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David A. Rice |
4808 Duval St. |
Mobile 512.947.6073 |
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Austin, TX 78751 |
E-mail drice@acme-labs.org |
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Objective: |
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To obtain a technical development position in a creative, challenging, and exciting environment allowing me to utilize my Java and Object Oriented Design skills. |
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Employment: |
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GTECH Corporation February 2005 – Present (Developer) ES Interactive - Designed and implemented key components of a J2EE based online lottery system. - Led design and implementation of the system maintenance framework which included configurable and pluggable components allowing business use cases to be scheduled, batched, and initiated remotely. - Proactively helped drive the redesign and standardization of a continuous build process. - Was the only consultant on a medium sized team offered permanent employment.
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H-E-Butt Grocery Company May 2003 – February 2005 (Developer) Pharmacy Systems Development - Wrote and helped manage requirement documents for upcoming pharmacy workflow and retail mail projects. I was the only non senior/lead developer asked to participate in this endeavor. - Maintained and enhanced the Struts-based reporting system for the new centralized pharmacy system. - Designed and implemented the framework for submitting insurance claims through the new centralized pharmacy system. - Designed and implemented highly configurable load tests, written to run in LoadRunner, which simulated the pharmacy client via CORBA calls to the server. - Worked closely with the Oracle DBA to load test a centralized pharmacy system. - Designed and implemented a trickle feed for the pharmacy system using Vitria BusinessWare to populate an ODS, providing real time access to sales data. - Became the primary resource for the enterprise for load testing applications. - Implemented and managed the version control system for a large-scale project. - Member of an enterprise-wide deployment team.
Point of Sale Development - Designed a low cost checkout lane using a diskless computer booting Linux. This utilized a collection of different technologies which allowed the terminal to determine the most efficient method for booting, and to provide the ability to boot the terminal using a multicast protocol which the boot servers, running on a legacy OS, did not support. - Developed C based programs to provide both intercommunication between Linux terminals and remote control of the Linux terminals.
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H-E-Butt Grocery Company Summer of 2001 & 2002 Knowledge Management - Designed an ASP-based system to monitor metadata transformation and flow between four key systems: Microstrategy, Informatica, Redbrick DB, and sales data feeds. - Implemented an ASP-based knowledge repository for the storage and retrieval of intra-office documents which supported various document formats. - Wrote ASP-based front-ends to simplify database operations used by the group.
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Sony Semiconductor of America Summer of 2000 Information Systems - Wrote two web-based applications for tracking defects and system problems using ASP’s. - Designed ASP-based and ActiveX-based applications to analyze in house software usage and database growth for their silicon wafer manufacturing system. |
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Education: |
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The University of Texas at Austin. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 2003 - Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Special Honors - Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon – Computer Science Honor Society |
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Training: |
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- Vitria BusinessWare 4 Administration Training Course - Vitria BusinessWare 4 Developers Training Course - Vitria BusinessWare 4 Advanced Integration Course |
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Frameworks & Technologies: |
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J2EE Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) |
Java Servlets & Java Server Pages (JSP) |
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Jakarta Struts |
Hibernate |
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UML |
SQL |
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XML, HTML |
Active Server Pages (ASP) & PHP |
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Vitria BusinessWare 4.2 |
JasperReports |
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Mercury LoadRunner |
Mercury Test Director |
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Programming Languages: |
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Java J2SE & J2EE |
Perl |
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C, C++ |
Visual Basic |
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Unix/Linux Shell Scripting (Bash, KSH 93) |
Icon/Unicon |
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Tools & Software: |
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App Servers: JBoss, Tomcat, Sun One |
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Software: Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Idea IntelliJ, Apache, MKS, Perforce, Mercury LoadRunner |
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Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL |
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Operating Systems: |
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GNU LINUX (Red Hat/Debian/Slackware), UNIX System V, Solaris, SCO UnixWare |
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Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS |
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Research: |
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Honors Thesis with Dr. Calvin Lin |
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-UT Austin Computer Science Department -The Optimization of the Unicon Compiler |
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Mentorship with Dr. Clinton L. Jeffery |
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-UTSA Computer Science Department -A Study of the Icon Programming Language |
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Community Involvement: |
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides 5K Walk |
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-Logistical Chairman |
2003-2005 |
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-Steering Committee |
1998 |
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Tower Climb |
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-Steering Committee |
1997-2003 |
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References available upon request |
Digital Formats Available:
MS Word <DavidARice_Resume.doc>
Acrobat <DavidARice_Resume.pdf>