It Consultant Resume
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Ashburn, VA
SUMMARY
- Saved company from having to restart QA process by solving an issue with 3rd party CSV file loading into an oracle external table incorrectly, ensuring deliverable was on time and contract was out of jeopardy.
- Contributed to weekly development meetings, reviewing progress and coordinating ongoing plans.
- Worked directly with auditors (internal and external) whenever needs arose, providing special audit trail reports.
- Worked closely with department heads and CEO, enhancing and streamlining applications.
- Developed compartmentalized quality control system, allowing isolation of any routine and ensuring version control on modular basis.
- Wrote development and test scripts for several applications, moving through approval, setup, QA and user testing as well as implementation stages.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Ashburn, VA
IT Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Donate consulting services to peers and non - profit organizations to pay it forward and refresh skills.
- Designed and developed lesson plans/projects for the JavaScript course for CaCHÉ Global college students in Kenya.
- Tested the limits of Windows 10 (Preview 64 bit /Home 32 bit /Pro 64 bit and RSAT) to become more adept at assisting end users with troubleshooting issues. As a result, was able to detect and resolve TDR issues when more than 5 monitors are in use.
- Found when testing Oracle Database 12c, the core minimum memory amount of 4 gig was realized with 2gigs RAM and 2gigs swapped disk storage. Using in-memory column-store more than overcame the latency introduced by the swap file.
Confidential, Mclean, VA
Application Support
Responsibilities:
- Performed Help Desk support for the TrAMS Appian application as Tier 2 support.
- Supported the routing and escalation of any TrAMS Help Desk calls utilizing the JIRA ticketing system, to ensure that the customer’s issues are resolved most efficiently.
- Investigate and troubleshoot Appian technical issues.
- Conduct defect management, bug tracking, enhancements.
- Resolved production issues by invoking pre-approved changes to correct data in the Database, modify process instances, and start utilities.
Confidential, Mclean, VA
Application Support
Responsibilities:
- Worked with end-users and colleagues to identify root causes and resolutions of issues.
- Familiar with Appian Process Models and SAIL forms Design,
- Coded Appian business rules, implemented changes to rules, deployed,and maintained a statistical model used in the production of the various weekly and monthly reports.
- Performed collecting and storing of daily and weekly audit logs to satisfy the audit policy requirements of the FTA’s Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM)
- Participated in 508 testing for the FDA’s IFTRACK application, using Jaws 18.
Confidential
Applications Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Developed and implemented Disaster Recovery Platforms for 3rd party systems such as RightFax, Kronos, and CE2000, minimizing duration of system outages in event of disaster.
- Coordinated testers, department heads, and QA team, ensuring recovery plans could be validated before going live.
- Maintained, debugged, updated and supported multiple applications and databases, working with vendors, and assisted users when needed.
- Wrote and executed scripts that converted and copied CareNet Databases to RX-Home, provided Critical Care Systems, and Confidential a unified database platform.
- Developed a monitor and log into the company’s principle Clipper application that scanned for suspicious activity.
- This resulted in the company identifying and prosecuting a case of embezzlement instigated by an employee.
- Created, designed, and implemented a Clipper menu system TSR that would swap out memory and seamlessly call reports written in other programming languages. This afforded us the ability to move away from dependency of coding reports in DOS-based Clipper.
Confidential
Sr. Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Upgraded Clipper from 16 to 32 bit indexing. This resulted in exponentially increasing the maximum number of entry rows in all of the Clipper databases.
- Created an object to replace Clipper memo fields. This increased the database capacity from the old limit of 65,535 memos to new limit of 1 trillion.
- Completely converted a 570K line Clipper application to xHarbour. Testing was successful, but management decided to replace the application rather than converting it. I still consider this accomplishment worth mentioning.
- Took CareNet from standalone application, running independently in various pharmacies across country, to an integrated application over WAN.
- Achieved the ability to recompile any CareNet application previously unavailable by reverse engineering source code of various in house Clipper modules that were lost or did not match the executables.
- Upgraded old programs written in Clipper 87 and 5.1 code to 5.2e, converting all PUBLIC & PRIVATE defined variables to STATIC variables and pseudo objects. This not only resulted in warning free compilation, but also brought the code into compliance with the current standards of the time.
- Designed, developed, implemented, maintained, and provided all levels of support for CareNet application through the complete lifecycle.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Supported and maintained Inventory systems ensuring storage efficiency and peak performance.
- Corrected problems involving missing data in Clipper Database transfer routines, thus ensuring the integrity of data.
- Corrected lingering Y2K problem with VB date entry window, allowing users to enter 2 digit years for dates within 21st century.
- Helped track user access problems involving Cobol on the Unix system, giving previously blocked users access to platform.
- Set up Source Safe; implementing version control over source code.
- Developed wrote and tested an installation manual for VB source code, including instructions to load network drivers, editors and compilers.
Confidential
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Supported, maintained and developed HOMIS (a program serving Elder Affairs), in all aspects of RESPITE Care Services.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Ensured compilation integrity by identifying current source code for each executable and grouped them into one common area.
- Achieved version control by organizing all code to be accessed through source safe.
- Developed automated compile script that included the clipper debugger if in test mode. Updated summer 87 and 5.2e to 5.3 making the code-compliant so it could be upgraded from 16 bit indexing system to 32 bit and performed upgrade.
- Researched and implemented changes to the software that the client requested.