Brian Young Email & Phone Number

Pennsylvania, United States

www.AzarElGreetings.com

• Dedicated to support, maintenance, and necessary improvements of the legacy systems; while joining our top-shelf IT team's delivery of future visions!... wearing many hats...
• CORE Administrator
• Software developer - manage, maintain, and enhance our legacy, proprietary, DR campaign management application.
• First line support / Data analyst - answer questions and provide solutions, for both CORE Media's suite of applications and our legacy media management… Show more Dedicated to support, maintenance, and necessary.
• First line support / Data analyst - answer questions and provide solutions, for both CORE Media's suite of applications and our legacy media management system.
• Occasional DBA, of sorts - read, learn, and apply; intent on improving performance and reliability of our SQL Server installation. Show less

King Of Prussia, PA

• CORE Administrator for Mercury's CORE Media technology installation. Dedicated to support, maintenance, and necessary improvements of the legacy systems; while joining our top-shelf IT team's delivery of future.
• CORE Administrator
• Software developer - manage, maintain, and enhance our legacy, proprietary, DR campaign management application.
• First line support / Data analyst - answer questions and provide solutions, for both CORE… Show more CORE Administrator for Mercury's CORE Media technology installation. Dedicated to support, maintenance, and necessary.
• First line support / Data analyst - answer questions and provide solutions, for both CORE Media's suite of applications and our legacy media management system.
• Team lead / Project manager - Lead and manage our proprietary application re-write and enhancement project.

• Offering IT Support to local small businesses and personal home networks.Planned, installed, and configured VPN (virtual private network) service; included Mac OS X Server and Linksys/dd-WRT router. Provided remote.
• Reduced manual intervention required by Marketing Managers; eliminated transfers to and from third party FTP service when… Show more Offering IT Support to local small businesses and personal home networks.Planned.
• Reduced manual intervention required by Marketing Managers; eliminated transfers to and from third party FTP service when delivering marketing assets to remote artists. Show less

• Designed and developed data cleansing portion of ETL (extract, transform, load) component of Business Intelligence reporting system. Programmed other ETL Java classes. Implemented JUnit (Java unit testing) classes and.
• Reduced data cleansing errors from a few hundred per month to zero over my last year; system processed data for several hundred-thousand advertisement… Show more Designed and developed data cleansing portion of ETL.
• Reduced data cleansing errors from a few hundred per month to zero over my last year; system processed data for several hundred-thousand advertisement transactions per month
• Restored $300,000 to the monthly billing report after operations' transactional workflow system and corporate network failure.Generated functionally specific test data for Cognos report testing, utilized Pentaho open.

• Designed, developed, and maintained Software Release and QA issue tracking and automated reporting system.
• Eliminated all manual/paper related data collection, compilation, and reporting work; about 90% of one clerical assistant's time during QA and Software Release cycles (quarterly).Programmed SuRPAS mutual fund.
• Eliminated all manual/paper related data collection, compilation, and reporting work; about 90% of one clerical assistant's time during QA and Software Release cycles (quarterly).Programmed SuRPAS mutual fund.

• Designed and implemented retail eCommerce web site; included custom cart, multiple product displays, merchant account interface, back-office product management and customer service intranet applications, secure on-line.
• Site was company's entire operation from 2003 through 2009Designed and produced postal advertising brochure, liaison to printing company.

• Ensured proper operation of all aspects of legacy software during transition to replacement system. Led technical data conversion team. Developed and enhanced data conversion software. Analyzed/investigated and.
• Transferred/converted 270,000 print advertisements; 90% required no manual intervention; of those remaining, most needed only minor touch-up and few were remanufactured.

Researched and demonstrated to potential clients: digital asset management, document/knowledge management, and computer telephony software. Installed and configured Microsoft Windows NT workstations, networks, and application software.

• Designed, implemented, and administered Yellow Pages World Wide Web trial; included data conversion from print to on-line database/format; server recommendation, purchase, installation, configuration; web user.
• Delivered in 6 months, originally estimated at 6 to 8 months
• Demonstrated trial to Bell… Show more Designed, implemented, and administered Yellow Pages World Wide Web trial; included data conversion from print to on-line database/format; server recommendation, purchase.
• Demonstrated trial to Bell Atlantic Chairman/CEO and President; full team project resulted
• Received Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics "Quality Hall of Fame" awardCreated digital page and advertisement merge process; produced complete, single file, pre-press page output.
• Saved thousands of hours of manual paste-up and camera work monthly.Led cross functional team in design, development, testing, installation, and user training; produced Postscript advert composition and management.

Program and maintain customer data-management and pre-press publishing software utilizing IBM mainframe, CICS Macro-assembler, and ADR/IDEAL RDBMS.