David C Schumacher Email & Phone Number

Irvine Animal Care Center

Irvine, California

Irvine, California

Parttime student at UCI Extension. Completed Certificate Program for Oracle DBA and Java Programming.

Contract technical writer. Restructured user reference documentation for Adaptive products. Investigated IT management products.

Designed, configured and maintained development lab used to create high availability cluster software in support of the Safeguard 30m product. Participated in the deployment of virtual servers using Microsoft Virtual Server and VMWare Infrastructure 3.• Installed, configured and maintained over 45 server and client systems using Windows Server 2000 / 2003 / 2008, XP, Vista, VMWare ESX 3.x and Red Hat Linux• Installed, configured and maintained High Availability clusters using Microsoft Cluster Service• Investigated the feasibility of Microsoft Virtual Server in a clustered environment and successfully integrated the two products• Designed and implemented Storage Area Networks (SAN) using Cisco MDS and Brocade Silkworm switches• Designed and implemented Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) using Cisco Catalyst and NETGEAR switches• Managed storage for several EMC CLARiiON CX storage systems using Navisphere software

Guided a team of three developers in the implementation of a software deployment subsystem using Scrum Agile development methodology. Worked with Product Owner to create and manage product backlog.• Facilitated the training of the team in Scrum processes• As Scrum Master held the Sprint planning meetings, led the daily Scrum meetings and removed any impediments to the completion of the Sprint. Worked with other Scrum Masters to resolve development and resource issues• Supervised two development Sprints, the first Sprint completing one week ahead of schedule• Configured and maintained Microsoft Virtual Servers used as a test environment for entire project

Technical Project Manager for a cluster management and verification product based on Microsoft Cluster Service. Led a team of nine developers in the design, implementation, qualification and support of the Cluster Manager and Cluster Verifier products over several releases.• Wrote the proposal and functional design documents for several releases• Using Microsoft Project scheduled the development and qualification tasks for several releases• Led the team leads in the completion of the detailed design documents• Guided the design of the user interfaces. Conducted formal usability studies on current and proposed user interfaces which significantly improved the end user experience• Designed and maintained product development lab consisting of over a dozen Microsoft Cluster Service clusters freeing the programmers to do development work• Interfaced with the Product Information, Installation, Releases and Marketing groups to produce several product releases

Team Lead for Certification of Oracle Parallel Server of Unisys Windows based servers. Planned and scheduled certifications in local cluster lab and at Oracle headquarters. Effort resulted in two Corporate Achievement Awards.

Provided software support for a variety of mainframe data query and user interface products.• Supported Unisys mainframe products: Reporter III, Interactive Query Facility, DMCONTROL and Screen Design Facility Plus, correcting all customer problems within corporate guidelines• Developed Visual Basic program to combine mainframe DMSII data with data from Oracle or SQL Server for PathMate project, resulting in a Corporate Achievement Award for this work• Designed and implemented changes to Reporter III to allow processing of COBOL ANSI-85 code

Managed and participated in the development and support of Data Transfer System, a product used to transfer data between Unisys MCP mainframes and B20 microcomputers.

Team Lead for product development and support of the Reporter III product, a comprehensive Unisys Clearpath MCP data reporting tool that generates COBOL programs to produce reports and data files from DMSII databases and flat files.• Assumed responsibility for the Reporter group of products and facilitated the development team’s understanding of the product. Presented Reporter III at Burroughs User Group conferences• Reduced product complexity by consolidating from nine to three products resulting in a significant time and resource savings for product development, qualification, documentation and support• Designed and guided implementation of a major enhancement that reduced code generation timeby over 40%

Implemented Honeywell Easycoder to Burroughs COBOL Translator

Collected data for refinery piping design. Managed computer runs piping designs and distributed results.

Certificate In Java Programming, Java Programming, 3.98

Courses included: Java Programming, OO Design, and Agile Methodologies.

Information Technology, General Studies For Microsoft And Comptia Certification., 4.0

Courses included: Networking, Windows Domain Admin, Linux Admin, Android Mobile App Development, HTML web page design.

Certificate In Oracle Database Administration, Oracle Database Administration, 3.95

Courses included: SQL, OO Database Design, Oracle Database Administration, and Performance Tuning.

Bs, Computer Science