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Consult with users to gather business requirements. Convert requirements into coding tasks. Code, test, debug, deploy and support.Visual FoxProSQL

Mentor and guide team of neurodiverse associates in areas of programming and SQL queries. Coordinate and present monthly meetings with clients to discuss program progress. Lead and motivate team of associates while being compassionate, approachable, and flexible.

Northfield, Illinois, United States

Support Fintech client rebate application for GPOs (Group Purchasing Organizations). After analyzing the month-end processing code, I was able to incorporate code changes to reduce processing time from 72 hours down to 6 hours. Establish strong working relationship with clients.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sit next to traders at trade desk to resolve any issues in an expedient manner. Act as liaison between trading team and 3rd party software companies (Charles River). Debug trade file loads into SQL Server. Successfully spearhead the ActiveBatch 8.0 to 11.0 product upgrade while migrating hundreds of production jobs.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Provide daily support to trading team. Act as liaison between the trading team and Fiserv to resolve trading application issues. Create custom VBA / Excel solutions to the trading team that allowed them to be more productive in their day-to-day responsibilities while reducing errors. Support operations data requests and application bug issues.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Successfully managed a large scale project to transfer data and processing to a third party trading and portfolio administration platform while coordinating cross functional team cooperation.Developed custom VBA / Excel solutions for the trading team to: compare model weightings, create blended fees, calculate billing fees and compare our internal model weightings saving hundreds of man hours while reducing risk. Provide daily support to trading team.

Saint Charles, Il

Hospital team lead overseeing 4 developers responsible for the immediate resolution of daily production issues with check and hospital billing statement creation and printing.Mentor junior developers in the areas of application design, coding, and debugging techniques.

Naperville, Il

Responsible for design, development, and implementation of the Warehouse Management System. This system uses wireless scanner and barcode printing technologies to receive, inventory, ship, and track produce items. Created Visual FoxPro COM DLL’s used by the WMS to add, modify, and query VFP data.Gather requirements, design, develop, test, package and distribute multiple changes and add-onmodules (CRM / Document Imaging / Barcode) for our enterprise wide produce distribution software package.Provide superior customer service via phone / email / onsite while selling additional software services.Worked closely with clients to create Excel spreadsheets, via OLE automation, that allowed them to streamline their operations and reduce risk by removing human intervention.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Worked with the trading team by gathering requirements and developed an application that allowed the traders to price seldomly traded bonds by using the underlying security. At the press of a button, the application would create an output file that was used to ultimately calculate our mutual fund prices. Work with the operations team to process corporate actions and apply the necessary changes to client's holdings. Technologies: Visual FoxPro, SQL Server

B.S., Computer Science

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