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Responsible for overseeing, leading, planning, maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage my team's optimum performance. This includes setting work priorities (weekly) and performance reviews (quarterly and annually) of a 20-30 person team of supervisors and developers. The team I lead is responsible for the custom point of sale software that runs at the 5000 O'Reilly stores.

The head administrator and company software expert on the document management system for all printed and stored insured policy information and in-house reports. The system encompasses batch processing, vendor software, custom web services, website hosting and design. My responsibilities include Project Management, document access authorization, creation of project specifications for our unit and being “on-call” as the main technical support. This also includes system design and maintenance of the system in COBOL, JCL, HTML, SQL server, JavaScript, and Assembler.

Update and Maintain Lock-shop 7,300 core computer database for 13 buildings, making lock cores and keys for the entire Resident Life system at Missouri State University.

NASA Space Grant Intern Summer 2000 (5 month position)Missouri State Physic and Astronomy Department Elected intern for the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. Researched and recorded data on binary stars systems.