Paul A. Konieczny

Senior Process Automation Expert

Professional Profile

Mr. Konieczny has more than 20 years experience in software development and design using

client/server and web based technologies. His experience includes 3 tier architecture and relational

databases using a multitude of technologies but primarily centered on the Microsoft stack or ECAL.

Mr. Konieczny has extensive experience in effectively managing development and service teams’

efforts to implement state of the art technology solutions for rapid customer success on an

enterprise scale. For the past 3 years, he has leveraged his technical knowledge to federal

government agencies by producing over 200+ blackpearl workflows that streamlined, once manual

processes in electronic SharePoint based applications.

Education

B.S., Computer Science Engineering, Spring Hill College, Mobile AL, 1994

Career Progression

MicroLink 2009-Present

Vice President of Business Process Automation

Responsible for managing BPA practice performance, asset staffing, training requirements,

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customer satisfaction and quality of delivery.

Responsible for evaluating new and emerging technologies.

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Responsible for driving K2 initiatives thought SharePoint web parts and custom K2 add ons for

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greater BPA team success and rapid development.

Responsible for automating internal processes for the enterprise at MicroLink

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Evaluating customer requirements specifically for SharePoint integration and identifying

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critical back end data points for integration into SharePoint and workflow decision rules via K2

SmartObject technology.

Automation of internal processes: Support, Project Management, Marketing, Staffing.

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Army 20th Support Command (CBRNE) – Installed and configured K2 blackpearl; architected

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and built 3 mission critical SharePoint applications using K2 blackpearl within 4 weeks of

deployment of unit to live exercise.

Marine Corps Intelligence Actions (Quantico, VA) – Installed and configured K2 blackpearl.

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Built K2 blackpearl custom service broker to integrate into proprietary Oracle database for

import of mission critical data and files to SharePoint.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Rockville, MD) – Installed and configured K2 blackpearl

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farm for SharePoint farm; built development virtual environment for workflow process

automation teams in 7 hours due to customer critical need.

K2 SourceCode North America (Microsoft ISV) 2005 2009

Pre Sales Business Process Management Specialist for Federal Division

Provide technical sales support for business development manager by building proof of concepts

around workflow, business process automation to solve complex department of defense business

problems in support of the War Fighter.

Published white papers on K2 and task management within the government.

Response to Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI).

Responsible for building solutions frameworks that involved, documenting, building marking

strategy and messaging for commercial government space.

Partner technical support and mentor in identifying subject matter experts (SME)

Technical Support liaison between federal team customer base, internal K2 Support and labs

teams.

Build relationships with the technical arm of targeted organizations

Created, designed and developed the K2 Task Management and Correspondence Tracking

framework as solutions accelerator.

Built K2 federal team sub division website www.k2federal.com

Installation support of software in secured and non secured environments; SIPRNET, JWICS,

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NIPRNET

Army Test and Evaluation Command (Arlington, VA) – Installed and configured K2 blackpearl

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servers with complex security constraints. Designed and developed a K2 blackpearl task

management solution that is now been implemented into production supporting multiple bases

across North America.

Technical architect, liaison and trusted advisor for customers such as:

The Executive Office Of the President

Air Force Material Command

White House Communications Agency

Marine Corp Intelligence Actions

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Millennium Challenge Group

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

Air Force Education Training Center

Department of Intelligence And Security Agency (DISA)

Air Force Weather Agency

Joint Forces Korea

Department Of Energy

Federal Aviation Administration

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Department of Treasury

Part of Beta Team for new and emerging public technologies.

Universal Technology Inc. 2002 2005

Automation Specialist. www.univtech.com

Designed and developed a manufacturing system for home column fabrication. This system

originated from UML in MS Visio and was produced with Visual Studio.NET and AJAX. The

end result was a website to that enabled every sector of plant management to monitor

inventories, material usage, production and downtime in real time via a web browser. Several

additional application where written to manage synchronization and tasks of six robots and

RFID readers via TCP/IP protocols and a SQL Server 2000 database.

