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Morgantown, Wv

Design applications and tools in support of corporate procurement optimization focusing on Business Travel expenditures. SQL Server 2005 (VB, Access, Excel based reporting)

Enhanced, supported, and maintained applications used to analyze and report savings opportunities related to the negotiation of corporate airline contracts.

Uniontown Pennsylvania

Designed, developed, supported, and maintained commercial applications to retrieve, analyze, and present highway traffic and weather information from electronic analyzers, sensor systems, remote/roadside processors and custom devices.(NTCIP, SNMP, UDP, FTP & proprietary). Borland C++, Microsoft Visual Studio (VB, Access, Crystal Reports), Web Apps/ Servers

Uniontown Pennslvania

 Led custom integration projects, formulated strategic plans, provided direction and support to sales and management. Managed small staff of developers. Continued as lead application developer. Worked closely with marketing and sales to provide innovative new products and solutions for highway engineers. Extensive requirements analysis and concept development. Worked closely with customers and government officials to define specifications and requirements, staffed and organized the projects, developed the solutions, and commercialized the products (end-to-end management). Met or exceeded customer expectations in custom engineered solutions/contract work. Trained the customer trainers and supported strategic planning sessions with distributor network. Provided technical and analytic review of potential business acquisitions. Assisted in business integration and technology sharing with newly acquired companies. Developed and maintained productive long-term relationships with customers/ partners and distributors.

Uniontown Pennsylvania

Developed, supported and maintained commercial applications to retrieve highway traffic and weather information from Nu-Metrics traffic analyzers and Weather Information Systems. Completely rewrote all commercial applications software within first year of employment to achieve unified level of quality. Created custom applications and began developing alternative product ideas. Ported existing DOS applications from DBASE & Clipper to Visual Basic/MS Access low-cost solutions.Extensive coordination with distributers/customers/clients on current & future projects.

Novel NetWare 4.1 servers. Responsible for all hardware and software configuration, LAN wiring and IT support help desk.Application development/support for production facility automation applications including; production scheduling, automated control systems, CAD/CAM, QA/QC tracking, assembly scheduling. FoxPro, QuickBasic, Visual Basic.

Technical Advisor, Classic Centerboard. Technical advisor to government representatives in modifications to the initial design, systems and sub-systems testing and critical design reviews. Responsible for design critics, recommendations/justification for modifications, program management support and technical advice. Review/ratification of system test plans. Key role in thirteen month on-site network, software and system integration testing.Technical Advisor, Classic Flaghoist. Independent verification and validation of software developed for this system, reviewed technical manuals and documentation, software and hardware technical support (in-plant acceptance tests / site acceptance tests), reviewed and created training classes/support materials, generated and tracked system trouble reports; wrote the Operations and Maintenance technical manual for the Field Installation Test Set.System Integrator, Naval Research Laboratory: Responsible for integration/systems management of a DEC VAX 11/750 system using the AT&T System 5, UNIX operating system supporting Signal Processing applications development at NADC (Naval Air Development Command). Worked with multiple vendors to integrate custom device drivers and layered software development tools. Developed hardware and software systems and documentation. Evaluated and tested the PGSE (Processing Graph Support Environment), a test package developed to verify compatibility of compilers, linkers and software development tools in support of Naval Signal Processing projects.Software Developer: Naval Intelligence Support Center. Developed software to process acoustical data, providing a user interface to apply filters, make measurements or manipulated time series data via a simplified Graphical User Interface. FORTRAN IV/SIGMA 7 system to ANSI standard FORTRAN 77. Created user interface with ANSI standard Graphics Kernel System (GKS).

Responsible for software and hardware support of a DEC PDP 11/70 and a DEC PDP 11/23 + using the RSTS/E operating system. Directly responsible for all operations involving the data processing and direct mail departments. Software support and development efforts were implemented using BASIC, BASIC+2, DIBOL and DBL in conjunction with AMBASE and KRAM database systems. Software applications included tape conversions, mailing list manipulation, statistical applications for sales and promotion ratings, and general accounting software. Hardware support; general troubleshooting, scheduling maintenance, peripheral upgrades, system updates, system generation and performing scheduled system diagnostics.Conducted informal training classes on computer use and provided detailed instructions on the MCBA accounting software, resort timesharing software and temporary placements systems.