GARY HOUGARDY

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SUMMARY

Experienced project manager and application developer with superior client skills. Action-oriented with strong ability to communicate effectively with technical staff, executives, and business audiences. Self-motivated creative problem- solver with excellent ability to collaborate and elevate others while achieving goals. SKILLS

Cross-functional team management

Technical collaboration and communication

Project implementation

Data collection and analysis

Employee hiring, mentoring, and empowerment

Agile methodologies, including Scrum

EXPERIENCE

EARTHWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC

Houston, TX

VP, Information Technology 02/2008 to Current

Responsible for the development and customer fulfillment of our flagship application, determination of the technologies and strategies required for all enhancements, and IT representation of our company to partnering entities.

Front-end and business-layer - C# / .Net, CSS, HTML 5, JavaScript

Interfaces - NetSuite webservices (SuiteTalk wsdl), Wolfram Mathematica NETLink

Database design and development - MS SQL Server

Data analytics - data collection, statistical analysis, multiple regression DEPENDABLE SOLUTIONS

El Segundo, CA

Database Development Manager 08/2005 to 02/2008

Produced the database design and implementation of the consumer branding and digital rights royalty accounting system.

MS SQL Server - TSQL

Data Transformation Services

ASP.Net - VB and C#

UNISYS CORP

Blue Bell, PA

Project Manager 01/2004 to 08/2005

Managed time lines and team members for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secured network (unclassified) services contract.

Incident Response

Managed the build out of Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)

Produced DHS Network Security Guidelines and Recommendations documentation deliverable RIGHT TRACK SOLUTIONS

Woodland Hills, CA

Software Development Manager 02/1999 to 12/2003

Design and development of the Right Track Royalty Accounting system upgrade (from DOS-based console system to web-based ASP.Net)

Worked with clients to manage requirements, produce detailed designs, and lead a team of developers to bring the product into production.

MS SQL Server - TSQL

ASP.Net - VB.Net

NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS

McLean, VA

Senior Manager, Advanced Technologies 12/1997 to 01/1999 Lead a team of software engineers in McLean, Atlanta, and Oakland on various projects including the integration of a closed legacy Ingress billing system into Oracle so that data could be shared among other systems.

Lead project managers, hired software engineers, reported to executive management, and participated in the planning of information systems corporate direction.

Databases - Oracle, Ingress, Vantive (PeopleSoft), data warehousing

Interfaces - OpenIngress, ODBC gateways, Pro*C, ESQL, EDI

Front-End - Oracle Forms, Ingress 4GL

ORACLE CORP

Redwood Shores, CA

Senior Principal Consultant 07/1993 to 12/1997

Developed the Oracle Transparent Gateway for M (Mumps). Developed an expert system that provided ratings of suppliers based on product quality and delivery timeliness. Maintained 100% billing rate for Oracle Consulting throughout.

Consultant to clients - Kaiser Permanente, Department of Veterans Administration, Hughes Space and Communications (satellite manufacturing), McDonnell/Douglas (international space station), Bechtel Oil & Gas

(royalty management system)

Technologies - Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Forms/Reports, SQL*Net, C++, ODBC, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Digital Standard Mumps, MS Foundation Classes, statistics, data warehousing, Erwin (data modeling)

Platforms - SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, Windows OS

GTE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS

Westlake Village, CA

Engineer IV 12/1991 to 07/1993

Logical and physical design of Sybase RDBMS supporting a US Air Force imagery intelligence management system

(CATIS).

Databases - Sybase, Ingress

Technologies - Deft (DB modeling), Software Through Pictures (software project management system), C, dbLib, TSQL (stored procedures and triggers), ESQL

Platforms - DEC Digital Alpha, Unix System V

ETA TECHNOLOGIES

Oxnard, CA

Staff Engineer 06/1990 to 12/1991

Software development and testing of a US Marine Corp electronic intelligence and data collection system (TERPES). Created a program that read from tape-recorded electronic warfare data stored during flights of Grumman EA-6B aircraft missions and fed into the graphics-based mission planning system.

Technologies - C, Pascal, SunOS

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

MASTER OF SCIENCE: COMPUTER SCIENCE

California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 15 credits shy of attaining degree due to work travel constraints at the time (good standing) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE: COMPUTER SCIENCE 1990

California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA

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