Objective

Seeking a technical leadership position in a demanding team environment. Offer extensive development experience with a record of successful projects with staff of up to 30 persons and budgets of $10MM. Work style is a blend of technical, project management, and leadership disciplines.

Skills

Programming Languages:              Java/J2EE, JSP, JHTML, COM/DCOM, Visual Basic, Visual Smalltalk

Database Technologies:                 Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB/2

Web Technologies:                        HTML, XML, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript

Other Technologies/Standards:      UML, Rational Rose, Object Orientated Analysis and Design (OOAD), Booch, OMT

Platforms:                                    ATG Dynamo, Tomcat, Oracle 9iAS Web Cache, IIS, MTS, Apache, Linux, Solaris Unix, Windows NT/2000, AIX

Development Environments:          Eclipse, Borland JBuilder, IntelliJ Idea, Visual Age for Java,  PVCS, Dynamo Developer’s Workbench, Interdev, Visual SourceSafe

Project Management:                    Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Spiral, Incremental, Summit-D, PMBOK (PMI), Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Personnel Management:                Comprehensive experience including: staffing, recruiting, salary administration, and performance evaluation.

Work Experience

Orbitz -- Cendant Travel Distribution Services                                               October 2004 to present

Director, Travel Technology Solutions

Responsible for application development and support of the booking engine that powers major airlines in the industry.  System features include: online ticket sales (AA.com and NWA.com), airport check-in kiosks and IVR-based award booking systems.

Management of billable team of application developers who provide private-label site customization, GDS connectivity, and 24/7 on-call support.

Extensive client management responsibilities, including contract management and invoicing.

Cars.com                                                                                                May 2001 to October 2004

Division of Classified Ventures LLC

Director of Application Development

Responsible for application development and support during unprecedented growth in the company; leading the company to profitability through tripling the customer base and site traffic to 44MM visits per month.

Managed direct reports responsible for application development, business analysis, functional QA, performance QA, and project management.  Managed team of 20 full-time and contract resources, including a team of off-shore resources in Bangalore India.  Also responsible for staffing 24/7 application support.

Steward of project methodology, applications/systems architecture, and program management.

Responsible for the replacement of the company’s primary consumer website based on J2EE.  Technologies used: JSP, XML/XSL, Interwoven, SQL, Oracle 9i AS Web Cache, ATG Dynamo, Oracle 8i, Solaris and Linux.

Launched customer portal for use by automotive dealerships, which improved customer retention and lowered costs by $1.5MM per year.  Leveraged portal to launch new business product responsible for an additional $1MM in revenue.  Technologies:  JHTML/JSP, SQL, ATG Dynamo, Oracle 8i, O/R mapping and Solaris.

Responsible for the development and maintenance of other consumer, dealer, and business-facing systems.  Technologies: JMS, Hibernate, Solaris, ASP, SQL Server, Oracle 9i, Tomcat, IntelliJ, JProfiler and Ant.

Hands-on development in various strategic short-term and proof-of-concept initiatives.

Responsible for the creation of off-shore development team to augment U.S. efforts, including travel to Bangalore India.

Participation in strategic efforts, including business development, vendor evaluations, and due-diligence activities.

Recipient of the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award.

iExplore Travel, in partnership with National Geographic                               February 2000 to April 2001

Director of Enterprise Application Development

Responsible for all development projects necessary to meet the organization’s operational and B2B needs.  Work ranging from executive sponsorship to hands-on development, with both internal teams and consulting resources. 

Responsible for all hiring and consulting engagements to meet those needs.

Responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s project methodology, based on the Rational Unified Process.

Sponsorship and design responsibility for an application to allow suppliers to manage the inventory available for sale on the consumer website.  Also assumed development responsibilities to resolve challenging technical issues that arose during the project.  Project utilized Rational Rose, ATG Dynamo, HTML, servlets, Oracle, and Solaris.

Project management, design, and development responsibilities for an application to facilitate the accounting needs of the company’s network of commissioned affiliate websites.  Project utilized Rational Unified Process, ATG Dynamo, HTML, Oracle, and Solaris.

Design and development responsibilities for an automated XML feed of the company’s inventory data to a third-party distributor.  Developed using Rational Rose, Java, XML, and Oracle.

Maintenance and development responsibilities for the company’s content management system that drives the consumer website.  Application is written in Visual Basic.

Responsibilities for numerous recruiting and business development engagements.

State Farm Insurance                                                                                 June 1996 to January 2000

System Designer (6/99 to 1/00)

Technical Project Manager (2/97 to 5/99)

Object-Oriented Developer (6/96 to 1/97)

Responsible for the leadership of technical teams of up to 30 persons, with project budgets of up to $10MM.  Extensive experience in the coordination of development teams in disparate offices, including outside the U.S. Experience includes the successful completion of a number of challenging assignments where I was responsible for identifying and resolving leadership and technical issues for “at-risk” projects.

Comprehensive technical and project management responsibilities for a web-based system to automate the settlement of personal property losses.  System utilizes a real-time database of over 30,000 items to identify the correct replacement item from the best available vendor, and automatically submits an order.  The system uses a complex business domain to calculate the appropriate settlement based upon the insured’s policy and state of residence.  Rational Rose, Java applets, HTML, a custom-built Java server running on AIX (IBM Unix).

Design and leadership responsibilities for an application architecture to migrate the company’s life insurance business to an internet platform.  The architecture successfully supports an average of 15,000 transactions per hour.  Rational Rose, Java applets, HTML, custom-built Java server.

Comprehensive design responsibility for numerous web-based applications utilizing a Microsoft platform (ASP, COM, MTS).  Assignments included a project to automate the completion of insurance applications, including the enforcement of state-specific business rules.  The application leveraged existing business logic on the OS/390 platform by using DCOM and MQ-Series technologies, and was adopted for use company-wide.

Numerous object-oriented development assignments using Java and Visual Smalltalk.

Completed over 300 hours of professionally lead project management and leadership training courses, and over 700 hours of similar technical training.

Education

Southwestern Oklahoma State University                                                                                   

Bachelor’s in Business Administration

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

GPA: 3.85 on a 4.0 scale

Current member of the Project Management Institute.