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Development and maintenance of high volume, mission critical, software applications for financial clients utilizing VB.Net, C#. and MSSQL.

Provided daily leadership, coordination, tasking, and technical direction for a geographically distributed team of 6-8 software developers responsible for creation and deployment of the multi-threaded Grid Scheduler component of Acxiom's Computerworld Honors Program Award winning Customer Information Infrastructure. Self-motivated without direct supervision in a remote telecommuting environment.

Integral part of development team responsible for the successful creation, deployment, maintenance, enhancement, and 24x7 support of Nexus, Acxiom’s mission-critical event-triggered internal job scheduling system.Deeply involved in initial design, creation, and production roll-out of the system including browser-based user interfaces, security, database triggers, script processing applications, event processing components, and remote agents for various platforms.

Important part of a development team responsible for the maintenance, enhancement, and 24x7 support of Acxiom’s primary internal workflow submission system.Responsible for coding enhancements and performing problem resolution on a complex high-volume system that included workstation components written in C/C++ and Visual Basic and mainframe components utilizing LE C, IBM 360/370 Assembly Language, and MVS JCL.

Responsible for maintenance, enhancement, and 24x7 support of a complex mission-critical mainframe-based information fulfillment system consisting of both batch and interactive components.Played a key role in the creation of the mainframe based Order Server, Acxiom’s first effort to give PC clients access to mainframe order fulfillment. After development became the sole programmer responsible for maintenance and enhancement of the system.