Computer Science Sales

David A. Rice

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Mobile 512-***-****

Austin, TX 78751

E-mail *****@****-****.***

Objective:

To obtain a technical development position in a creative, challenging, and exciting environment allowing me to utilize my Java and Object Oriented Design skills.

Employment:

GTECH CorporationFebruary 2005Present (Developer)

ES Interactive

- Designed and implemented key components of a J2EE based online lottery system.

- Led design and implementation of the system maintenance framework which included configurable and pluggable components allowing business use cases to be scheduled, batched, and initiated remotely.

- Proactively helped drive the redesign and standardization of a continuous build process.

- Was the only consultant on a medium sized team offered permanent employment.

H-E-Butt Grocery CompanyMay 2003February 2005 (Developer)

Pharmacy Systems Development

- Wrote and helped manage requirement documents for upcoming pharmacy workflow and retail mail projects. I was the only non senior/lead developer asked to participate in this endeavor.

- Maintained and enhanced the Struts-based reporting system for the new centralized pharmacy system.

- Designed and implemented the framework for submitting insurance claims through the new centralized pharmacy system.

- Designed and implemented highly configurable load tests, written to run in LoadRunner, which simulated the pharmacy client via CORBA calls to the server.

- Worked closely with the Oracle DBA to load test a centralized pharmacy system.

- Designed and implemented a trickle feed for the pharmacy system using Vitria BusinessWare to populate an ODS, providing real time access to sales data.

- Became the primary resource for the enterprise for load testing applications.

- Implemented and managed the version control system for a large-scale project.

- Member of an enterprise-wide deployment team.

Point of Sale Development

- Designed a low cost checkout lane using a diskless computer booting Linux. This utilized a collection of different technologies which allowed the terminal to determine the most efficient method for booting, and to provide the ability to boot the terminal using a multicast protocol which the boot servers, running on a legacy OS, did not support.

- Developed C based programs to provide both intercommunication between Linux terminals and remote control of the Linux terminals.

H-E-Butt Grocery Company Summer of 2001 & 2002

Knowledge Management

- Designed an ASP-based system to monitor metadata transformation and flow between four key systems: Microstrategy, Informatica, Redbrick DB, and sales data feeds.

- Implemented an ASP-based knowledge repository for the storage and retrieval of intra-office documents which supported various document formats.

- Wrote ASP-based front-ends to simplify database operations used by the group.

Sony Semiconductor of AmericaSummer of 2000

Information Systems

- Wrote two web-based applications for tracking defects and system problems using ASP s.

- Designed ASP-based and ActiveX-based applications to analyze in house software usage and database growth for their silicon wafer manufacturing system.

Education:

The University of Texas at Austin. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 2003

- Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Special Honors

- Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society

Training:

- Vitria BusinessWare 4 Administration Training Course

- Vitria BusinessWare 4 Developers Training Course

- Vitria BusinessWare 4 Advanced Integration Course

Frameworks & Technologies:

J2EE Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs)

Java Servlets & Java Server Pages (JSP)

Jakarta Struts

Hibernate

UML

SQL

XML, HTML

Active Server Pages (ASP) & PHP

Vitria BusinessWare 4.2

JasperReports

Mercury LoadRunner

Mercury Test Director

Programming Languages:

Java J2SE & J2EE

Perl

C, C++

Visual Basic

Unix/Linux Shell Scripting (Bash, KSH 93)

Icon/Unicon

Tools & Software:

App Servers: JBoss, Tomcat, Sun One

Software: Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Idea IntelliJ, Apache, MKS, Perforce, Mercury LoadRunner

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Operating Systems:

GNU LINUX (Red Hat/Debian/Slackware), UNIX System V, Solaris, SCO UnixWare

Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS

Research:

Honors Thesis with Dr. Calvin Lin

-UT Austin Computer Science Department

-The Optimization of the Unicon Compiler

Mentorship with Dr. Clinton L. Jeffery

-UTSA Computer Science Department

-A Study of the Icon Programming Language

Community Involvement:

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides 5K Walk

-Logistical Chairman

2003-2005

-Steering Committee

1998

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Tower Climb

-Steering Committee

1997-2003

References available upon requestDigital Formats

Available:

MS Word

Acrobat

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