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
