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Austin, Texas Area

* Creating and Maintaining multitiered web based business applications utilizing J2EE platform. * Develop the necessary SQL queries, views and triggers needed for the business applications.* Design and Implement perl scripts to perform daily functions in batch mode to automate business required functionality.* Design and Implement Jaspersoft reports to be used by the business applications as well as standalone functionality.Languages utilized: Perl, SQLDevelopment environments: Jdeveloper, i-Reports

Austin, Texas Area

Created new and maintained existing productivity tools for processor chips and asic chips designed in both VHDL & Verilog. Created and maintained design environments for the logic teams.• Provided successful transition from CVS to SVN version control. Revitalized confidence in tools team to provide high level solutions.• Decreased time for defect resolution to root cause while driving the issue count to zero.• Increased sustainability of existing tools by reworking for ease of enhancement and bug fixes.• Maximized productivity with Perl development of new point tools for chip developers • Increased productivity and consistency in VHDL programs by enhancing and sustaining parsing tool that declared, instantiated, and connected all latches and clocking control.• Collaborated with engineers in China, India, Germany, Israel, and the US to increase productivity for logic designers of both processor and ASIC chips.

Austin, Texas Area

Provided firmware for the service processor controlling IBM's mainframes. Specifically dealing withthe booting up of multiple logical partitions running on a single mainframe. I was part of a 4 person team that applied for and was granted a U.S. Patent for logical partition systems U.S patent number: US 6,829,714 B2 • Wrote high and low-level design specifications for the NVRAM management component providing state of the art functionality for logical partitioning of mainframe resources. • Maximized system test defect resolution by working as central point of contact between development team and system test organization.• Enhanced system functionality by designing and implementing C/C++ routines on Linux platform allowing control of mainframe system resources.• As team lead, increased productivity for hardware services team by performing fall plan sizing, workload distribution/scheduling, and defect management.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed Windows-based applications and provided customer support for Tivoli-based products.• Increased sales and marketing productivity by creating Windows-based application point tools which interacted with Microsoft Access databases.• Extended functionality of Tivoli service desk application written in C with an SQL backend to increase productivity of customer support engineering and reduce root cause analysis time.• Front-end team lead for Tivoli Enterprise Console product, managing 4 support engineers and interacting with customers directly.

Performed hardware engineering development tasks from conception to manufacturing support.• Worked on teams introducing new systems to market for high end fault tolerant computing used in banking and stock market industries. Specialized in CPU development. Responsible for schematic entry, parts acquisition, prototype builds, debugging, and transfer of technology to manufacturing.• Provided engineering support to manufacturing for CPU boards for Tandem Integrity systems line of fault tolerant computers.• Increased external customer satisfaction by serving as customer liaison for CPU specific problems dealing with both domestic and international customers.

Houston And Austin Texas

Performed hardware engineering development tasks from conception to manufacturing support.• Lead technician on the development and bring up of a bit slice Microprocessor used for graphic subsystem in oil exploration industry• Provided engineering support to manufacturing for Risc based CPU boards used in mainframe system driving the graphic subsystem.• Wrote assembly language programs to aid in debug of bit slice processor.

Bscs, Computer Science

Associate Of Science (As), Electrical And Electronics Engineering (Vocational)