Jim Davitt PO Box *** 901-***-****

Goodlettsville, TN 37070 ac7sp9@r.postjobfree.com

• A skilled, technically-focused software developer with an extensive and diverse history of successfully designing, developing, and delivering user interface, middle ware, and back-end high performance, highly available, highly reliable software systems, data stores, data warehouses, HTTP systems, services, and servers.

• A team leader/player focused on mission accomplishment, time and budget achievement, exceeding expectations with the willingness to assume roles including developer, designer, analyst, architect, lead, and project manager.

• Language and platform expertise includes C, C++, perl, mod_perl, SQL, PL/SQL, ProC, ESQL/C, SQR, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MySQL Connector/C, SunOS, SysV, AIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows/NT/ XP/.Net.

Current Hilton Worldwide Memphis

Developer. Produced a collection of software that aggregated and transformed incoming data feeds with the goal of reducing impact on the reservation and availability systems. The result was an 85% reduction in database transactions and 25% reduction in processing time. The project was written in perl and shell scripts on Linux hosts. March 2018 – August 2018 Dollar General Goodlettsville, Tennessee Developer. Worked a six month contract supporting a number Warehouse Management System projects incuding enhancements, bug fixes, file transfer software, and Apache upgrades. Tools used include C, Pro*C, SQL, perl, Oracle database utilities, and Apache in AIX and Linux environments. 2017 – 2018 Hilton Worldwide Memphis

Developer. Designed and developed tools used to evaluated data integrity replication latency, and database performance on cloud-based Amazon Aurora databases. Designed and developed a translator and collection of C libraries which enabled programs written in Informix ESQL/C source code to run against Amazon's cloud- based Aurora DB using Informix ESQL/C, C, perl, MySQL, Maria DB, and Amazon's Aurora DB on Linux. 2015 – 2016 Hilton Worldwide Memphis

Developer. Isolated a variety of memory-corrupting defects that were causing sporadic system outages. C and ESQL/C source code was acquired, analysis tools were evaluated, a framework for collecting analysis results was developed, defects were uncovered, and the results were reported. More than 1 million lines of code

(14,000+ files in 2,000+ directories) were analyzed to uncover ~ 170 defects. The supporting framework consisted of a database design and a collection of custom utilities for running analyses on the source code, collecting results in a database, and running queries to generate reports. Tools used include C, ESQL/C, perl, Postgres, Informix, MySQL, and Apache on Linux and Solaris platforms. 2010 – 2014 Epsilon Blue Ash, Ohio

Database Developer. Maintained and developed ETL processes handling demographic and earning data for loyalty programs supporting between 3 and 12 million members. Designed, developed, and maintained PL/SQL procedures which processed clients' sales records and generated member rewards data (earn, bank, and burn) and procedures which provided Java-layer web services with operations on objects stored in the database.

Tools used include Oracle's PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, and SQL*Loader. Microsoft's Power Shell was used to automate file transfer processes. Development tools were written in perl. Experience

Jim Davitt PO Box 444 901-***-****

Goodlettsville, TN 37070 ac7sp9@r.postjobfree.com

2006 – 2010 Hilton Hotels Corporation Memphis

Developer. Wrote mapping, geocoding and reverse geocoding, and routing interfaces to the MapQuest software for web applications. Optimized long-running Informix procedures. Designed and developed systems which collected data from external vendors, maintained them in databases, and made them available via XML messages exchanged through HTTP requests/responses. Tools used include perl, mod_perl, C, Apache, MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Java, and various XML toolkits in Linux and Solaris environments.

2003 – 2006 Sedgwick Claims Management Services Memphis Database Analyst/Designer/Developer. Designed, developed, and deployed data marts, intelligence products, and reports run in the data warehouse using SQL, PL/SQl, and Oracle utilities in an AIX environment. The database used was Oracle 9i and 10g. Desktop tools included Crystal, Brio's Intelligence Designer and Report Builder, Embarcadero's Rapid SQL and ER Studio, and Quest's TOAD. 2002 – 2003 Qualia Corporation Memphis

Comparison and analysis studies for a client planning to deploy a product on Linux platforms using Apache, perl, perl/Tk, Postgres, and QT Libs.

2001 The Weather Channel Atlanta

Returned to The Weather Channel (see below) to manage part of a project which delivered a new Weather Channel product.

2000 – 2001 GE Capital Automotive Financial Services Barrington, Illinois 2000 The Weather Channel Atlanta

1998 – 1999 Chicago Board of Trade Chicago

1997 – 1998 Heller Financial Chicago

1997 World Com Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois

1996 Information Inter*Clear Chicago

1996 Manhattan National Life Cincinnati

1995 – 1996 Ameritech Hoffman Estates, Illinois

1995 Megapulse Bedford, Massachusetts

1995 Motorola Schaumburg, Illinois

1994 Abbott Laboratories Abbott Park, Illinois

1994 Precision Response Corporation Miami

1992 – 1993 Motorola Arlington Heights, Illinois

1991 – 1992 Scientific Atlanta Norcross, Georgia

1990 – 1991 American Airlines Fort Worth

1990 IBM (ASD) Atlanta

1981 - 1986 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas Graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration. Studies beyond the degree program included quantitative analysis, digital simulation, forecasting, numerical methods, and heuristic problem-solving techniques.

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