BRIAN ECKERT

**** ***** ******, ***** **, NM ****7 505-***-****

ac12y2@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

A senior information technology operations professional with extensive experience in integrated IT environments in a variety of businesses, including Software Development, IT Consulting Services, High Tech Electronic Manufacturers, Insurance, Oil and Gas, U. S. Military and State Government. Strengths include experience in complex, integrated IT environments using state-of-the-art technology with management experience ranging from the departmental level to the middle management level coupled with experience in managing large projects. Experience with contract negotiation, vendor management, hiring, employee review and career planning, continuing education, and budget management. Experience in multiple languages and environments including C, C#, Powershell, WPF and .NET.

EXPERIENCE

DBA Work:

Work a generalized script to detect and minimize deadlock when loading large data into Ms/Sql 2014

Coordinated the resolution of Ms/SQL production problems for a 24x7 web-based on-line store that generated $2,000,000,000.00 in sales annually.

Managed multiple Microsoft NT Servers running Microsoft SQL Server using Enterprise Manager to replicate MS/SQL databases across multiple servers, providing 24/7 worldwide access to corporate engineering database.

Principal DBA on the state wide Case Management System, with responsibility for the 5 production databases, the two node multi-CPU cluster, backups, stored procedures, optimization, etc.

Worked with Microsoft to evaluate the environment, tuning developer queries, monitoring the heavily accessed Public Case Lookup, diagnosed and blocked data mining attempts.

Software Development:

Developed integrated DLLs for a widely used object oriented financial trading system in C#/.Net using Visual Studio. Indicators are used to predict strength of market movements.*

Development of WSDL in C# to evaluate fair market value of used cars using NADA data.

C language instructor and principal programmer for the conversion of a Pascal based retirement system to C. Work performed as long term consultant.

Converted several, complex Unix Shell scripts to Perl in order to refresh parallel databases.*

Developed several Powershell/.NET script for XML data transformation.

Developed Oracle SQL and PL/SQL procedures

DBA & Programmer Analyst November 2015 - Present

Working for a nationwide manufacturer of high end home furnishing. Developed Powershell/.NET XML data transformation scripts. Maintained ongoing business processes. Tuned Ms/SQL database. Wrote SQL stored procedures.

Project/Software Development November 2014 – August 2015

Reviewed several hundred SQL script; made corrections as needed. Worked in Agile/Scrum environment.

Independent Project/Software Development February 2011 – October 2015

Developed C# DLL code using .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 for the Ninja Trader platform for use in day trading financial markets. Ninja Trader is a widely used program for trading both stock and futures markets. The software allows developers to write addition indicators or trading systems. Unfortunately, there is little documentation available on how to do this. I was able to review several programs written by other developers in order to write the indicators I wanted. While these programs are poorly documented, the code does go beyond what Ninja supports and exposes some of the internal workings of the Ninja package. Fortunately, you can use the Microsoft Visual Studio to attach to the DLL and step thru the code using the debugger. - I continue to do work on the development of C# web pages.

New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts February 2010 – February 2011

Manager, Systems Group

Responsible for the management of 9 employees including DBAs, Linux administrators, Windows Administrators, Network Administrators and Security.

Provided day-to-day direction, annual review, weekly staff meetings, co-ordinate with other managers on projects and priorities; review and monitor end user support (help disk tickets).

Evaluated and submitted purchase orders for computer systems, peripherals, system software, software development tools, etc.

Supported the court-by-court, multi-year migration to a new centralized Case Management System.

Microsoft/SQL Database Administrator

Principal DBA on the state wide Case Management System, with responsibility for the 5 production databases, the two node multi-CPU cluster, backups, stored procedures, optimization, etc.

Worked with Microsoft to evaluate the environment, tuning developer queries, monitoring the heavily accessed Public Case Lookup, diagnosed and blocked data mining attempts.

New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Programmer/Analyst III October 2008 – February 2010

Developed two special purpose computer programs. Converted mainframe Cobol to client/server “C” language to eliminate inter-department charge. Wrote a “C#” windows service (WSDL) to retrieve NADA used car values (including the ASP 1.0 code to access the WSDL).

Reviewed and wrote contracts. Negotiated with vendors on deliverables, contract terms, etc.

Wrote 5 part architecture document for the Data Warehouse group

Provided technical assistance and project management for the “MVD Online” project. Assumed the lead as Project Manager mid-way into the project. The project is expected to generate $3M to $5M per year for the State of NM.

Independent Project: Self-directed futures trader. 2006 - 2008

Hewlett Packard – Manager of SQL Development March 2003 – July 2006

Hired to develop Microsoft SQL coding standards and create review process to ensure compliance with coding standards.

Coordinated the resolution of production problems for a 24x7 web-based on-line store that generated $2,000,000,000.00 in sales annually.

Developed processes to automate “data refreshes” to the test environment allowing QA and developers to work with current data.

