Tom Fink

**** ****** ***** **

De Pere, WI *****

920-***-****

dfdgp6@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Challenging and exciting opportunity leveraging software development life cycle skill set to implement software solutions on RTOS, UNIX/LINUX or Windows platforms.

Professional Summary

Information technology professional with extensive experience who thinks outside the box and is very innovative. Expertise includes all phases of the SDLC, and looking forward with great anticipation to SCRUB and Agile development. Technical expertise includes C/C++, VB 6.0, various scripting languages, relational databases and UNIX administration. Excellent interpersonal and project leadership skills; excellent communicator and instructor, and work well with people at all levels within the organization.

 

Skills

C/C++, VB 6.0, Java, XML, HTML, Perl, Shell Script, Windows Batch, PL/SQL, SQL, Java Server Pages, Oracle Pro-C, Oracle OCI, ODBC, Access, MS Visual Studio 2005 C#.NET training

Eclipse, MS Project 2000 and Newer, SQL Plus, Oracle Developer, TOAD, Oracle Reports, Crystal Reports, Oracle Forms, VI Editor, Appworx, Vista, PVCS, CVS, Visual Source Safe

 

Professional Experience

Shopko, LLC - Green Bay, WI

Application Architect 11/2007 - Present

C/C++, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix Shell Script, Perl, SQLPlus, TOAD, C/C++ Sockets

Sole Shopko C++ technical architect for Motorola MC9090 RF Scanners and O'Neil wireless printer daemon deployed to some 141 stores.  Most recent project involved leading team of off shore developers while remaining technical lead, analyst and developer.  Teammate feedback includes endorsements as making the best scanner enhancements to date. Leverage methodology to generate analysis, design, unit and integration test, sign-off, and deployment documentation.  Replaced vendor that had previously supported all the C++ development thereby providing significant savings and much improved project management to the company. Followed the SDLC process by providing the documentation for each project.

Provide tier two technical store support for additional applications including Winpay, DEX, Corporate Escape, Price Checker, and Gift Registry, Visual Labor Management, and Resource Management.  These applications run on AIX, Linux, Windows Server, and IBM Mainframe at corporate and on AIX Servers, IBM 4690 Controllers, IBM registers, Marcole keypads, kiosks, and prices checkers at the stores.

 

Demonstrate versatility and expertice on Unix platform with shell scripting and Perl.  Met Gift Registry data management performance challenges by providing daily incremental database updates, processing millions of records within 15 seconds.

Automate Scanner installation to send page identifying specific issues encountered at any and all stores.

Go to developer on fast paced eCommerse project introducing on-line order entry by writing Awk scripts, assisting with C++ XML parser development, etc.

 

 

Logicalis Inc. – Green Bay, WI

Senior Consultant 01/2005 – 09/2007

Java, HTML, ASP, XML, C/C++, VB 6.0, Oracle PL/SQL, SQLPlus, Oracle Developer, Oracle Reports, WebSphere, VB Script

Provided contracting services to the following companies while employed with Logicalis.

 

Ameriprise Property and Casualty

Logicalis Consultant 03/2006 to 08/2007

Developer on-boarding new states into legacy auto and home insurance application supporting quotes, policies, renewals, declines, and claims. Leverage methodology to perform analysis and design documentation as well as test plans.  This effort included maintaining Java J2EE applications, and corresponding C/C++ middleware to import Internet auto quotes into legacy system. Developed Oracle package to interface to GeoCoding Web Service, accessible to all Oracle packages, functions and procedures. Additional business and corresponding revenue generated as auto and home insurance was introduced to additional states. Adhered to SDLC by writing design, implementation and test documentation.

 

Miron Construction

Logicalis Consultant 01/2006 to 03/2006

Made extensive modifications to autofil MS Word 6.0 templates with customer specific HTML to automatically create contracts and various other documents. Extensive use of VB Script was necessary for this project.  This enhancement introduced rich text, replacing text previously all in upper case providing greatly enhanced documentation.

 

Medco Health

Logicalis Consultant 06/2005 to 01/2006

Assisted with migration to IBM P570 Unix servers to process large volumes of medical and RX claims data for various health care providers. Efforts included upgrading releases of software running on these servers, including Ab Initio, Oracle, and Load Leveler. Security improvements were made utilizing Secure Shell.  Documented migration plan, step-by-step guide for specific migration paths and various test results.  Responsibilities included performing full and incremental Ab Initio runs of client medical and RX claims. Also responsible for debugging issues uncovered during the runs. Developed plans to create Unix file systems on the P570’s. Implemented solution to access UFS mounted file system to legacy IBM SP2 architecture used to FTP data to and from MVS.  These efforts proved to be vital as maintenance was terminating for the existing antiquated computer equipment and software.

