Experience

Leidos

• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Dec 2006 - Present

  Responsible for implementing and configuring Initiate’s software suite for both commercial and healthcare customers. • Delivered implementations which migrated and consumed client data from multiple external sources, tailored probabilistic matching to each population to give an accurate and real-time view of all records, and finally transmit new data to downstream consuming client systems.• One of 1st to implement on client data from 5 external sources within the ‘commercial’ space to give them real-time and accurate view of all their customers. Tight deadlines were still met even with the complexity of the client’s business requirements as well as performance needs. (Barnes & Noble)• Conducted formal and on-site training sessions on various Initiate products depending on the size of the implementation. Authored many knowledge transfer documents meant for client use and often tailored to their individual implementations.



CSC

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Technologist

  • Jul 2004 - Dec 2006

  Systems Programmer – NORTEL 7/05 – Present – Toronto & Montreal, CanadaWorked remotely doing application Maintenance, Support, & annual Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance tasks.Lead Technologist – SEARS ROEBUCK, CO. 7/04 – 7/05 – Hoffman Estates, IL As part of $1.6 billion outsourcing contract with, maintenance and ownership of production and development midrange servers was included. Migration and remediation of applications, OS, etc. residing on said servers was also done. Contractor from 7/04 to 2/05.



ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

• Netherlands
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Programmer (Contract)

  • Apr 2004 - May 2004

  • Automated processes that identify specified data (securities, positions, etc.) to be sent to other systems, clients, or internal people via specially formatted file that is e-mailed or FTP’d.• Identified all relevant processes that receive or update data from Portia software (drives Portfolio Management business) as part of reporting the group’s current infrastructure for possible improvements.• Technologies Used – Visual Basic 6.0, MS Visual Source Safe • Automated processes that identify specified data (securities, positions, etc.) to be sent to other systems, clients, or internal people via specially formatted file that is e-mailed or FTP’d.• Identified all relevant processes that receive or update data from Portia software (drives Portfolio Management business) as part of reporting the group’s current infrastructure for possible improvements.• Technologies Used – Visual Basic 6.0, MS Visual Source Safe



EF Development

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2003 - Apr 2004

  · Provided quality and timely solutions for client companies during consulting stints. · Worked on Visual Basic COM objects for the EF-Toolkit. Added parser control that allows for database driven parsing with HTML formatted results. · Provided quality and timely solutions for client companies during consulting stints. · Worked on Visual Basic COM objects for the EF-Toolkit. Added parser control that allows for database driven parsing with HTML formatted results.



BlackRock

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer / Engineer

  • Aug 1999 - Nov 2002

  · Streamlined process that manage batch orders from clients to point where Lending Desk could increase traffic of orders processed by 40%. · Automated many other processes within Sec. Lending system that would otherwise be owned by another group or simply manually run, eventually cutting overall support time by 50%. Wrote many complex Perl data parsers, SQL or Sybase store-procedures, and Shell scripts to do so. · Was able to resolve more than 95% of time critical issues. In doing so, innovation of troubleshooting solutions to achieve immediate resolve for both calls and bug fixes generated by users were developed. · Achieved quick turn around time on more than 90% of all 24/7 production support issues on scheduled Autosys batch jobs, user calls during business hours, and data transfers to and from other systems. This included 3 separate business areas (Lending Desk, Operations, and Accounting) in 3 separate geographical locations (San Francisco, London and Tokyo).



Software Architect

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Mar 1997 - Aug 1999

  Tester - NORTHERN TRUST BANK - CHICAGO, IL 11/98 to 8/99 · Stress and regression tested the financial reporting application which generates information on a given client's investments: index information, comparison data, growth rates, etc. · Automated frequently ran tests (Unix Shell Scripts, SQL) accounting for 50% of testing time saved.Software Engineer / Developer - SEARS ROEBUCK, CO. - HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL 3/97 to 9/98 · Re-design and re-write of daily data gathering process of next day's deliveries (C, Perl, UNIX Shell Script) permitted significant increase in coverage for routing delivery trucks. This lead to fewer warehouses running routing process across entire country, and still able to generate efficient routes. · Efforts contributed to drastically reducing 24/7production support issues by more than 70%, alleviating more time for development. · Contributed to group winning the prestigious Retail Innovation Technology Award (RITA).



SENIOR PROJECT - Household Finance

• Project Leader

  • Nov 1996 - Feb 1997

  Created and implemented reporting application on telemarketing sales figures, Telemarketing · Analyzed real life need of company for a user-friendly report generator in monitoring performance of sales as well as individual telemarketers. Results proved beneficial in analyzing telemarketer performance. · Designed main logic of application and its extract of data from an existing Paradox database, including many of the front-end screens written in MS Access and the modeling of tables for new reporting tool. · Delegated separate responsibilities to 4 team members according to client and project needs.