RANDY E. ZELEZNAK

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Chicago, Illinois 60608-4316

Cell 773-***-****

acxqbk@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Experienced software engineer with program design, enhancement and maintenance and quality assurance background on multiple platforms.

Played a key role in marketing, accounting, finance, purchasing, benefits and utility operations/maintenance system projects.

Possess excellent brainstorming analytical and problem solving skills.

History of completing projects on time with desired results.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Languages: Ruby, Java, C#, Selenium,C++, COBOL, JSP, CICS, Cucumber, Python, RSpec

Software: Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans Xpediter, Visual Studio, MS-Office, Git, Jira, SOAPUI

O/S: Linux, Unix, Windows, MVS/TSO/ISPF

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, SQL

EDUCATION

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Master of Science, Software Engineering June 2008

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Sherwood Conservatory of Music, Chicago, Illinois, Bachelor of Music

WORK EXPERIENCE

CAREER EDUCATION CORP. Schaumburg, IL 03/2015-03/2016

QA Software Engineer (via EVOLUTYZ)

Regression and Integration testing of customized educational management software utilizing SQL Server Management Studio to manage back-end data and Visual Studio in an Agile environment as well as manual mobile testing.

Preliminary automation of Regression test of student/instructor education application utilizing C# with Selenium

Use of Team Foundation Server(TFS) for bug tracking

CONVERSANT, Chicago, Illinois 02/2014-10/2014

Software Engineer in Test

Automation of GUI Regression with Cucumber/Ruby in a Symbiont/Lucid/Selenium environment.

Manual and automated testing of AdServer system with Cucumber/RSpec//Ruby/Java in Agile(Scrum) utilizing Jira for bug tracking.

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United Parcel Service, Hodgkin’s, Illinois 01/2004-02/2014

Package Handler

HOLY TRINITY CROATIAN CHURCH, Chicago, IL 06/2002-05/2004

Facilities Maintenance

ComEd (An Exelon Company), Chicago, Illinois 01/2001-10/2001

Programmer/Analyst

Provided technical support and programming analysis/solutions for numerous corporate administrative departments and operating units using COBOL, DB2 and JCL.

Designed program to migrate data from older and disjointed work order software programs to a centralized system (Passport) identifying cost, task priority, internal or external job assignment, and data requiring further verification/validation.

Developed program that created a single record of electrical output from multiple input records from a single transmission switch.

Used SAS language program (electrical transformers) to extract data for conversion into multiple files and treatment in other software programs.

PROGRAMMERS INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Des Plaines, Illinois 07/1999 – 12/2000

Programmer/Analyst

Supported client organizations using mainframe programs.

Created financial reports program for major oil company’s credit card division.

Designed a format for American Express, generating potential customer list from buyers’ history of product purchases.

SPR, INC., Oak Brook, Illinois 06/1996 – 05/1999

Technical/IT Consultant

Provided Y2K support to Peoples Gas, United Airlines, TTX and United Insurance.

Programmed corporate solutions in COBOL, BAL, CICS, DB2 in UNIX, DOS and mainframe environments.

Supported Peoples Gas Y2K conversion of their on-line and batch financial programs.

Converted TTX inventory program, United Airlines integrated reservation and billing systems and United Insurance actuarial system for Y2K.

MARKET FACTS, INC., Arlington Heights, Illinois 05/1992 – 06/1996

Programmer

Programmed research information in QUANCEPT (4GL “C” based CATI software) in a UNIX environment.

Consulted with clients’ support teams to determine precise information requirements.

Coordinated department heads to ensure efficient and timely collection of data.

Used “C” programming and “C” Shell interpretive languages to extract and treat data for various operational and administrative applications.

Created Deduplication application used by telephony project managers.

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

Multi-Media Catalog Software ongoing

Is an Ongoing personal project developing and maintaining application software to catalog DVD, CD, Vinyl, Video tape and paper manuscript records in both Ruby and Java formatted versions.

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 01/2008-06/2008

Pirogov Class Project

Design and Analysis of data persistence within MySQL and SQL Server Database.

Creation and maintenance of Database environment with SQL and Cayenne.

Development of Database Interface utilizing Java and JSP.

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