Coordinated the development efforts of 80 programmers with regard to SQL programming.

Reviewed all stored procedures for execution plan and performance.

Phoenix EDH., Inc. December 2002 – April 2003

DBA for a software development project to build web-based application to track client usage of real-time financial data from the major exchanges (e.g., CME, NYSE, etc.).

Designed and developed the MS/SQL database for the application. Developed Perl code to generate SQL code for table insert/delete/update including a transaction audit file.

Created a Perl program to extract data from spreads sheet reports used by competitive applications

Compaq Computer – Senior Database & Systems Administrator July 1996 – November 2002

Managed multiple Microsoft NT Servers running Microsoft SQL Server using Enterprise Manager to replicate MS/SQL databases across multiple servers, providing 24/7 worldwide access to corporate engineering database.

Network Administrator responsible for Windows domains.

Developed SQL scripts for data inquiry, automated daily tasks such as backup and database integrity checks using the SQL Executive.

Led a large project to develop Performance Monitor statistics on all 6 servers using the NT service tool. The NT servers being monitored provided 24-hour access to worldwide, 1,000,000+ rows of engineering data containing bills of material, engineering change notices, artwork, etc.

Converted the system that used SCO Unix servers running C-shell, Awk and Perl scripts to load and maintain Sybase database to a new one that ran under NT using MS/SQL.

Developed over 100 Awk &/or Perl scripts to collate, validate and reformat data imported from other systems, to report errors in a common format, and to process data into Microsoft SQL/Server tables running on parallel NT platforms using stored procedures. .

Designed user access to the database that used calls to stored procedures, effectively making the database an encapsulated object.

Developed/revised more than 200 stored procedures to access, modify, delete and store data.

Modified the UNIX system configuration, startup, shutdown and other administrative scripts to reboot system and perform cleanup tasks during non-peak hours. Developed a DLL using SQL-DMO to check the status of remote servers.

Short term Contracts 1992 - 1996

Worked on several short-term projects

Compaq: DBA – Converted existing SCO Unix shell scripts to Windows based Perl scripts and to begin the migration from Sybase to MS/SQL. (8 months)

Enron: Application Programmer – Maintained and extended a VAX/Fortran/Oracle system used to schedule major gas pipeline operations. (9 months)

eCommLink: Application Programmer - Using Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual InterDev, developed an online Internet banking transaction system. (6 months)

American General Insurance (AIG) September 1990 – October 1992

C language consultant, instructor and language coding standards developer.

Selected a system of C programming tools for the development of a large insurance application. System is in use by more than 700 sales and support staff in all 50 states.

Assisted in converting a Turbo Pascal system to C; system consists of 800+ programs used to calculate annuity benefits, paycheck salary comparisons, desired retirement benefits, etc. Responsible for all code review; assisted in development of black box and white box regression test procedures.

Provided technical and business review of software packages under consideration.

Assisted in development of GridPad handwriting recognition version of the same insurance system.

Bonner & Moore Consulting Services January 1989 – August 1990

Converted a Cobol application (approx. one million lines of code) from an IBM/CICS environment to a DEC/VAX platform using RDB. The application accessed data in a relation database by calling a C language installed image.

Reviewed different access techniques including RDML and SQL, both as static precompiled statements and as dynamic code.

Completed the first dynamic SQL interface to the relation database in order to deliver the system on schedule. Re-designed and re-wrote the interface to use static SQL statements generated by DCL programs that parsed the definition of the database from a command file.

Worked with DEC consultants to tune the access mechanisms.

Began work on a third version of the interface program that would provide ISAM retrieval speeds by constructing and defining artificial keys.

Performed the tasks of installing the database, loading preliminary data and tuning the database for a German client and the Los Alamos Labs.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

RMS, a defense contractor February 1987 - November 1989

Operations Manager on $9,000,000 contract for the United States Navy. Areas of responsibility included Programming, Q.A., Documentation, Technical Support and Computer Operations, Help Desk Support and PC maintenance and distribution.

Oversaw administrative responsibilities for the contract, which had an annual budget of $3,000,000.

Managed staff of 60, including recruiting and hiring new employees, conducting individual performance reviews, and providing educational development and career path planning.

Oversaw management of two concurrent programming teams.

Was primary contact with the U.S. Navy including managing contractual relations, conducting budget reviews, and developing new proposals.

Negotiated with vendors.

Developed a communications plan for local and remote serves using local area network (pre-internet) techniques, dedicated and dial-up phone lines with multiplexers and local area servers,

Coordinated multiple projects using the Harvard Total Project Management tool for PERT chart evaluation and working with the DoD Life Cycle Management guidelines and System Decision Papers (SDP).

EDUCATION:

B.S. Chemistry, math & physics, Southeastern Louisiana University.

M.S. Computer Science, physics, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

PMP: 1452311

References: Furnished Upon Request

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