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 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 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 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… Show more 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 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 system.• Team lead / Project manager - Lead and manage our proprietary application re-write and enhancement project.• Occasional DBA, of sorts - read, learn, and apply; intent on improving performance and reliability of our SQL Server installation. Show less

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 artists secure access to company's digital marketing asset library. Documented same; allowed non-technical personnel to manage the service.• 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, installed, and configured VPN (virtual private network) service; included Mac OS X Server and Linksys/dd-WRT router. Provided remote artists secure access to company's digital marketing asset library. Documented same; allowed non-technical personnel to manage the service.• 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 XML test data files providing comprehensive unit testing. Continually refined intranet data display/analysis tool. • 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 (extract, transform, load) component of Business Intelligence reporting system. Programmed other ETL Java classes. Implemented JUnit (Java unit testing) classes and XML test data files providing comprehensive unit testing. Continually refined intranet data display/analysis tool. • 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 source ETL tool (kettle). Administered JReport reporting service. Show less

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 sub-accounting end-user interface; SuRPAS services were licensed to external mutual fund management clients.Created technical library search utility based on… Show more 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 sub-accounting end-user interface; SuRPAS services were licensed to external mutual fund management clients.Created technical library search utility based on Apache Lucene. Show less

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 customer account and order tracking; artwork and layout. • 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 corrected legacy software and conversion data problems.• 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 interface, yellow page search, Oracle database installation and configuration, database schema design and implementation. Administered internet routers, sub-net, firewall, and servers.• 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, installation, configuration; web user interface, yellow page search, Oracle database installation and configuration, database schema design and implementation. Administered internet routers, sub-net, firewall, and servers.• Delivered in 6 months, originally estimated at 6 to 8 months• 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 system. Developed all software for the project.• Received Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics "Quality Hall of Fame" award• Received Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics "President's Award"• System managed composition of $2.1B advertisement revenue stream Show less

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