Kevin J. Rice

 

SUMMARY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (B.S.C.S.) with over 14 years of experience in Client/Server software design, doing full-life cycle design and development work. 

OBJECTIVE:  Technical / programming position with interesting challenges. 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

INDUSTRIES: Capital Markets Banking / Financials, Retail, Credit, Consumer Electronics, Military, Education, Petrochemical, Insurance, Telecom, Human Resources, Publishing.

APPLICATIONS: E-Commerce, Web infrastructure, Financials, CGI Web Development, Web Page Design, Internet Security, Embedded real-time systems, Consumer Electronics, VRU Telephony, Telecommunications, Industrial Control Systems, Turbomachinery, Web-Based Recruiting, Software Configuration Management (SCM == version control tools & processes).  

PLATFORMS: Windows (all), Solaris, Linux, HP/UX, Embedded, AS/400, Honeywell, DG

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

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

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

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

OTHER SOFTWARE: Mod_Perl, Apache, SourceForge, BBThreads, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, MS Office, Star Office, Jakarta, Tomcat, Awk, Korn Shell, Bourne (bash) Shell, C-Shell, Make, Sed, Emacs, Various Unix shell Scripting, Vi, Vax VMS DCL & VMS utilities, Norbert DOD, PGP, Ace, Roguewave.

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

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Lead Application Developer, Bank One / JPMorgan Chase (employee), 4/2002 to present, 3 years. 

For Bank One / JPM Chase Risk Management, Architected, developed, maintained Capital Markets risk financials data warehouse and reports website:

• Architected, implemented,  40,000 lines of Perl plus 2000 lines of VBA/ Excel
• Scanning, parsing, and loading to Sybase & Oracle from 350+ data sources across 12 BankOne and external departments.
• Created financials reports for upper management (CEO, COO, senior VP's).
• Some MS Visual Studio .NET C# code (wrote/maintained approx. 2000 lines).
• Team eventually expanded to 5 developers; I continued as project architect.
• Full product life cycle – Requirements, Architecture, development, QA, documentation,, maintenance, conversion, decommissioning.
• Heavy SQL (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL); Capital markets greeks (delta, vega, rho, gamma).

Various other tasks:

MS.NET Users Group; helped push Open Source Linux / Perl Bank's mainstream, Mentored.

Architecture & development on several internal websites, incl. one w/ mod_perl Apache for sysadmin inventory control and workflow.

Environment: Solaris, Windows, Perl, Apache mod_perl, Sybase, Oracle, SQL,Excel VBA, C# .NET, PDF conversion, Win32 OLE, Siteminder, Capital Markets financials.

 Important Note:  The next 16 job descriptions were consulting jobs, both as on a contract basis and as a full-time employee of various consulting firms.  These jobs vary in length from several months to about a year each.

 
Consultant, UBS Warburg (Interactive Business Systems IBS), 4/2001 to 12/2001, 7 months. 

Lead Developer for AuthSSO, a single sign on (username/password) application protecting bank external-facing internet sites. 

Client/Server Application 3-tier web architecture authentication and authorization engine written in OO Perl as a mod_perl Apache plug-in. Object oriented (OO) design and development. DBI::Sybase; Socket communications & multiprocessing parent/child calls. Over 8000 lines of OO Perl code. Required heavy real-world knowledge & use of network & internet security toolsets.  SSL, strong encryption / cryptographic systems.  Some documentation, client interface, support, training.  Project included some personnel management over other developers. Created automated testing tools. Implemented interconnection to UBSW site from FXAll.com and TheMarkets.com, two major financial portals. Project was a UBSW corporate standard; development was moved to London. Received merit prize & recognition at annual IT departmental meeting.

 Environment: Perl, OO Perl, Apache mod_perl, cryptography, Sun Solaris, DBI::Sybase, SSO, International banking / financials, web security, authentication, networking.

Consultant, CNA Commercial Insurance (Maxim), 1/2001 to 4/2001, 3 months.

• Configured, installed, and customized 3 Perl-based message board systems (WWWThreads, now BBThreads) for an internal corporate website. Configured Apache and Netscape webservers. Tied message board into Oracle and MySQL databases. Sysadmin work of compiling, installing various Perl modules (incl. DBI / DBD) on NT and HP/UX.  Meetings, business needs assement, documentation.   
• Programmed some small Java servlets using Borland JBuilder and Apache Jakarta Tomcat. Edited and rewrote documentation for another unrelated project.
• Implemented a web-based file explorer for corporate document storage. Assisted with a variety of other website duties.

