Kevin J. Rice

Address:	2500 Behan Rd., Crystal Lake, IL 60014
Phone:	Home: (815) 479-0880 Cell: (847) 845-RICE
Email:	Kevin@justanyone.com

SUMMARY

Software engineer with B.S.C.S. and 20 years experience doing highly technical client/server architecture and development over the full software life cycle, primarily in Python, Perl, and C.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

INDUSTRIES:  Financials / Markets, Construction accounting, Capital Markets (Risk), Retail, Credit, Consumer Electronics, Military, Education, Petrochemical, Insurance, Telecom, HR,  Publishing.

APPLICATIONS: Financials (FINRA / OATS, FIX protocol), Providers, E-Commerce, Web infrastructure, CGI Web Development, Web Page Design, Internet Security, Embedded real-time systems, Consumer Electronics, Telecom, Industrial Control Systems, Turbomachinery, Web-Based Recruiting, Software Configuration Management (SCM == version control tools & processes), cryptography.

PLATFORMS: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat), Windows (all), Solaris, Linux, HP/UX, Embedded, AS/400

LANGUAGES: Python, Perl, C, C# .NET, Java, VBA/Excel, C++, Cobol, SQL, HTML, Ada, Assembler, Lisp, Pascal

DATABASES: Postgres, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Informix, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access, Paradox, Foxpro, ODBC, Vax/VMS RDB, Lotus Notes.

NETWORKING:  Ethernet, sockets, DHCP, TCP/IP, POP3, PPP, cabling, firewalls, security, routers, NAT, Internet protocols, authentication & authorization, SSL / TLS.

GUI DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:  Eclipse, Visual Studio, AIC Corvette, X/Motif.

OTHER SOFTWARE:  WebWare for Python, Pylons, Mod_Perl, Apache, BBThreads, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, MS Office, Star Office, Jakarta, Tomcat, Awk, Korn / Bourne (bash) Shell, C-Shell, Make, sed, emacs, Unix shell scripting, vi, Vax VMS DCL & VMS utilities, Norbert DOD, PGP, Roguewave.

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· Employment History: http://justanyone.com/KevinJRiceEmploymentHistorySummary.doc

EDUCATION
B.S., Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1992

PROJECT EXPERIENCE for Kevin J. Rice (contact information below):

Lead Trade Support Analyst, Citadel Corporation

6/2010 to present, 1 year

For a large hedge fund trading desk handling 6% of the U.S. Equities and Options market, developed and enhanced automation for trading desk applications and back-end systems.  Performed debugging and troubleshooting on FIX Protocol lines; monitoring, system support, and maintenance; designed and built automated systems to process and monitor trading systems.  Set up new FIX lines and certified new clients.  Rewrote compliance FINRA OATS processing of equities flow.  Designed and built several internal websites (Django and Cgi), enhanced many pages.  Mostly coded in Perl and Python, heavy interaction with Sybase (DBD::Sybase), with some ksh (Korn shell scripting). 

Environment:  Linux, Python, Perl, Windows 7, Sybase, FIX, OATS, Django, ksh, markets.

Senior Software Engineer / Architect, Textura Corporation

2/2005 to 5/2010, 5 years

For a construction documents- and payments-processing startup, was employee #5 (now 80+).  Designed, built large portions of the app in a small team, working closely with business analysts.  App featured document e-signing, ACH payments processing, and business portal (B2B) in an ASP (application service provider) model.  Python language, SQL and ORM database.  Development was highly Agile (weekly releases) using TDD (test-driven development).

· Did architecture, design, and coding on many major feature deployments;

· Extensive use of SQLObject & SQLAlchemy ORMs (like Hibernate) to Postgres database, with complex SQL queries when needed for optimization;

· Heavy OO design, development, incl. business analysis, coding, data conversion, and deployments;

· Fitnesse (functional) and Nose (unit) testing frameworks (similar to JUnit);

· Apache / Python / Postgres;  some Linux (Ubuntu and Redhat) system administration, documentation.

Lead Application Developer, BankOne / JP Morgan Chase

4/2002 to 1/2005, 3 years

• Architected, developed, and maintained Capital Markets risk financials data warehouse and website (primary users: CEO & Board), was technical team lead for 5 developers on project;

• Wrote 40,000 lines of Perl to scan 350+ file types & load data into Sybase (migrated to Oracle);
• Co-developed 2000+ lines VBA, 3000+ lines of complex SQL to extract data into Excel reports;
• Wrote 2000+ lines Visual Studio .NET C# code for misc. support functions tying in other project;
• Dealt extensively with capital markets greeks data (delta, vega, rho, gamma);
• Co-sponsored Bank’s MS .Net User Group; Mentored;  Put Linux/Perl into Bank’s mainstream;
• Environment: Solaris, Windows, Apache mod_perl, Win32 OLE, SiteMinder, Capital Markets financials.

Senior Software Architect / Developer, Consultant

Various Companies in Des Moines, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois

5/1995 to 4/2002, 7 years

• Created Single-Sign-On-enabled secure web sessions so UBS clients could buy bonds online;
• Created version control tools for Sears.com’s 140+ person dev team, eased a QA nightmare;
• Automated a stock exchange clearinghouse’s data entry process, reduced 2.5 headcounts;
• Discovered $250M savings for Sears Credit Card through improved credit scoring;
• Implemented IBM’s Net.Commerce, got Borders.com online faster w/ increased efficiency;
• Helped more college students afford loans w/ Student Loan app to show predicted loan payments;
• Created publisher’s magazine subscription website, vastly increased international subscriptions;
• Created conversion programs to close down a company after a merger, resolved issues quickly;
• Coding, QA, documentation, and other technical project work at several other locations.
• Real-time embedded C PID controller for turbocompressor gas pipeline (2 yrs., fulltime)
• Environments:  Perl, C, C++, Java, Cobol, Solaris, Windows, Linux, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL.