Resume 4

Innovative IS/IT professional with important record of accomplishments. Possessing strong analytical and reasoning skills. Able to solve problems in tight deadline environments.

• Developed pension management systems for use by 225,000 plan participants.
• Migrated pension and money management systems from standalone to client server systems.
• Founded and managed Soft-Binary Systems Corp., a systems integrator and software developer
• Founded and managed MBS Power Systems Corp., building UPS systems for industrial and IT users.
• Expanded annual sales of MBS Power/Soft-Binary Systems from 28k 1984 to 2.4M 1994 .
• Sold 750,000 UPS products to Merck for LAN infrastructure project, saving client 1.25M.
• Uncovered flaws in competitors products resulting in 2.14M hardware and service sale to NYNEX.
• Developed IT outsourcing services for American Express for > 1M in services and hardware sales.
• Designed solution for COMEX to protect exchange floor based systems. Sales > 500k.
• Designed and built IS system to administer rental properties for Catholic Charities, linking 17 sites.
• Developed IT services and software for the magazine publishing industry. Sales > 1M.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Provided system development and support services for two client engagements.
• Managed five development teams, 25 developers amongst the Sybase/Powerbuilder, Java, TALX, calc and print teams . Liaised with one QA team, four business admin teams, one DBA team, and two engagement partners.
• Developed and coordinated testing plans with the business admin teams for IST.
• Managed on-going processing procedures to fulfill client deliverables. Resolved problems from other team members.
• Maintained documentation, processing notes and detailed functional specs for all interfaces and procedures.
• Maintained on-going data operations for Sybase and DB2 ES9000 databases.
• Completed special projects, adhoc data loads, extracts and queries.

• Performed trading floor end-user support. Troubleshot and resolved market data service problems. Liaised between traders and external vendors to satisfy technology requests and resolve issues.
• Identified IT solutions for business needs. Researched and evaluated new technology products by testing prototypes to ensure they meet end user needs and functional requirements.
• Troubleshot and resolved equipment failures, desktop software problems, and network outages.
• Suggested and implemented migration of market data services from leased lines to IP, reducing costs by 48k/year.
• Suggested converting fund accounting system from Cobol on DG minicomputer to NetWare LAN resulting in hardware lease savings of 22k/year.
• Maintained market data, hardware, software, Telco circuit, and inventory.

• Recruited, trained and supervised staff of six.
• Designed, built and administered LAN/WAN implementations for diverse clientele including Ziff-Davis, Conde Nast, Family Media, Catholic Charities, American Express, First Data Corp, Novo-Nordisk, and Phillips Janson P.A.
• Developed turnkey database and spreadsheet systems using FoxBASE for diverse clientele including Changing Homes Publishing, Family Media, BarLor Cosmetics, ToyMax, and Award Packaging.
• Provided pre-sales engineering and technical support at customer sites. Coordinated services with client s staff to ensure successful project completion.
• Designed and implemented customized power protection solution for COMEX. Sales > 500k.
• Awarded 2.14M subcontract from NYNEX for 268 site power protection solution.

• Developed financial module enhancements in RPG2 running on IBM S34.
• Supported four client firms, including management, end users, hardware and OS.

• Market Data Bloomberg, Instinet, AT Financial, S&P Comstock, TIBCO, First Call

• QA UAT, Regression Testing, Test Data Creation, IST
  Methodologies Full Lifecycle
  Documentation BRD, scope of work, business case, users guide

• Languages C, Transact/SQL, Cobol, xBase
  Databases Sybase ASE V11.x, 12, Sybase Replication Agents, Embarcadero RapidSQL, bcp

• Win Apps MS Office 2000, Visio, Acrobat
  Linux Apps OpenOffice 1.0, gnucash, gnumeric, Opera 6.02, RPM, Nautilus, Shell Scripts
  Utilities WinSCP, Ghost, WinZIP, Norton

• DataComm SecureCRT 3.4, Opera 6.04, Hummingbird FTP/telnet, PCAnywhere
  Networking Mixed environments consisting of NetWare, NT, UNIX/LINUX and SNA
  OS HPUX, Linux , Windows NT/2000, NetWare 3.x

• Servers HP and Compaq NetServers
  LAN HP & 3Com switches, Cisco 16xx,25xx Routers, LinkSys 802.11b Routers
  Data Storage SAN, RAID, JBOD, DAT, DLT, Ultrium, AVX, SCSI, ATA/IDE

Bachelor of Science Computer Science Union College, Schenectady, NY
Minor in Mathematics