Software Development Managing Architect

Executive Profile

Enthusiastic growth motivated manager, software architect and author with ten years of experience coordinating software solutions developed in house and offshore. Unique experience with popular design methodologies (OOD) and documentation standards (UML). Proven expertise in architecting solutions from the ground up, distilling client requirements into effective communication for development teams while keeping constant communication with upper management. Proven record of achieving higher learning and understanding of all aspects of business’ operations.

·         .NET, SQL, XML Technologies

·         Architecture (OOD) and Design (UML)

·         MBA Candidate, Holds MS, BS, and AAS

·         Author and contributor of six published technical books

·         Offshore Development Management

·         Asset Management, License Management

·         Commodities and Financial Market Research

·         Service Center and Inventory Management

·         Sarbanes Oxley Compliance


Professional Experience

Baker College, Online (Michigan)

      CIS Adjunct Faculty                                                                                           [01.2006 to present]

Online facilitator instructing students on how to develop VB.NET, Enterprise Java and Systems Programming. Average of two courses per term (six week period).

Sugar Foods Corporation, New York City, New York

      Senior Software Architect                                                                                 [07.2005 to present]

Responsible for the analysis, design and development of internal applications used to run the company’s inventory logistics and reporting business. Design, document and lead offshore software development team.

Work entails the use of .NET (VB.NET), XML, VB6, ADO, ADO.NET, SQL Server and MS Access.

Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, New York

      Manager of Global Support Services Systems Development                         [01.2002 to 07.2006]

Responsible for all of the Depot Service Center systems running North American locations to support business operations and strategic business initiatives. Managed a staff of ten developers, support and quality assurance personal located locally and overseas (Russia).

Implemented strategies to: (1) streamline current production processing, (2) improve scalability of system software, (3) reduce defects, (4) re-train application developers with new skills and provide incentives for quality and on-time deliverables, and (5) provide better processes for continued growth in our department.

The following accomplishments have enabled the business to expand services provided by our systems from one location to 12 within 18 months.

·         Reorganized department into three core groups: Enhancement Engineering, Sustaining Engineering, and Quality Assurance and Support.

·         Re-architected system infrastructure from fat-client 250 terminal installations to thin-client browser based installation on a single, thirteen machine Citrix farm.

·         Established process for change control, enhancement and issue prioritization, database upgrades, and application rollouts. Established source code standards and reviews.

·         Improved interfaces between numerous disparate systems through XML, flat files (CSV), direct ODBC connections, and web communications.

·         Led and mentored team to craft new, web based, application architecture for strategic business initiatives and core business of entitlement verification and invoicing. This architecture allowed for strategic growth by allowing the systems to be easily scaled.

Isogon Corporation, New York City, New York

      Manager of Application Engineering                                                                [10.1999 to 10.2001]

Led a joint team of 20 developers from New York and the Ukraine to develop an enterprise level Asset Management system architected using a three-tier application design. Provided constant communication between offshore and local team members while building an environment that fostered success through the use of shared source code, test environments and process.

Created project schedules, milestones and delivery dates for internal system testing, QA, Beta and GA release. Maintained internal development documentation as project scope increased/decreased to ensure that all developers (both in house and offshore) were up to date.

      Senior Software Architect                                                                                  [09.1998 to 10.1999]

Successfully isolated key functionality into 30 individual object oriented components that fit together in an overall logical 3-tier client/server Asset Management application. Documented architectural papers, high-level and low-level design documents, unit test cases and visual impact documents.

Successfully designed a database and data access architecture that stored objects in a relational database allowing dynamic querying capabilities without limitation. Isogon had attempted to patent this technology.

      Senior Project Leader                                                                                        [08.1997 to 09.1998]

Partnered in development with IBM/Tivoli (Rome) and Hewlett-Packard to port a large UNIX based License Server product to new versions of AIX and HPUX before they were publicly available so that the product could ship with these operating systems.

Led a group of five C/C++ developers to ensure the application ran on over 12 flavors of UNIX. Improved quality through automated regression tests.

      Senior Software Engineer                                                                                  [02.1997 to 08.1997]

Responsible for the development of a client/server application used for Asset Management utilizing VB, RDO, Access, SQL and Crystal Reports.

Blockbuster Entertainment Group, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

      Software Engineer                                                                                              [10.1996 to 02.1997]

Developed applications in Visual Basic for franchise stores to analyze data regarding rental trends for future inventory purchases of like materials. Interacted with QA team and provided end user documentation and support for products created.

Private Consulting Experience

WebDentalMarketing.com and WebFinancialMarketing.com                                                      

ASP.NET, C#, SQL XML, Server 2000 web based application providing email marketing, tracking and reporting application for dental and financial industries. Clients could send out targeted emails to recipients while tracking who opened each email and which links were followed.

Unitville.com

ASP.NET, VB.NET, XML, SQL Server 2000 web portal for Mary Kay professionals to build websites, browse and contribute to document library, automatically create MS Publisher newsletters through automated scraping of sales numbers from Mary Kay director website.

Riskmaster Coffee Commodity Simulator for the New York Board of Trade

.NET desktop application, VB.NET, ADO.NET and XML application simulating the coffee commodity market for the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT). This application was translated to Spanish allowing more languages to follow. Plans to port the application for Cotton and Sugar commodity markets were planned.

Specialized Reporting Tools for Financial Market Aggregator Company (NOHO)

C, OLE Office plug-ins, XML, TCP/IP, Perl (undisclosed application)

Affiliations & Accreditations

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional                                             www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcp

PMI – Project Management Institute                                                                                   www.pmi.org

ASP – Association of Shareware Professionals                                                     www.asp-shareware.org

Training

SAP CRM Services Overview from SAP                                                                                 [04.2004]

SAP R/3 Programming Overview from Symbol Technologies, Inc.                                             [12.2003]

SAP R/3 Service Management & CRM Overview from SAP [11.2003]

Microsoft .NET Developer Training from ThinkPath               [06.2002]

Visual Basic 6.0 Desktop Development MCSD Certification Test from Microsoft                      [11.2001]

Visual Basic 6.0 Distributed Development MCSD Certification Test from Microsoft                   [11.2001]

XML Fundamentals from Global Knowledge                                                                            [04.2001]

Object Oriented Analysis & Design Using UML from Lockheed Martin                                     [06.2000]

Learning Effective Management Skills from American Management Association                         [02.2000]

Advanced Java with Visual Age from IBM                                                                                [02.1998]

Publications

ASP.NET Professional Secrets published by Wiley Pres (contributor)                                           [2003]

UML: A Beginner’s Guide published by Osborne Press/McGraw Hill                                            [2002]

ADO – ActiveX Data Objects published by O’Reilly & Associates                                               [2001]

Careers in E-Commerce Software Development published by Rosen Publishing Group                  [2001]

WG’s Visual Basic 6 Database How-To published by SAMS Publishing (contributor)                         [1999]

Visual Basic 5 Database How-To published by Waite Group Press (contributor)                           [1998]

Education

M.B.A. (Candidate) from Penn State University                                                                        [present]

M.S., Computer Information Systems from University of Phoenix                                               [10.2003]

B.S., Computer Science with Applied Mathematics from Albany University                               [05.1996]

A.A.S., Data Processing from Farmingdale University            [12.1993]