Project Manager Management

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George Willis

US-GA-Atlanta North

Email George Willis

PHONE: 706-***-****

LOCATION: US

-GA-Atlanta North

WILL RELOCATE TO: Will not relocate

US CITIZENSHIP: I am a US

citizen or greencard holder

DESIRED POSITION: No position title entered

DESIRED RATE: Open

DATE AVAILABLE: 03/06/2001

EMP TYPE: Both W2 and 1099 positions

YEARS IT EXP: 20

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILL YRS EXP LAST USED

e-Commerce 6 2001

Java 6 2001

Oracle 6 2001

Project Manager 6 2001

IT Security 2 2001

Web 6 2001

XML 6 2001

CERTIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

XML, XSLT, DOM & SAX programmin, java, python, cgi, n-tier architectures, ip Stack programming, security, DBA, data modeling, network design...

George Willis 706-***-**** Atlanta Area

Overview

Position: eBusiness Architect; CIO/CTO/VP;

OO/DB Architect/Developer/Team Lead

Expertise: The design and implementation of secure, scaleable n-tier architectures utilizing leading technologies such as J2EE, XML, XSLT, HTML, java, c++, python, multi-threading, cgi, object and relational databases, with various design (OOAD) methodologies including CRC-Cards, UML, RUP and XP.

Experience: 19 years IT

Education: BS

in Computer Science, graduate work in Robotics and AI, and minors in management, economics and theatrical arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Continuing education through ACM classes, Software Development East, Web Database Summit, and SecureTech/CardTech.

Career Highlights

Architected and developed open source B2B application server based on XML, XSLT, and Zope compliant "on-the-wire" with BizTalk. Analyzed offerings from BEA WebMethods, WebSphere, Vitria, HP eSpeak, etc.

Empowered team and instilled proper methods and tools to achieve first stable release of firewall, expand features, and port product to Solaris - all on time and under budget! Lifecycle Mgmt. and process control through internally developed intranet applications for communication and collaboration.

Architected the UPS Universal Online Gateway, a corporate information infrastructure to facilitate transparent connectivity via Email, HTML, sockets, CORBA, etc. to mainframes, servers, and DBMSs.

Data modeling, schema design, application analysis, design and lead programming for US Navy Bureau of Personnel On-line Records System, which involved the transfer of microfiche records to a digital format.

Application Domains

Internet, security, multimedia, imaging, OCR/ICR/OMR, scheduling, communications, configuration management, accounting, finance, human resources, numerical processing, device control, shipping, tracking, wireless, customer relations, job estimation, executive information systems, travel and leisure, medical, scientific, non-profit, marketing, DOD, insurance, etc.

Skills

- Project/Product Management and Team Leadership

- Process Control, F.Points and Defect Lifecycle Mgmt.

- Requirements Analysis, RFP Preparation/Response

- Architecture, OOAD, CRC Cards, UML, RUP, XP

- Corba, COM, Sockets, CGI, RPC, n-tier applications

- ERWin IDEF1X data modeling, Oracle DBA

- OMG compliant OODBMS Analysis, Poet

- OOP in java, c++, python, Delphi, SQLWindows

- LAN/CAN/WAN Design & Implementation

- Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000, Unix, Linux, AIX, OS/2

Experience

Client: @tlas e-Solutions, Inc

. Position: eBusiness Systems Architect

Contact: Peter Yorke, CFO Terms: Corp-to-Corp (Digital Frameworks)

Phone: 415-***-**** Duration: April 2000

to February 2001

Designed and documented the system architecture of the @tlas Universal Translator, an open source B2B eBusiness server based on XML, Zope and python technologies. Design emphasized security (SOAP 1.1), W3C standards (XPath, XSL, XML-Schemas), open scripting, and scaleability. Developed XML-to-object serialization of BizTalk XML-DR schemas to python code utilizing XSLT (4XSLT). Influenced marketing with product positioning advice such as remaining 100% Microsoft BizTalk compliant on the wire. Evaluated competing architectures and offering such as Microsoft BizTalk/DNA, BEA WebMethods, Vitria, IBM WebSphere, Lutris Enhydra, HP eSpeak, jBoss, and other J2EE compliant platforms.

