Vincent A. Rimkunas
* *** ****** ****** *** Lenox, IL 60451 Phone 815-***-****
E-Mail: *********@*******.***
Motivated hands-on IT professional offering 17 years experience in
information technology, encompassing management, project management,
business analysis, technical design, development, testing, and
delivery of results-oriented solutions that meet or exceed customer-
driven expectations.
1 EXPERIENCE
July 2007 to Present - Witt/Kieffer, Oak Brook, IL
Senior Technical Team Lead
. Lead and managed a team of software developers, overseeing their
work, and ensuring that they built high quality applications for
our enterprise application.
. Managed SharePoint 2010 implementation, custom development for
Witt/Kieffer's Intranet solution with third-party backend
integration.
. Implemented Google Search Appliance into enterprise application.
Was able to incorporate Google's Search Appliance architecture
into our enterprise application by using XML output from the
search criteria was able to integrate into Witt/Kieffer's
database and bring back candidate information for a custom job
search.
. Centralized reporting process using Sql Server Reporting
Services. Previous reporting solutions were created in Crystal
Reports, Infomaker, OpenReports and PowerBuilder.
April 2005 to July 2007 InteliStaf, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Software Development Manager
. Managed seven technical resources: two PeopleSoft developers,
two java/.NET developers, VoIP specialist, off shore DBA and
analyst resource.
. Responsible for the hiring, training and performance reviews of
development staff.
. Worked closely with upper management to develop IT Strategy.
. Completed annual and quarterly reviews for staff.
. Improved communication between IT department and recruiting
department which led to improved processes and procedures.
. Managed project that created Recruitment system using SugarCRM
(Open Source) with a MySQL database. The application managed
entire recruitment process.
. Full system life cycle development of Complaint Management
System. Created the application in SugarCRM that tracked
companywide complaints and stored the data in a MySQL database.
. Managed Call Center project, which re-booked canceled nursing
shifts and thereby increased company revenue.
December 2003 to April 2005 - Healthation, Darien, IL
Senior Database Administrator/Database Developer
. Database Administrator/Developer for a web based, real time
medical claims processing system.
. Expertise in performance tuning, optimization and
troubleshooting.
. Experience in monitoring database availability, backups and file
groups.
. Maintained highly scalable and fault tolerant database system in
a Microsoft environment.
. Worked closely with the development team to plan, design, review
and implement application.
. Experience in creating, managing and monitoring Sql Server in a
clustered environment.
. Created entire Batch Processing solution that produced all
invoices and a multitude of other financial processes. The
process including encrypting and decrypting gpg and pgp files,
pushing and pulling files from SSH Servers and uploading files
to FTP sites.
. Reviewed and redesigned databases/entity relation structures.
August 2002 to November 2003 - Applied Systems, University Park, IL
Database Developer
. Lead database developer on the Cincinnati Insurance Company
account. The environment contained over eight hundred tables
and two hundred stored procedures. Was responsible for all SQL
Server database design, development, and support which included
live, beta and multiple threads of the development environment.
. Logical data modeling and relational database design using
ERwin.
June 2000 to August 2002 - Applied Systems, University Park, IL
Senior Developer
. Developed software for the insurance industry. This software
package encompasses the entire insurance process. Created the
Watercraft line of business that is currently being used by
other implementations.
. Developed the application in a three-tier environment using COM
objects and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) as our middle
tier and Sql Server 2000 as our database.
. Created and modified tables, triggers and stored procedures.
. Functioned as mentor to junior department members.
September 1999 - May 2000 Cleveland Dovington Partners Inc., Hinsdale,
IL
Technical Consultant - Client that represents the Dairy Industry
. Worked with upper management in discovery sessions concerning
their grant process. Performed analysis on current system and
created documentation of grant process. Developed
specifications for new system.
. Created and modified tables, triggers and stored procedures.
. Front-end system was coded in Visual Basic 6.0 and the back-end
was done using SQL Server 6.5.
May 1997 - September 1999 - NRC, Rolling Meadows, IL
Programmer/Analyst
. Full system life cycle development of Enterprise System for
Recruiting division for tracking recruiting activities.
Front-end system was coded in PowerBuilder 5.0 and the back-
end was done using SQL Server 6.0. Made presentation to the
partners and business unit principals for the new recruiting
system.
. Full system life cycle development of Enterprise System for
Sales division for tracking sales activities. Developed the
system using PowerBuilder 6.0 and using SQL Server 6.0.
Created the sales system to track all activities a
salesperson would go through to get business for a computer-
consulting firm. Went to each business unit and trained sales
force on the new system.
. Worked with Executive team and project team members on modifying
our billing system. Significance of modifications enabled
company to track shared resources between business units and
allocate costs and revenue accordingly. System enhancement
enabled restructuring of business organization to
regionalization.
. Certified in project management methodology covering full system
life cycle development from strategy to support.
1 SKILLS & ASSOCIATIONS
SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, MySQL
Visual Basic VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, XML
SharePoint 2010, 2013
PowerBuilder 7.0, 9.0 and 12.0
Project, Erwin, Visio
Various CRM's
Member of the Chicago SQL Server User Group
2 EDUCATION
Western Illinois University
Major: Bachelor of Arts
Minor: Marketing
3 DISTINCTIONS
Witt/Kieffer Quality Award Winner in 2011. I received this
award based on living the values of the firm - quality,
integrity, teamwork and performance. My award was previously
located on the company's website at
http://www.wittkieffer.com/about/great-leadership/quality-award-
winners.aspx.
4 REFERENCES
Available upon request