George Lawniczak
Lead Analyst/Developer at A. H. Belo Corporation- Claim this Profile
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Antoine Scott, MBA, PMP, SPOC, CSM, ITIL
George is an extremely bright and committed technical professional. His ability to solve business problems using technology is incredible. He is very quick learning. George is a great asset for any organization that that is striving for excellence. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Dennis Duan
George is very knowledgable, diligent, and proactive. When George and I worked together, he displayed leadership qualities that lead him into the leadership role for the PC Development team.
Antoine Scott, MBA, PMP, SPOC, CSM, ITIL
George is an extremely bright and committed technical professional. His ability to solve business problems using technology is incredible. He is very quick learning. George is a great asset for any organization that that is striving for excellence. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Dennis Duan
George is very knowledgable, diligent, and proactive. When George and I worked together, he displayed leadership qualities that lead him into the leadership role for the PC Development team.
Antoine Scott, MBA, PMP, SPOC, CSM, ITIL
George is an extremely bright and committed technical professional. His ability to solve business problems using technology is incredible. He is very quick learning. George is a great asset for any organization that that is striving for excellence. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Dennis Duan
George is very knowledgable, diligent, and proactive. When George and I worked together, he displayed leadership qualities that lead him into the leadership role for the PC Development team.
Antoine Scott, MBA, PMP, SPOC, CSM, ITIL
George is an extremely bright and committed technical professional. His ability to solve business problems using technology is incredible. He is very quick learning. George is a great asset for any organization that that is striving for excellence. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Dennis Duan
George is very knowledgable, diligent, and proactive. When George and I worked together, he displayed leadership qualities that lead him into the leadership role for the PC Development team.
Credentials
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Duolingo French Fluency: Advanced (Estimated)
DuolingoAug, 2015- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Lead Analyst/Developer
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Aug 2005 - Present
- Developed Subscriber Registration system for Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle users that track subscriber data, including subscriptions and demographic information. Implemented an API that stores data in Atypon, a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, to manage, deliver and monetize online content and manage access to online content for The Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle's ePaper products. This is a J2EE Web application that runs on JBoss. - Managed a team of developers supporting A. H. Belo’s internal business applications. - Performed business and technical analysis, for various projects. - Maintained our corporate website, ahbelo.com, as well as managed A. H. Belo’s corporate intranet. - Designed a J2EE Architecture to easily generate XML/JSON result sets via a REST-like interface, utilizing Spring and Hibernate. This enabled easy integration with front-ends written in Adobe Flex. - Integrated Apache Maven into our build process. - Designed several J2EE applications, utilizing Apache Wicket, which integrated with jQuery. - Wrote shell scripts to process lockbox files sent by JP Morgan Chase. - Performed troubleshooting on Windows 2000/2003 Server, Gentoo Linux, RHEL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Netscape Mercury Web Server, Apache Web Server, IIS, Apache Tomcat, Weblogic, OC4J, DHCP, NAT, DNS, Netscalers, RAID, and Active Directory. - Maintained and documented over 30 legacy applications and processes developed in CGI, PERL, PHP, VB, VC++, J2EE, .NET. - Performed PCI compliant design changes and upgrades to financial applications. - Performed duties of a Unix, Linux, and Windows Server system administrator in fault tolerant, load balanced environments. Show less
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Starpoint Solutions
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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Jan 2003 - Aug 2005
Verizon Online Served as the sole on-site support/developer for the Arbor Billing Group in all GUI-related applications, the remaining GUI staff was located offshore. My responsibilities included: Responsible for performing conversions of current J2EE-based web applications to ASP.NET, written in C#. These applications utilize the Enterprise Library Application Blocks. Developed an application to use AES Cryptography that is callable from both, Java-based and .NET-based clients by utilizing SSL Sockets. Trained other team members in Visual Studio .NET and in the VB.NET and C# languages. Provided customer support for the Group’s Operational Reports, which were hosted in Crystal Enterprise 8.5. This involved solving technical issues, and creating/modifying various Crystal Reports. Responsible for setting up new CE installations on UNIX boxes. Provided consulting on security issues, namely issues related to Web Application security. Advised team on how to avoid problems, such as cross-site scripting, and shell injection attacks. Assisted offshore personnel with issues related to standards, and application performance. Designed/Developed new GUI applications using the Apache Struts Framework. These were the first applications to be developed using Struts, and subsequently it was adapted as the standard framework for the entire group. One particular application served as a portal for the Billing Group, using reports and graphs to show various metrics. The application hosted 30+ reports, and was 40+ separate pages. The reports were developed using JasperReports and JasperAssistant. Charts and graphs were developed using JFreeChart. I also developed the ability to search any document and database item by using Lucene. This application was originally hosted on IPlanet 6.5 in UNIX, and subsequently ported to WebLogic 8.1, without a hitch. Show less
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Techsys Business Solutions
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United States
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Information Technology and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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Jun 1996 - Dec 2001
Southwest Airlines Designed core screens for the Schedule Planning Network, a highly graphical Java Swing application used by Southwest’s schedule planners to publish flight schedules. Created prototypes and conducted design reviews with business analysts, developers and end users; project completed in two months, on time and within budget. Greyhound Lines, Inc. Responsible for adding functionality and implementing code modifications to Greyhound’s Sales Transaction Electronic Processing applications (STEPS), a front-end GUI application coded in PowerBuilder. Wrote UNIX Korn Shells to call Sybase Transact-SQL stored procedures in the nightly batch process. Ported parts of the STEPS application from the PowerBuilder front-end to a Java Swing front-end. Clark/Bardes, Inc. Responsible for creating various user reports to specifications for Clark Bardes internal and external customers using Powerbuilder 6.5, utilizing Oracle 8 SQL. Trammell Crow Corporation Developed complex front-end reports to support SPAN, a third-party facility management system; developed reports using PowerBuilder versions 5 and 6.5, using an Oracle database; and created additional reports using Crystal Reports version 7. Created a web-based version of the reports running on JRun 4. SABRE Responsible for enhancements and modifications to the Safety Reporting System for The SABRE Group and developed for US Airways to track potential ground safety issues at various airports. This was developed using PowerBuilder 6.5. Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Personal Security Profile (PSP) – Designed, implemented, deployed and supported this application which allows Annuity Board call center personnel to quickly give quotes to clients over the phone based on certain demographic criteria and coverage choices. Show less
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EDS
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Brazil
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Commercial and Industrial Machinery Maintenance
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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1988 - 1996
Niagara Mohawk: Property Management System. Designed, programmed and implemented PowerBuilder framework of base objects for other team members to inherit from. Participated in requirements gathering and communicated requirements to team members. Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corporation: Technical Lead-Implementation of Walker’s Accounts Payable system based on CICS/COBOL running on IBM series 360. Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD): Designed and implemented property ledger management system, provided Train-the-Trainer sessions with SMUD personnel. Automotive Components Group of General Motors: Implementation of Dun & Bradstreet’s General Ledger system to tie together the 10 units of the Automotive Components Group. Designed the nightly batch cycles, and wrote JCL procedures. Monitored nightly batch cycles, and resolved issues pertaining to the cycles. Show less
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Education
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1998 - 2001
The University of Texas at Arlington
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General -
1985 - 1988
University of Florida
BSBA, Finance
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