2300 Wakarusa Dr. #G2
Lawrence, KS 66047 US
[email protected]
Primary Phone:785-842-7272
Secondary Phone:816-559-5930
Mobile:785-218-7272
http://www.perrintallen.com
Experienced Software Professional
OBJECTIVE: To find a job in the information technology field that will challenge me and provide opportunities for vertical advancement. Can bring years of experience, multiple languages, and youthful energy to a project.
TARGET JOB: A position of responsibility in a high tech, but relaxed atmosphere. I thrive in situations that are easy going but yet I desire to be challenged by my work. I also am interested in becoming a lead programmer or project manager in the near future. Thus, having a number of employees under me would be nice.
Date of Availability: Less than 1 month
TARGET LOCATIONS Relocate: Yes
US-FL-Miami
US-KS Lawrence
US-KS-Kansas City
US-MO-Kansas City/Independence
US-KS-Overland Park
US-KS-Topeka/Manhattan
WORK STATUS I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. (Citizen)
EXPERIENCE 12/2000 - Present SprintPCS.com Kansas City, MO
Contractor
-Was the only developer on a sub group of programmers that worked on SprintPCS.com's Small Business Customer Shop, their B2B phone marketing tool.
- Was responsible for developing new projects as well as maintaining and upgrading the existing site.
- The primary tools I used to work on this site, which averages 50 million hits a month, were JSP, SQL Server 7.0, JDBC, Java Beans, ASP, and Java.
- Did ASP programming on B2C portion of the site as well as on the back end of the system.
- Created an engine for the automating of common changes. In this case, adding new promotions to the site was the most common task for the project. I developed a completely object oriented/database driven engine for adding promotions to the site that eliminated the need to change code and recompile the JSP.
- Worked on the backend classes (JavaBeans) that are called in the JSP.
8/2000 � 12/2000 NAIC Kansas City, MO
Associate
- Solely responsible for transition of an application from C/Sybase to C++/Oracle.
- This involved quite a bit of Unix programming and debugging.
- Worked with C++ to create CGI scripts.
7/2000 - 8/2000 Enterprise Network Solutions
Las Vegas, NV
Senior Applications Developer
- Created a fully functional Visual Basic/SQL Server 7.0 application on a Windows NT platform.
- This was a high pressure assignment as I was brought in to complete the application with only two weeks until the deadline.
- Used Visual Basic in a high pressure RAD environment.
5/2000 - 8/2000 Maxim Group Business Solutions Overland Park, KS
Developer
- Worked on a team of ASP/COM/Oracle developers on an ASP project that was designed to scale up to millions of users.
- Had roles in all four tiers of the project.
- Wrote much of the back-end code for Oracle and worked with the DBAs to ensure a valid database design.
- Wrote COM components for both middle tier layers.
- Wrote some of the ASP code that comprised the user interface.
5/1999 - 5/2000 Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc. Topeka, KS
VISTA
- Responsible for maintaining agency's computers, planning agency network which would encompass four sites requiring real time network communication
- Wrote agency applications for data tracking and analysis.
- Also served on the team that made all technology decisions.
1/1999 � Present Perrin Tallen Technologies Lawrence, KS
President
- Founded a software development shop.
- Responsible for all phases of software development from gather requirements to architecture to coding to support of the live product.
- Created projects in Java, C++, Visual Basic, and ASP.
- Used ASP and ADO to support and build web sites for a client who owned around seventy domains. Types of web sites ranged from purely informational to sites designed to gather information about users with credit woes to auction software to automatic email applications.
- Designed a secured financial application for a client. Project was terminated several weeks short of completion when client activities were determined to be unethical. Source code available. This was done in ASP and ADO.
- Designed HollywoodHenry.com, an eCommerce site dedicated to selling original movie art. Again, this is done in ASP and ADO.
- Designed a Java socket server/Applet client for running fantasy sport drafts. Will be used in conjunction with ASP I wrote and can provide upon request.
- Am finishing a project that uses ASP to allow people with no programming experience the ability to create an online portal.
- Used ASP to create a series of NFL Football Draft games to be released by December 31 of this year. Uses ADO.
- Using ASP to create a health and fitness site that will offer personalized profiles and track performance. Uses Java to create a progress chart. Uses ADO.
- Used Dreamweaver to create web pages and made extensive use of its HTML tidy.
- Used JavaScript for an exhaustive series of client side data validation routines.
- Used Visual Basic to write educational metric software.
- Used Visual Basic and ADO to write a piece of accounting software.
- In all cases that ADO is listed, SQL is the language I used to pull data from the database.
6/1998 - 1/2000 Kansas Department of Human Resources
Topeka, Kansas
Client/Server Applications Developer/Director
- Began as internship and turned into a full time, flexible hours position as a Visual Basic developer.
- Rose to a position as project manager for a team of Visual Basic programmers.
- Used a number of tools such as C++, Java, ASP, Visual Basic, CORBA, and CGI.
EDUCATION 5/2000 University of Kansas
US-Kansas-Lawrence
Bachelor's Degree
AFFILIATIONS
1/2000 � Present Heartland User Group
Board of Directors Member/SIG Leader
Visual Basic Expert (8)Currently used 4 years
ASP Expert (10) Currently used 1 year
C++ Intermediate Currently used 2 years
Java Expert
Currently used 2 years
CORBA Beginner Currently used 1 year
XML Beginner
1 year ago 1 year
SQL Server Intermediate
Currently used 1 year
Oracle Beginner Currently used 1 year
Unix Beginner Currently used 1 year
SQL Expert (8) Currently used 2 years
Windows SDK Beginner
1 year ago 2 years
JSP Intermediate Currently used 1 year
Dreamweaver Beginner (5)
1 year ago 2 years
ADO Expert (7) Currently used 3 years
Flash Beginner (3) Currently used 1 year
JavaScript Beginner (4)Currently used 1 year
C# Beginner Currently used 1 year
REFERENCES
Roger DeAtley
Westlake Hardware Assistant Manager
Phone Number: 785-249-3047
Reference Type: Professional
Curtis Brown
Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc.
OTAG Supervisor
Phone Number: 785-234-0217
Email Address: [email protected]
Reference Type: Professional
Aaron Tallen
Perrin Tallen TechnologiesVice President
Phone Number: 785-841-9965
Email Address: [email protected]
Reference Type: Professional
Chris Gamm
Ninth Floor Solutions Operations Director
Phone Number:785 423-1639
Reference Type:Professional