Engineer Software

Milford N. Pinkney III

MILFORD N. PINKNEY III

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SUMMARY

Outstanding software manager, design and development professional with numerous years of

experience in varied senior roles including functional specification gatherer, Architect Developer,

QA, Tester, and Customer Support. Offers proven ability to rapidly learn, grow and flourish in any

position with a variety of technologies. Recognized and rewarded for innovative design and problem

solving abilities. Versed in use of the Agile methodology with test-driven development, validation

and change management activities. Offers excellent communication and people skills with

experience fostering a strong team environment.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

QNX; Unix; Xenix; Microsoft Windows; QNX Windows; Tomcat;

Platforms

Spring; Swing; Hibernate; JDBC

Java SE; Java Script; C/C++; ASP; PHP; XML; HTML; Visual

Languages Basic; Visual C++; SQL; Unix Shell Scripting; FORTH; CSS; Unix

Script; Perl Script

RDBMS Derby; MySQL; Microsoft Access

Tools Eclipse IDE; StarTeam; Dreamweaver; Visual Studio 2008,2010

Programs and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher); Visio

Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Burlington Coat Factory, Headquarters; Burlington, NJ 2013 to 2014

A leading off-price apparel and home product retailer.

Manager of Store Applications Development

Responsible for managing the team that develops the applications for the Oracle based

POS system. The team was broken into two sections. The main store applications team,

which consists of 5 members and the Web applications team, which consists of 4 members.

Responsible for all production issues that affect the Burlington stores on a day to day basis.

The daily production responsibilities include all aspect of the POS sales software, tax and

layaway rules. Also accounting for all sales information to be used by marketing and sales.

Responsible for interfacing with IT WAN, DBAs and Windows system administrators to make

sure any and all changes conform to the needs of the Burlington stores.

Independent Consulting; Perkasie, PA 2012 to Present

Pursuing personal career enhancement training with Pluralsight developer training - .Net, C#,

WCF. Completed Introduction to C# and .NET, WCF Fundamentals, CLR Threading and Design

Patterns training courses.

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Milford N. Pinkney III

Created W AMP & LAMP Servers for Beta testing of client web pages and web-based

applications.

Built proof-of-principle Java applications for clients to validate the investment of time to develop

these products. These demo applications have used Hibernate, JSP and Restful services.

These demonstrate how a web-based client application may appear or perform.

NCO Financial Systems; Horsham, PA 1997 to 2012

Provider of customer relationship and receivables management solutions.

Senior Software Engineer / Outsourcing Project Manager

Reporting directly to the Senior VP of IT programming, led all technical aspects of NCO’s

outsourcing business line including independent dialer information loading, reporting, and client

reporting for NCO Financial. Managed three on-site team members and two off-shore tram

members. Coordinated IT programming, IT operations, IT WAN, NCO’s printing vendor, and the

Outsourcing business groups. Set all new project schedules and release dates for the

Outsourcing group. Upon contract agreement, set all technical and functional timelines with the

client’s lead technical contact.

Developed customer-facing, client side applications in Java.

Translated all data from the client’s format to NCO’s format to load data into in-house database.

Developed database recon applications in Java to keep 3rd party business collections compliant.

Developed reports and collections recon applications that send collection statistics back to

clients from NCO’s format to the client’s data format.

Developed check/credit card payment data file that is sent back to clients who use our in-house

check/credit card payment method.

Developed Java code with Eclipse IDE.

ECTA Corporation; Springhouse, PA 1994 to 1997

Developer of custom software for the insurance industry.

Senior Software Engineer

Developed custom C++ software for insurance proposal systems.

Associate developer of web-enabled insurance proposal system.

Betz Laboratories; Horsham, PA 1987 to 1994

Software Engineer

Staff engineer in design and development group that created software to control water streams

and maintained statistics for use in manufacturing facilities.

Team member of new SCADA system for controlling process water streams.

Designed and developed a multi-user, multi-tasking cooling tower control system under the

QNX operating system in C.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, Villanova, PA

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