Senior I.T. Consultant
Various: (Georgia, US) Provide executive leadership as head of national IT. Responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation, and support as an integral component of business plan. Engineered futureproofing of IT's performance and service levels. Transformed IT into a strategic business partner. Manage and delivered multiple advanced technology projects consisting of Artificial Neural Networks, TF – IDF and various machine learning module projects on time and within budget.
Director of Application Engineering
Pioneer Technology: (Tennessee, US) Responsible for the management of applications engineering team who research, collect and report information on the ability and capacity of or as well as our clients products and competing systems. I oversee and contribute to the design and development of equipment and systems or redesign to existing applications to fulfill the needs of customers. I ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. Often act as advisor to applications engineering team regarding projects, tasks, and operations. Familiar with a variety of the manufacturing, healthcare and financial services concepts, practices, and procedures. I am actively involved in the planning, architecting, development, testing and deployment of applications using a variety or technologies. Constantly rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. I report directly to the CIO
IT MES Solution Architect
Alcon/Novartis: (Georgia, US) My focus is to understand the business environment of the business area being supported. I facilitate work between business and IT groups to translate requirements and enable creation of value added IT solutions. Implements, troubleshoots, and maintains service quality for IT managed applications. Providing high level expert, technical support and consultation to the business and IT management. Decisions on application design/implementation and infrastructure changes that optimize resources, availability, and issue resolution, Using my experience with installation, implementation, and support of the following software applications and hosting platforms.
Siemens SIMATIC IT (MES) Solutions Architect
Serta Simmons Bedding: (Florida, US) As a MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Engineer I was a key member of the IT organization I helped execute SSB’s long term plant automation vision. I brought strategic technical skills to enabling me to lead in deployment, maintenance, support and continued enhancements of SSB’s installations of the SIMATIC IT MES software. In this role, I assisted in requirements gathering, technical specifications, design and development of SIMATIC IT rollouts in a mattress manufacturing environment, and design of interfaces. He/she will act as the technical lead in interacting with teams of specialized contractors, as well as an individual contributor to software architecture design, issues resolution, and integration into enterprise systems.
Lead (MES) Solutions Architect
Dupont®: (Virginia, US) In this position I am providing primary support and development for a Shop Floor application and related systems running in a 24x7 manufacturing environment. The Shop Floor application (or Manufacturing Execution System) collects and tracks product, process, and quality information through the multi-step manufacturing process.
Sr. Software Engineer
Retail Data LLC.®: (Virginia, US) Defines site objectives by analyzing user requirements; envisioning system features and functionality. Designs and develops user interfaces to Internet/intranet applications by setting expectations and features priorities throughout development life cycle; determining design methodologies and tool sets; completing programming using languages and software products; designing and conducting tests. Recommends system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives. Integrates applications by designing database architecture and server scripting; studying and establishing connectivity with network systems, search engines, and information servers. Creates multimedia applications by using authoring tools. Completes applications development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
Business Systems Analyst
Capital One®: (Virginia, US) Responsible for liaising extensively with external or internal clients, analyzing clients' existing systems and translating client requirements into highly specified project briefs. • Responsible for the identification of options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability. reating logical and innovative solutions to complex problems. • Drawing up specific proposals for modified or replacement systems. Producing project feasibility reports.
Instructor – Computer Science
ECPI College of Technology: (Virginia, US) Instructed students in the web development and programming curriculum. Courses consisting of html, javascript and css. Focusing on form validation and development modularity for code and style portability. Current Instructor ratings: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1280531 Classes Taught: HTML, CSS, Javascript, C, C++, PHP, ASP.Net
Software Developer II
Cegedim: (Virginia, US) Utilize current software coding, database design and architecture knowledge to write new features or bug fixes to existing or in development console and web based applications. To facilitate better use or automation of standard business processes within the new or existing applications. While adhering to design specifications or user requirements provided in the SRF. - Monitor, manipulate client data stored in Sql Server Database for the “As needed” use or fixes as required by users data manipulation for reporting or use within the application. Combination of development skills used are Sql w/ Stored Procedures & DTS Packages, VB.net & JavaScript programming languages, Crystal reports for client specific .pdf reporting.
Programmer II
Openfirst: (Virginia, US) Openfirst a mass mailing postal printing company, duties include process and application optimization and trouble shooting. • Inherent focus on business process reengineering. In house web, desktop and network application development using VB.net, VB scripts and VB6. • Developed a web based client Job requirements submission page through .pdf forms (Created in Adobe Designer). • Developed job management application for increased error proofing and improved file control w/ logging. Developed numerous scripts for network activity logging, user and traffic management. In a Server 2003, XP pro environment.
Application Developer
Boys and Girls Club: (Virginia, US) Internship where I designed and coded a secure web-based ASP site/application for membership tracking and report generation. Developed using a variety of tools such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, VS .Net (VB.net) during migration from classic ASP, Connections and commands ran against the access DB using hand coded SQL statements, Javascript, ADO as well as ADO.net. All done on an IIS6 web-server managed with Server 2003
11H Infantryman & 95B Military Police Officer
United States Army: (North Carolina, US) Private E-1 through Sergeant E-5,11H Airborne heavy anti-armor infantryman, 95B Military Police Officer. 4 ½ years experience participating in and supervising combat and peacetime tactical operations. - Proficient in the operation and maintenance of numerous types of hand held, shoulder-fired and vehicle mounted weapons.