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  <header>
    <name>
      <firstname>Tom</firstname>
      <surname>Conder</surname>
    </name>
    
    <contact>
      <email>tomc@gazpacho.net</email>
      <url>http://www.gazpacho.net/</url>
    </contact>
  </header>

  <objective>
      <para>
A challenging position for an Information Systems Professional with sixteen years of experience in analyzing business practices and engineering software solutions. Expertise in design, development, documentation, testing and maintaining software systems. Experience producing systems with several thousand users with no downtime. Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability and experience to successfully work with all levels of management, professionals and customers.
      </para>
  </objective>
  
  <history>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>TEKsystems Consultant at Express Scripts</jobtitle>
      <employer><link  href="http://www.teksystems.com">TEKsystems</link></employer>
      <location><city>St Louis</city><state>MO</state></location>
      <period>
        <from><date><year>2007</year></date></from>
        <to><present/></to>
      </period>
      <description><para>
Express Scripts is a pharmacy benefit manager. They process pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at their own mail order pharmacies. They provide services to manage drug plans for government agencies, managed-care plans, corporations and unions.
      </para></description>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
          Completed projects to allow customers to manage drug savings on public web application and to add campaign-specific messaging and improve faxing in an internal web-based call center application
        </achievement>
      </achievements>
    </job>

    <job>
      <jobtitle>TEKsystems Consultant at Lockheed Martin</jobtitle>
      <employer><link  href="http://www.teksystems.com">TEKsystems</link></employer>
      <location><city>O'Fallon</city><state>IL</state></location>
      <period>
      <from><date><year>2001</year></date></from>
      <to><date><year>2007</year></date></to>
      </period>
      <description><para>
          At Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems &amp; Solutions I worked as part of a team who developed, deployed, documented and maintained the <link href="https://www.gtn.transcom.mil/public/home/aboutGtn/index.jsp">Global Transportation Network (GTN)</link>.
      </para></description>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
	  Completed project to add web services to the production system. Gave technical presentations to customers, engineers and management.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Completed projects to add in-transit visiblity of logistics entities. Added code to display satellite position reports and correct the locations reported by RFID tag interrogators. Added forecasting technology to predict cargo traffic at a port.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Wrote GUI code in Java Swing for military exercise planning tool.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Updated document to streamline software maintenance process.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Participated in peer reviews of design, code, test and installation documentation. Also, trained engineers on technical aspects of system. Worked with remote team members located in different time zones.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Designed, documented, coded and tested web software rewrite using Javascript, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs). Completed analysis and presented paper to management and customer on existing web security vulnerabilities and steps to mitigate risk. Wrote white paper on potential changes to web software to accommodate low bandwidth customers.
        </achievement>
      </achievements>
    </job>

    <job>
      <jobtitle>Technology Director</jobtitle>
      <employer>Nova Business Systems</employer>
      <location><city>Kirkwood</city><state>MO</state></location>
      <date><year>2001</year></date>
      <description><para>
          Nova Business Systems was a start-up who developed and deployed web applications for vertical markets, namely service markets.
      </para></description>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
          Developed and deployed ASP solution for two vertical markets. Set up and maintained a network of Windows workstations and Linux back end servers.
        </achievement>
      </achievements>  
    </job>
    
    <job>
      <jobtitle>MSX International Consultant at SBC</jobtitle>
      <employer><link href="http://www.msxi.com/">MSX International</link></employer>
      <location><city>St Louis</city><state>MO</state></location>
      <period>
        <from><date><year>2000</year></date></from>
        <to><date><year>2001</year></date></to>
      </period>
      <description><para>
          SBC is a large telecom company that serves residents of 13 states. It is a Fortune 50 company that serves nearly 53 million access lines.
      </para></description>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
          Designed, coded and tested a billing system Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) for the middleware group.
        </achievement>
      </achievements>
    </job>

    <job>
      <jobtitle>MSX International Consultant at Grace Hill Neighborhood Services</jobtitle>
      <employer><link href="http://www.msxi.com/">MSX International</link></employer>
      <location><city>St Louis</city><state>MO</state></location>
      <period>
        <from><date><year>1998</year></date></from>
        <to><date><year>2000</year></date></to>
      </period>
      <description><para>
          Grace Hill Neighborhood Services is a non-profit organization that provides health care and social work throughout the city of St Louis and St Charles county.
      </para></description>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
          Wrote code and trained employees on registration and appointments software. Also, wrote various reports for the health care system.
        </achievement>
      </achievements>
    </job>

    <job>
      <jobtitle>Software Engineer</jobtitle>
      <employer><link href="http://www.csc.com/">Computer Sciences Corporation</link></employer>
      <location><city>Fairview Heights</city><state>IL</state></location>
      <period>
        <from><date><year>1995</year></date></from>
        <to><date><year>1998</year></date></to>
      </period>
      <achievements>
        <achievement>
          Functioned as technical lead for Interfaces team performing design and code reviews, giving briefs on technical issues and coding and testing application modules.
        </achievement>
        <achievement>
          Migrated code from legacy mainframe system to client/server system.
        </achievement>
      </achievements>
    </job>
  </history>