Environment: HP/UX, Perl, Apache, Java, Jakarta Tomcat, WWWThreads, DBI, DBD::Oracle, MySQL.

Consultant, Citadel Investments, Inc. (Synectics), 11/2000 to 12/2000, 2 months.

For a major hedge fund, attempted migration of many in-house C and C++ applications to a new compiler version.  The project failed because the 3^rd party, purchased libraries these apps linked to were not yet capable of compilation under 64-bit Solaris and/or not being ready for the new compiler version. Target environment was a Sun Solaris 2.6 box, moving from Sun C++ 4.2 to Sun C++ Forte 6 update 1 (a.k.a Forte 5.2).  The 3rd party libraries were ACE, Roguewave, FFTW, and many others.  Documented and established clearly that tools were not compatible and project was not possible.

Environment: Sun Solaris, NT, C++, RogueWave, ACE, FFTW, Korn shell script, Sun C++ 4.2, Sun Forte 6 compiler.

Consultant, Chicago Stock Exchange (Interactive Business Systems, Inc., IBS), 7/2000 to 11/2000, 4 months.

For the clearing department of a major stock exchange, architected and implemented a data entry automation project. Replaced a laborious, fax-based process with secure FTP transfer and automated processing into their complex proprietary financial stock settlement system (the SIAC, DTC, DTCC / NSCC systems). Worked co-project manager, architect, developer, tester, etc. Approx. 6K lines Vax C code. Educated and assisted client re: network security, Secure FTP, and encryption tools (PGP). Program now in use and saving 1.5 full-time people's worth of work.

Environment: Vax VMS, VMS DCL, C, PGP, SIAC, DTC, DTCC, Financials, Stocks, clearinghouse operations, high reliability.

Consultant, Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Synectics), 9/1999 to 7/2000, 10 months.

Architected and implemented a software configuration management (SCM) plan for Sears.com’s 20,000+ file Broadvision ecommerce website. This SCM solution tied PVCS version control to Lotus Notes problem tracking. Initially implemented as 5,000 lines of Solaris/Unix Korn shell scripts. Later, translated to about 5,000 lines of Perl. Implemented rsync (rsync.samba.org) content promotion/migration to replace expensive, complex, and error-prone commercial product. Researched, wrote 32-page white paper on implementing SCM and SEI’s CMM Capability Maturity Model (white paper became SCM corporate standards document).  Research, documentation, rearchitecture on some IT processes.  Created and maintained departmental website.  Assisted troubleshooting for main Sears.com ecommerce website.  Also, NT, Linux, and Solaris R&D lab setup: installation, config, network diagnosis, repair on 35+ machine lab including 20+ Sun Solaris boxes. Other products: evaluated Marimba Castanet and Timbale, Caliber RM, Continuus, and Rational ClearCase & Clearquest for possible use.

Environment: Solaris Unix, Perl, Korn shell script, Rsync, Marimba, SCM, Rational, CMM, website

Consultant, Van Kampen, Inc. (Intellimark), 8/1999 to 9/1999, 1 month.

Implemented a browser-cookie based session tracking (click-path) for VanKampen.com using NSAPI (Netscape Application Programming Interface) calls in Sun Solaris C language. Quickly learned required material and impented code. Accomplished task; was a quick job; code now in use.

Consultant, Sears, Roebuck (Intellimark & Acxiom), 1/1999 to 7/1999, 7 months.

Lead Systems Architect on a rearchitecture effort for their Sears’ credit card creditworthiness risk assessment processing system. Existing system was a combination flat-file database and 4-gl scripting language, was exceedingly slow and ill-featured. Prototyped; proved with benchmarking programs the new architecture would bring processing time down from over 13 hours to 8 minutes. Designed data mart / data warehouse for 100+ Terabyte system. Wrote conversion programs in C, the 4GL scripting language (‘DoD’, Data on Demand), Unix Korn shell script, syncsort script, and Informix SQL. Some of these programs interacted with large, disparate data soures across the company and coordinated data import to the conversion system. Project was delayed by Y2K freeze, but employees used and finished it later.

