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Minor: Programming Languages,
In addition most MIS courses,

University of Louisiana Lafayette, May 1983.

The CDP examination covers five areas:
1. Computer Hardware,
2. Systems Analysis and Design,
3. Accounting and Quantitative Methods,
4. Computer Programming and Software,
5. Principles of Management.
The CDP marks a high standard of skill and knowledge, a confidential relationship with clients, standards of conduct and of practice, and the observance of an ethical code.

• Competent, reliable professional with a proven record of success in the delivery of systems while serving in a variety of responsible positions.

• Strength in leadership of projects.

• Comprehensive experience in dealing with customers, users, and vendors.

• Experience and skills:
• Computer systems design.
• Analysis of computing problems.
• Process definition and improvement.
• Methodology improvement.
• Algorithm development.
• Technical leadership.
• Software Development.
• Organization and analysis of both process and technical data.
• Database design.

• Articulate and persuasive in written and verbal presentations.

• Professional experience with a variety of programming tools and in a variety of environments.

• Comprehensive experience in implementing and testing large systems.

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Consulting Services:

IT:
• Computer Systems Design.
• Feasibility Studies.
• Legacy Systems Evaluation.
• Professional Project Leadership & Management.
• Project Evaluation.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Software Architecture Design.
• Software Development.
• Test Planning & Design.
• Training.

Evaluations:
•  Development Methodology.
•  IT Infrastructure.
•  Process.
•  Project Controls.
•  QA.
•  Testing.

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Experience: Leadership, Design, Training, Results Consultant, August 2004 - to date.

Services:
IT:
• Computer Systems Design.
• Feasibility Studies.
• Legacy Systems Evaluation.
• Professional Project Leadership & Management.
• Project Evaluation.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Software Architecture Design.
• Software Development.
• Test Planning & Design.
• Training.


Evaluations:
•  Development Methodology.
•  IT Infrastructure.
•  Process.
•  Project Controls.
•  QA.
•  Testing.

Software Design and Development, August 2004 - to date.

Projects:
The CPL Programming Language

Programming Language Tools

Research, August 2004 - to date.

Graph Isomorphism

Associate Professor, Southern University, Baton Rouge, August 2002 - August 2004.

Member of the Graduate Faculty.

Courses:

Graduate: Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Research Methods.

Undergraduate: Object Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Theory.

Service:

Chair of the ABET Accreditation Preparation Committee, Fall 2002.

Author of the Graduate Program Review, Spring 2003.

Compiler, Editor, and Joint Author of the Graduate Program Brochure, Spring 2003.

Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, August 2000 - August 2002.

Member of the Graduate Faculty.

Courses: Computer Science I, Software Engineering I and II, Senior Group Software Project.

Consultant, America Online, February 1999 - July 2000.

System Designs: Negative Certs, Certs Stored as Pairs (CSAP), Product Distribution.

Analysis, programming, and testing of AOL's Software Products system.

Servers and batch production systems development and maintenance.

Environment:

Client-server 24x7 system on 20+ Stratus systems and 10,000+ Unix boxes.

1,000,000 simultaneous on-line users.

PL1, C, VOS, unix, emacs.

Consultant, Kaiser Permanente, MidAlantic, October 1998 - January 1999.

Analysis and planning for the Year 2000 test aging of Kaiser Permanente's on-line database.

Environment:

A 24x7 MUMPS system running on 35+ IBM RS 6000 machines serving some 18,000 on-line users.

Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency, June 1998 - September 1998.

Year 2000 Remediation on EPA's Payroll System.

Analysis, programming, and testing.

Prepared, ran, and evaluated "parallel" runs of remediated code with aged current production files.

Prepared, ran, evaluated integration tests for remediated job streams.

Performed reviews of remediated code.

Developed programs to age files from past and current date to selected future dates.

Developed, tested, and used special purpose programs, JCL, and clists in support of the tasks above.

