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**** ******* ****, **** #*. Middleton, WI *****

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NICK OWEN, M. Phil

Objective:

Award-winning college Philosophy instructor (formal/symbolic logic, etc.) and self-taught Java developer seeks opportunities to utilize and expand development and architecture knowledge gained through self-study and current role as an Architecture Team BA. Technical Skill Highlights:

o Languages/Coding

o Java (core & EE, Spring, REST, JSP, servlets, etc.) o MySQL

o JavaScript

o some HTML/CSS

o Operating Systems

o Windows

o Mac OSX

o UNIX/Linux

o Software (abridged) and Enterprise Applications

o Eclipse

o MySQL Workbench

o Soap UI

o Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, Outlook, Word, etc.) o Microsoft Project

o SalesForce

o Confluence

o JIRA/JAMA

o SharePoint

Education:

2011 M.A. Analytic Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI

o Graduate Assistantship Award 2010/2011

o AOF Fellowship Winner 2009/2010

2007 B.A. Philosophy (cum laude), Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL

o Northeastern Illinois University Dean’s List 2004 to 2007 o Ronald E. McNair Research Stipend Award recipient 2005 o Presentation rating of ‘Excellent’, McNair Scholar’s Conference 2006 More Awards and Accolades:

o Honored Instructor Recognition Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2010 o IHS Fellow, The Institute for Humane Studies 2009 to 2010 o All-University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award, Western Michigan University 2009 o Selected as ‘Judge’ for Upper Midwest Regional College Ethics Bowl 2009 o Departmental Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award, Western Michigan University 2008 o Graduate Assistantship Award 2007 to 2009

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Experience:

Technical Business Analyst – Architecture Team

Deloitte Consulting, LLC: Madison WI 3/2015 to present

• Mobile App Project – Researched, designed, and wrote instructional documentation for API developers working on our new mobile application, with focuses on -

o new infrastructure and architectural/framework components and usage o a complete “Developer’s Reference Guide” to syntax and coding practice changes o a primer on Spring framework purpose and usage

o a primer on RESTful design strategy and best practices

• HTML5/Cross-Browser Compatibility Project

o Strategized rollout for new web standards implementation

Researched statewide usage analytics to optimize client/user coverage

Wrote/presented resulting options paper to management/steering committee

Designed/purveyed statewide IT-infrastructure survey to best assess customer migration strategy

Designed/wrote all implementation support documentation to facilitate clients’ migration

Developed charters, requirements, milestones, etc., and generally oversaw SDLC benchmarks

• Electronic Document Management solutions (multiple projects) o Self-trained as sole SME to handle statewide support (requirements, installation, troubleshooting, licensing, etc.) for the Kofax document scanning technology connected to our backend content/document management repository.

o Developed charters, requirements, configuration, milestones, etc., overseeing SDLC benchmarks for implementation and integration of new, web-based document-viewing application.

• Data/Systems Security (multiple projects)

o Strategized, developed and communicated security requirements based on Federal NIST 800-53 standards for multiple business processes and operations, among them:

Automated code/quality review

Infrastructure/firewall upgrades

Load testing and general maintenance

• General Project Management/Lead activities

o Tracked and coordinated timely receipt of architectural requirements and resulting deliverables for multiple simultaneous projects; developed Excel-based tool for simpler and more reliable tracking. o Researched/developed supporting documentation for multiple infrastructure, architecture, security, and application development efforts

Support Analyst

Wolters Kluwer Health: Madison WI 6/2014 to 2/2015

• Served as primary liaison between our firm and Directors of Clinical Pharmacy at client sites, working with them on an ongoing basis to...

o Refine and communicate their feature requests to the development team o Redesign/optimize multiple, unique implementation’s database queries to harness new functionality made possible by a newly redesigned data-model

o Provide support/training on new application functionality

• Discovered and escalated several critical bugs in newly upgrade querying tool

• Developed SQL queries against our database for the purposes of... o Ascertaining and accommodating idiosyncrasies in client data feeds o Researched scope/impact of several critical bugs to determine solution prioritization, timeline revision, and client messaging

• Provided overarching project assistance and support for multiple teams, including Application Specialists, Interface Engineering, and Client Data Support

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Teaching Experience:

Skill Highlights:

o Sole instructor and designer for college-level, lecture style courses o Wrote all syllabi, lectures, and supplemental course content o Scheduled exams, review sessions, student conferences, etc. o See “More Awards & Accolades” for teaching awards won Instructor

Madison Area Technical College: Madison, WI

o Course(s) included:

o Applied Ethics Spring 2012

o East/West World Views Spring 2012

o Ethics in Medicine Fall 2011

Instructor

Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo, MI

o Course(s) included:

o Philosophy and Public Affairs Summer 2009

o Deductive/Formal Logic Fall 2008 & Spring 2009

o Introduction to Philosophy Spring 2008 & Summer 2008 Instructor

Kalamazoo Valley Community College: Kalamazoo, MI

o Course(s) included:

o Introduction to Philosophy Spring 2009

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