SUMMARY

A highly experienced software professional with 23 years of hands on development experience delivering quality solutions thru all phases of development from design to development to deployment to support (24/7/365) and future enhancements. Over 2 years experience in project management. Over 10 years of experience managing a group of software engineers. Strong communication skills in working with users and colleagues of various disciplines and levels of technical knowledge located around the globe. Extensive client and data operations support in conjunction with Ingres database (DBA) and SUN/UNIX & SCO/UNIX OS administrative responsibilities.

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix (SUN, SCO) and VAX/VMS

Tools/Languages: C, Ingres ESQL/C, Sybase T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Perl,
Unix Shell Scripting, XML, HTML, Java SE, Javascript, Eclipe,
Rapid SQL, Toad

Databases: Sybase, Oracle, Ingres, SQL-Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Boston, MA 1991 - present
The world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals with revenue of $13.1 billion and 55,000 employees in more than 100 countries

Confidential, 2002 - present
Technical Project Leader

• Project Leader and principle developer of an Estimate Guidance Data collection system (using Java & Sybase) which obtains real time estimate guidance data from a XML feed.
• Project Leader and principle developer of an Actual Data collection system (using Java & Sybase) which obtains real time actual data from a XML feed.
• Project Leader and principle developer of a set of Price/Dividend/Split/SharesOut Data collection systems (using Java, Sybase, Ingres & Perl) which obtain real time Price/Dividend/Split/SharesOut data from various SQL-Server databases across different contents and load the data into the Sybase and Ingres databases. The projects required extensive collaboration with many people (project managers, developers) from many different content groups.
• Developed (using C-Shell, Perl, Sybase & Ingres SPs) and maintained the real-time replication mechanism that allowed a legacy product delivery system supporting $17M of revenue to continue operations following launch of a new strategic system.
• Provide 24x7/356 first level of support to all the applications, application servers and DB servers for Quantitative Data collection and First Call legacy product systems.
• Project leader of a global development team on the integration of First Call & IBES production repositories into a new earnings data collection system.
• Helped to establish an offshore team that quickly became an integral part of our global development efforts.
• Provided content & product expertise to internal client support groups and external customers.

Confidential, 2000 - 2002
Project Manager
Project Manager in a newly formed Project Management group focused on business integration and divestiture initiatives. Managed projects from inception through deployment and responsible for communicating weekly project status updates to TF senior management.

• Successfully led the Nelsons Divestiture under severe time constraints due to Thomson Financials sale of several publishing companies.
• Piloted initiative utilizing Java technology and through my innovations led the Estimates Technology group to the adoption of Java as the heritage application development platform.
• Led cross content set project involving participants in multiple locations on creation of a Web based application utilized the Java Applet, Servlet, XML and Oracle DB. The success of this project was used as the model for future content technology integration efforts and yielded significant operational cost savings, and more timely/accurate data ingestion.
• Managed Doc Track project utilizing PDF reader & plug-in, Java applet, Servlet web server, IIS server, Web Workflow package, Eastman Workflow and Oracle DB. Upon completion of this project we eliminated the dependency on a VAX system and the established framework to offshore production tasks.

Confidential, 1991 - 2000
Senior Software Engineer

• Technical Project Leader of the First Call Y2K database project involving the conversion of hundreds of Gigabytes of data, 200+ applications and the real time product and delivery systems to Y2K compliance. The successful completion of this project resulted in no product or service interruptions to our global network of Buy and Sell Side clients. Received a special accommodations award and compliments from Thomson Financials’ Chief Technical Officer.
• Product design and implementation of the First Call Optional Products suite ranging from dynamic custom files generation & delivery systems to over a dozen standardized Earnings Products delivered via fax, email or exposed over First Call platform products. Managed First Call Aggregates calculation and product suite.
• Created the First Call History Database which continues to supply quantitative historical data to clients. Developed a customer database maintenance system allowing users groups to manage clients’ products and portfolios. Technical achievements noted were implemented in C under SCO Unix using Ingres/Forms, Ingres/Dynamic SQL and Ingres/ESQL/C.

Confidential,Woburn, MA 1987 - 1991
Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented a subsystem for an advertising composition & production management system. The system was implemented as a client workstation on a SUN SPARC station using Ingres/4GL under X/MOTIF and included 3GL functions in C and Ingres/ESQL/C access to a remote Ingres server.
• Designed and implemented a subsystem for a newspaper page assembly system in C using Ingres/FORMS, Ingres/ABF/4GL and Ingres/ESQL/C.
• In-house consultant on Ingres FORMs, Windows 4GL, ESQL & SQL.

M.S., Computer Science.

Advanced courses in: Introduction to XML (2000); Oracle PL/SQL (2000); Object Oriented Software Development in Java (16 day course – 1999); Project Planning & Management (1997); Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (5 day course – 1997); Introduction to PowerBuilder (1994); Software Engineering, Compiler, Database Management, Relational Database, Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Communication Networks and Higher Level Languages.