Designed and developed 3 tier .NET application used in DNA storage and retrieval process for

Life Sciences industry. The project consisted of 3 web services, 2 of which where public the 3rd

acting as the DataLayer to an Oracle and or SQL 2000 database. Developed all stored

procedures and triggers for each respective database. Also created a VB.Net application to

retrieve client requests from the web services and communicate those to an adept robot via

TCP/IP. Created unique protocol structure for PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and robot

controller communications. Included in this application was Crystal reporting capabilities that

allowed an operator to track and audit DNA locations within the system.

Created company intranet to manage employees in and out of the office and publish that

information to the Internet via XML for in the field managers. Also created web based cost

process crystal reports that integrated into the time management section of the intranet. This

allowed managers to view up to the minute cost associated with any project in motion.

Created Serial driver with vb.net to interface with legacy storage module. Adding a VB.Net

application that was touch screen ready to catalog and store parts locations within the storage

module. Database used was Access 2000. Also added several crystal reports to the GUI to

allow inventory control to manage and restock the module(s).

What is an Automation Specialist? – An automation specialist is a different breed of developer

that integrates software technology with vision inspection and robotic handling of material for

any number of industries from pharmaceutical to food packaging to automotive parts and

production lines. Having a strong understanding of low level graphics functions, photography

lighting, electrical wiring logic, various modes of device communication and a systems design

life cycle. Combining all of these complex and intricate modules to produce an end user

application that demands down time be no greater that 1% for three years (the 1% being for

regularly scheduled maintenance standard). Additionally, an automation specialist must be able

to effectively identify a manufacturing process, convey this understanding to the client and be

able identify target areas of the process for modification.

American Financial Group Inc. 2001 2002

Senior FileNet Web Developer

Designed and developed web integration for the American Financial Group intranet Specialty

Claims division. The application allowed members of the specialty claims group to search

FileNet indexed documents and view them in a custom enterprise viewer. The enterprise viewer

allows change of annotations based on security clearance. The viewer gives the user the ability

to view annotations and move to pages with specific annotations of interest without having to

load any unnecessary pages limiting the load network traffic produced by the idmObjects.

Designed and developed a replacement object for the FileNet remote print fax object with a

COM control that communicates via SOAP to an IIS web service. This allowed true remote

printing from the corporate intranet with no installation of any client applications.

Designed and developed a search and retrieval web based application which gives the user the

ability to search FileNet via an Oracle database on predefined fields and view the results. Once

results are returned the users can perform one of several functions that are made available to

them based on their security clearance.

The above sited projects included the use and integration of: MAPI, POP, SMTP, Lotus Notes,

Microsoft Outlook, FileNet IDM objects, FileNet IDM viewer, ASP, JavaScript, HTML, XML,

Visual Basic, SourceSafe, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Visual Interdev, and BlackIce.

ServiceWare Inc. 2000 2001

Senior eCommerce/Web Analyst. www.rightanswers.com

Developed and implemented a data model that allows customers and potential customers to

register for services online. This online registration also propagates information throughout the

organization to every department through email and departmentalized database structures.

Developed an internal reporting system that can be maintained though a SQL Server database by

non technical individuals. This reporting system allows users to access information though drill

down reporting via crystal reports through the corporate intranet.

Worked closely with the team of full time employees providing support and documentation.

ServiceWare Inc. 1999 2000

Senior Programmer Analyst

Designed, developed, documented and maintained an application that manages content for a

verity search engine. The application allowed an administrator to create and manage Knowledge

Channels via a Knowledge Server. These Knowledge Channels could then be searched via an

Internet / Intranet connection to a Knowledge Server.

Designed and developed an ad on feature that allowed the addition of local content. Hence a

customer could add proprietary content specific to not only their company but also individual

departments within their company.

Designed and developed the Auto Indexer add on product for the Knowledge Channel Manager.