Contract terminated after five(5) Work Orders due to lack of VC funding sought by principals for 10 months. This was just bad timing for @tlas, with the whole MS vs. DOJ stock crash, and the dot-com demises.

Client:

Professional Project Services, Inc

. Position: President

Contact: Self Terms: Employment (Internal)

Phone: 706-***-**** Duration: July 1999

to February 2000

Relocated to Rabun County, Georgia. Spent the summer with my two adorable children (4 & 9). In September, secured office space and managed the closing of my Maryland based corporation (Professional Project Services, Inc.) Created a new Georgia corporation in 2000 to facilitate contracting. (Digital Frameworks)

Client:

United Parcel Service

(UPS) Position: SWAT Team Member

Contact: Andy Dotterweich, Head of UPS.com Terms: 6 month contract with 6 month renewal

Phone: 678-***-**** Duration: July 1998

to June 1999

Project

SSM:

Provided OOAD and OOP in java, and OOP in Installshield. As a member of the "SWAT" team, responsibilities included leading a java design in TogetherJ(UML) and development in VisualAge for Java to reduce the distribution and support costs of UPS software by developing a "push-pull" software distribution model. Prototype and research phase involved using Installshield to develop an OO installation library to install several UPS applications.

Project

UOI:

Programmed in Perl /HTML on the UPS Online Intranet product, and taught staff technologists advanced OOAD using Eiffel technology. Responsible for Linux/Samba configuration for hosting of the UOI application, as well as CGI configuration of various web servers for hosting, including apache, Netscape, and IIS. Configured CGI application for localization (internationalization) direCTOry structure so that links could be loosely coupled.

Although client contracted for a third and fourth work order, the engagement was not renewed for a fifth work order due to my relocation to Georgia, and the clients reluctance for a full telecommute.

Client:

AmDyne.Net ISP

Position: VP of Internet & Enterprise Technologies

Contact: Wadi Rahim, President Terms: Venture Employment (Equity Sharing)

Phone: 410-***-**** Duration: February 1998

to June 1998

Responsible for professional IT product and service offering, as well as Cisco router and RADIUS configuration, and ISP architecture. Developed marketing plan, product offerings, sales collateral and web presence. Developed applications for Navy to control on-board HAZMAT concerns. Architected small business solution to replace costly ISDN router used for connectivity with ML-PPP router. Established offerings in e-commerce and Virtual Enterprise Services.

This was a speculative venture by both parties, comprising salary reduction on my part. The goal was to generate a new division for the company in software development and leverage existing DOD contracts in submarine logistics. In the absence of secured contracts, we mutually agreed to end the venture.

Client:

Norman Data Defense Systems Dev, Inc

. Position: Architect/Developer -> CEO/CTO

Contact: Kforce (Source Services) Terms: W2 Contract

to Perm

Phone: 410-***-**** Duration: December 1996

to January 1998

Provided product vision, production management and process control for the Norman Firewall 4.0. Facilitated team empowerment through a commitment-based, participatory style of management; implemented QA via unit, functional, integration, performance and security testing utilizing Rational's PreVue, Internet Security Scanner and Insure++; and established proper metrics tracking and analysis based on defects and function points. The result was the ability to stabilize product, port product to Solaris OS, and add needed functionality to make product marketable. This result was achieved on time, during a period of budget cutbacks.

I originally came aboard as a Kforce consultant, and then was offered a position as CTO when the President and VP were dismissed due to financial misconduct. The firm was severely struggling when I took the job, but it seemed a great opportunity to apply all my management and technology skills. Ultimately, although we produced produc

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