• Java Guru
• Mentor software developers.
• Teach Java for Sun and as an independent.
• Wrote Java reference manuals published by O'Reilly & Associates.
• Lead programmer for Java based business applications.
• Software Architect
• Business Process Engineering and Reengineering
• Object Oriented Design (UML, Booch and CRC)
• Database Administration & Design (Oracle v7.x); Data Modeling
• Client Server Applications - PowerBuilder, Pro*C, TCP/IP
• Project Manager
• Recruited and managed a world class team of professionals.
• Brought in as a consultant, salvaged a late project in danger of cancellation.
• Lead development of a commercial software product through 2 major releases.
• Dealt with outside vendors
• Prepared budgets
• Excellent writing skills
• Experienced in Multiple Business Areas
• Food Retailing
• Manufacturing
• Accounting
• Telephony
• Advertising
• Software Publishing

• Java
• Mentored software developers at MCI in a project characterized by Sun as the most ambitious Java based business application development in 1997. The application will allow MCI's customers to manage their own 800 number routing from a web page. I also participated in design and coding.
• Participated in architecture team for Sprint's ION project.
• Lead programmer Working on a Java based front end for GEAC Software's financial software package. Responsible for evaluating new releases of Java.
• Teach Java courses for Sun and as an independent instructor with material that I wrote.
• Management
• Brought in as a consultant to salvage a late project. Diagnosed cause as lack of sound project management. Developed project management guidelines. Got buy-in from the development organization and their clients.

• Java
• Lead programmer Working on a Java based front end for D&B Software's purchasing application. Performed object oriented design.
• Teach Java courses for Sun
• Wrote a Java applet for CSX railroad to show location of trains on tracks.
• System Administration
• At a major aerospace company, lead migration effort from SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 2.4.

• Manufacturing
• Team leader designing and supervising the implementation of GEMMS manufacturing software integrated with Oracle Financials as part of a business process reengineering effort.
• Sales Analysis
• Designed and administered a multi-gigabyte point of sale data warehouse running under Oracle.
• Wrote perl scripts to collect complete details of all transactions from SASI cash registers.
• Wrote front end to database using PowerBuilder.
• Evaluated and selected RAID box for use by the database.
• Time keeping
• Determined requirements for, designed and built an employee time clock system.
• The time clocks used custom hardware, ran LINUX (A UNIX-like operating system), were programmed in perl and were connected over a TCP/IP network to an Oracle database running on a Sun server and managed by a program written in PowerBuilder.
• Network Management
• Managed a 9 location TCP/IP network connected by leased lines, routers bridges and ethernets.
• Set up 3 locations from scratch.
• Administration
• Recruited programmers, system administrator and other MIS personnel.
• Prepared a budget.
• Assisted in running of the department.

• Implemented EDI for a power utility company.
• Represented and advised U.S. Government regarding international EDI related issues.

• Project Management
• Managed the development of a commercial software product for EDI and integration of applications. Managed development of product through two major releases.
• Recruited and managed 7 software engineers.
• Started a quality assurance department. Prior to my efforts, there was no formal quality assurance program in the company.
• Participated in presenting the product to customers.
• Supervised porting of product to 5 different platforms
• Software Architect
• Architect of product from concept through full life cycle.
• Designed using Booch object oriented methodology.
• The user interface design document I wrote was so highly regarded that it was used as a sales tool.
• The product had a client/server architecture and also included its own proprietary 4GL.
• Implemented using object oriented techniques in C/UNIX environment.
• The product included networking capabilities including TCP/IP, and related protocols.

• Participated in project to allow dBase IV programs to transparently access data residing in a Sybase/SQL database server.
• Enhanced dBase interpreter.
• Integrated dBase with a DOS extender.

• Developed and published software products written in C to aid in construction of compilers and interpreters.

• Developed a design automation tool using SMALLTALK/V and ORACLE.
• Taught a data structures course.
• Established a modern software development environment, including CASE, network, compilers and editors.

• Supervised 3 programmers.
• Implementation of NOMAD (a 4GL/DBMS) on PC in C.
• YACC based parser, design of parse trees and pseudo-code design
• Operating system independent I/O.
• Field formatting functions.
• Participated in ANSI C standards committee.

• Participated in the development of CUFFS-88, a financial modeling language.
• Design and implementation of an editor with screen and line oriented interfaces.
• Design of a parser for a language with procedural and non-procedural components.
• Report generator.

• Enhanced networking and database capabilities of an application to generate various data base driven reports.
• Wrote a data entry program and a screen painter.

• Wrote budgeting application in BASIC for the United States Navy.

• Implemented demographic and MIS applications in APL and Burroughs Algol.

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