Responsible for driving business forward in the information technology area, bringing forth the competencies of our employees to provide best-of-breed solutions for high-profile clients.I am continually examining our sales objectives for the following year, examining our staffing needs, looking for ways to consolidate costs and improve our internal processes so that we become more efficient, and identify leadership opportunities for my employees. It's an exciting time in my company and I'm happy I started this so many years ago.

I was introduced to Send Out Cards as part of a networking group that I belong to, and when I discovered I could send out printed cards with my own handwriting through a convenient and simple-to-use web interface, I was hooked. I use features to upload recent photos and send it to my friends, and create campaigns that I use to promote my business.The more I use it, the more I like it. If you haven't gotten a card in a while from someone you know, let me know! I think this is a valuable tool for anyone looking just to keep in touch with friends, family and business associates.

• • Managed team resources through a major version release and two minor version releases• • Conducted interviews with business personnel and participated in system design meetings in order to analyze business processes that would serve to define the user and functional requirements.• • Recommended changes in business process where better efficiency and efficacy of application could be achieved; developed process models • • Acted as the liaison between Business Team and Development Team in order to ensure adherence to the business process needs and to resolve issues that arose during design and development• • Worked closely with the Graphic Designers to develop a new user interface for the system.• • Managed the Development Team through the System Test and User Acceptance Test phases reporting status to the program management and supervising all defects/change requests/issues through resolution

• • Developed Oracle PL/SQL APIs for a global pharmaceutical regulatory system to allow rapid propagation of common application functions to multiple application modules.• • • Managed a major architecture upgrade for the same system that included replacing the Production application server, upgrading all servers from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 2.8, upgrading the application server from Oracle Application Server version 4.0.8 to Oracle Application Server 9i, and upgrading the databases from Oracle 8.1.7.4 to Oracle9i.

Manage student workers; provide primary technical support to the President and Provost's office; lead efforts to beta-test new technologies for distribution to University desktops to improve efficiency; Manage computer labs for use by general student population.