Contracted to manage an extranet application using Visual InterDev 6.0 and SQL Server. It is the travel industry’s only online, custom commission reporting application that enables travel agents to view their weekly commissions. NPC is one of the largest credit card transaction processors in the U.S. today.

• Web/DBA Team Lead for a new project incorporating ASP, COM+, and SQL 2000 which involves processing commission payments for travel agent oriented companies.
• Design and develop web-based screens used by Customer Service representatives that allow them to monitor and update travel agents’ data for quick customer response.
• Create SQL DTS Packages to read third-party data files into the database.
• Discovered data inconsistencies potentially costing thousands.
• Primary troubleshooter providing quick diagnosis of problems and rapid solution implementation.

Acquired to lead a team of web developers to design and develop an extranet application using Visual InterDev 6.0, Active Reports and SQL Server that allows the national sales staff to quote and order products. Lightyear, formerly known as UniDial, specializes in telecommunication services.

• Managed projects and delegated tasks while coordinating deployment of application updates.
• Setup and maintained Development, Test, and Production systems for the extranet application as well as administer the SQL Servers for each.
• Designed and developed MTS COM objects in Visual Basic.
• Attended .NET seminars for future port of application to .NET platform.

Hired to develop Visual C++ and SQL Server based client-server applications for Ashland Petroleum Corporation. Company is one of the fastest growing consulting firms in the nation.

• Designed and developed an intranet application using ASP, Crystal Reports and SQL Server for the Credit Department which allows them to determine the total credit limit for their customers.
• Designed and developed an intranet application that displays refinery measures in table and graph form. It uses ChartFX for graphing and frames for easy navigation. The application uses Active Server Pages and JavaScript.
• Designed and developed a credit card repayment system that allows service stations to receive payment of credit card purchases quickly and accurately. Uses both user interface and batch style programs to accomplish the task.
• Created a system that calculates and awards rebates to service stations. It tracks all relevant service station information and determines the amount of rebate awarded based on the type of rebate plan.

Acquired to manage a telephone switch data translation program. Company is among the largest public network equipment suppliers in the United States. Headquartered in South Florida with more than a hundred years of telecommunications experience and customers that include Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, and Bell South.

• Oversee and enhance a telephone switch translator written in C++ for UNIX on a SUN SPARCserver 1000. This program translates the competitors' switch data to Siemen's EWSD switch data. It contains a Motif user interface and reports any discrepancies it found during the translation.
• Designed and developed data manipulation utilities that easily translate telephone data files based on the given specifications. These useful programs have become a time-saver for the database group.

Assigned to completely manage a newly purchased logic design software package called CUPL. Company is the 2nd largest producer of device programming tools in the programmable silicon industry. A trusted name in South Florida since 1983 with customers including NASA, Harris, Digital, and many prominent universities.

• Designed, programmed, and documented installation program and procedures for software. Acknowledged as intuitive and error-free by customers rating it as excellent. Became the standard installation program for all commercially available software created by the company.
• Continually design and develop "tag-along" programs that enhance and add value to the software. These useful additions have become time-saving design tools for digital designers.
• Documented all new features to software resulting in the creation of supplemental manuals that are distributed to all customers.
• Independently tested all enhancements and fixes to software significantly reducing customer problems and complaints.
• Consistently provide quick customer service responses to complex technical problems.
• Installed data communications hardware and software and instructed customer service staff on its usage. Updated and monitored file areas on company bulletin board system.
• Daily administration of company's Internet account.

Recruited as a Cooperative Education graduate student to assist departments within the Information Systems division. Company produces one of the most successful newspapers in South Florida and whose parent company is the Chicago Tribune. Quickly learned COBOL, Datatrieve, and VAX DCL languages for creation of programs on a VAX 11/780.

• Created and documented Call Detail Report program which reported all phone calls in and out of the company for budget purposes. Well-liked by the president and vice-presidents of the company.
• Trained fellow employees on Macintoshes which included instructions for document creation and project scheduling software.

• Entered under the Time-Shortened Degree program.
• Accepted to the Graduate Degree program

• Henry Zieke
• Nathan Stewart
• Art Weiss
• Ryan Teixeira