Performed Ab Initio development to on-board new clients to process incremental and full medical and RX claims processing for health care providers. Also performed Unix administration by managing user profiles and creating Unix cron jobs.  Each new client onboarded brought in huge new revenue streams.

 

Guaranty Bank

Logicalis Consultant 02/2005 to 06/2005

Assisted with initial installation of IBM Content Manager (CM) solution to electronically manage customer auto loans and home mortgages. This required knowledge of WebSphere Application Server (WAS), JSP, XML, and HTML. This automation improved document retention, accessibility and auditing procedures resulting in major savings for the bank.

 

Medco Health

Tec Systems Consultant 08/2004 to 12/2004

As previously stated, performed data warehousing, utilizing Ab Initio to process large volumes of medical and RX claims data for various health care providers.  Also responsible for documenting the process to onboard new clients as well as maintaining the software development environment written in Unix Shell scripts.

 

School Specialty, Inc.

Tec Systems Consultant 02/2003 to 11/2003

 eCommerce Java J2EE application developer for:

§     Shopping Cart

§     Administrative Toolbox

§     Graphical View Order Status

§      Integrated Vertex Tax API into Shopping Cart

 

Medco Health

Tec Systems Consultant 07/2002 to 01/2003

Provided UNIX Shell Scripting expertise to the infrastructure environment for this company previously described.

 

Sargento

Tec Systems Consultant 06/2002

Provided C/C++ technical expertise to assist with error resolution of bar code scanning application used in the warehouse. Errors surfaced when Sun Solaris and Oracle upgrades were simultaneously made. With limited time to get up to speed, enhanced development environment to make use of the Sun Microsystems Forte debugger to isolate problems.

 

ZyTax

Technical Architect, UNIX Administrator, DBA 06/2001 to 06/2002

Created Motor Fuel Excise Tax Calculator PowerPoint presentation used by sales force.     Provide Linux System Administration and Oracle Database Administration for the Tax Calculator application:

§     Define File System requirements and implement solution.

§     Perform weekly full and daily incremental backups

§     TAR Linux updates

§     Create Shell Scripts to monitor Oracle status and issue email when daemons down or thresholds exceeded.

§     Automate production control process using CVS to move changes into production environment

Assisted with development of C/C++ Tax Calculator application adding new features to meet diverse business requirements.  The Calculator was the first 50 state solution of its kind. In a three-tiered architecture, the Calculator ran as a Unix daemon. It was designed to be linked into an executable in a two-tiered architecture. Available interfaces to integrate to legacy ERP systems included:

§     Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

§     ODBC

§     UNIX Named Pipes

 

ZyQuest

Programming Consultant 04/1996 to 06/2001

Provided contracting services to the companies below while employed with ZyQuest.

 

ZyQuest Programming Consultant 07/2000 to 06/2001

Provided the same services listed above prior to the FuelQuest, Inc. buyout of ZyTax, from ZyQuest as ZyTax was a subsidiary of ZyQuest.

 

American Express

ZyQuest Consultant 12/1999 to 07/2000

Provided data integrity by creating Oracle hot and cold backup UNIX Shell Scripts. Performed analysis and design as well.   Assist UNIX administrator by writing AIX startup and shutdown scripts (Oracle, MQ Series, etc.). Provided automation by creating FTP process to move Oracle data between AIX servers written in a Shell Script.  Taught two of each of the following classes to an audience of some 25 IT personnel:

§     UNIX Fundamentals

§     UNIX Shell Scripting

§     VI editor

 

Instant Auto Insurance

ZyQuest Consultant 03/1999 to12/1999

In less than three weeks, developed a very reliable server application to create auto quotes and then later convert the quotes into policies at point of sale.  All transaction processing occurred real time. Application performance was also very impressive. The system was written in C accessing Oracle via Pro-C using PL/SQL in the form of embedded SQL and stored procedures. The client component of the system was deployed at Ace Check Cashing stores across the US, providing many locations for generating new business.

 

Schneider National, Inc.

ZyQuest Consultant 11/1997 to 03/1999

Developed production control migration processes to move applications into the production environment. Technical Lead and developer to providing scalable automated processes. Designed, documented, developed, tested and installed these production move processes on Sun Solaris UNIX servers using Shell Scripts. Also managed these projects with respect to developing and maintaining project plans and estimates to complete. Specific duties consisted of:

· UNIX System Administration performing release upgrades and applying patches, performance monitoring, and installing hardware.

