David E Thompson
PO BOX ****** Houston, Texas ***19-0132
Email: *****.**********@*****.***
Phone: 713-***-****
Recently moved from west coast to Houston, available immediately.
Los Angeles Times
202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, California 90012 Phone 213-***-****
Supervisor: Alecsis Moore/Martin Leadman 213-***-****
Senior Applications Developer (August 2005 - August 2008)
Software maintenance and support of e-commence newspaper subscription website. Written in java using apache struts
framework with jsp (java server pages) accessing Oracle 8/9/10 databases to store customer transactions with encrypted
credit card data. The e-commence newspaper subscription website ran on Weblogic Sun Solaris based servers which I
provided support and did deployments from Jbuilder 2007 (Codegear Eclipse version).
The e-commence newspaper subscription website also accessed a back end IBM mainframe that stored customer data for
billing and accounting. Attachmate software was used to access the IBM mainframe via 3270 virtual screens. I wrote java
code to populate Attachmate bean data to send transactions to IBM 3270 virtual screens. I installed and configured the
Attachmate software, doing 3270 screen scrapes to build the java in/out objects that could read, insert, and update
records on the IBM mainframe.
Wrote and maintained Perl scripts to build reports from the Oracle tables to obtain the transaction stats such as failure
counts, success counts, or transactions that required customer service, blacklisted credit card numbers. The Attachmate
software ran on Microsoft Windows XP Professional platforms which I installed, updated and provide support. I worked
on a team of developers from various backgrounds (IBM mainframe, Java, C#, .Net) using agile/scrum project
management. We used JIRA software for bug tracking, issue tracking, and agile/scrum project management. We created
our documentation using Confluence enterprise software.
Software maintenance and support for FingerPost/CCI Newsdesk wire systems in Perl to publish NBA, NFL, Baseball
sports tables. Modified XML schemas using XMLSpy for IBM WebSphere SOA servers, for a e-commence job/auto ad
creation website. Also created Attachmate WSDL web service to handle requests from the IBM WebSphere SOA server,
again to process IBM 3270 virtual screen data. Used SoapUI tool for testing.
Chicago Tribune
435 North Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Phone 1-800-***-****
Supervisor: Jhon Marte
Senior Systems Analyst (September 1985 - July 2005)
24/7 System support of E10K/15K Sun Solaris systems running 600+ user Editorial system (CCI Newsdesk, AdDesk,
FingerPost wire system). Advertising Electronic Tear Sheets: Query NewsDesk and AdDesk systems Oracle databases
with Java JDBC application that I wrote, to capture Ad meta data and produce data for ad billing. Reduce the size of page
PDF files with Ghostscript and Perl. Department Reliability scoring reports:Write Oracle triggers to capture newspaper
page output timestamp. Code in Java with JDBC to build reports. Ad Desk Reports: Build web interface on Apache Tomcat
using Java with JDBC to query and build custom reports for Advertising, showing stats on color ads, display, liners.
Education
Harper College Adult Education Microprocessors James B Conant High School 1980 Graduate
1200 West Algonquin Road 700 East Cougar Trail
Palatine, IL 60067-7398 Hoffman Estates, Il 60194
Expertise
Languages/IDE: C, C++, Java, TCL, JavaScript, JDBC, Struts, TCP/IP sockets, JSP, Perl, Python, HTML, XML, XLT, SQL
Oracle 8/9/10 Borland Codegear Jbuilder, Eclipse, XMLSpy, CVS
Operating Systems: Unix Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Windows XP/2000/NT/DOS, Linux
Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, Weblogic Server, Attachmate/Verastream Host Integrator, IBM WebSphere
Application Languages: Postscript, Ghostscript, Crystal Reports(Tomcat and Java)
Database: Oracle sqlplus, triggers, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Embarcadero Rapid SQL IDE, Toad