SEI CMM Level 3, PL/1, VSAM, MVS, OS/390 V2.5, TSO, JCL, Clists, ISPF. Learned COBOL II.

Consultant, DoD Health Systems, January 1998 - June 1998.

Architecture analysis and prototyping on the D/SIDDOMS Lot II Technology, Integration and Standards support delivery order.

MHS Architecture Design.

Identified and characterized standard architectural components. Organized such standard components for ease of use for project managers and project personnel.
Technical Product Evaluation (TPE).
Identified, defined, and organized quantifiable criteria for TPE use. Developed a plan for TPE. Begin data collection steps for CORBA-like TPE.
Reference Model - Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) architecture.
Researched and characterized RM-ODP. Presented results in reports and briefings.

Consultant, DoD's Letterkenny Depot, March 1998.

Legacy systems evaluation for Year 2000 testing.
Visited Letterkenny to initiate the evaluation.
Conferred with leaders and team members of the 13 systems that had not been confirmed as compliant.

Consultant, Marriott, August 1997 - January 1998.

550+ applications, 89+ language and operating system combinations, mainframes, minis, PCs.

Project Position: Technical Solutions Architect.

Responsibilities:
1. Extraction, transmittal, and analysis of source elements during the Assessment Phase
2. Provision of technical leadership to the rest of the project members through out the life of the project
3. Primary conduit for communications with the automated processing facility using Cap Gemini, C2i, and D. R. Black tools
4. Accountable for execution of all technical tasks
5. Organizing and analysis of both process and technical data
6. Reporting results of technical matters to client organizations
7. Process definition and improvement
8. Methodology improvement
9. Business problem recognition and solution recommendations in technical issues
10. Liaison with other Year 2000 teams
11. Database design
12. Forms design
Click here for the Technical Solutions Architect's Duties by Phase

Temporary Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Project Lead

Risk Project Lead

Tools Project Lead

Program and Financial Analyst, US Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center, Summers: 1992 - 1996.

Researched issues in Software Metrics and Software Cost Models.

Tools: Function points, Putnam's cost model, COCOMO, Jensen's, COPMO, MathCad, Excel, Word, Wordperfect, windows. mac.

Associate Professor, Elizabeth City State University, University of North Carolina System, 1991-1997.

Courses: Computer Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Analysis and Design, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Computer Science II, Introduction to Computing.

Tools:

Information Engineering, Data Flow, Structure Charts, SADT, Storyboarding, HIPO; Project, MacProject; Function points, Putnam's Cost Model, COCOMO.
C, lisp, Object pascal, pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, prograph, DBase4.
Unix, mac, windows, dos.
Excel, Excel Macros; Lotus123; Word; WordPerfect; Mathematica; MathCad; TurboCad.

Consultant, U.S. Army's Directorate of Environment and Safety at Yuma Proving Grounds, August 1990.

Feasibility study and system design.

Consultant, Summers 1987 and 1986.

Parallel CASE proposal development and presentation.

Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, 1984-1991.

Led in the establishment of the Computer Science Department.
Set up Computer Science's Masters of Science curriculum.
Revised Undergraduate BS Degree.
Led in the establishment of the Computer Science BA.

Courses:

Graduate: Computer Architecture, Programming Languages.
UnderGraduate: Software Engineering, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Database Management, Smalltalk, Dataflow, Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis.

Tools:

Data Flow, Structure Charts, SADT, Storyboarding, Transition Analysis, HIPO; Function points, Putnam's Cost Model.
DB2, SQL.
VM/CMS, EXECs, MVS, JCL, ISPF, mac, DOS,
C, lisp, Smalltalk, Smalltalk/V, Object pascal, pascal, Snobol, COBOL, PL/1, FORTRAN, IBM MF assembler.
Excel, Project, Word, SCript.
Lambda calculus, formal grammars, graph theory.

Visiting Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Summer 1985.

Course: Computer Organization and Assembly Language.

