Crisis Management - Demonstrated ability to shorten development cycle time by 20%-30%. Proven track record to dramatically improving turn around time of four major projects: restructured dysfunctional teams to improve efficiency and communication; identified and addressed source architecture problems that led to the stabilization of distressed production environments; catalyzed project to meet aggressive schedule within budget constrained.

Project Management - Result-oriented manager with extensive experience in all aspects of software development and testing. Experience encompasses planning and management of every facet of the software development process for both commercial and proprietary products: cost benefit analysis of technical options for business problems; day-to-day management of 18 direct reports and groups with 45 indirect reports; production of technical documents; data modeling; architectural and detail design; coding; unit, integration and system testing; problem tracking; configuration management; beta-site selection; hardware and software evaluation; capacity planning; deployment logistics; operational and system administration; management of two mission-critical operations groups responsible for supporting all tactical issues associated with large-production environments. Experience managing international projects and working with professionals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Extensive experience building high performance teams. Experience developing strategic vendor relationships.

Testing Expertise - Extensive experience in the development and verification of comprehensive unit testing strategies including isolation, stubbing, simulators, and the replacement of calling components with drivers or trusted super-components. Expertise in integration testing strategies including minimization of throughput bugs by the introduction of global data structures and/or the use of pointers. Expertise in system testing issues include resource loss bugs, throughput bugs, performance, security, recovery, transaction synchronization bugs. Participated in software auditing process.

Cobe Laboratories: Designed and prototyped a comprehensive application for dialysis clinics.

U S WEST: Designed and developed two electronic bonding applications (“Trouble Reporting” and “Line Scheduling”) which featured a high availability environment. Surrounded a character-based application with GUI features without modifying the underlying legacy code. Evaluated several portable GUI products. Designed and prototyped a comprehensive Unix printing product. Designed and developed a multi-level sales tracking application.

CSPM: Designed a tactical plan to migrate a commercial BASIC based product from flat files to database structure.

Dazyx: Restructured a peripherals program to raise profitability from 0% to 10% of the company’s gross revenues. Designed a new hardcopy open system strategy. Managed production of device drivers for several peripherals.

Honeywell, TID: Designed, developed and tested all interface testing software for thermal transfer peripheral device. Responsible for all marketing support activities related to the device.

CADD Source:
Brought my own company to yearly revenues of $1.2M. Developed three major applications in point-of-sales, I/C, A/P, A/R and G/L.

Bell & Howell: Taught computer architecture, software testing, maintainability, structured programming, JCL, SQL and RPG.

ITT Institute: Taught a 645-hour comprehensive programming and testing course of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL & assembler.

Honeywell, TID: Member of the Advanced Engineering Program: A three-year program with rotating assignment and graduate education. Assignments cover hardware, firmware design, testing of hardware and software components.

Minneapolis, MN

Kansas, KS

Denver, CO

Lakewood, CO

South Western Bell

St. Louis, MO

Lucent

Murray Hill, NJ

ICG

Parker, CO

Denver, CO

Colorado Springs, CO

Mayaguez, PR

Englewood, CO

Lakewood, CO

Denver, CO

Englewood, CO

Boulder, CO

Littleton, CO

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, AZ

Cognence(StorageTek): Designed and implemented database to correlated CMM objectives with client's deliverables.

EMC: Designed and implemented strategy to reduce 750 servers by 30% through integration into EMC’s storage devices.

Qwest: Designed, developed, unit, integration and system tested and maintained five database applications for internal use including resource management, management of work groups, size estimation and impacts analysis, Requirements Tracebility, code impacts to the business community. These tools are being used by a group of 850+. These tools have a database, GUI and report generation components.

KN Energy: Generated a feasibility study for the development and testing of an Operational Data Store (ODS).

NCR: Project managed all facets of large data warehouses for Telefonica De Argentina, Lucent ICG, SBC and. For TdeA the project included several business initiates to migrate from a monopoly to a competitive market and several analytical models to predict customers behavior.

Blue Cross: Data Warehouse technical lead in the areas of project planning, database designs, testing and selection of tools for transformation, reporting and operational management.

Saligent: Designed, tested and executed enhancement to a database application for intelligent customer profiling.

Cuidado Femenino: Designed, tested and developed a comprehensive business application for an OB/GYN office with interfaces in Spanish and English.

TCI:
Project managed all facets of a comprehensive Pay-Per-View application, which included cable specific tax sub-system, credit card support, voice response unit and addressability. Stabilized and shut-down a dysfunctional satellite billing application.