gazpacho dot net: Resume

Professional Objective

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.

Employment History

TEKsystems Consultant at Express Scripts
TEKsystems (St Louis, MO)
2007-Present

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.

Achievements:

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

TEKsystems Consultant at Lockheed Martin
TEKsystems (O'Fallon, IL)
2001-2007

At Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions I worked as part of a team who developed, deployed, documented and maintained the Global Transportation Network (GTN).

Achievements:

Completed project to add web services to the production system. Gave technical presentations to customers, engineers and management.
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.
Wrote GUI code in Java Swing for military exercise planning tool.
Updated document to streamline software maintenance process.
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.
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.

Technology Director
Nova Business Systems (Kirkwood, MO)
2001

Nova Business Systems was a start-up who developed and deployed web applications for vertical markets, namely service markets.

Achievements:

Developed and deployed ASP solution for two vertical markets. Set up and maintained a network of Windows workstations and Linux back end servers.

MSX International Consultant at SBC
MSX International (St Louis, MO)
2000-2001

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.

Achievements:

Designed, coded and tested a billing system Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) for the middleware group.

MSX International Consultant at Grace Hill Neighborhood Services
MSX International (St Louis, MO)
1998-2000

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.

Achievements:

Wrote code and trained employees on registration and appointments software. Also, wrote various reports for the health care system.

Software Engineer
Computer Sciences Corporation (Fairview Heights, IL)
1995-1998

Achievements:

Functioned as technical lead for Interfaces team performing design and code reviews, giving briefs on technical issues and coding and testing application modules.
Migrated code from legacy mainframe system to client/server system.

Technical Skills

Languages: awk/sed, C/C++, Groovy, Java, Javascript (ECMAScript), lex/yacc, Lisp, perl, PHP, SQL, Visual Basic.Net.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Libraries: Apache Commons, Apache Xerces/Xalan, Apache Jakarta POI, AspectJ, CORBA, COM, Docbook, DOM, EJB, Gnome/GTK, Grails, Hibernate, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), IDL, Jasper Reports, J2EE, JSP, JDK, JUnit, log4j, POSIX, MFC, OpenScript, Prototype, RMI, SAX, Scriptaculous, Servlets, Spring Web Flow, Struts, TCP/IP, UDDI, Win32, Xlib, XMLBeans, XStream.

Web Technologies: AJAX, CSS, DTD, HTML, JSON, PHP, REST, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, XML, XML Schema Document (XSD), XQuery, XSL/XSLT.

Software Processes: Agile Development, Level 5 SEI Maturity Model, SCRUM, UML.

Environments

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere.

Database Systems: HSQLDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle 8,11, Sybase 11.9.2, 12.5.

Operating Systems: Unix, Microsoft Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98.

Development Tools: Ant, CAST Application Mining Suite, ClearCase, ClearQuest, CruiseControl, CVS, Eclipse, Gimp, Gnu C++, gprof, HTML Tidy, IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Visual Age, IntelliJ IDEA, InstallShield, LDAP, LoadRunner, makefiles, Maven, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, PVCS, Quantify, Rational Rose, rcs, Subversion, vi, Visual Basic, Visual C++, XPlanner, XRunner.

Security Clearances

Secret, Lockheed Martin, 2002-2007
Top Secret, Computer Sciences Corporation, 1998

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics)
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Training Courses
Subjects: Unit Testing with JUnit, AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Grails, Groovy, Hibernate, Spring, Terracotta, JavaFX, BEA WebLogic, HIPAA, Ethics, IBM WebSphere, Professional Leadership.

References

Available upon request.

Last modified April 2008.

Tom Conder

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