Wesley Jennings Email & Phone Number

Seville, Oh, Us

Euclid, Ohio, United States

Prior to bankruptcy, Yellow Freight had 30,000 employees at 330 locations and was a leading freight carrier in the USA. One of two Senior Developers in charge of Operations systems.• Developed software to automate building, compression and deployment of software containers over WAN to distribution centers, with annual savings of $300,000.• Spearheaded 6-month migration to merge the distributed systems of the Yellow Freight and Roadway Express operating companies. Streamlined system processes, resulting in a reduction of system setup time from over 40 hours to less than 5 minutes per site. This automation led to a 99% reduction in resource allocation, managing the transition for over 700 terminals running distributed Linux software. Move played a crucial role in ensuring corporate survival during a challenging period.• Instrumental in porting all source code from AIX to Red Hat Linux, enabling continuation of our distributed systems, and saving over $30,000,000 dollars over company lifetime.• Helped develop Digital Dispatch system allow dispatchers to communicate pickups and deliveries to driver handhelds, with annual savings over $20,000,000.• Created automated watchdog processes, reducing logged support hours from 38% to 4%, saving $8,000,000 annually.• Developed XML interfaces to allow backend loading dock programs to communicate with front-end user interfaces saving $200,000 in annual development costs.• Pioneered a source code generator to automate C, C++, and Java code generation for XML requests and responses, yielding $500,000 in annual savings.• Engineered Apache router to significantly enhance dock system response time by selecting from multiple backend instances, routing XML messages to the least congested. Reduced maximum request processing time from over 60 minutes to less than 1 second.• Developed Apache cgi-bin processes to replace communication with outdated IBM Model 204 mainframe to Java replacement software, ROI of $20,000,000 annually.

Streetsboro, Ohio, United States

Responsible for support, development, maintenance, and customization of software which performed JIT inventory control for our largest customer, Freightliner Trucks, representing 60% of our business.• Provided innovative customization and direct customer support.• Responsible for support, development, maintenance, and customization of software packages used for inventory analysis, barcode shipping, receiving, and generation of warehouse reports.

Westlake, Ohio

Provided innovative software to ensure maximum use of MS Basic and C++ laboratory management packages. Supported and maintained software for the Sensititre and Alamar Blue Product Lines.• Maintained and supported laboratory management software for the Sensititre product line. Following Sensititre’s sale to AccuMed International, I was the sole developer to continue with the company out of a team of three. This decision reflected my proven expertise, performance, and significant contributions to the organization, surpassing the longer tenure of the other developers.• Following the acquisition of the Alamar Blue product line, I was selected to support and maintain the Alamar Blue laboratory management software.• Responsible for the development and customization of microbiology laboratory data management software packages used for statistical analysis, interactive scattergrams and generation of various reports for clinical and veterinary labs throughout the United States and Europe.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• Responsibilities with this electric motor service and repair company included creation of programs to manipulate files, transport data between SCO UNIX and DOS-based applications, perform job costing and to assist with mass-mailings.• Administered SCO UNIX system and Real World Sales Management & Accounting.• Consistently demonstrated excellent skills in providing in-house user support.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Computer Science