ACHIEVEMENTS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Designed, wrote computer programs in numerous languages.• Conducted testing, installation, documentation; did feasibility studies, prepared disaster recovery procedures, trained programmers.• Project lead, application manager, for mission-critical middleware application.• Designed, wrote database systems and applications in several databases (Oracle, Informix, Access).• Database application DBA, creating and modifying user accounts and database objects.• Founded, ran a small computer services company for six years.• Encrypted data for security compliance with European Union regulations.• Did performance measurement and evaluation to improve performance on IBM mainframes.• Reduced measure of disk workload from 60% to 1%.• Deconstructed poorly written program, and re-wrote it in object-oriented form in another language.• Created, enhanced system of programs used by 12,000 workers.• Created application to save 30 minutes per day for each of 1,800 application users.• Designed, wrote a database system for a three-tier application which gave the operations department access to all project management data.• Designed, wrote program for 400 users to determine, schedule, and report hours on multiple jobs while working in the field.• Designed, wrote application for 6,000 users to report on status of equipment from the field.• Designed, wrote HTML and PHP scripted web pages.• Wrote PL/SQL script to re-build table constraints from the data dictionary.• Evaluated, ranked cost-benefit to rewrite 1,400 Cobol programs, that track $50 billion in loans for the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA).• Removed two-and-a-half year programming backlog in nine months.• Enhanced project management reporting system, speeding reporting cycle from four weeks to one week.• Reduced monthly A/P posting program’s execution time from 48 hours down to 6 hours,.• Ran statistical analyses on opinion surveys for a labor union.