SUMMARY

• A challenging senior technical position to employ client/server or component - based technologies in order to make a positive contribution to meet teh objectives of my employer.
• Teh position will provide me teh opportunity to furnish technical expertise in a mentoring role, empower me to investigate emerging technologies to better position my employer in its marketplace, contain project lead responsibilities and allow me to be a technical department champion. Teh position will have career growth opportunities that will eventually lead to a technical lead position.
• me am a seasoned developer whose strengths include turning raw data into useful and timely information that leads to more TEMPeffective decision-making by my business partners in Actuary and Finance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

Application Software Delivery Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Staff developer on desktop applications that support teh evaluation of all medical plans across all medical product lines. Lead developer on technology upgrades from Windows XP to Windows 7, Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2010 and Office product files from 2003 to 2007. Conversion of applications written in Excel VBA to VB.Net. Created Stored Procedures to enhance performance of application interaction teh SQL Server database. Also involved in teh construction, unit testing and deployment phases of business enhancements to existing code assets. Technologies: VB. Net (2005/2010), SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access (2003/2007), MS Excel (2003/2007), VBA.
• Staff developer on a desktop application used by Actuaries. A VB .Net application allows teh user to retrieve member premium and claims information and produces reports via OLE automation to Excel. A VB .Net application is used as an ETL tool to import, translate and store teh data used by teh application. Involved with construction, unit testing and deployment phases. Technologies: VB. Net, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access, MS Excel, VBA.

Senior Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Staff developer on a desktop application used by Real Estate services. Allows teh user to update information store on an Oracle database and to produces reports via OLE automation to Excel. Involved with technology upgrade, construction, unit testing and deployment phases. Technologies: VB6, Oracle, Excel.
• Sole developer on an MS Access/MS SQL Server application used by teh financial area to perform SG&A expense allocations that provides a feed to teh Executive Management Information System. Involved with technology upgrade, construction, unit testing and deployment phases. Technologies: MS Access, MS SQL Server, VBA, MS Excel.
• Lead developer on an ETL system executed by ZEKE jobs that run VB Scripts to process member and financial data for Financial Analysts who view teh data in Cognos. Involved with technology upgrade, construction, unit testing and deployment phases. Technologies: VBScript, MS SQL Server with Stored Procedures.
• Staff developer on a web-based application that provides selected Word and Excel documents for new business and merges prospect information into them. Involved with technology upgrade, construction, unit testing and deployment phases. Technologies: VB6, ASP, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Word, IIS, COM+.
• Staff developer on a web-based application that provides ad-hoc and predefined network or geography based, product specific, time period filtered, measure requested data reports via OLE automation to Excel. Teh business owner uses a client/server-based suite of applications as an ETL tool to collect, import, translate and store teh data used by teh application. Involved with capacity planning, analysis, design, construction, unit testing, implementation and deployment phases. Technologies: VB6, ASP, MS SQL Server, DB2 UDB, MS Access, MS Excel, IIS, COM+.
• Sole developer on a desktop application used by implementation managers as a pre and post-implementation tool to define and track teh steps required to complete teh case installation. Data is entered into teh application and a custom project schedule is produced. Involved with technology upgrade, analysis, design, construction, unit testing, implementation and deployment phases. Technologies: VB6, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project.

Business Systems Delivery Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer on a client/server application used by medical underwriters to track potential customers whose request for insurance meets teh guidelines for follow up by a medical underwriter. Teh application creates data merged Word based letters. Involved with technology upgrade, capacity planning, analysis, design, construction, unit testing, implementation and deployment phases. Mentored 3 developers. Created technical specifications. Created letter subsystem in MS Word a report subsystem in Crystal Reports. Provided on going technical support. Responsible for application remediation for Y2K compliance. Technologies: VB6, Sybase, MS Access, MS Word, Crystal Reports.
• Lead developer on a client/server application used as both a stand-alone census capture system and as a front end other internal applications. Teh application also imports files for populating its database. Create a data load tool used by teh Actuarial Systems department to load lookup network, product and geographical information used by teh application. Involved with technology upgrade, capacity planning, analysis, design, construction, unit testing, implementation and deployment phases. Mentored 4 developers. Technologies: VB6, Sybase, MS Access, MS Excel.
• Lead developer on a desktop application used to perform experienced and non-experienced based claims projections for non-HMO products tailored by benefit selections. Excel spreadsheets provide information for teh contributing factors to teh claim cost projections. Involved with technology upgrade, analysis, design, construction, unit testing, implementation and deployment phases. Created technical specifications. Upgraded system from VB3 16-bit to VB5 32-bit. Responsible for application remediation for Y2K compliance. Converted application from DAO to ADO and DDE to OLE technologies. Performed code redundancy analysis and elimination. Provided on going technical support. Created external system interface to create new claim projections. Mentored 4 developers. Technologies: VB6, MS Access, MS Excel.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise, leadership mentoring in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 (VB) programming. Defined VB coding standards for teh department.
• Part of a team responsible for development of batch cycle input and processing in VB and enhancing and debugging teh user interface in VB for an insurance proposal system. Responsible for making enhancements to teh WordBasic code found in Word 6.0 template files. Responsible for fixing bugs in C DLLs. Responsible for production support problem resolution. Technologies: VB6, C, MS Word.
• Part of a team responsible for enhancing and debugging teh user interface in VB and teh database in Microsoft Access 2.0 for a health insurance rating system. Technologies: VB6, MS Access.

Confidential, Farmington, CT

Data Processing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team responsible for designing teh user interface in VB and Access for a disability income insurance pricing system. Technologies: VB6, MS Access.
• Part of a team responsible for creating disability income insurance underwriting software application in VB and MS SQL Server. Wrote functional specifications and technical documentation for a disability income insurance underwriting system. Technologies: VB6, MS SQL Server.
• Responsible for upgrading a PC-based Medicare Part A and B claims entry systems running under DOS using C-Worthy and Borland Turbo C. Enhanced and tested new data communication requirements for both Medicare systems. Tested and refined teh phone data communication scripts for PROCOMM. Improved teh on-line help system. Performed telephone support to handle Medicare software and PC hardware problems and questions. Made recommendations to provide more efficient support. Provided support for batch cycle test area. Upgraded UNIX-based claims batch processing and reporting system. Technologies: Borland C, C-Worthy, telephone communications.
• Editor for quarterly technical newsletter. Consultant education committee chair. Consultant training center coordinator.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Languages: VB. Net, Visual BASIC 6.0, VBA, VB Script.

Machines: PC and compatibles

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows XP

Programs: MS Word, MS Excel

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access, Oracle, DB2 UDB, Sybase