SUMMARY:

• Excellent development skills of accounting and inventory programs using Universe/Pick Basic, using the UNIX operating system or variants (LINUX, AIX) on client/server systems
• Expertise with time management, problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven record of completing projects on time and under budget
• Over three decades of expert application development on projects using the SDLC with involvement from inception to completion
• Organized and detailed communication with all levels of employees from high level executives to involved clerical staff
• Ability to work independently or with a team by utilizing project management knowledge and implementation of corporate standards and best practices
• Completion of continuing education courses in Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, Systems Analysis and Information Modeling, and Software Design Methods.
• Completed on - line classes in HTML5, CSS, Listening and Teamwork.
• At Confidential, my code and project review skills were recognized as outstanding by my managers and coworkers. This led to frequent involvement in the review of critical projects. I have also been asked to organize a project review presentation for my fellow developers.
• At Mouser, I was trained in a monthly task to update our Universe tax files with information from a 3rd party database. Despite continuous turnover among the people handling this task, I ensured that it was handled in a timely fashioned every month. This was among the things which led my boss to declare to the department vice-president that I was his most dependable employee despite the fact that I had half the seniority of the people in his group.
• Functioning as the Technical Lead for the Confidential & Confidential Y2K changes for dealership software. This was an 18 month project with eight additional developers working to update over 1200 programs. The programs included the Accounting, Inventory and Payroll applications for over 8,000 users. The project was completed on time with no significant problems.
• Helped to develop a Quality Assurance team for the development organization. As one of the people selected for this role, I worked with developers, marketing and the other team members to develop policies and procedures to cover QA testing. We established a set of reviews of the customer requirement, development design and the project code to catch problems as early as possible in the development cycle.
• Project Lead for two projects to integrate the telephony system (PBX) with the Confidential & Confidential systems in automobile dealerships. These projects used Java and XML to pass data between the two servers. The first project was with Interactive Intelligence, a third party vendor and the second was a PBX which had been developed internally. These projects included working with Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Field Engineering and multiple development teams, both on and off-site.
• Technical Lead for a project for Ford Motor Company to integrate the web with Confidential and Confidential dealership systems. The web sites allowed the customer to search for an open service appointment, schedule an appointment, and receive confirmation of their appointment. In addition, the dealership’s files would be updated to include the forthcoming appointment. I worked closely with the team who developed the Java framework to handle parsing and processing of the inbound and outbound XML files. This framework has been the backbone of numerous applications to integrate Confidential & Confidential software with automobile manufactures, banks, insurance companies and other third parties.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Universe Developer

Confidential

• Development of technical and functional specifications for new projects based on user requests. I worked with the users to ensure that I understood their needs and that the completed project would meet their requirements.
• Coded programs in Universe Basic to fulfill technical specifications and user requirements.
• Design and execution of unit and integration test cases to ensure that the projects I worked on were delivered with high quality.
• Research and correction of program issues which were reported or observed on the production system in order to provide the best possible user experience Worked with users to track down errors and correct them appropriately.
• Performed code and project reviews for other developers to ensure that their code was efficient and error-free, as well determining whether their test cases would adequately test their changes.
• Participated in several Disaster Recovery tests to ensure that Mouser’s Universe systems would continue to function in the event of an outage.
• Execution of End of Financial period update processes outside of normal business hours. This had to be done on a tight schedule and was necessary for the proper accounting of sales in the following month.
• After hours and weekend support for Mouser’s Universe applications as well as responsibility to follow up when issues were network or web related.

Senior Application Developer

Confidential

• Development and creation of prototypes for new software and hardware applications on multiple projects of varying complexities from project inception to completion, including buy versus build decisions, technical design phase and program code development phase, test phase, data conversion, and product release and implementation
• Development of functional and technical specifications of new processes, data, and physical environment of applications
• Program development, including problem resolution with a focus on issues that impact design/development success or address future technologies
• Develop unit test specifications, conduct unit test and resolve issues, including code review of prototypes for myself and other team members
• Executing data conversion plans
• Work with customers over phone or in person in order to resolve issues which were beyond the capabilities of the Confidential service center Personal Accomplishments
• Member of Toastmasters since 2014. I have completed the Competent Leadership manual and am almost finished with the Competent Communicator manual as well.
• Received “The President’s Volunteer Service Award” in 2007 as part of the Beavercreek Police Department’s “Citizens on Preventive Patrol” organization. I joined this organization as a volunteer in 1993, following three months of training.