   <skillarea>
    <title>Technical Skills</title>
    <skillset>
      <title>Languages</title>
      <skill>awk/sed</skill>
      <skill>C/C++</skill>
      <skill>Groovy</skill>
      <skill>Java</skill>
      <skill>Javascript (ECMAScript)</skill>
      <skill>lex/yacc</skill>
      <skill>Lisp</skill>
      <skill>perl</skill>
      <skill>PHP</skill>
      <skill>SQL</skill>
      <skill>Visual Basic.Net</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Libraries</title>
      <skill>Apache Commons</skill>
      <skill>Apache Xerces/Xalan</skill>
      <skill>Apache Jakarta POI</skill>
      <skill>AspectJ</skill>
      <skill>CORBA</skill>
      <skill>COM</skill>
      <skill>Docbook</skill>
      <skill>DOM</skill>
      <skill>EJB</skill>
      <skill>Gnome/GTK</skill>
      <skill>Grails</skill>
      <skill>Hibernate</skill>
      <skill>Google Web Toolkit (GWT)</skill>
      <skill>IDL</skill>
      <skill>Jasper Reports</skill>
      <skill>J2EE</skill>
      <skill>JSP</skill>
      <skill>JDK</skill>
      <skill>JUnit</skill>
      <skill>log4j</skill>
      <skill>POSIX</skill>
      <skill>MFC</skill>
      <skill>OpenScript</skill>
      <skill>Prototype</skill>
      <skill>RMI</skill>
      <skill>SAX</skill>
      <skill>Scriptaculous</skill>
      <skill>Servlets</skill>
      <skill>Spring Web Flow</skill>
      <skill>Struts</skill>
      <skill>TCP/IP</skill>
      <skill>UDDI</skill>
      <skill>Win32</skill>
      <skill>Xlib</skill>
      <skill>XMLBeans</skill>
      <skill>XStream</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Web Technologies</title>
      <skill>AJAX</skill>
      <skill>CSS</skill>
      <skill>DTD</skill>
      <skill>HTML</skill>
      <skill>JSON</skill>
      <skill>PHP</skill>
      <skill>REST</skill>
      <skill>SOAP</skill>
      <skill>Web Services</skill>
      <skill>WSDL</skill>
      <skill>XML</skill>
      <skill>XML Schema Document (XSD)</skill>
      <skill>XQuery</skill>
      <skill>XSL/XSLT</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Software Processes</title>
      <skill>Agile Development</skill>
      <skill>Level 5 SEI Maturity Model</skill>
      <skill>SCRUM</skill>
      <skill>UML</skill>
    </skillset>
  </skillarea>
  <skillarea>
    <title>Environments</title>
    <skillset>
      <title>Application Servers</title>
      <skill>Apache Tomcat</skill>
      <skill>BEA WebLogic</skill>
      <skill>IBM WebSphere</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Database Systems</title>
      <skill>HSQLDB</skill>
      <skill>Microsoft SQL Server</skill>
      <skill>MySQL</skill>
      <skill>Oracle 8,11</skill>
      <skill>Sybase 11.9.2, 12.5</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Operating Systems</title>
      <skill>Unix</skill>
      <skill>Microsoft Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Development Tools</title>
      <skill>Ant</skill>
      <skill>CAST Application Mining Suite</skill>
      <skill>ClearCase</skill>
      <skill>ClearQuest</skill>
      <skill>CruiseControl</skill>
      <skill>CVS</skill>
      <skill>Eclipse</skill>
      <skill>Gimp</skill>
      <skill>Gnu C++</skill>
      <skill>gprof</skill>
      <skill>HTML Tidy</skill>
      <skill>IBM Rational Application Developer</skill>
      <skill>IBM Visual Age</skill>
      <skill>IntelliJ IDEA</skill>
      <skill>InstallShield</skill>
      <skill>LDAP</skill>
      <skill>LoadRunner</skill>
      <skill>makefiles</skill>
      <skill>Maven</skill>
      <skill>Microsoft Visual Studio .Net</skill>
      <skill>PVCS</skill>
      <skill>Quantify</skill>
      <skill>Rational Rose</skill>
      <skill>rcs</skill>
      <skill>Subversion</skill>
      <skill>vi</skill>
      <skill>Visual Basic</skill>
      <skill>Visual C++</skill>
      <skill>XPlanner</skill>
      <skill>XRunner</skill>
    </skillset>
  </skillarea>
 
  <clearances>
    <clearance>
      <level>Secret</level>
      <date><year>2002-2007</year></date>
      <organization>Lockheed Martin</organization>
    </clearance>
    <clearance>
      <level>Top Secret</level>
      <date><year>1998</year></date>
      <organization>Computer Sciences Corporation</organization>
    </clearance>
  </clearances>

   <academics>
    <degrees>
      <degree>
        <institution><link href="http://www.siue.edu/">Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville</link></institution>
        <level>Bachelor of Arts</level>
        <major>Computer Science</major>
        <minor>Mathematics</minor>
      </degree>
      <degree>
        <level>Training Courses</level>
        <subjects>
          <subject>
            <title>Unit Testing with JUnit</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>AJAX</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Google Web Toolkit</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Grails</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Groovy</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Hibernate</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Spring</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Terracotta</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>JavaFX</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>BEA WebLogic</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>HIPAA</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Ethics</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>IBM WebSphere</title>
          </subject>
          <subject>
            <title>Professional Leadership</title>
          </subject>
        </subjects>
      </degree>
    </degrees>
  </academics>

  <referees>
    <referee>
      <name>
        <firstname>Available upon request.</firstname>
      </name>
    </referee>
  </referees>

  <lastModified><date>
    <month>April</month>
    <year>2008</year>
  </date></lastModified>

</resume>
