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