ENVIRONMENT: Consulting, WinNT, Norbert DOD, Digital Compaq Unix, C, Syncsort, Y2K, conversion, Informix, VLDB.

Consultant, Interim Technology (in-house project), 7/1998 to 12/1998, 5 months.

For a brand-new hourly consulting division of Interim Technology, Inc., was technical project lead / Systems Architect.  Designed, did some impementation on web-based recruiting site and call center software for software contracting (passed further development off to a corporate development center in Florida).  R&D on voice recognition, streaming audio and video, database tie-in, telephony/call center tie-in, webspider/webrobot, web-based document publishing.  Designed website content, database work.  Full range technical HR questions – legalities, standards & practices.  Functionally became an expert in web-based recruiting. Budget was $50,000.  Coordinated with both external website graphics company and another internal development team implementing parts of the site.

ENVIRONMENT: Consulting; WinNT; HTML; JAVA; NETSCAPE; IE; MS Internet Information Server (IIS); SmartSpider; Net-it; NaturallySpeaking; RealVideo; Access; MS SQL Server.

Consultant, Kemper Insurance (Keane), 5/1998 to 7/1998, 3 months.

Programming and support for C / Unix / SQL insurance claim processing system; application was at end of life cycle (Y2K issue).

ENVIRONMENT: Consulting, WinNT, HP / UX unix, Informix SQL, Korn shell scripting, Insurance industry.

Consultant, Ciber, Inc (in-house project), 3/1998 to 5/1998, 3 months.

Assisted with website development and graphics generation.

Environment: Consulting, HTML, Paint Shop Pro, Frontpage, Win NT.

Consultant, Borders Waldenbooks (Computer Task Group CTG, IBM), 10/1997 to 2/1998, 5 mo.

Design and development work on combo of Borders.com and in-house Order Request/Tracking system. Middleware tied IBM’s Net.Commerce middleware to Legacy and new Client/Server systems.  Wrote about 7500 lines C and C++ code. Was responsible for the following:

• Created single codebase for both AIX and WINDOWS NT.
• Finished code implementation from 50% done thru rollout.
• Implemented complex business rules tying e-commerce to bookstore sales.
• High reliability requirements (Borders.com and in-store

ENVIRONMENT: Distribution; UNIX; AIX; C; C++; WINDOWS NT; Visual Studio; SQL, ODBC, DB2

Consultant, Iowa Student Loan Liquidity (CTG), 5/1997 to 9/1997, 5 months.

 Designed and developed a student loan calculation program for student financial aid offices.  Fat client program (not web based).  Distributed via their website and on every desk of the Iowa State University (48K students) financial aid offices. Application developed using Visual Foxpro running on Windows 95. Developed GUI user interface, VB / Visual Foxpro scripts, architected and implemented complete application. Application used complex financial mathmatics for financials and loan calculcations, incl. Newton’s Method of Positive Positioning, was usable for any combination of loans and payment plans. Application rolled out successfully.ENVIRONMENT: Loan Brokerage; WINDOWS 95; VISUAL FOXPRO; FINANCIALS.

Consultant, Communications Data Services (CTG), 3/1997 to 5/1997, 3 months.

 Designed and developed 50+ different magazine subscription ecommerce CGI web pages.  Pages were the publisher’s own ‘subscribe now’ links (very high traffic), including Men’s Health, The Upper Room, Playboy, Scientific American, and others.

• Wrote, developed HTML, CGI applications in C (and, strangely enough, some .cgi’s in Cobol);
• Created forms and sales promotions (in HTML and cgi’s);
• Co-designed object-oriented version of sites to use dynamic database generation of pages based on click-in source, gender and a randomization factor to chart supply and demand curve.
• Led major effort to promote back-end support for international sales (via web-based applications).

ENVIRONMENT: Consulting; UNIX; SOLARIS; C; HTML; JAVA; CGI; DB2; PERL; ORACLE; NETSCAPE.

Consultant, Microware [div. of Motorola] (CTG), 1/1997 to 3/1997, 3 months.

Designed and implemented complete QA unit testing regimen for Internet-based consumer electronics device. The device was a “grandmother-usable” telephone-like device that sends and retrieves email. The first production run was 100,000 units (thus excellent QA was vital). Created test plan, implemented, and documented complete process and application.

