technology platform. Handled logistics and content presentation for technology of external business partners by conducting local and remote sessions. Used Google Apps Suite extensively, along with Atlassian, Mercurial, Confluence, JIRA, HipChat, BitBucket, DocBook, Movie Maker, Camtasia, and Microsoft Office Professional Suite including Visio Professional. Hired by and reported to the Executive Vice-President.

Documentation Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included design of enterprise software documentation system, design of documentation templates, design of interface for Oracle Enterprise CMS while migrating from SharePoint, and production of technical documentation for an Oracle Enterprise Architecture System. Also developed a comprehensive enterprise portal system using Liferay that accesses a repository of technical enterprise documentation. Interviewed Enterprise IT Architects about various components of enterprise system design and architecture, building a documentation system to be used for educating business professionals and other architects. Hired by and reported to the IT Architecture Senior Supervisor.

Solutions Architect / Senior Software Engineer / Documentation Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Projects implemented Global HD Content Management systems and On-Demand Media systems for Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and others, using Eclipse J2EE with a custom JBPM process modeling plugin. Also designed and prepared all technical documentation for all development teams as well as external documentation for clients, including Critical Design Reviews, High-Level Design Specifications, User Guides, Systems Installation Instructions, Turnover Documents, Method of Procedure Documents, and Documentation Templates.

Director of Software Development / Principal Engineer / Documentation Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assembled and led teams both local and offshore, coordinated engineering departments across various platforms and languages, including Java, .NET, C++, and PHP. Projects revolved around aspects of DRM encoding and distribution of licensed digital media content and advertising via the Internet and P2P file trading systems. Designed a comprehensive documentation system covering all aspects of the software suite. Hired by and reported to CEO.

Project Leader / Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer / Technical Writer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assembled and led a new team in building a web-based data-centric application that allows teachers, parents, and students to upload images, audio, movies, and Flash content and then author custom presentations from that content for download by other users. Developed in PHP using Smarty templates with the Zend Studio development environment. Bugzilla for bug-tracking and CVS for version control. Used SSH with BASH to Solaris OS for development. Functioned as Project Leader, Architect using UML and RUP, Project Manager using Microsoft Project, and coding as Senior Engineer. Also functioned as principal liaison between Business Executives and all Technical Teams. Prepared all artifacts, use-cases, Visio diagrams, and technical documentation. Hired by and reported to CEO.

Product Manager / Principal Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Personally invented the Confidential Travel Console, a software for travel agents, using J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, DHTML, Swing and JavaScript to create a web application that accesses multiple travel websites for airlines, hotels, orbitz, expedia, travelocity, etc., navigates through the pages of each site, handling cookies, javascript, sessions, etc. encountered along the way, and gathers final prices to display in a comparison table, showing vendors, prices, flight numbers, times, and including a link directly to the booking page for each flight or hotel shown in the table. Also made the results available to wireless devices and available via XML data feeds. Managed the department responsible for proof-of-concept development, program design, and prototyping. Supplied new designs and code to production development team for final implementation. Administrator on version control and bug tracking systems. Unix/Linux and Windows environment using Tomcat, Resin, iPlanet, and WebLogic servers. Prepared all documentation for each system. Hired by and reported to CEO.

Director of Software Development / Principal Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used Java Servlets and Intelligent Agents to produce content syndication software, enabling a user to capture pieces of websites for inclusion in 'syndication packets', which could later be re-constructed dynamically as part of a 'personal web portal' application customized by the user. Also made the portal display available to wireless devices. Also used JavaScript, DHTML, and XML. Unix/Linux development environment. Used SSH Telnet to BASH with Samba with Tomcat, Resin, and iPlanet servers. Managed a team of 12 developers. Prepared all documentation for each system. Hired by and reported to CEO.

Software Development Manager / Principal Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a browser-based interactive multimedia tutorial and examination program for Accu-Tech, using Macromedia Flash for the tutorial and Java with JFC Swing for the examination. The 2-hour program was designed to teach sales techniques to a team of salespeople with the tutorial, followed by 3 multiple-choice exams. The Java exam section used a signed and trusted applet, giving it full access to the local client's system resources, including reading from and writing to local file systems. Prepared all documentation for each system.

Product Manager / Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a set of computer-based tools to be used for teaching the IBM sales force how to use the IBM sales presentation software. The project was done in Java and was designed to run from an AIX Unix server on both Windows and OS/2 systems in the Netscape browser. Development duties also included designing an HTML interface and menus, handling graphics development using Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, and using JavaScript extensively. Windows, OS/2, and Unix development environment using AIX Unix. Prepared all documentation for each system. I was ed the IBM Javanaut for 1999.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed an interactive Intranet website, building a server-extension DLL in C++ that accessed a SQL Server database, building dynamic web pages for the user on demand using callbacks to pull the requested data from the current database contents and format it into HTML form for presentation to the user. Prepared technical documents detailing the design and operation of the site. Windows NT and Unix/Linux BASH development environment using Internet Information Server, Perforce version control and ObjectSpace C++ Libraries.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building Java components of the MCI Sales Force Intranet program. Windows NT and Unix/Linux BASH development environment using Internet Information Server and SQL Server.

Team Leader / Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and maintained communications software, sales software, commissions software, mainframe verification software, and online database services website for Confidential, Inc. using C++, Java, and Visual Basic, building 15 applications involving over 1 million lines of code. The original design was for DOS-based applications using Borland C++ with a Borland Paradox database, later migrating to Visual C++ and Visual Basic with a Sybase database. I was solely responsible for the database conversion of the entire MCI database from Paradox tables to Sybase tables, making substantial changes to the table structures during the conversion. Worked on-site at MCI Headquarters for 5 months during implementation and testing of mainframe verification software. Development environment used Windows and Unix and targeted DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95. Called upon to replace Project
• Managers, Project Leaders, and Team Leaders when they took vacations. Handled generation of all reports, some of which used Crystal Reports, and some which were custom-screen DOS reports. Built all required Windows installation packages for developed software. Wise Installation system administrator. SourceSafe version control administrator. Crystal Reports administrator. Assisted with customer service, customer support, help desk hotline, and quality assurance testing.