Jerome J. Finn

email: ac155d@r.postjobfree.com

Skills Summary:

• IT Solutions Architect, Project Manager, Software Engineer

• C, C++, Perl, Korn Shell, COBOL, DIBOL/DBL, VBA, Java, R, Python

• Linux, UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, HP's MPE/iX

• Proposal Development: RFP/RFI Responses, SOWs, TCO Reports, Project Plans

Bilingual – English, Spanish; (C1) Portuguese Representative Experience

Academic Work and Training – Madrid and Chicago – November 2014 to Present

• Completed numerous online courses building skills in Data Science, AWS cloud computing and C++.

• Started Master degree in August 2016 in Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Projects are completed in Linux operating systems, programming in C++, Java, R and Python. BBVA Data & Analytics – Content Writer – Madrid, Spain – December 2015 to June 2016

• Wrote data science articles for the technical blog of the data analytics subsidiary of Spain’s second- largest bank

IBM – Technical Solutions Architect – Madrid, Spain – February 2006 to November 2014

• Analyzed clients’ C/C++ software for dependencies or extended features of competitor’s UNIX and determined the effort to port applications to IBM AIX and Linux, and BlueMix Cloud.

• Analyzed code mainly programmed in C/C++, Perl, UNIX shell and SQL

• Extensive experience analyzing UNIX standards, C/C ++ compiler variations, and networking Sector7 Inc. – Data Migration Analyst – Madrid, Spain – May 2005 to November 2005

• Worked as an analyst on a migration for a legacy Oracle RDB database hosted on HP OpenVMS to Oracle’s flagship RDBMS product hosted on Solaris

Houston Casualty Company Europe – Project Manager – Madrid, Spain – September 2003 to December 2004

• ERP Implementation for a Houston based company in a Spanish subsidiary

• Supervised the activities of the Madrid based team, business analysis and end-users, with the London based team, programming and technical support

• Defined project milestones, identified critical path tasks, oversaw change control and managed project risk factors

Sector7 Inc. – Operating System Migration Analyst – Austin, TX – August 1998 to September 2003

• Programmed mainly in C/C++, Perl, UNIX shell and SQL. In less frequent projects I also programmed in Java, Pascal and FORTRAN

• Analyzed clients’ software stack for POSIX compliance, operating system dependencies, and use of network protocols

Effective Management Systems Solutions – Software Engineer – Milwaukee, WI – July 1994 to August 1998

• Programmed in C, Perl, DBL, UNIX Korn Shell, and Windows’ batch files

• Assured cross-operating-system portability of applications in UNIX, OpenVMS and Windows Server

• Programmed data communications with synchronous serial protocols, TCP/IP and DECnet Miller Compressing Company – Programmer – Milwaukee, WI August – 1989 to July 1994

• COBOL programming for a steel recycling company

University Education

Masters in Computer Science, Analytics-Data Science Specialization – In Progress: 2018 graduation University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems – graduated – 1986 Minor in Computer Science – 37 credits earned in CS and Math University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Community College Certifications

Certificate in Telecommunications - Administration of WAN technology (routers, DSU/CSU and T1/T3 multiplexers, X.25 and Frame Relay) - 1998

Waukesha County Technical College

Certificate of Computer Networking - Two-year curriculum covering hands-on LAN (TCP/IP) design and implementation - 1996

Waukesha County Technical College

Verified Online Certifications

Data Science Specialization with R: 7 courses of a 10-part series completed: Data Science Toolkit, R Programming, Getting and Cleaning Data, Data Visualization, Statistical Inference, Regression Models - 2016

Johns Hopkins University’s through Coursera

Applied Data Science with Python: 2 courses of 5 completed: Introduction to Data Science in Python, Visualization in Python – 2017

University of Michigan through Coursera

The Analytics Edge – Regression, Text Analytics, Clustering, and Optimization Algorithms Implemented in R - 2015

MITx, through Edx

Foundations of Data Analysis - R Programming and Applied Statistics - 2015 UTAustinX, University of Texas System through Edx

Excel for Data Analysis and Visualization - 2015

Microsoft through Edx

Data Structures with C++ Templates - 2016

IIT Bombay through EdX

Cloud Networking and Cloud Applications – AWS, Hadoop MapReduce, HBASE, Spark MLlib - 2017 University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign through Coursera.org Honor Code Online Certifications

Software Defined Networking - 2014

Georgia Institute of Technology through Coursera.org Statistics 2.x: Descriptive Statistics, Probability, Inference - 2014 The University of California at Berkeley through Edx. Professional Training Certificates

Certificate in Oracle Administration, PL/SQL programming, Oracle Form and Reports – 2005 Certificate in Java Programming - 2001

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