Software Computer Science

ADRIAN SWIATKOWSKI

PERSONAL DETAILS

LOCATION Chicago, IL

PHONE NUMBER 847-***-****

EMAIL ADDRESS ******.***********@*****.***

STATUS U.S. Permanent Resident

PROFILE

Over four years of international commercial experience in development, maintenance and

testing of software applications within the financial services and media research industries.

Looking for a role involving exposure to new technologies and expanding domain

business knowledge through communication and problem solving skills. Willing to relocate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Skills Experience

Languages C++/MS Visual C++ (OOP, STL, ATL, COM, Active X) - 4 years

Visual Basic 6, ANSI C, XML - 3 years

Core Java - 18 months

Perl - 1 year

Python, PHP, Delphi, Pascal - 6 months

Database Skills Oracle 8/9/10, SQL, Toad - 3 years

MS Access - 1 year

Operating Systems Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) - 12 years

Unix (Solaris), Linux - 4 years (University)

Tools MS Visual Studio 6, MS Visual SourceSafe, WinCVS - 4 years

Beyond Compare, VMWare, Lotus Notes - 3 years

Perl Builder - 1 year

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Proposed two hashing algorithmic ideas. Results provided a

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15% to 20% improvement in time over the existing baseline.

Documented findings in a written thesis made available to the

computer science research community.

Provided expansion to a sophisticated financial trading

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application regarding foreign exchange functionality. Results

allowed items such as trades and journals to undergo currency

exchange. The project allowed for understanding of industry

SDLC, making use of Agile and peer programming

methodologies while advancing skills and knowledge.

Contributed to a team effort of meeting mission-critical

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deadlines for successful completion of software releases

requiring occasional overtime.

Provided training to new overseas technical staff on software

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development tools and procedures over a nine month period.

Relocated overseas and secured a position within a different

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industry and environment in which software development was

individual based rather than within a team. Succeeded to be

competent in the new role and work independently.

Created new robust reporting tools and improved functionality

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of existing tools. Results saved time answering television

ratings related queries.

WORK EXPERIENCE

November 2008 – AGB Nielsen Media Research (www.agbnielsen.com)

December 2009 London, United Kingdom

Applications/Systems Developer

Reporting independent, reliable, and transparent television audience

measurement within the United Kingdom.

• Maintained integrity of the C++ based DB2Converter, that

produced time-band and event based television audience

files, by undertaking and testing the changes and

improvements produced by the Measurement and Reporting

team using Visual Studio in a Windows based environment.

• Provided development in Perl Builder for LogManager, an

application in which received broadcast transmission logs

were loaded, processed, exported and released, ensuring

that all logs were correct and complete.

• Created scripts and analysis tools to process software and

industry files to resolve internal and client related queries.

• Interrogated and compared data as a result of software

changes to be able to identify, document, and relay any

differences found in a clear and concise manner.

June 2005 – Capital Market Solutions (www.capmsl.com)

October 2008 Melbourne, Australia

Analyst Programmer

Providing financial software services for the Asia Pacific region and

the United Kingdom.

• Replicated, investigated, and resolved errors found within

the back office Nova trading application at the VB front end

and C++ business logic back end utilizing Visual Studio in a

Windows based development environment, as well as those

errors identified at the Oracle/SQL database level.

• Applied features to Nova based on business specification.

Interacted with analysts and staff locally and overseas

regarding further explanation of business concepts and

resolution of discrepancies within specification documents.

• Wrote XML based unit tests for regression testing, run

nightly to identify errors before they could reach the test

team or clients, maintaining software integrity.

• Reviewed code ensuring programming standards were met

prior to it being checked into the WinCVS repository.

EDUCATION

2004 RMIT University (www.rmit.edu.au)

Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) (Honours)

Honours Year Project: Fast Hashing Algorithms

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