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Clive, Iowa

Directs the Lottery Systems Division and is responsible for information and data integrity for all information technology functions related to: lotto gaming systems, external customer-facing websites, internal-facing systems as well as hardware and network infrastructure related to server, workstation and mobile device acquisition and support. Plans, organizes, coordinates, directs and controls production activities of a staff engaged in providing systems development and enhancement, system analysis, programming, computer operations, technical support, user training, auditing, data communications and data control services.

Ames, Iowa

February 2008 - October 2014 [Information Technology Administrator 2 (ITA2) - Director, Office of Motor Vehicle Support] Directly supervised, managed and provided leadership to 32 full time IT staff (i.e. 19 Motor Vehicle Information Technology staff, 3 mainframe operators, 10 Electronic Records Management System [ERMS] staff) plus 3 consultant programmers and 3 temporary interns that support, maintain and enhance software applications used by the Iowa Department of Transportation and DOT's Motor Vehicle Division. The software development team used C#.NET, T-SQL and XML to develop and support "DMV"​ software applications.July 2007 - February 2008 [Information Technology Specialist 5 (ITS5) - Project Lead Worker, Office of Motor Vehicle Support] Job duties included support and project management of the State of Iowa's Driver License system for both the Records/Sanctions system as well as the License Issuance System. Programmed using C#.NET, T-SQL, and XML to support the State's Driver License system.December 2006 - July 2007 [Information Technology Specialist 4 (ITS4) - Programmer Analyst, Office of Motor Vehicle Support] Hired toward the end of a massive vendor-written and implemented client/server software application used by the Motor Vehicle Division to issue driver licenses and vehicle title and registrations for Iowa's 99 county treasurers. Upon implementation it is the job of the Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Support Team (MVST) to enhance and maintain C#.NET and T-SQL source code. Among my essential duties was working with driver records with compliance and sanctions reports users.

Ames, Iowa

In charge of the collection and refinement of Federal Census, BEA and other complex socio-economic statistical information. Gathered massive data sets from federal government web sites and then loaded into a local SQL Server database and arrange the information so that Sociologists and Economists at Iowa State University could reuse data in a meaningful way in order to write grants. Once data was tabulated from distributed locations across the web, users could dynamically build datasets and chose to either display them in a tabular form, dynamically graph the results, or download thanks to a VB.NET web application that I had written from scratch. Was responsible for the hiring, evaluation and direction of two technical part-time staff.

Boone, Iowa & Ames, Iowa

In August of 1996 (started planning efforts earlier in 1996 however), several college acquaintances and I started an Internet Service Provider (OpenCom) in Boone, Iowa and then quickly ramped up a second location in Ames, Iowa that ran under the name ISUNet. An essential part of the planning and operations of the business and assisted with the business plan, provided technical expertise and funding, and was the software/web site/database/imaging resource that got the operation going. My role with OpenCom/ISUNet was mostly a nights/weekends effort (which I truly loved) as I had other full-time jobs during this time frame. In October 2002, I became a full-time employee of OpenCom but instead of doing software and web site development, I focused on sales and marketing (neither of which are my strong points). In August of 2003, I left OpenCom in pursuit of software development interests elsewhere. http://www.opencom.net/

Ames, Iowa

Wrote and maintained an integrated ordering/inventory/reporting systems using mod PERL, running on an Apache web server, using first mySQL (then converted all database activity to Oracle), all running on RedHat. (A 100% RedHat Linux shop.) I led and directed a team of up to 12 programmers in the maintenance and enhancement of a internally built product called "NetOrder" that allowed many different seed and chemical companies in the Agricultural market to share corporate order and supply information with distributed locations (grain elevators, seed dealers, etc). The open source and GNU philosophies are very refreshing as they allow clear and open communication with developers and other staff. We never had need for the excuse to blame some external software entity locking us into a certain version/dll/etc since we had the freedom to upgrade and fix/patch things ourselves via programming. http://www.e-markets.com/

Des Moines, Iowa

Enhanced and maintained COBOL on an AS/400 Magazine Fulfillment system and internal account systems written in FoxPro and other client/server applications using PowerBuilder querying an Oracle database. Preferred the client/server and web based software solutions.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Management Information Systems

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Executive Leadership