SCOTT C. TAVARES
Warwick, Rhode Island 02889   Phone: 401-***-**** mobile 401-***-**** mobile
Email: abp91r@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Articulate, collaborative Information Systems Lead Architect with 16 years verifiable expertise defining, designing, and building Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) Rational Unified Process (RUP) service- oriented architecture (SOA) distributed development solutions.
A multidisciplinary team leader with an exceptional issue resolution and client service skills, proposing and delivering critical projects for the State of Rhode Island, Pitney Bowes Corporation, and Textron Financial Corporation.
Fluent in enterprise architecture development paradigms leveraging both software and hardware reusability, security, reliability, communication, manageability, and open source resources.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Consultant and Developer
THE COMPUTER MERCHANT, LTD., Boston, Massachusetts 1998 Present
Sustain xx.xx% uptime, installing and configuring three test and production JEE application servers.
Reduce inmate processing time x%, creating an internet-based, xx-gigabyte electronic document storage system in x months.
Server as technical advisor to Stonewall, Inc. developing and Infacts/WinFACTS internet interface with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterned JEE application via Apache Struts.
Orchestrate transfer of Infacts from a xx-gigabyte Wang Professional Application Creation Environment (PACE) database to client-server in xx months, programming xx PowerBuilder and Oracle interfaces.
Streamline x,xxx-inmate commitment and discharge process x%, tracking each incarceration incident by inmate, transforming a x-gigabtye/terabyte Infacts/CQuest database via a table-driven finite state-transition machine design in x months.
Contribute to design and development of new Infacts modules, including a x,xxx-code line discipline (booking) application and a JEE substance abuse tracking system (SATS) for Palm bar code scanning devices capable of XML and XSLT web communication.
Primary Projects:
Rhode Island Department of Correction (RIDOC): Advance Infact system application processing, communication, and storage capabilities in a JEE environment.
Senior Consultant, Covansys Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), City, Rhode Island 1996 1998
Boosted Textron software code reuse x%, conceived design pattern methodology, and built a mult-purpose mid-tier PFC layer.
Drove Textron s inventory financial system (IFS) end user productivity x%, reducing software defects to zero and code lines from xx,xxx to x,xxx in x months.
Reduced software development time x months/x% at Textron, establishing network directory structure, configuration management software, and a development documentation process.
In charge of entire project life cycle: Drafted engagement proposals, composed system requirements from user interviews, designed and developed applications, and managed client relationships.
Inventoried and analyzed 130 Semantic Q&A database applications for the RIDOC, authored project plan with functional requirements, logical and physical data models, software design, and programmed PowerBuilder and Oracle 8.0 applications.
Primary Projects:
State of Rhode Island Department of Correction (RIDOC): Led a 130-Semantic application conversion to PowerBuilder (PFC), Oracle, or Microsoft Access with integration into the Rhode Island DOC s proprietary Infacts application
Textron Financial Corporation (TFC): Conceived methodology for corporate software framework, development environment, optimizing billing history and inventory financial system (IFS) software tools and applications.
Pitney Bowes Corporation: Architected and completed a $x million, xx,xxx-code line sales compensation application proof of concept prototype x months ahead of deadline and x% below budget, leading a four-PowerBuilder developer team.
Senior Technical Support Representative, Powersoft Corporation
SYBASE INC., Concord, Massachusetts 1994 1996
Promoted in six weeks from help desk Level I to II and to Level III in less than one year.
Recruited to join the elite custom support team after volunteering as a proxy for two weeks.
Responded to more than 25 Level I end user calls daily, resolving Oracle, Sybase, PowerBuilder, and Microsoft SQL issues.
Selected out of 16 internal candidates for the five-person PowerBuilder 5.0 technical team designing Sybase framework development tools.
Wrote curriculum and taught two, 80-participant courses video-taped for Australian and United Kingdom branch office distribution, introducing PowerBuilder Foundation Class (PFC) libraries and multi-tier applications to developers, beta testers, managers, and salespersons.
Contributed over $1 million of annual billing, supporting systems analysis and beta testing for more than 10 companies, including ACNielson and Los Alamos National Lab, as a two-person custom team member.
ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
~ Senior Technical Support Representative (1994 1996) and Customer Support
Representative (1992 1994), Stream Global Services, Canton, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND, Warwick, Rhode Island
Associate of Science in Computer Engineering Technology, Expected 2009
~ Completed xxx quarter/semester hours of coursework, including Database Design and
Management, Advanced Technical Mathematics, Engineering Applications of Computers, and
Electronic Circuit Theory and Devices.
SYBASE CORPORATION, Concord, Massachusetts
Mastering the DataWindow, Year
Advanced PowerBuilder Techniques, Year
Applied Object Oriented Development, Year
PowerBuilder Performance and Tuning, Year
Using the PowerBuilder Foundation Class (PFC), Year
Using External Applications (COM Controls and Components), Year
MICROSOFT UNIVERSITY, Canton, Massachusetts
Microsoft DOS for Technical Support Professionals, Year
Microsoft SQL Server Configuration and Administration, Year
Microsoft Windows for Technical Support Professionals, Year
SKILLS
TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
Operating Systems
and Server Services:
Palm (Garnet) OS x years
Apache Tomcat x years
Palm (Garnet) OS x years
Sybase EAServer x years
Spring Application Framework x years
Microsoft Active Server Pages x years
Big and RESTful Web Services x years
Sun GlassFish V2 Enterprise Server x years
Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista x years
Novell SUSE/Red Hat Enterprise Linux x years
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) x years
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) x years
Relational Database
Management Systems
and Frameworks:
Infacts x years
Oracle Xi x years
Hibernate ORM x years
Microsoft Access x years
Sybase PowerBuilder x years
Microsoft SQL Server X.X x years
Symantec Q&A Database x years
Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs):
Sun Java Persistence API (JPA) x years
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) x years
Sun Java Foundation Classes v1.1/Swing x years
Sun Java Servlets and Server Pages (JSP) x years
Programming and
Scripting Languages:
Sun JEE and JavaScript x years
XML, XSLT, and HTML x years
Sun Java and Swing GUI Framework x years
XML and XSL Transformations (XSLT) x years
Sun JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) x years
Software and Enterprise
Architecture and Tools:
Design Patterns x years
Troux Technologies x years
Project Management x years
RDBMS Data Modeling x years
Object-Oriented Design (OOD) x years
Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) x years
Unified Modeling Language (UML) x years
IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) x years
Object-Oriented Development (OOD) x years
Development Frameworks
and Testing Environments:
Sun JUnit x years
SOA Software/LogicLibrary LogiDex x years
IONA FUSE x years
AT&T/Sterling Commerce GIS x years
Visual Caf x years
Apache Struts x years
Sun NetBeans x years
Sun JavaBeans x years
Sybase ObjectCycle x years
Spring Framework x years
IBM Rational Rose x years
IBM Rational ClearCase x years
IBM Rational RequisitePro x years
Eclipse IDE/Classic 3.3.2 x years
Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1.4/1.2/1.5 x years
ACTIVITIES
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, Date
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition X.X, Date
Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services, Date
Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition X.X, Date
HONORS
COMPANY NAME, City, State
Award Name, Description, Year