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San Jose, Ca

Customer project implementations. Training.Port Operations domain consulting. Software engineer.

Lead the QA team for Navis’ new Terminal Operation System ‘N4’.Lead QA effort for go-live implementation of N4

Oakland, Ca

Directed a technical team that deployed, enhanced, and supported highly sophisticated computer systems at container terminal sites, meeting operational compliance goals under challenging conditions. Oversaw computer-efficiency streamlining and process upgrading to meet stringent requirements, including government regulations, labor laws, and yard configuration. Spearheaded, planned, and executed multiple complex projects involving site operations in California; and Taiwan.- Increased the ability of vessel-husbanding and network-planning groups to use ship assets efficiently and profitably by managing a project to develop a stowage analysis tool.- Contributed expertise to a partner company in 1999 to direct onsite deployment of a terminal operating system in Pakistan.- Managed APL Systems' relationship with a key customer, Pacer Stacktrain. Initiated measures and controls on system development and support efforts by implementing a process to accept, estimate, design, and track progress of customer requests.- Improved team members' understanding of user requirements and reduced the need for redoing software changes from over 50% to near zero. Provided the team with learning and observation opportunities that educated them on business and user needs.- Significantly increased the accuracy and reliability of development-time estimates while reducing stress on software engineers. Analyzed actual task-time and created a formula for overhead time, which enabled users to schedule training and conversion well ahead.

Orchestrated complex computer operations for terminals; Traveled frequently to resolve terminal issues on-site.Oversaw the streamlining of computer operational efficiency and upgrading of processes to meet emerging/current government regulations, individual labor laws, and container handling equipment assets.Provided support for container operations. Determined proper action to take in resolving problems.Assigned to a partner company in 1999 to direct the onsite deployment of a terminal operating system; Managed the APL Systems relationship with their customer, Pacer Stacktrain. Responsible for all the systems development for Pacer. Implemented a process to accept requests from the customer, estimate and design them, and track their progress in order to enable measures and controls on the system development and support effort. Developed budgets and implementation schedules, decided on effective strategies, liaised with vendors and performed in-depth business data flow research. Directed team in the deployment of a new system to manage complex shipping terminal operations.Analyzed business processes extensively to create system specifications to meet emerging requirements of an operation handling 2,600+ cargo containers on a daily basis.Instituted custom enhancements to 33+% of base functions in a vendor-supplied system to meet end-user business unit requirements. Designed and implemented improved file transfer processes that reduced upload time from 30 to two minutes, enabling vessel planners to quickly update loading plans.Designed and managed an EDI testing system.

Team member tasked with producing a container loading/storage software application for a Macintosh platform. Recruited to troubleshoot and repair an online tariff quoting system rejected by a client. Coded a module using IBM 370 assembler to evaluate shipping charges using logic table searches.

Wrote C code for an MS-DOS platform in support of a report writer, hours worked process, subsystem scheduling and screen I/O processor for a time/attendance system including functional and programming specifications..

Designed and coded a report writer system for all company marketed financial systems. Developed a parser, code generator and run-time environment using a 4th generation report definition language, and converted it to run on a Prime 750 platform.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

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