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Denton, Texas, United States

Arlington, Tx

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Hurst Tx

Providing first class training to future programmers. Curriculum to cover the skills required for entry level development positions in Java, JavaScript, C# and HTML5/CSS3.Training in:Front end Development: JavaScript, BootStrap and AngularJSMiddleware frameworks: Spring Boot, ThymeLeaf and Pug(ex-Jade)Server side: MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, H2 using Java, JavaScript and C#Using state of the art IDEs - Microsoft: Visual Studio and JetBrains: WebStorm, IntelliJ Ultimate

Fort Worth, Tx

Recruited by Colonial to bring their data into the 21st century. Created data services team – Integration, Governance, Analysis, Support and Reporting. Environment on day 1 was VSAM and COBOL. Today – SQL Server 2014, SSIS for all integration, SSRS and Tableau for reporting.Business: Banking, Mortgage Origination and Servicing• Defined and established data road map – physical environment, software stack and skill sets.• Led data integration effort replacing legacy mortgage servicing system. (VSAM–SQL Server)• Established policies and procedures for a Data Governance group within the corporation and the initial data definitions for enterprise data. • Technologies: MS SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Tableau

Texas

Established relationships with department heads and their 30+ direct reports to coordinate business initiatives with IT capabilities.Business: Mortgage Servicing• Coordinated multiple offshore development groups with in-house teams.• Develop project CBAs with business to be presented to the enterprise project approval committee• Repaired weak relationships between IT and business. Improved communication and established procedures to streamline how work is requested reported, and delivered.• Technologies: PeopleSoft (HR, Financials), IBM FileNet, Oracle, SQL Server

Fort Worth Tx

Environment consists of 40+ technologies, languages, databases, and third-party applications. QA, programming (web, Windows and iSeries), data integration, database management, compensation systems and document management. Services Provided:• First Command clients: Provide web access to view the state of the financial plan in areas of investments, insurance and banking. Architecture: Oracle WebLogic, Java, DB2. Not transaction-based• First Command financial advisors: Provide multiple systems to manage the advisor’s clients, design financial plans and track commissions. Architectures: Web applications – Oracle WebLogic, Java, DB2. The client/server application – C++, and Oracle. Commission – Callidus.• Corporate office users: ‘green screen’ applications to monitor all facets of the business. Architecture: IBM iSeries, Synon (RPG based language), DB2. Systems connected to First Command Bank (MS SQL Server) using custom (Java, Synon (RPG) and Informatica) data transfer programs.Managed resources as strategies and priorities changed. Changes were done with an eye to not impact other active projects. To keep costs down, offsite training was given to individuals with the ability to turn around and teach others. This was done with several key technologies – Informatica, SharePoint and Callidus. Total trained in house: 70. Technical expansion occurred without resource growth. Focus was placed on training, cross-training, optimizing team sizes, retraining based on growing technologies and shrinking legacy systems. Team sizes for legacy systems were reduced by 66% while new teams went from non-existent to 5 and 6 members.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Formed the Agile team of developers and analysts to build the first Internet enabled online real estate offer management system.• Established manpower levels, defined training and set development standards.• Evaluated user feedback and re-architected site for growth, flexibility and customizability.• Technologies: Java, WebLogic, Oracle

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Co-developed Java development practice. Defined the Java development environment, trained current employees in Java and designed and developed their initial flagship Java project. Designed and lead Java self-managed learning-group.

Fort Worth Tx

• Architected and built travel agency accounting system used in US and internationally.• Built tool to port 1M lines of code from C to Java. • Created a language and compiler to eliminate hand coding of reports. Saved $1.8M. Achieved 1000% of targeted goal.• Recognized 3 times for outstanding contributions for leadership in software development.

Grand Prairie Tx

Liaison with automated material delivery system vendor.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Team lead. Warehouse automation for IBM, General Motors, Steel Case and others

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Created applications to support work done in LDS temples worldwide. Added multi-lingual capability to software

Fulerton Ca

Early warning radar system for West Germany. Is East Germany still a threat? 'nuff said.

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