Tools: VMS, Macro11.

Member of the Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Summit, New Jersey, Summer 1984.

Product evaluations, methodologies evaluations and consultations, CASE tools research.

Tools: unix, C, nroff, troff

Associate Professor, Louisiana State University & Southern University (joint appointment), 1983-1984.

Graduate courses: Software Engineering, Programming Languages.
Undergraduate courses: Software Engineering, Programming Languages.

Tools:

Data Flow, Structure Charts, SADT, HIPO; Function points, Putnam's Cost Model.
MVS, JCL, TSO, CLISTs, ISPF, utilities, procs.
Pascal, lisp, PL/1, COBOL.
Lambda calculus, formal grammars, graph theory.

Research Assistant, Computer Science, University of Louisiana Lafayette, 1981-1983

Met Cornish's Dataflow Research team concerning Texas Instruments's (TI) Dataflow machine, the Distributed Data Processor (DDP).

Presented my research results to the TI research personnel.

Assisted in bringing TI's DDP to the Center for Advanced Computer Studies.

Assisted in the RCA research grant.

Presented my research results to the RCA research personnel.

Used Steve Landry's Dataflow Simulator running on multics.

Tools:

multics, ted, runoff, PL/1.
Lambda calculus, formal grammars, w grammar, denotational semantics, graph theory.

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, University of Louisiana Lafayette, 1977-1979.

Courses: Undergraduate Operating Systems, Undergraduate MIS.

Tools: multics, ted, runoff, MRDS, PL/1, FORTRAN, COBOL.

Consultant, NASDAQ, Summer 1979.

Designed and specified NASDAQ's Customer Billing & Information System & its test plan.

Tools: COBOL; MVS, JCL, TSO, CLISTs, utilities, procs, SCript.

Consultant, DoD, Summer 1978.

Assisted in the implementation of a DoD computerized budget system used for tracking research and development projects.

Database design and software development.

Tools: CSC; TOTAL; COBOL, assembler.

Consultant, AMTRAK, March-August 1977.

Project leader of the Amtrak rail service accounting and billing system development team of six analyst/programmers.

Tools: COBOL; MVS: JCL, TSO, CLISTs, utilities, procs; SCript.

Consultant, Boeing Computer Services, August, 1974 to March 1977.

• Budget estimation and tracking.
• Supervised contract work.
• Customer liaison.
• Supervised & trained analysts, programmers, & support personnel.
• Analysis, design, and programming.

Major contracts:

• AMTRAK Ridership System.
• Conversion of Ohio State University's Medical Information System from TSO to CMS.
• Department of State database from CPI & WPI United Nation tapes.
• Federal Railroad Administration Network Planning System.
• Honeywell to IBM Cobol business system conversion.
• IMS to IDMS conversion for a major credit corporation.
• Pennsylvania Republican National Party Telephone Survey.
• Personnel Administration & Salary Planning.
• VM/CMS Accounting System Enhancements.
• Wharton database from CPI & WPI Commerce Dept. tapes.

Tools:
PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, IBM MF assembler.
VM/CMS, EXECs, MVS, TSO, CLISTs, JCL, utilities, procs, SCript.

Systems Analyst, January 1973-1974, Essex International, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• Responsible for Metal and Plastic Division's software design and specification.
• Planned the Belton Blanket Division's Sales Analysis System conversion.
• Specified and supervised the software quality assurance of the conversion.
• Specified and directed the conversion with a team of four programmers.

Tools: TOTAL; COBOL, IBM MF assembler; VS1: JCL, utilities, procs.

Group Leader and Senior Programmer, 1972-1973, Essex International, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• Managed software development and programming teams.
• Led a five programmer team in developing an Inventory System for the Metal and Plastic Division.
• Led a team of two programmers, converted the Sales Analysis System for the Terminal Division.

Tools: TOTAL; COBOL, IBM MF assembler; VS1: JCL, utilities, procs.