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Troy, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio Area

Content Infrastructure Modernization (Case-related content)– Led a large cross-functional team in order to migrate case related content systems to a new editorial master system built on the HPCC platform. Assisted with business process analysis and requirements gathering. Created the technical architecture and high-level designs. Outlined development schedules and phased release plans. Led both the technical design and implementation of custom and customized software systems. Orchestrated the design and review of the technical activities of cross-functional teams toward the completion of project goals. Utilized technical, leadership and communication skills to operate laterally across multiple software development organizations as well as vertically with business stakeholders.Case law modernization - Led a team to develop components that integrate case law document processing workflows with new citations recognition infrastructure. Developed testing tools to simulate client interaction with newly built components.GUI Development: Content Systems Metadata (CSSM) – Developed JAVA client for a custom system that maintains entitlement and product metadata for the new Lexis Advance®. Architecture and design of overall system components.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Managed transfer of development activities to off-shore vendor resources. Ongoing maintenance of existing systems during transition process. Review of vendor designs and cost estimates. Oversight of efforts to enhance and maintain existing and new tools.Database reclamation controls – Led team to enhance Metadata Wizard system to automate and manage mainframe database reclamation. Design of new workflows. Negotiation with multiple stakeholders. Modifications to existing interactive and non-interactive components. Created data presentation dashboards for monitoring resources and creating usage projections.Metadata Wizard – Ported additional metadata creation workflows from a web forms environment to the JSP and Javascript architecture of the Metadata Wizard. These workflows and interfaces enabled the “Modify Online Guide” and “Source Creation” within the Metadata Wizard application space.ViewSpec Design – Design of metadata to drive content rendering in the Lexis Advanced platform. Use cases and UML modeling of maintenance system.IDEX Integration (expert witness content) – Led team through the ongoing integration with the newly acquired IDEX product. Collaborated with vendor resources on designs and development. Reviewed vendor designs and cost estimates.Menu Tagging – Led team to integrate entitlement metadata with our back-office business systems. Requirements gathering and designs.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Metadata Wizard – Contributed to project to automate metadata creation and promotion processes with a workflow controlled system. Creation of web-based interfaces for user interaction. Creation of non-interactive modules to process user requests. Goal to increase reliability as well as reduce errors and processing time. Integration of many disparate systems residing in both distributed and mainframe environments into a workflow (InConcert) backbone. Metadata and stylesheet management system – Contributed to team which designed and developed a custom version control, configuration management and unit testing system for housing XML metadata and stylesheets. Developed JAVA Swing client. Developed JAVA customizations to the Arbortext XML editor. Auto-generated XSLT- Developed a process for auto-generation of XSLT style sheets from XML metadata to reduce time to market within the mainframe retrieval engine. Completed a prototype system in line with architectural strategy including complete architecture and design documents. Created web-based auditing tools for entitlement metadata. (MBAT, Menu Query Service)Ongoing life-cycle ownership of suite of C++ GUI applications. Design and implementation of enhancements to meet requirements of multiple projects and maintenance requests.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Maintained and enhanced C++ GUI applications used by internal LexisNexis operational groups to maintain the complex metadata that drives the entitlement, search and retrieval functionality of flagship LexisNexis products including “Lexis.com” and “Nexis.com”. Analysis and resolution of user issues. Enhancements to create efficiencies and data integrity improvements as well as supporting larger LexisNexis projects.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Contributed to financial information systems project which customized Oracle Financials Accounts Receivable application to replace mainframe receivables tracking system for NCR US operations. Created design of cash control and billing interfaces into oracle receivables. Designed and developed 18 daily audit reports including modifications to existing oracle Receivables reports using Oracle Reports design tool. Designed and developed UNIX batch jobs to control daily and monthly billing cash runs cycles. Provided support and modifications of interfaces into PeopleSoft Collections system.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Provided single point of contact technical support to major, external accounts. Assigned accounts included Macdonald’s Corporation (home office), Albertson’s store chains, HyVee Food Stores and MasterCard International (transaction servers). Analysis, trouble shooting and repair of a variety of hardware and software system issues. Served as a liaison between customer and NCR development organizations to coordinate issue escalation and resolution.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Telephonic technical support for external customers. Assisted customers with analysis, trouble-shooting and repair of hardware and software (OS and communications) system issues. Served as liaison between customer and NCR development organizations to coordinate issue escalation and resolution. Administration of in-house test systems.