Experience

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  BeQuick Software, Inc.

  • Lead Sr Web Programmer

    • Oct 2009 - Present

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  World Choice Travel a division of Travelocity

  • Sr Web Developer

    • Oct 2004 - Aug 2009

    • Developed, tested and debugged enhancements to existing software written in Perl, Apache, and MySQL database.• Worked with technical staffs to understand production problems with software and resolve them.• Optimized offending SQL queries and improved performance on many reports.

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  ACP/TPF Inc. Denton, TX

  • Systems Architect - Contractor

    • 2003 - 2004

    Provided architecture documentation for implementing a new Service Oriented Architecture. Developement and delivered the technical plans for migrating legact UNIX applications into a TPF reservations system.

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  Sabre Holdings

  • Senior Systems Architect

    • 1999 - 2002

    Developed and wrote new framework architecture for use in numerous designs in the systems development ranging from Windows, HP Himalaya, Sun Solaris and Linux. Utilized relational and object database managers and ommunications with CORBA compliant vendors and IBM MQSeries interface.

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  Whiplash, Inc., Chicago, IL

  • Systems Architect

    • 1998 - 1999

    Member of Architect Team developing a web based leisure travel reservation and distribution system that utilized C++ Clients and Servers connecting to a Versant ODMS database on Windows NT using a Visiboker ORB.

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  TeleService Resources, Ft. Worth, TX

  • Systems Architect

    • 1996 - 1998

    Member of team developing a new hotel reservation system using a Visual Basic Client connecting to an Informix database on AIX. Responsible for GDS connectivity and processing for the new system. Servers written in C++ utilizing ESQL/C for access to the Informix database. Provided intranet development of ASP/HTML pages for updating and display of information from an INFORMIX database through an ODBC interface to LAN/WAN agent terminals

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  Sabre Holdings

  • Senior Principal

    • 1990 - 1996

    Member of the Architecture team developing the new three tier Client/Server UNIX based reservations system that utilized an ODBMS and a CORBA compliant ORB. Aided in developing and coding of Availability Processor and participated in the Southwest Airline new reservation system benchmark and proof of concept. Provided Router SNA Communications and Applications Support in Paris, France on the SNCF French Railroad project. Designed and coded connectivity to TPF from other computer systems. Member of the Design Review Team and the System Technical Architectural Committee while at SNCF in Paris, France.

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  American Airlines

  • Contractor

    • 1983 - 1990

    Participated on the design team to replace the Raytheon Data System with Total Access and Direct Access in a Digital Computer System. Developed and coded communications software for accessing other host computers via P1006, SITA, P1024, X25 and SLC protocols on Simpact communication boards. Designed and coded the front-end processors which communicated with AMR's network and the Sabre computer systems on Digital MicroVAX machines.