Jeffrey Hyson

Raleigh, NC 27615    (919) 306-4971    (919) 321-8444    jeff@abstract-engineer.com

 

 

Seeking

Senior Software Engineer Position for Development and/or Code Maintenance

 

 

Skills

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2003/2000/NT, OpenVMS, Unix.

 

Languages, Tools & Libraries: .NET Framework, C#, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Visual C++, Win32 API, Visual Basic, Java, PL/SQL, T-SQL, STL, ATL, COM, XML, D/HTML, MSXML, DOM, ISAPI, ADO, CDO, MAPI, ODBC, JavaScript, CFScript, ASP, JSP.

 

Networks Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Numerous IETF (FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, SMNP, LDAP...), Ethernet, MS Message Queuing, Other Types of Middleware, X.12, HL7.

 

Database Systems, Servers & Applications: IIS, SQL Server, Oracle, OAS, Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Apache, Cold Fusion, Exchange, Outlook, Windows Explorer.

 

Project Types: Banking, Client/Server (n Tier), Clustering, Computer Telephony, Control Servers, Data Communications, EDI, E-Mail Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, Financial, Gateways, MAPI, Multi-Transaction Systems, Radio Communications, Real-time, Reverse Engineering, SCADA, System Integration, Telecommunication Systems, Trading Systems, Web Based Applications.

 

 

Work Experience

2003 to Present

BMC - Identify Software – Raleigh, NC – Principal Consultant

Professional Services Organization working with clients at Pre & Post Sales engagements

 

1993 to 2003

Employee of consulting company Abstract Engineer – Senior Software Analyst & Engineer

Domestic and World Wide Assignments - USA, Israel, Colombia

 

1986 to 1992

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) - Piscataway, NJ - Principal Software Specialist

Professional Services Organization working in the Field at Client Sites

 

1984 to 1986

Sterling Software - ZeroOne Systems - Princeton NJ - Programmer

Supercomputer Center Facility

 

 

Education

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ

Master of Science - Computer Science

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

 


Work Summary

10+ years working with Microsoft Windows technologies - hands on technologist either in the capacity as an analyst, architect, designer and/or software developer.  Guided senior management in business-technology decisions and mentored dozens of junior & senior developers.

 

Specialize in (but not limited to) the development and maintenance of backend enterprise server applications, components & libraries that are, need to be or use:

 

Web Servers

Database Systems

n-Tier Client/Server Based

Inter-Process Communication

Data Communication and Protocols

Multiprocessing & Multithreading

Sockets: TCP/IP & UDP/IP

Highly Available Systems

Asynchronous & Synchronous I/O

Customizations via Add-ins

Various Database Servers

External Systems Integration

Data Warehouses: ETL

Reverse Engineering

 

Utilize an object-oriented methodology for analysis, design and development.  Use various modeling techniques from UML.  Very familiar with design patterns from the Gang of Four (GoF).  Familiar with XP & Agile work methodologies and code refactoring that help streamline the software development & maintenance life cycles.

 

Write software in C# & .NET Framework, C++, Java, Visual Basic, SQL and numerous scripting languages.  Develop and utilize COM libraries & numerous SDKs from all languages.  Extremely proficient, flexible and adaptive when it comes to learning and using new types of tools, technologies & methodologies.

 

Recent Responsibilities, Projects & Tasks

·         Contributed to increasing company’s sales revenue as a Subject Matter Expert in Application Problem Resolution using Identify’s AppSight Black Box.  Traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe evangelizing the company’s technology solution in customer facing activities: deployments, implementations, formal training, proof of concepts and consulting engagements. Developed new technical material used for articles & formal presentations to management and technical staff.

·         Increased worker productivity more than 500% from designing, writing & maintaining automation code to replace manual processes and procedures.  Included: Web server based coding with XML, ASP.NET, Cold Fusion scripting & ASP; server side code in C# .NET Framework & COM libraries; BHO for Internet Explorer; JavaScript with DOM code; add-ins for Exchange & Outlook; custom ETL code from various Oracle data warehouses into a local SQL Server database system. 

·         Assisted in raising $5M of venture capital by architecting and guiding a technical roadmap for the software development of a new concept in e-mail systems.  An n-Tier based system integrated with various partner systems; Unix backend Oracle application servers and browser based front-end.

·         Succeeded in closing an $18M contract by designing and writing software code that seamlessly integrated a wireless radio message switch into an existing land based game network.  Custom Server; multithreaded, I/O Completion Ports; Overlapped I/O; Sockets: TCP/IP & UDP/IP; clustering.

·         Achieved a $50M annual savings for a financial Wall Street institution.  1 of 3 team leaders that designed & developed of a common instruction entry & qualification system to replace various duplicate internal systems.  This was a source code portable, plug-n-play n-Tier client/server framework utilized by all the institution’s backend and frontend trading systems.

·         Increased revenues by $400K from the design, development & modification of various COM libraries with Visual C++/ATL.

·         Successfully analyzed, designed, developed and integrated a wide range of software applications to perform and support secured EDI between a clinical laboratory and various vendors and clients. Specifically built applications that implemented: ASTM E 1381-91 data communication protocol; HL7 data framing and communication protocol.