PROFILE STATEMENT

• Accomplished IT professional with extensive experience in business requirements gathering, analysis, database and application development, project management, reverse engineering of legacy database applications, application and user support, project leadership and strategic planning. Thrives in an environment where knowledge, effort and determination can make a difference. Highly-organized with exceptional communication skills and extensive experience in analysis and design, application development, maintenance and support of newly-developed and existing/legacy mission-critical applications, and complete management of major information systems and development staff.
• Demonstrated accomplishments in planning and directing start-up projects, analyzing and developing complex business applications, understanding and managing existing production applications, and managing and mentoring technical staff. Extensive experience in the full System Development Life Cycle SDLC and noted for the ability to introduce control, efficiency and innovative solutions to solve complex and chronic business problems. Insightful developer of new applications and skilled at understanding and enhancing existing applications. A reputation for maintaining unrelenting focus on overall organizational and business objectives and ability to determine when short-term fixes are appropriate rather than long-term solutions. A several-time contributor to FoxPro Advisor magazine's FoxPro Tips of the Month.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Decentralized General Ledger processing at Citibank, N.A., saving the company over 40 million.
• Developed the main operational database application that allowed Mobile Diagnostic Services, Inc. to double revenue while reducing staff size and expenses in the healthcare services industry. The application's object-oriented design allowed for greater scalability and reduced maintenance costs. This application was developed to automate 24/7 manual operations in a time- and data-critical environment and has been functioning daily since 1992
• Converted a major alternative investment hedge fund application from a Visual FoxPro backend database to Oracle resulting in greater scalability, reliability and performance.
• Subsequent to a three year failed attempt by a third-party consulting firm analyzed, designed and developed a mission-critical index review application used by a major index provider to manage the composition of over 300,000 equity indices. As part of the one-and-a-half year project managed a team of developers and was responsible for all coordination with our business counterparts.
• Assumed responsibility for and stabilized existing out-of-control mission-critical applications at Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale WestLB and Princeton Insurance Companies, allowing the firms to reduce development expenses and meet new and changing business and regulatory demands.
• Ran and participated in several key projects in banking personal, institutional and investment , alternative investments hedge funds , insurance, publishing, medical and other industries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Application Architecture and Development

• Successfully completed the analysis including business requirements gathering and user workflow documentation , conceptual design and program development for new custom-designed database applications for a variety of organizations. Systems developed include index composition management, market data symbology , order entry, shipping, billing and control application, patient service request and medical technician dispatching, a placement agency candidates/position matching, database integrity checking and repair, and several system and end-user maintenance applications. Most of these applications resulted in improved business operations and reduced costs.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and assume responsibility for existing production applications, leading to improved application stability and enhancement. These applications often were in precarious condition without proper source code control, change control, technical documentation, etc. Immediately introduced various tools and procedures such as Visual SourceSafe, formal testing and production change control procedures, peer code review and walk-throughs, and development standards to improve application maintainability and reduce maintenance costs.
• Database schema design and implementation for mission-critical databases running under Visual FoxPro, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 , Oracle and Sybase SQL Server.
• Extensive application migration experience including General Ledger decentralization and conversion of legacy FoxPro databases and applications to Visual FoxPro OOP , PowerBuilder/Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle environments. Experience includes departmental as well as corporate scale databases with individual tables supporting over sixty million rows and over 26 Gigs of data space. Total server row counts into the billions and data space in tens of terabytes.
• Extensive experience developing, maintaining and managing production batch operations in both mainframe and desktop/network environments, including the implementation and use of Seagate's Ashwin Job Scheduling software as well as custom-developed job scheduling sub-systems.
• Design and development of application programs, reusable classes, objects and tools to reduce development cost and improve application stability. Significant Visual Studio .NET and Visual FoxPro OOP experience, including the use of the StrataFrame and Visual FoxExpress OOP, n-tier application frameworks. Successful use of Structured Analysis and UML modeling tools and techniques, including data flow, class and sequence diagrams.
• Webmaster responsibilities including full site redesign and database management.
• Extensive application documentation technical and end-user , user training, application deployment and production support experience, including off-hours and 24/7 support.
• Extensive management and user contact in all phases of application development and maintenance.

Project Management and Team Leadership

• Complete creation and orchestration of project plans, including project and associated domain/schema documentation and continuous user interfacing.
• Demonstrated ability to assume responsibility for rescuing failing projects and provide the technical, organizational and project management skills needed to successfully turnaround the endeavor. This has included mainframe, Visual FoxPro and .NET projects, and saved one company over 40 million.
• Training and mentoring of junior developers and technical staff. This included formal classroom training for FoxPro developers at Dow Chemical in preparation for a major development effort.
• Successfully assumed management responsibility for support and maintenance of critical business applications in a variety of situations and platforms. Improved application stability while meeting changing business needs and requirements. In several cases allowed organizations to reassign development staff to other projects while assuming full development, maintenance and production support responsibilities for existing mission-critical applications in the banking, brokerage and insurance industries.

Business Management and Entrepreneurship Experience

• Launched J.C.N. Associates, L.L.C. to provide clients with high-quality information technology consulting with specialization in database application design and development. Managed all aspects of the business including marketing, sales, staffing, analysis, design, development of applications, and on-going support.
• Directed and participated in the development of mission-critical applications for various clients in industries such as banking, finance, insurance, publishing, health care/health services, and others. These applications were developed using technologies such as Microsoft FoxPro and Visual FoxPro, FoxExpress both Visual and 2.7 , Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Visual Studio .NET and several others. The applications provided functionality such as accounting, management profitability and financial reporting, profit and loss analysis, order processing control and medical technician dispatching and control. Organizations range from Fortune 100 companies to small- and medium-sized businesses.
• Responsibilities at several of these organizations included analysis, application development, and application support for preexisting production application and project management duties for several other consultants and employees. Extensive experience in dealing with management and end users at all levels.
• Prior experience as an IT and operations auditor, and as an operations Manager in Financial Control ensures a very control-conscious approach to application development and production support.