OBJECTIVE
IT Specialist, or commensurate
with experience
PROFILE
Highly qualified professional offers superb decision-making skills, judgment, and outstanding
initiative. Effective results provided
using personal and analytical skills to accomplish a wide array of
responsibilities. Exceptional skill demonstrated utilizing innovative
techniques and solid expertise. Extremely focused and motivated to
achieve. Extensive details on my
professional career:
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Maio Consulting,
Inc (Contract via Comsys.com) 11/07/06 – 12/06/2006
1109 Gross, Houston, TX 77019-3713 40+
hrs/week
Supervisor: John
Maio / 832-969-1740 Starting
Salary: $55/hr
You may contact this
employer End
Salary: $55/hr.
Software Engineer/Computer Consultant
Interacted with the client, developed and maintained enhancements
to a legacy system. Perform knowledge
transfer to both client and my immediate supervisor. Performed all tasks
related to embedded SQL submission via low-level ODBC calls to system
configured DSNs (Data Source Names), which I configured to connect to both
MS-Access and MS-SQL. Debugged and fixed bugs which were causing software
crashes and mal-functioning. Fix the build environments for this SCADA related,
MMW software product for versions 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1. Enabled the client to
present the enhancements (I made to the software) to the user group/community
to procure additional funding for the sustained maintenance of this legacy
application. Effectively communicated both verbally and in writing many
technical details both to John Maio (who has a very technical background) and
to the client who is not as technically savvy, so that each understood and
could make meaningful technical and management decisions, respectively.
Seimens (via
Sentient Technologies Corp contract) 05/06
– 09/2006
4615 SouthWest
Freeway, Houston, TX 77027 40+ hrs/week
Supervisor: Trey
Quintero / 281-220-1605 Starting
Salary: $55/hr
You may contact this
employer End
Salary: $55/hr.
Software Engineer/Computer Consultant
Interacted with the client, developed and
maintained enhancements to a legacy system.
Aided junior level programmers and advised them on code requirements and
the development of new features. Served
and functioned as a liaison with the chemical engineers and translated business
requirements to usable and understandable software specifications. Assessed existing applications and derived
plans to modernize those applications in the most efficient manner
possible. Communicated with all levels
of employees and management and provided direction to peers for the legacy
system’s rewrite. Maintained, Designed
and enhancements their legacy application called OGM (Oil/Gas Management), a
heterogeneous code base written in C++, Fortran, Assembler and OLE/COM
components. Developed and maintained
the GUI interface utilizing my C++ skills and as directed via a proprietary
Berwanger coding practice in the development environment of Windows XP, Windows
2000, C++, Fortran and Assembler.
Designed a UML diagram for the OGM project re-architecture/rewrite and
provided suggestions for enhancements to the existing “change management”
system and development process.
Matrix (contracted to South West
Airlines) 12/2005
– 03/31/2006
2702 Love Field Drive, Dallas, TX 75235 40
hrs/week
Supervisor: Todd Buckley / 214-543-0724 Starting Salary: $55/hr
You
may contact this employer End Salary: $55/hr.
Senior
C++ Developer
Evaluated the existing system and
communicated with the Business Analysts, the SAAS team, colleges and
interviewed management to determine new system specifications and the
integration requirements between the old system and the new. Developed and implemented software and
systems based on client requests.
Designed XML diagrams for the data transport level of the project and
created UML diagrams which documented my new system architecture for the
integration test bed and disseminated this to the client. Communicated with management, technical and
non-technical staff and served as a liaison for many systems related
discussions and/or correspondence.
Interpreted business analysts’ system specifications and incorporated
those details into the design of the software.
Addressed junior level programmers’ questions/issues and instructed them
in implementing those business requirements in the design and code, and
assisted them with change management and the integration of their sub-system
into the overall Airline Applications Suite (AAS).
Verizon, Inc (via contract with
GCI) 03/2005 – 10/2006
1 E.
Telecom Pkwy, Temple Terrace, FL 33637 40 hrs/week
Supervisor:
Monica Converse /
813-979-0765 Starting
Salary: $49/hr
You
may contact this employer End Salary: $49/hr.
