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Information Technology Specialist, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Professor, Author.Senior Consultant @ Providing technical expertise and guidance to the Fortune 500 in Cloud CRM, Java and .Net. Design efficient business processes. Management of on time on budget Quality delivery and maintenance. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaTech Yahoo, Software Apps Dev Eng, Sr @ Manage...

Information Technology Specialist, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Professor, Author.Senior Consultant @ Providing technical expertise and guidance to the Fortune 500 in Cloud CRM, Java and .Net. Design efficient business processes. Management of on time on budget Quality delivery and maintenance. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaTech Yahoo, Software Apps Dev Eng, Sr @ Manage a team of employees and consultants to support and enhance Salesforce CRM Marketing, Sales and Service Cloud standard and custom objects to track and forecast sales for Yahoo From July 2013 to July 2015 (2 years 1 month) SalesForce Developer @ Supporting and developing for a complex multi org SalesForce platform with advanced Customer Portal customized with VisualForce/Javascript advanced CSS and WebServices From November 2012 to July 2013 (9 months) Developer @ Lead developer for the Oracle PeopleSoft Financial system. Worked with multiple teams of consultants to install, customize and enhance this global multi-currency system to track profitability worldwide. Designed, developed and constructed the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) among the front office SalesForce.com hosted customer relationship management (CRM), a custom Savvion / Java / Pramati workflow / project management system and the PeopleSoft back end. Tools used include People Tools IDE (PeopleCode), Application Engine programs, SQRs and Integration Broker,. Java Web Services XML messaging and SalesForce VisualForce / APEX code. I received personal letter of commendation from the COO for successful delivery of customer billing across the integration of these systems. SalesForce.com Administrator responsible for production support and user maintenance. Coded enhancements to Market Research products across a broad spectrum of Java Web based / Web Service technologies and frameworks: Spring, Struts, EJB using Java Sever Pages (JSP) and servlets running on TomCat application web servers with connectivity to Oracle databases. Development was Windows based on Eclipse and deployed using CVS and ANT to multiple Sun Solaris environments. From September 2007 to November 2012 (5 years 3 months) Systems Engineer @ Designed and coded enhancements to the Yellow Page and Internet advertising Sales CRM package. Application consist of a BEA WebLogic Application Server Java front end which communicates with back end COBOL validation routines via a Model, View Controller (MVC) architecture using Data Access Objects (DAO) and Value Objects (VO) by means of Enterprise Java Beans (J2EE EJBs). COBOL data layers return data from Oracle DBMS via Common Object Broker Architecture (CORBA), or alternatively through Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) / Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Repair, enhance and write new HTML / JSP / XML screens and associated JavaScript code. Deploy code from Windows XP to Unix environment via APACHE ANT plus a proprietary code control system. Responsible for application verification and support in the production environment. Received multiple team awards based on successful implementation in NYC office based on Sales Rep feedback on improvements to system. Received individual award for developing and conducting Java class for fellow team members saving Verizon 10,000 training dollars. From 2001 to 2007 (6 years) Systems Engineer @ This is the new name for the Verizon (GTE) Yellow Page company From 2001 to 2007 (6 years) Systems Engineer @ Analysis, design and coding of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and CORBA client/servers for an Internet customer order entry system, using Rational Rose (UML), Java (IBM Visual Age), HTML, Oracle and Unix with communication to an IBM mainframe via MQ series messaging. Unit testing on Websphere / Windows NT, deployment to WebLogic on Sun Solaris. Debugging of issues and performance tuning across multiple platforms including Windows NT, Sun Solaris and IBM mainframe. Technical Subject Matter Expert / technical lead for Voice Activated Dialing system for a telecom equipment provisioning system (Java, CORBA, EJBs, TOPLink). Technical Subject Matter Expert for credit card billing system, assisting in rewrite of a messaging interface using CORBA servers and MQ Series to forward transactions to a mainframe CICS system written in COBOL and Natural. Project Management Consultant, providing mentoring and Microsoft Project Training to four team leads. Responsible for coordination of separate team schedules into a combined Project plan, tracking of resource utilization and forecasting, and preparation of Senior Management Report. Project estimating and Tracking using Project Management Workbench, Microsoft Project. Programmer Analyst responsible for revisions to the area code splitting process using ADABAS Natural and CICS COBOL. Programmer Analyst for cloning a mainframe commercial Customer Information System (CIS) to an equivalent government system. Hired as an employee, trained in Object Oriented Design and Java so that I could participate in the mission critical java based network provisioning system. From August 1998 to November 2001 (3 years 4 months) Developer @ Performed hands on consulting using IEF CASE tool from Business Area Analysis phase through Construction including Business Systems Design, Technical Design of DB2 / IMS transactions. From 1990 to 1994 (4 years) President @ Co-founded this CASE and Client Server consulting and education company. Prepared client proposals and delivered sales presentations. Company spokesperson and lecturer at local and national user groups of audiences up to 600 people. I was responsible for hiring, managing and developing a staff of 40 technical consultants and 8 sales, recruiting and clerical staff. Performed hands on consulting using IEF CASE tool from Business Area Analysis phase through Construction including Business Systems Design, Technical Design of DB2 / IMS transactions. Responsible for operation and maintenance of a 20 person 3.12 NOVELL NetWare Network including Microsoft e-mail system. Negotiated successful sale of this company at peak revenue. From 1989 to 1994 (5 years) Project Manager @ Lead a team to develop a turnkey balance reporting system using voice response and touch-tone input for small medium banks written in COBOL. Responsible for hardware acquisition, budgeting, project planning, scheduling, analysis and design, staff performance review and training. Prepared project schedule and cost estimates for multi million dollar check reconcilement system. Gathered user requirements, and reviewed vendor prepared design documents. Managed five maintenance programmers and trainees who resolved problems with and upgraded a check reconcilement system. Also designed, coded, and maintained a COBOL CICS/DL/I customer profile system, an overdraft notification system, and a customer funds reporting system. From June 1981 to November 1984 (3 years 6 months) MBA, Information Security @ The University of Dallas From 1992 to 1996 BSc, HR & BUSINESS @ Amberton University From 1987 to 1996 Joe Armitage is skilled in: Oracle, Web Services, SOA, XML, Java Enterprise Edition, Software Development, Integration, Unix, Databases, Project Management, Java, Agile Methodologies, Performance Tuning, Database Design, Business Analysis