Allowing content to be contributed from the Internet/Intranet that would then asynchronously be

submitted to the Verity Search engine for indexing, which in turn would allow any user to search

on that information via a search index that resided in memory.

Created all Stored Procedures in Oracle for data access and storage for Visual Work Performers.

Worked closely with the Quality Assurance and Documentation teams providing support, use

cases and documentation.

Point Of Sale Technologies 1995 1999

Partner (Founder of TallySoft)

Cofounder and Shareholder where I aided and engineered a business model that took the

company from a one hundred thousand dollar per year to a 5.5 million dollar per year company.

Built and implemented a Technical Support foundation, website and Installation path that the

company still uses today.

Converted Software product from Professional Basic to Visual Basic 6.0

Converted database to Access re designed and developed a very complex Point of Sale relational

database.

Created reporting structure and via crystal reports for inventory, sales, customer tracking and

incorporating pattern purchasing recognition as a part of reporting structure.

Maintained and created add on products for the BackOffice segment of the product model. This

included development of reusable OCX and DLL components.

Created Business Object Models using inheritance and polymorphism to isolate the database

from the GUI.

Created 3 Tier Client/Server Object Model.

Aided in the design and development of touch screen Point of Sale software application front

end.

Advanced Software Application 1996 1997

Senior Software Engineer

Responsible for the development and integration of Data Mining product with neural net

modeling software. Both visual basic applications that where carried in 32 bit and 16 bit

version. (Visual Basic 3 and 4)

Maintaining and adding additional database functionality for the data mining application, which

included Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase System 10 and numerous addition proprietary

databases.

Responsible for visiting fortune 100 client sites and investigating any proprietary database as

well as identifying key data set that would be used to build the most accurate neural models

possible.

Responsible for the development of 3 highly integrated neural network products.

Technical consultant for the neural network engine (a Borland C++ DLL).

Created stubs to convert DLL to an OCX in Visual C++.

Converted DLL and Visual Basic front end to 32 bit Applications.

Lead Developer on new high profile product to create a modeling product for point of sale.

CIScorp 1994 1995

Software Engineer (Project Leader)

Consultant providing imaging solutions using FileNet WorkFlo and Custom Controls.

Involved in 4 phase project life cycle including: functional specifications, detail design,

development, and maintenance

WillisCooron Insurance 1992 1994

System Administrator

Organized and instituted the upgrade from a mainframe system to a windows based network.

Performed VBA programming for insurance agents on a personal basis throughout the company.

Technical Expertise

SharePoint MOSS, SharePoint 2003, Microsoft Performance Point, K2 2003, K2

Operating

Software Blackpearl, Kerberos, K2 SmartObjects, Microsoft Sharedview, Microsoft

Virtual Server, Camtasia Video, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint

Designer, SalesForce.com, FileNet eProcess Architect & Design, FileNet Visual

WorkFlo, FileNet IDM, Panagon, FileNet IS, Windows 95, 2000, NT, DOS,

Access, Source Safe, Visual InterDev, Macromedia, WISE Installation, Crystal

Reports, LogiXML, Flash, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange / Outlook, Clarify,

Verity, Visual Studio .NET, Rockwell RSSQL, Rockwell RSView Studio, RSLinx

Enterprise, Factory Talk, SQL Server Reporting Services

Languages Visual Basic 3.0 6.0 (Certified), C, C++, Java, HTML, ASP, Java Script, VB

Script, 3 Tier Client/Server Architecture, COM/DCOM, XML, XSL, XSLT,

AJAX, SOAP, VB.NET, ASP.NET (2005 2008), FileNet WorkFlo (Certified),

Sockets & Serial programming, TCP/IP, MAPI, POP, Cognex Vision In Sight

Certified, V+, C#,

Databases Microsoft Active Directory, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, VB Jet (ODBC, DAO,

ADO, RDO)

Clearance

Top Secret

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