Software Engineer/Computer Consultant
Evaluated over 1.8 million lines of a
heterogeneous code, which included C++, Java, UNIX scripts and embedded SQL and
found over 300 locations that needed performance tuning to meet performance
benchmarks. Communicated with team
members to address these performance issues.
Identified, isolated and resolved build/compilation problems and
reconfigured the build for the 1.8 million lines of code and actually built the
binaries via my new build configuration. Installed and configured UNIX
development/test server. Functioned as
a liaison between the management, technical staff and end users and resolved
outstanding performance issues and requests for system modifications. Inspected the code base and cleaned up code
problems. Wrote C++ programs and UNIX
scripts to auto-insert identification strings in over 6,000 source files to
allow, upon compilation, positive identification of software version via query
of the executable binaries, thus eliminating any uncertainty as to what version
of the software was currently out in production.
El Paso Corporation (via contract
with I.T. Personnel Solutions, Inc.) 04/2004
– 08/2004
1001
Louisiana Street, Houston, TX 77002 40
hrs/week
Supervisor: Rick Harris/ 713-204-1856 or Ken
Simpson/713-824-3469 Starting
Salary: $35/hr
You may contact this employer End
Salary: $35/hr.
Software Engineer/Computer Consultant
Monitored and directed all steps necessary
for the successful migration of the GEMS code base as stored in an SCCS source
control management on the UNIX system into the CVS source control management
system on the Windows 2003 Server Platform.
Trained staff on conversion techniques and technologies to migrate over
120,000 source files that made up the code base. Compile and built the GEMS
software in a Windows 2000 environment. Acted as lead consultant to both
management and junior level programmers for the old UNIX system as well as the
new Window based system. Addressed any issues or questions they brought up. Coordinated the migration and helped end
users adapt to the new system. Trained
junior level programmers and support staff in the methodologies needed to
maintain and support the development environment on the new Windows based
system and helped them acclimate themselves to allow for peak customer
service. Evaluated code and fixed any
discrepancies, eliminating memory stomps and leaks. Automated the decollation and re-collation of the code base from
the SCCS source control management system on the UNIX operating system to the
new CVS source control management system on the Windows servers. Instructed staff on how to properly utilize
resources for projects so as to allow for adherence to both time and money
expectations. Mentored staff and
instructed them on how to write automated code editing scripts, saving time and
money by reducing the amount of manual changes that had to be made. Wrote object oriented code that interfaced
with the Windows operating system that retrieved the process identifiers of
newly instantiated instances of executables for the purpose of process tracking
in real-time.
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08/2003- 01/27/04, Ajilon Consulting (Contract with J. P.
Morgan), Houston, TX, Object Oriented Architect/C++ developer / UNIX scripts / Sybase SQL, Market
Section: Financial/Investing
08/1999-08/2003, Simplified Algorithms, Inc., Alpharetta,
GA, Senior Software Developer / Architect / Engineer, Market Section: (1) Financial Research,
Development, Market Section: (2) Food Distribution
07/1998 - 07/1999, DataNomics
(Contract with UPS), Atlanta, GA, Senior Software Developer / Architect /
Engineer, Market Section: Transportation
01/1998 - 07/1998, Howard
Systems (Contract with MCI), Atlanta, GA, Software Developer / Engineer, (Market Section: Communications)
02/1995 - 12/1997,
State Dept., Dept of Labor and Employment Security, Tallahassee, FL, Systems
Project Analyst, Market Section:
Government
10/1989 - 02/1995, State Dept., Dept of Education,
Tallahassee, FL, Distributed Computer Systems Analyst, Market Section:
Government
01/1982 - 10/1989, Entrepreneur, Columbia Station, OH, Electrical and Software Engineer, Market Section: Research and Development
Electrical
Engineering, AS 1982
Cleveland Institue of Electronics
Cleveland, OH
GPA: 97.2
High School Diploma – Columbia
High School 1979
Columbia Station, Ohio 44028
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