PROFILE:

• Proven problem - solver. Creates and improves software, databases, documentation, and processes.
• Has developed effective technical and business solutions for a variety of clients and employers over more than 20 years.
• Not only familiar with all steps of the software life cycle, but actively anticipates and avoids bottlenecks before they happen.
• In addition to producing efficient code and technical designs, communicates well with technicians, managers, and others orally and in writing.
• Created, maintained, and enhanced over two dozen databases, including Oracle, Ingres, Access, SQL Server, and Sybase.
• 16 years of experience with SQL as well as 6 years of experience with programming interfaces including Pro*C and PL/SQL.
• Designed, developed, and supported dozens of server applications with database tools as well as programming facilities including C, Pro*C, and Unix shell scripting.
• Imported, exported, and converted over a dozen data sets and databases using tools including Import, Export, SQL*Loader, and DB Artisan.
• Produced dozens of documents, presentations, and data sets with Microsoft Office modules, including Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Adjunct Instructor

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Taught over two dozen American and European history courses
• Graded over three thousand student papers and over two thousand exams

Adjunct Professor

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Taught Microsoft Office computer skills classes to working adults

Software Engineer

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Developed 3 new and enhanced 5 existing software applications
• Provided production support for several dozen daily and weekly production jobs
• Wrote several dozen 1 to 5 page design, support, and modification documents
• Large-volume data processing for Florida Medicaid
• Used: C, Oracle, SQL, Pro*C, Unix, Microsoft Office applications

Graduate Student

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Held several paid positions at Confidential

Instructor; Grader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and taught a specialty advanced undergraduate history course
• Graded over three thousand student papers both as an instructor and as a grader

Program Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and installed a new database
• Populated the database with 10,000 records from legacy files and records
• Used: Access

Technical Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted students in using computers, software, printers, and networks
• Installed monthly software upgrades on a dozen personal computers
• Logged and reported incidents and inventoried computers and printers

Research Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Did archival research for a professor writing a history book

Archival Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Inventoried, catalogued, and stored hundreds of archival materials and items
• I was a full-time Information Technology professional, both as an employee and as a project consultant.

Senior Technical Analyst

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced a dozen software applications that recorded and reported daily sales leads
• Supported five daily production runs for loading and reporting sales leads
• Ran user-requested ad hoc queries and reports
• Loaded test data into database
• Used: Sybase, SQL, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced six software applications that recorded and reported payments received and licenses issued and their associated database

Used: Oracle, SQL, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Windows

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Responsibilities:

• Migrated several tens of thousands of records of legacy financial data from a variety of formats to an Oracle database

Used: Oracle, Access, SQL, Import, Windows

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced six software applications that implemented mathematical scheduling algorithms

Used: C, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Responsibilities:

• Converted five client databases containing several million records from SQL Server to Oracle

Used: Oracle, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, SQL Server, DB Artisan, Windows

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Converted an SAS data loading application to Oracle
• Converted several hundred thousand file-based records into Oracle
• Wrote extensive documentation

Used: Oracle, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Access, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Responsibilities:

• Designed, wrote, and maintained a dozen reports, data feeds, and data extracts for annuities investments in an Oracle database
• Wrote extensive documentation

Used: Oracle, SQL, Pro*C, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Access, C, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Supported and enhanced six in-house message-handling software applications and their associated database
• Maintained five automated Unix and Oracle backup and restore procedures

Used: Oracle, SQL, Access, C, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced and maintained five automated phone response applications and their associated database

Used: SQL Server, SQL, Access, C, VRC (Voice Response Compiler), OS/2

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded a dozen financial software applications

Used: C, Unix

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Burr Ridge, IL

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed a dozen users and managers and designed and installed a human resources database for their use

Used: Access, SQL, Windows

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and tested a dozen software applications to generate reports from retail marketing data
• Wrote extensive documentation
• Used: Paradox for DOS, Windows

Technical Consultant

Confidential, Northfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Wrote five Unix shell scripts to replace legacy file-processing programs
• Wrote extensive documentation

Used: C, Unix shell (including awk, grep, sed, ex, sort, cut, and other Unix shell programming tools)

Data Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced a database used in daily job tracking
• Designed a new upgraded database and converted hundreds of thousands of records to the new database

Used: Sybase, SQL, Unix