Karl Lataxes Email & Phone Number

Spring Hill, Fl, Us

Nielsen Gtic, Oldsmar, Fl

* Currently assigned to Nielsen as a developer until the end of the year.* Production Support COE Team Lead for recently retired Nielsen Active/Passive (A/P) audience meter measurement system.* Responsible for the design, development, and support of Java application to retrieve household information from external systems and store this data on production databases to support the data collection process.* Worked closely with embedded application engineers to ensure seamless communications between installed in home equipment and server based data collection processes.* Responsible for the design, development, and support of Java application to schedule daily call in times for over forty thousand homes during a four hour time period to meet internal and external SLA's.* Responsible for the timely implementation of proprietary and third party software releases to multiple production, development, and quality assurance servers. * Responsible for the assembly of in house software, including compiled Java classes, XML configuration files, and shell scripts, into Solaris packages to facilitate deployment to multiple environments.* Acted as interim group Configuration Manager, with responsibility for the maintenance of numerous software code bases using GitLab, Subversion, and CVS* Responsible for the creation and maintenance of implementation documentation in support of software releases to production systems.

* Helped design and develop the Collection Facility for the Nielsen A/P audience meter measurement system.* Acting A/P Configuration Manager, responsible for software version control using CVS* After hours technical support for the Nielsen A/P system.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

Bs, Construction

Activities and Societies: Associated General Contractors Student Chapter American Instructor of Constructors Student Chapter Sigma Lambda.