Thomas Joseph Durlach
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Skills Summary
More than 10 years of experience in software engineering,
presales and consulting. Specialization in object-oriented design
and analysis of web applications. Strong background in the
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements
definition, modeling, proof of concept, design, implementation,
testing and maintenance. Experience in refactoring and design
patterns.
Management experience that includes training, leading and
motivating others to maximize efficiency of project development.
Analytical problem solver; called upon to resolve high-level
issues and bugs.
Self-driven and highly goal-oriented; able to perform well alone
or in a team environment.
Willingness to take ownership of assigned tasks and meet tight
delivery deadlines.
Able to quickly adapt to new environments, new programming
languages and new methodologies.
Experience
NetWarrior, Kalamazoo, Michigan 08/2000-presen
t
Consultant (www.netwarrior.net)
Role: Project manager, lead software developer and system
administrator.
Off-hour web consultant. Major clients include: General Electric,
Pfizer, and Mid-Michigan Health.
Web design (HTML/SSI/CSS), web hosting, consulting and custom web
applications (J2EE).
Consona, Kalamazoo, Michigan 07/2000-presen
t
Development Manager/Chief Architect (www.consona.com)
Role: Development manager and developer (lead on projects, design
and implementation), pre-sales and consultant. Experience with
ERP systems and manufacturing practices. Support of internal and
external business customers. Have primary ownership of most
applications.
Application architecture consists of a client/server
web-application model using Java/J2EE (server-side) and
AJAX/JSP/HTML (client-side) technologies. Application supports
all JDBC-compliant databases (i.e. SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle,
DB2, Postgres, etc.). Utilized C# (for xml parsing - performance
reasons), and supported legacy modules written in classic ASP and
VB 6.
Main application is a web-based Product Configurator (used for
custom built-to-order products) with modules (i.e. quote/order
system) that were built on top of it. Our system can be
standalone or interface with ERP systems including Glovia,
Made2Manage, SAP, Intuitive and many others.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 05/1999-03/200
0
IT Specialist, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Web development, programming, tech support, upgrading and
repairing computers.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Food Science and Human
Nutrition
Provided assistance to students and web-enabled courses to
improve students' learning.
Pizza Hut, Portage, Michigan
03/1993-07/2000
Manager
Managed, scheduled and trained a team of 25 employees; handled
inventory and purchasing.
Datamatic Processing, Lansing, Michigan
10/1998-01/1999
Part-time Programmer (www.datamatic.net)
Software design; prototype of a banking system in Visual Basic 6.
Systems Proficiency
Software Development Tools
Eclipse, Ant, XML Spy, Visual Source Safe, Test Track Bug
Software, MS Visual Studio .NET, Enterprise Architect (UML
modeling)
Languages
Java (10 years), SQL (10 years), C# (.5 year), C/C++ (4 years),
Visual Basic 6 (5 years), Perl (1 year)
Web Technologies
AJAX (3 years), GWT 2.0 (.5 years), JSP (10 years), XML (6
years), XSL/XSLT (6 years), HTML (10 years), JavaScript (8
years), Classic ASP/ASP.NET (1 year), PHP (2 years), SOAP (3
years)
Web Server Applications
Apache (2.0+), IIS (5.0+), Tomcat (5.0+), ServletExec (5.0+)
Databases
MS SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008), Oracle (8i+), Postgres (8+),
MYSQL (4+), Sybase (7+)
Miscellaneous Applications and Operating Systems
Redhat Linux (8+), MS Windows (server/client versions), Sendmail,
VSFTPD, Adobe Photoshop
Education
Coursework toward M.S., Computer Science 2001
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
B.S., Computer Science Engineering/Food Science 2000
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
3.0/4.0 GPA
Interests and activities
Big Brothers Big Sisters, active since 2007
Bowling, league member since 1994
Indoor/outdoor co-ed soccer (Kingdom), 2000-2007
Other interests: golfing, running, biking and reading