Languages & Formats

Object Pascal, C#, PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, RSS, JavaScript

Databases

MS SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL 3.x-5.x, Advantage Database Server (ADS), MS Access, ODBC

APIs & Protocols

Win32, .NET, OLE, COM, DOM, ISAPI, AJAX, SOAP, REST, MAPI, Internet protocols (POP, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP)

Concepts

Object Oriented Design and Programming, Service Oriented Architectures, n-Tier design, web services and application development, reporting, multi-threading, networking, component design, DLLs development

Software

Borland Delphi, Visual Studio 2003 & 2005, Crystal Reports, MS Dynamics Great Plains, MS Dynamics eConnect, Visual Source Safe, MS SharePoint Portal Server, MS Project, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop

Systems & Hardware

Windows, DOS, Mac OS 7-10.4, Unix/Linux (Ubuntu), Wintel-based PCs, Macintosh

Undisclosed Company

April 2003 – Present

Interim CIO, Oct. 2006 – Mar. 2006
Director of Applications Development, Dec. 2005 - Present
Manager, Applications Development, Jan. 2005 - Nov. 2005
Sr. Programmer/Analyst, Apr. 2003 - Dec. 2004

Most recently served as Interim CIO, responsible for leading a team of IT professionals including operations, development and business analysis teams. Responsible for assessing project feasibility and project budgeting. Budgeted and secured funding for state-of-the-art high availability system employing blade servers, redundant SANs and VMWare ESX Server to consolidate data center from thirty-six (36) physical servers to eight (8) physical servers.

Responsible for managing a team of five (5) programmers, a data architect and a report analyst, designing and developing mission critical applications, Windows services, web services and web portals for a 24/7 call center environment. Used Delphi 7, Visual Studio 2003/2005, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server, Advantage Database Server and MS Dynamics eConnect. Currently leading the team through a system re-architecture and redesign migrating core production databases from Advantage Database Server to MS SQL Server 2005 and core software systems from Delphi Win32 applications to a Service Oriented Architecture using .NET C# web applications and services, Microsoft Dynamics GP, MS Dynamics CRM, MS SharePoint Portal Server and BizTalk Server.

• Designed, supervised the development and managed roll-out of a sales portal web application used by over 3,000 branch account executives for Wells Fargo US, Equity One and HSBC Canada.
• Designed and developed an accounts receivable integration between in-house software and MS Dynamics Great Plains accounting software using eConnect and Visual Studio 2003 (C#).
• Designed and developed recurring credit card processing system and API using Delphi, web service written in .NET (C#) and integration with CyberSource credit card processor
• Responsible for designing and managing a web enrollment application and quoting tool used by HSBC Bank USA, Wells Fargo US, Countrywide and American General. The web enrollment application includes credit card payment integration and an “eKit” PDF package emailed to member upon successful enrollment
• Designed and developed a member-facing web portal and shopping cart environment allowing members to update profile, view plan-specific details and order membership materials. The shopping cart is integrated with the inventory system (MS Dynamics Great Plains).
• Designed and developed a full-cycle recruiting/management system used to build multiple networks of tow facilities across the US and Canada. The system features customizable recruiting process and tracking with automatic follow-up generation, simple one-click process completion, document merging and archiving, e-mail and fax integration.
• Redesigned inventory system in MS Dynamics Great Plains accounting software based on membership plans, languages and states of availability allowing for easy integration into in-house ordering system and servicing application.
• Integrated phone system with call center application for caller-id and automatic member identification.
• Developed dispatch system with comprehensive tow facility searching by region, service needs and network rankings, sorting results by distance and ETA using internet-based mapping systems.

Undisclosed Company, Lake Mary, FL

1999 – 2003

Freelance Developer

Designed and developed (using Borland Delphi 5 and ADS) a sales guide tool for use by corporate sales forces.

• Designed and developed Internet Explorer-based sales guide that reads HTML and related images, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations from an encrypted database (using ADS local-mode) and displays them in a customized browser.
• Developed a supporting application that creates the guide's database by scanning a directory of HTML files, parsing the HTML, adding related links, encrypting the files and adding them to the database.
• Lucent Technology and BellSouth used the tool.

Undisclosed Company, Orlando, FL

Jan. 1998 – July 2002

Vice President, Jan. 2001 – July 2002
Vice President of Development, Apr. 1999 – Dec. 2000
Programmer, Apr. 1998 – Mar. 1999

Responsible for overseeing company’s daily operations including accounting, development and technical support. The company develops, supports, markets and sells an automated case management software system for the legal industry

• During four-year tenure at company, annual revenues increased from $250,000 in 1998 to $750,000 in 2002.
• Managed data conversion processes and contract programmers.
• Designed and developed, using Borland Delphi 5 and ADS (SQL), a complete re-architecture and redesign of the software, version 4.0. The software features an end-user customizable relational database, end-user customizable graphical user interface, DLL plug-in architecture, Outlook-like scheduling and reminder system, instant messaging, MAPI e-mail, OLE automation of document merging with MS Word and Corel WordPerfect, document and file tracking and customizable user and group level security
• Developed an end-user SQL-based reporting tool using Borland Delphi 5 and ReportBuilder Pro 5.5.
• Developed an end-user interface tool that allows drag-and-drop creation of interfaces.
• Developed two-way calendar synchronization between Prevail and PalmOS compatible PDAs.
• Designed corporate and product web site
• Performed data conversions from a myriad of database types (MS Access, Clipper, FoxPro, TopSpeed, C-Tree and custom ASCII databases) to ADS.
• Responsible for technical documentation and product’s instruction manual.

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

1995 – 1998

Computer Science (did not complete)

Classes included Computer Science I-III, Discrete Structures, Unix, Pascal, and Calculus.