Work Experience

Dallas Systems Corporation: August 1995 - Present

Associate Systems Engineer: Wrote Informix code for the initial phase of EDI project for the Advance Ship Notice. Gave subsequent presentations on functionality of ASN both internally and externally. Prepared and conducted training sessions for using ASN in the Dallas System. Fixed and enhanced programs relating to all functional areas of system.

Promoted to Systems Engineer: Wrote customer specific enhancements for ASN and provided follow up support. Assisted in the technical development of new employees. Acted as secondary resource for project to split inventory reduction process into multiple threads while project leader was on vacation. Provided support for customer during beta test; primary duties were related to performance enhancements through modifications to SQL statements and indexes.

Promoted to Software Developer II: Project co-lead for Support Team. Duties include managing of resources to fix bugs in product, acting as technical resource for team members, providing support to QA department, and supporting customers through their account teams when high priority issues arise. Also responsible for testing fixes before they go to QA department and writing technical specifications for project to update change management system.

Company merger – Dallas Systems now called EXE Technologies.

Promoted to Senior Software Developer: Lead for Support Team. Worked with Price Waterhouse to certify that our product functioned as specified within the test scripts. Additional duties included developing a dynamic workflow plan to predict and determine resource requirements for correcting bugs prior to a major release, managing resources, and working with QA department to produce a clean release of our 4.0 product.

 

Designed and coded Forte architecture that allows the Exceed product to communicate with external applications. The modular structure of this interface allows rapid development and non-concurrent upgrades. The initial version was certified between Exceed 1000 and Oracle 10.7 at the end of August 1997, and was certified between Exceed 4000 and Oracle 10.7 two weeks later, proving the ease of non-concurrent upgrades. Actual changes to the interface took less than one day, most issues were found in installing Exceed 4000.

 

Designed and developed an adapter capable of converting messages between XML and EXE's proprietary message format using this architecture.

Education

University of New Orleans: August 1992 - May 1995

Bachelor of Science: Business Administration, Computer Science Option, Management Information Systems concentration. Major GPA of 3.708 and UNO GPA of 3.573 on four point scale.

Illinois Institute of Technology: August 1990 - May 1992

Honors

Awards:

Employee of the Quarter Q4 1997

Gary Shaw Quality Award October 1996

-- Dallas Systems Corporation - for work on General Motors Account

Dean’s List:

Five consecutive semesters.

Memberships:

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

National Mensa Society