· Analyze, design, document and implement sophisticated Lawson ERP Production Move process including ability to roll back to the previous release. Led meetings to gather requirements for this project. Conducted design meetings to ensure feasibility and efficiency. This application and corresponding documentation was later made available to Johnson & Johnson where it was incorporated into their production control environment. Development and production environments on different UNIX servers required the use of FTP and telnet. Also leveraged sudo to ensure security.

· Java Production Environment Migration: IT Production Control Project Lead, analyst, and implementer for the production control environment on OS/390 UNIX Services. Analyze, design, document and implement production migration. Led meetings to gather requirements and design criteria on this project. Received Certificate of Appreciation award for this effort.

· Additional UNIX Automation: Develop Shell Scripts for Security Administration, Helpdesk, and Lawson User Menu.

· Training: Developed curriculum and conducted training for UNIX Fundamentals and UNIX Shell Scripting classes.

· Wrote Awk script to convert Comma Separated Value (CSV) records to fixed record length format for a Lawson application taking into account that comment fields often times included commas.

· PVCS Software Configuration Management (SCM) Administrator.

 

Fujitsu

ZyQuest Contractor 04/1996 to 11/1997

Software Engineer

For the Fujitsu Wireless Cellular Phone division, embedded authentication software and prepaid software into the various wireless handsets written in C.

 

Krueger International

Project Leader - New Technologies 10/1994 to 03/1996

Led successful Sales Force Automation project, analyzing, designing and assisting in the development of integrated laptop environment for the sales force, this after two earlier failed attempts before being hired on. Key player in selection of laptops and software used by the sales force as well as implementing the infrastructure.  Responsible for all third party vendor relationships pertinent to the technical aspects of the sales force laptops.

Responsible for organizing, planning and conducting all technical aspects of a very successful national sales force training session.  Over 100 sales representatives, divided into four groups, each at different phases of the rollout, were accounted for. One group received their laptops with the basic software, and each remaining group received new software and upgrade to the existing software.  All groups received the training necessary to leverage the laptops.  Also performed ccMail training to one of the groups and received great feedback.

 

Kimberly Clark

Analyst/Programmer 02/1992 to 10/1994

For this international consumer product’s company, developed and maintained a sales force automation order entry system written in Microsoft C. Responsible for major enhancements to this application including:

· Integral analyst and developer on the project to provide Market Program updates to customers via EDI

· Ability to Fax product specifications to customers

· Conceived, analyzed, designed and developed initial version Electronic Software Distribution to the sales reps

· Overhauled the sales force installations with ecstatic response as the new process dramatically cut down on troubleshooting calls to corporate support personnel.

· Solved a compatibility problem between new laptops and the software that ran on them. I sought out the

· Opportunity to assist with this problem as it had been holding up the rollout for over a month.

· Only developer to write transaction applications on the data communication link between the sales force laptops and the corporate computer center.

· Developed the software promotion environment consisting of UNIX Shell Scripts leveraging the MKS toolkit.

Responsible for all aspects of the SDLC including documentation leveraging a customized version of the Ernst & Young Methodology.

 

Consultant 11/1990 to 2/1992

Provided C programming expertise using Microsoft C to complete a floundering PC based sales force automation order entry system for Kimberly Clark being developed by an outside vendor. All objectives were accomplished as a reliable system was introduced to the field sales force in a timely manner.

 

Vboss

Programmer/Analyst 12/1989 to 09/1990

Developed bank automation software for financial institutions to provide teller and platform services written in Microsoft C.

 

AAL

System Design Specialist 06/1987 to 12/1989

Software developer for the sales force running point of sale illustrations on laptops written in Microsoft C. Sales force regarded the application developed, a Disability Income Insurance proposal system, as the best software to be developed within the IT organization to date.

 

AT&T Bell Laboratories (i.e. Lucent Technologies)

Senior Technical Associate 02/1979 to 06/1987

For this major telecommunications company, served as a member of a department responsible for developing and maintaining a set of software development tools for the most sophisticated electronic switching system. Received Extraordinary Contribution Award for efforts during a major rewrite of the 5 ESS development environment. This effort consisted of writing C programs and UNIX Shell Scripts as well as training over 500 5ESS developers on the use of conversion tools. Also provided Unix Administration with responsibilities including installing new Unix releases, upgrades patches, and system backups. Other responsibilities consisted of providing help desk support to the 5ESS development community.

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