Kevin J. Rice

SUMMARY
Software engineer with B.S.C.S. and 14 years experience doing highly technical client/server architecture and development over the full software life cycle, primarily in Perl and C.

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), cryptography.

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

LANGUAGES: Perl, C, OO Perl , C#. NET, Java, VBA/Excel, C++, Cobol, SQL, HTML, Ada, 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, SSL / TLS.

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 for Kevin J. Rice (contact information below);

Bank One / JPMorgan Chase Risk Management Dept.

4/2002 to 1/2005, 3 years.

• Architected, developed, and maintained Capital Markets risk financials data warehouse, reducing risk department workload from 3 full-time positions generating reports once/week to 1 person generating reports daily in 1 hour;
• Acted as technical team lead for 5 developers creating 7 new & 8 replacement automated risk reports providing new info not previously available to decision makers in easy-to-read formats;
• Architected, developed, and maintained Capital Markets risk financials website, moving dozens of emailed reports to a single website, updated constantly, read by CEO and board-level VP's;
• Added automated system fault & performance monitoring and DR capabilities, drastically improved a vital system's fault detection, sent alerts via automatic emails to support pagers;
• Architected and developed in-house systems administration inventory-control database & website, demonstrably improved 70-person team's coordination & change control abilities;
• Co-sponsored Bank's MS .Net User Group; Mentored; Pushed Linux/Perl to Bank's mainstream.

Technical Specifics:

• 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).

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;
• Proved Citadel's compiler migration was ahead of its time (saving much development effort);
• Automated a stock exchange clearinghouse's data entry process, reduced 2.5 headcounts;
• Proved Sears Credit Card scoring could save $250M / year with 3 months further work;
• Helped set up infrastructure for new recruiting division at large HR company;
• Implemented IBM's Net.Commerce, got Borders.com online faster w/ increased efficiency;
• Created a Student Loan app to predict loan payments; helped many more students go to college;
• Created publisher's magazine subscription website, vastly increased international subscriptions;
• Created conversion programs to close down a company after a merger, resolved issues quickly;
• Did coding, QA, documentation, and other technical project work at several other locations.

Environments: Perl, C, C++, Java, Cobol, Solaris, Windows, Linux, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL.

Software Engineer, Compressor Controls Corp. 

Kevin J. Rice, 335 N. Shaddle Ave., Mundelein IL 60060-2410 (847) 845-7423