SUMMARY

• Confidential is a highly professional, multi - faceted, senior software developer who is capable of proficiently constructing custom software solutions.
• He is frequently called upon to mentor other developers and build complex software components.
• With a solid understanding of application object models, relational databases, user interface elements, and multi-tier & service-oriented architecture, Confidential has been able to become a key player in implementing many new product implementations and custom software enhancements.
• He employs a comprehensive set of complementary software development skills, and is a proficient PL/SQL and Java developer, document-publishing expert, and an accomplished web master.
• His combination of diverse web development expertise has provided Confidential with the tools to be highly successful in customizing, extending, and maintaining large- scale web applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle PL/SQL, Java, and Java web services.
• Experience with Oracle ADF, ETL processes, and other languages and technologies.
• Understanding of multitier architecture and web services.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Developer, Applications

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support the following applications used by Sales, Finance, & Trade Marketing business units: Siebel, PPA - Post Promotion Analysis, and TPO - Trade Promotion Optimization.
• Also, support night batch processes and ETL processes for these applications.
• From a project perspective, as part of the recent acquisition of Big Heart Pet Brands, was a key contributor for the metadata transformation and digital asset upload (to Oracle WCC) of Big Heart Pet Brand digital assets, leveraging Java, Oracle PL/SQL, and Windows PowerShell.
• As part of this project, also implemented Google Analytics (via JavaScript) into a Java ADF website used by Marketing Services and Creative Services business units.
• Contributed on the Foodservice Equipment and Service Tracking (FEAST) Project, where an Oracle ADF web solution was built, along with necessary Java web services.
• Primarily, wrote Java web services for this project.
• Also, have supported in-house Oracle WebCenter Content (ECM/WCC) and Oracle WebCenter Portal in an Administrator role, fixing defects, implementing enhancements, and responding to user requests.

Implementation Manager / Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As the technical lead & implementation manager for this engagement, Confidential led a team of 9 developers through multiple work efforts to support the Confidential Surety Bond Dragon Application (web-based).
• Also, provided project management support and developer training/knowledge transfer support.
• Reported to the Confidential Assistant Vice President of IT.
• Engaged in many different areas of consulting, including: writing PL/SQL & SQL, partner selection/candidate evaluations, transition consulting and planning, technical support for other in-house development teams, technical design reviews, PL/SQL code reviews, implementing new processes & procedures, authoring new SOP documents, and coordinating work efforts with other development teams.
• Team efforts/projects included: defect remediation, application enhancements & change requests, and application workflow diagram development.
• Primary technical focus: Oracle PL/SQL

Senior Principal Consultant / Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a Dragon system assessment consisting of performance and scalability reviews.
• The performance review included authoring technical design/re-design documents and correcting performance degradation items identified in the assessment.
• These corrections included fine-tuning PL/SQL code, metadata, and rules.
• The scalability review included product design recommendations, including adjustments of system architecture and code needed to meet the go-forward plan for new product offerings.
• Provided in-depth, technical analysis for client specified “pain points” within the application.
• Also, lead knowledge transfer sessions customized for the client.
• Primary technical focus: Oracle PL/SQL with client Confidential
• Responsible for comprehensive system rebuild and improvement of workflows and processes including a redesign of Vehicle VIN web applications.
• Also, lead key project in balancing endorsement premium data for export to external systems and analyzing/fixing defects within Batch processes, spanning many varieties of data exports.
• Key team member in defect remediation efforts with issues identified in Rating, UI and Print for Auto & Home lines of business.
• Co-training lead in developing and implementing monthly knowledge transfer sessions for client developers, business analyst's and subject matter experts.
• Primary technical focus: Oracle SQL (DDL and DML).
• Secondary technical focus: Oracle PL/SQL and Confidential
• Engaged by a contracted development team to provide the necessary expertise to perform new product development on an existing Dragon platform.
• Routinely mentored all developers and handled a majority of the most important and complex technical challenges for this project.
• He was the sole development resource for the design and coding of the rating module for the new insurance products, which leveraged an innovative and complex multivariate premium calculation.
• Furthermore, he corrected a number of the most critical defects related to the comparative rater and other external interfaces.
• Primary technical focus: Oracle SQL (DDL and DML).
• Secondary technical focus: Oracle PL/SQL and Confidential

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior-most Dragon Designer expert for a major OneShield Dragon POS software implementation.
• Responsible for developing workflow, rules, and external interfaces to support new product implementations, rate revisions, and major custom software enhancements.
• Mentored and trained several junior developers, and was the enterprise-wide “go-to” expert for Dragon Designer, Confidential, and Exstream Forms.
• Also served as a senior developer on other point of sale insurance software packages written for the .NET platform. Primary technical focus: Oracle SQL (DDL and DML), Confidential, & Exstream Forms.
• Secondary technical focus: Oracle PL/SQL and VB.NET

Web Developer and Webmaster

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Web developer and web site administrator for multiple ASP and Microsoft SQL Server based web sites. Utilized HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB Script, SQL, and other common web based constructs to build, extend, and maintain these sites.

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Writer of the Web and Document Solutions Department.
• Developed and maintained the technical documentation and Flash instructional tutorials for web applications.
• Analyzed application functionality and wrote help content for print and web formats.
• Provided quality assurance testing and customer support.
• Developed marketing materials; providing desktop publishing and multimedia authoring services (e.g., brochures, posters, advertisements, and PowerPoint). Also, performed and maintained data formatting procedures for Microsoft SQL Server for several web- based applications.