Experience

System Performance Analyst 05/98 – Present Allegis Group, Inc. Hanover, MD

	Responsible for identifying critical measures for monitoring critical business application performance
	Develop and implement a plan to obtain, store, and report on bottlenecks, trends, and overall performance of the enterprise system as it relates to critical business applications.
	Assist with capacity planning issues, and load testing applications.

Quality Assurance Manager 07/96 - 05/98

	Responsible for ensuring quality within all applications developed within the Allegis Group IT Applications Department and that third party applications work properly with applications developed within the department.
	Write quality assurance (QA) standards and procedures documentation
	Audit those standards and procedures, evaluating (QA) tools, managing QA efforts for all developed applications
	Migrate applications from the development to test and production environments, and managing the QA Staff.
	This environment is mostly a client/server shop, utilizing mainly IBM PCs with WinNT as the client and SUN Enterprise Machines with Solaris.
	Sixty-five percent (60%) of the applications developed here are using PeopleSoft with Oracle and thirty percent (35%) of the applications utilize HTML and JAVA with Oracle.

Computer Software Consultant 09/95 - 06/96 Random House, Inc. Columbia, MD

	Assisted in designing and developing an order manifesting system.
	This system was developed using PowerBuilder, Radio Frequency software, C, and Sybase.
	The application utilizes two Sybase databases to track shipment orders as they are handled by the shipping department, therefore allowing easier means to track shipments, print manifests and bills of lading or gather data for electronic data file transmission.
	Maintained a warehouse management system written in C and embedded SQL to utilize AIX and Sybase on a RS/6000 (model 590). This application employs intelligent conveyor systems, automatic scaling, and radio frequency transmission to improve the efficiency of warehouse operations.

Computer Software Consultant 06/95 - 09/95 Ryland Homes, Inc. Columbia, MD

	Designed and implemented test plans for a GUI application primarily written in MS-Visual Basic.
	The application was designed and developed with interfaces to MS-Access and MS-Word. The test plans covered both basics and functional testing.
	We were able to use MS-Test to generate test data and execute some of the basics and functional testing.

Computer Software Consultant 01/95 - 05/95 Servantis, Inc. Owing Mills, MD

	Enhance a financial software package by converting it from a single user program to a multi-user program.
	While implementing these enhancements I had to consider the following: commit points of a transaction, locking techniques (shared and exclusive), alternatives for a user if a lock occurs, recovery techniques (rollback and immediate updates), trade-offs between performance and execution size, etc.
	These enhancements took place on a DOS platform using the database package MDBS.

Software Engineer 10/90-12/94 Roadnet Technologies, Inc. Timomium, MD

	Designed and implemented procedures to address quality during the software development life cycle.
	These procedures involved reviews, configuration management, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and deployment.
	These procedures were implemented using IBM PC, Sun Workstation, ARCserve, PVCS, REXX, MS-Access, MS-Excel, WordPerfect.
	Formalized procedures to ascertain client views concerning quality of the product being delivered and customer satisfaction.
	Lead system testing of a client/server application. The server was running on an OS/2 platform with clients running on DOS and OS/2. Communication was via TCP/IP and Named Pipes.
	Developed tractor-trailer scheduling reporting software from design to system testing.
	This development also involved designing and implementing a database program written in Sybase.
	All development took place in the following environment: Sun Workstation, Unix, Sybase, SCCS, Make, Purify, WordPerfect.
	Developed package optimization systems from design to system testing. This involved the following hardware and software IBM PC, OS/2, C, and WordPerfect.

Programmer/Analysis 06/88 - 10/90 Computer Sciences Corp. Greenbelt, MD

	Developed modules to build an embedded simulator for a proposed NASA satellite.
	These modules were developed using DecVax, IBM PC, 1750a Microprocessor, VMS, DOS, Tartan, Assembler, ADA, Fortran, and C.

Scientific Programmer 09/86 - 06/88 Sigma Data Services Corp. Greenbelt, MD

	Maintained packages to analyze, transform, and represent graphically meteorological data.
	The packages were maintained using the following: IBM 3081, Cyber 205, MVS, TSO, ISPF, Fortran and Wolfplot.

Summer Intern 1985 - 1986 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Greenbelt, MD

Developed Fortran programs on the DecVax to analyze and plot data using a graphical analysis package.

Graduate Assistant 09/85 - 05/86 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH

	Tutored undergraduates in lower level computer science courses.
	The languages tutored most often were Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and Basic.

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