Professional Experience:

MindTrust Consulting - 12/03 to 5/04

Consulting on a project that links the Kraft and Nabisco supply chain systems utilizing various interfaces to transmit key information, such as inventory, forecasts, and manufacturing constraints. Legacy systems, which have pertinent data, use a Business Objects data base as a repository to seamlessly integrate data transfer to and from the Kraft Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) initiative. The system's internal name is StEPP, Strategic Enterprise Production Planner. This application has been developed to model and solve manufacturing, distribution and logistics problems such as capacity utilization, seasonal pre-builds, network optimization and transportation alternatives for the Nabisco Snacks and Confections businesses. StEPP allows plant managers and business analysts to visualize their operations and solve strategic supply chain issues. Based on costs, constraints and other data in the model, the Linear Programming (LP) solver (JD Edwards OneWorld Xe) produces the least expensive production plan for the next two years. The results are then used as inputs for short-term planning and detail resource scheduling.
Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8.1.7, SQL, PL/SQL, AIX Unix, Windows 2000, Korn shell, Manugistics Fulfillment, JD Edwards OneWorld Xe Advanced Planning: Strategic Network Optimization (SNO) 6.1.0, Crystal Reports 8.5/7.0, TOAD, HTML

TechLink Consulting - 8/03 to 11/03

Consulting to Verispan, a health care information company providing patient-centric data warehousing services. Senior developer, working on new data cleansing and scrubbing software. The code under development utilizes rules programming technology, which is a form of Artificial Intelligence. Specifically getting Eclipse, Authorete, and CIA Server from the company Haley Enterprise to work in an AIX (5.2), Oracle (9.2) environment. This new software will be much easier to implement new business rules for multiple customers without excessive SQL programming changes. Also developing C/C++ client server XML interfaces between Windows and AIX that use Oracle's Advanced Queuing middleware software. XML schemas (XSDs) for these interfaces are being developed using XML SPY which generates code for the XERCES class libraries. In addition, developed a scheduling script that spawns 12000 Oracle sqlplus scripts for loading monthly summary tables. This script logs tracking information into an Oracle table. It makes better use of parallelism while maintaining flow of execution dependencies.

MindTrust Consulting - 3/03 to 8/03

Consulting to Kraft/Nabisco, doing QA of Oracle SQLPLUS code to support the implementation of a new Manugistics package. Developed using perl and Sybase ISQL, management reports which output Microsoft Excel spreadsheets detailing the running of batch programs on AIX servers which are scheduled using ControlM. Developed similar managements reports that monitor Oracle DBMS performance statistics and summarize daily results in another Excel spreadsheet with graphs. Also involved in support phase of an existing JP Edward's Schedule X application that uses data feeds to and from manufacturing facilities using a Linear Program to produce optimized factory production and transportation schedules.

ATP Inc. - 10/02 to 1/03

Worked on an Army subcontract to CSC developing wireless (802.11) software for handheld computers running MS CE. This project was called Land Warrior and involved parsing XML and other TOC (Table of contents) files of DOD specifications and converting maps and geographic information into various formats including CADRG, JPG, BMP for visual display in the field with an easy user interface. Development languages include MS Visual C++, Java, VB Script.

Perii Systems, Inc. - 6/02 to 10/02

Startup work developing a small cost effective single seller trading system along the lines of eBay. Work involved porting Solaris/Oracle C++ web based CGI code to a Redhat Linux box using binary search algorithms and eliminating Oracle.

Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc. - 2/02 to 6/02

Senior developer on the DOM (Delivery Order Manager) project for Telcordia. Wrote the code that allowed Bell South to meet an important FCC requirement that did facility checking during the processing of customer orders for new services. Met an important deadline avoiding substantial financial penalties and the code had no field MRs. In addition developed a plan for QA regression testing which would fully automate the execution of hundreds of test cases. This plan included the intelligent simulation of external systems, stress testing, and flow path and code coverage using mutation analysis. Telcordia opted not to implement this automation strategy.

Information Technology Partners - 3/01 to 1/02

Consulting on the Emerging Services Billing System for AT&T. This Kenan Arbor BP biller is responsible for all of AT&T's new offerings in the digital IP area including DSL, Broadband, VPN, MIS, and Optical Carrier. Developing adjunct software using C, C++, Arbor API, and Sybase CTLIB, to automate the creation and configuration of complex services, packages, and discounts. These new programs will be supplementing the use of Lucent's ATM (Arbor Table Maintenance) and will help eliminate the manual data entry which is tedious, time consuming, and error prone. Also automating different aspects of the testing process.

Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc. - 4/99 to 3/01

Team leader on the Telcordia Customer Manager (TCM) project. Managed the development efforts of three senior level programmers. This team implemented several CORBA FCIF interfaces. FCIF stands for Flexible Character Interface and is a Telcorida protocol very similar to XML. These interfaces provide connectivity between the Vantive Customer Care GUI and several Telcordia systems, including CNUM, ALOC, and DELIVERY. This subsystem also contained all the code for the HTML web interface used to view and print order information. This team completed all tasks on or ahead of schedule. Developed a code generation tool called "genFCIF" which was used exclusively