David A. Rice

4808 Duval St.

Mobile 512.947.6073

Austin, TX 78751

E-mail drice@acme-labs.org

 

 

 

 

 

Objective:

 

 

To obtain a technical development position in a creative, challenging, and exciting environment allowing me to utilize my Java and Object Oriented Design skills.

 

Employment:

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

Education:

 

 

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

 

Training:

 

 

-          Vitria BusinessWare 4 Administration Training Course

-          Vitria BusinessWare 4 Developers Training Course

-          Vitria BusinessWare 4 Advanced Integration Course

 

Frameworks & Technologies:

 

 

J2EE Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs)

Java Servlets & Java Server Pages (JSP)

 

Jakarta Struts

Hibernate

 

UML

SQL

 

XML, HTML

Active Server Pages (ASP) & PHP

 

Vitria BusinessWare 4.2

JasperReports

 

Mercury LoadRunner

Mercury Test Director

 

Programming Languages:

 

 

Java J2SE & J2EE

Perl

 

C, C++

Visual Basic

 

Unix/Linux Shell Scripting (Bash, KSH 93)

Icon/Unicon

 

Tools & Software:

 

 

App Servers: JBoss, Tomcat, Sun One

 

Software: Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Idea IntelliJ, Apache, MKS, Perforce, Mercury LoadRunner

 

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL

 

Operating Systems:

 

 

GNU LINUX (Red Hat/Debian/Slackware), UNIX System V, Solaris, SCO UnixWare

 

Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS

 

Research:

 

 

Honors Thesis with Dr. Calvin Lin

 

   -UT Austin Computer Science Department

      -The Optimization of the Unicon Compiler

 

Mentorship with Dr. Clinton L. Jeffery

 

   -UTSA Computer Science Department

      -A Study of the Icon Programming Language

 

Community Involvement:

 

 

 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides 5K Walk

 

 

   -Logistical Chairman

2003-2005

 

   -Steering Committee

1998

 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Tower Climb

 

 

   -Steering Committee

1997-2003

 

 

 

 

References available upon request


Digital Formats Available:

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