ENVIRONMENT: Software Development; QA; TCP/IP; POP3 email; PPP; UNIX.

Consultant, Systemed Pharmacy, Inc. [div. Merc / Medco] (CTG), 6/1996 to 1/1997, 8 months

For a Fortune 25 pharmaceutical corporation, created programs necessary for business reports and data conversion necessary to support a plant closure. Provided daytime production support of assembly line software.

ENVIRONMENT: Pharmaceutical; Powerhouse; VAX/VMS, Cobol, SQL, C, Vax RDB.

Consultant, Equitable of Iowa Insurance (CTG), 4/1996 to 6/1996, 3 months.

For an insurance company, analyzed the Voice Response Unit (VRU) financial application data and modified supporting applications. Designed and developed the Voice Response Unit.

ENVIRONMENT: Insurance; ACCESS; VRU; MICROFOCUS COBOL; C.

Software Engineer, Croyle & Assoc. (employee), 5/1995 to 11/1995, 6 months.

For a telecommunications firm, designed and developed telephone switching software to route calls through a call center’s VRU. The software was a Client/Server design interacting with VISUAL BASIC client, telecommunications business knowledge base, inter-process communications and multithreaded.

ENVIRONMENT: Telecommunications; C; OS/2; VRU; CTI; ASPECT; X-BASE; SQL; ORACLE.

Software Engineer, Compressor Controls (employee), 7/1993 to 5/1995, 2 years

For an industrial controls corporation, designed and developed gas pipeline pump control software used at 5,000+worldwide locations. The gas pipeline pump control software was developed in real-time in a heavily scientific environment.

• Created software for a custom-built hardware platform and custom operating system.
• Designed highly maintainable code for numerous customizations.
• Created ultra-high reliability requirements due to petrochemical issues.
• Developed the software version control design and implementation for a workgroup of 10

ENVIRONMENT: Industrial Controls; C; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME; Tlib; Petrochemical industry; Version control; PVCS; Windows.

Software Technician, Logicon Technical Services & US Army War College (employee), 6/1992 to 7/1993, 1 year

For a military contractor, designed, developed, and provided production support for complex U.S. Army battle simulation (wargames) software.

• Installed and supported in time-critical environment (2000+ persons, 24x7).
• Provided VAX/VMS system administration in large, complex and temporary environment.
• Created custom email program for military’s specialized environment.
• Provided on-site user classroom training, including writing extensive tech and user manuals.

ENVIRONMENT: Military; C; VAX/VMS; Vax DCL and RDB, various VMS utilities and functions.

Programmer, Intern Programmer, Lawson Associates  / Lawson Software, Inc. (employee), Summer 1991, 1/1990 to 1/1991, and Summer 1989, 18 months.

For a well-known vertical-market business software developer, created a data entry application for financials (Accounts Payable) distributed processing. PARADOX was used to gather data and perform preliminary validation. Wrote user and technical manuals and provided training.

ENVIRONMENT: Financials; Accounts Payable; C; PARADOX; PAL.

Developer Intern, Analysts International Corp. AIC (employee), Summer 1987 Summer 1986 , 6 months.

Software testing and QA projects on Corvet Project, a 1.5 Million line Cobol app that generated stand-alone cobol programs on multiple platforms.

 ENVIRONMENT: QA, adverserial testing, Cobol, application generator

CLIENT LIST:

Bank One / JPMChase, Inc.
UBS Warburg, Inc.
CNA Commercial Insurance, Inc.
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Citadel Investments, Inc.
Synectics, Inc.
Interactive Business Systems, Inc. (IBS)
Acxiom, Inc.
Sears, Roebuck, and Co.
Intellimark, Inc.
Interim Technology, Inc.
Interim IT Associates, Inc.
Keane Inc.
Kemper Insurance Co.
Computer Task Group, Inc.
Borders Waldenbooks, Inc.
IBM (subcontracted)
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp.
Communications Data Services, Inc.
Maxim Group, Inc.
Microware, Inc.
SysteMed Pharmacy
Merc/Medco Pharmaceuticals
Equitable of Iowa Insurance
Croyle and Associates, Inc.
Compressor Controls Corp.
Logicon Data Services, Inc.
Lawson Software, Inc.
Analysts International Corp.