Ivan Lopez Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

East Syracuse, Ny, Us

Helping businesses understand the technology landscape ranging from application development and integration to cloud services. Providing solutions to challenging business scenarios. Aligning business technical strategy to support migration from legacy environments to cloud adoption.

Rome, Ny, Us

Part of a high performing executive management team responsible for the technological direction within the organization. Efforts include working cross functionally to advance, enhance, replace and maintain existing IT infrastructure, software applications and vendor relationships. Instrumental in spearheading digital transformation in support of strategic goals.Awarded employee of the month to recognize the efforts to stand up the company's new ERP system.

East Syracuse, New York, Us

Design, develop and maintain Datarithm's cloud-hosted pharmacy inventory optimization solution and work with the various pharmacy management system vendors to bridge Datarithm's inventory optimization solution with their store level pharmacy software.Instrumental in establishing an agile derived, scrum based, software development process to improve time to market of feature enhancements. This includes software development to operation ready release cycle management, orchestrating the movement of acceptance tested items from test and stage branches to production release.

Reviewed and provided recommendations for how to move off of a legacy ERP system to a modern system leveraging industry best practices. This review took into account buy vs. build as well as the intricacies and nature of the business itself. In addition, this required the facilitation of vendors for the review of packages relevant to the business processes and operations as well as coordinating an internal steering committee to review vendors.Took assessment of the existing PC, server and networking infrastructure and began executing a plan to update and upgrade key areas in anticipation of deploying new applications within the operating environment. Upgrades included new GbE switches, high available firewall, Windows 7 based thin clients, Remote Desktop Services 2012 servers and new AD as well as NAS servers.Coordinated tasks and projects with managed services provider resources as needed.Company was acquired by Worthington Steel

New Berlin, New York, Us

Provided management and guidance to a geographically dispersed software development team consisting of senior and junior level developers with a mixed background of mainframe (COBOL) and .Net development.Worked cross-functionally with strategic business units to ensure that the developer resources and strategies were aligned with the needs of the business.Reviewed and recommended approaches for software development processes to improve efficiency.Actively made recommendations for approaches to help the company transition from mainframe to a distributed virtualized platform which included web browser based applications, web services and SQL Server databases.Orchestrated activities for the implementation of the company's Paperless initiative thereby eliminating the need for paper printing of insurance policies. The project leveraged Solimar, ImageRight and DocuCorp products to generate and store policy images.Assisted in the orchestration of activities for development of the company's Agent Quote & Issue web application portal.

North Syracuse, New York, Us

Provided management and guidance to a software development team consisting of on-site direct reports as well as off-site personnel including sub-contractors involved on many development efforts.Influential in the architecture, design and implementation of a series of WCF web services to marshal sensor feed data to a web browser visualization tool.Participated in a software engineering working group that helped to define the CMMi software engineering processes that would be used within the organization.Architected and facilitated a rollout of several Microsoft SharePoint 2007 portal instances to implement a custom workflow by which key work products can be tracked and managed from inception to production.Architected and designed a web application suite leveraging ASP.Net (C#), SOAP/REST web services and Oracle 9i/10g/11g. The web applications provide an essential resource by which information is queried, elements presented, analysis is performed and decisions are made.Instrumental in assisting with the design and rollout of an Oracle 10g database instance with the goal of holding and querying up to 1TB of data (on commodity hardware).Designed, developed, and deployed a system that was responsible for providing an analyst the ability to review satellite signal strength at a prime location with data feeds of signal strength coming from remote points around the world. Several Windows 2000 servers were deployed around the world running the distributed data collection which would push data points via SOAP web services back to the central data store running SQL Server 2000 (needed query access to 3 yrs captured data >650GB).

Syracuse, Ny, Us

Part of a team that successfully implemented a Windows 2000-based Web application for E-commerce, using Visual Basic 6, Internet Information Server 5, Active Server Pages, and COM+ with Oracle 8.0.5 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 backend databases. This application, which was developed for Gaylord Brothers, resulted in the implementation of DataMart, an online catalog for librarians offering over 42,000 products.Designed and developed an application that was geared for email campaigns of sales promotions.

Rome, Ny, Us

Orchestrated the activities of a software development team consisting of on-site personnel as well as sub-contracted developers on and off-site. The effort required coordination between two concurrent projects.Designed and executed the implementation of programs with the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services using Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8.0.5, and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. These programs were developed with an object-oriented paradigm along with an n-tier architecture leveraging Microsoft Transaction Server. The primary objectives of the programs were to migrate and update the current systems that were DOS based.

Syracuse, Ny, Us

Designed and implemented programs in Visual Basic 3.0-5.0, leveraging Sybase 10, Oracle 7.3, Microsoft Access, and Windows NT.Implemented an image storage database program that enabled an engineer to record a live image of an aluminum sheet, assign a weighted value, file the record, and report on the data for later review.Implemented a Human/Man Machine Interface (HMI/MMI) application to help monitor processed aluminum batches where the data was received (DEC MQ) from sensors and stored within an Oracle 7.3 database running on VAX/VMS.Helped expand the development of the company’s existing time/accounting management program.Developed and implemented a program that recorded the output of instruments utilized in the calibration of air conditioners. A weekly, as well as monthly, list of items requiring calibration would be generated.Assisted in the migration and enhancement of pricing/cataloging application. The objective of this program was to allow personnel to input the prices of air conditioning units with their options. The user could then generate a price page of a given unit at any time.Additional responsibilities included maintaining and administering the internal network which comprised of Windows 95/NT workstations and Windows NT servers running Sybase 11 and Oracle 8.

Oriskany, New York, Us

Performed insurance-related programming utilizing COBOL on an IBM AS/400 and IBM System36. Other duties included serving as alternate computer operator performing backups and executing batch jobs along with maintaining Novell 2.12 and Novell 3.11 networks.Assisted in the implementation of a third-party insurance software package for the IBM AS/400. Part of the tasks included creating conversion programs in COBOL to import/export data from an IBM System 36 to the IBM AS/400. Reports not included in the third-party package were generated using COBOL programs and/or SQL queries.Created an agency name/file management system in Visual Basic 3.0 using Microsoft FoxPro and Microsoft Access. This allowed the agency coordinator to keep track of the status of current agents and new agents.Implemented a phone/voice billing/payment inquiry system. The system allowed insurance holders to call and key in their policy numbers which would then retrieve their billing/payment information stored on the AS/400.Created and developed an Artisan Agency rating application. This application allowed an independent agent to generate a quote of an Artisan policy from their Windows 95/98 desktop. (Developed under contract for Utica First 1998/1999)

B.S., Information Technology & Software Engineering

A.A., Business

Data Processing Programming And Systems