Walter Holliday
Walt@WeAreUSS.com
Office:  440-237-4186
   Cell:  614-537-4013
EDUCATION

Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio (1994)
Bachelor of Science degree
Major:  Computer Science
Minor:  Mathematics
Minor:  Management Information Systems


SKILLS

Computer Science:

Operating Systems; Microsoft Windows XP Professional (and many others)

Programming:   C#, VB.NET, HTML, XML, SOAP, XSL, ASP.NET, Java Script, VB Script,
		Web Applications, Web Services, Windows Applications, Windows Services, 
		.NET Remoting, COM, COM++     

Packages: Dreamweaver Ultradev and Dreamweaver MX, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (All), 
	    Visio, Lab View

Databases:   SQL Server (All), Microsoft Access, ADO.NET, Oracle
        
Recognition:
	Time Magazine 2006 - “Person of the Year”

Certifications:  
	MCP - .net XML Web Services Developer (Microsoft Certified Professional)
	MCP - .net Web Application Developer (Microsoft Certified Professional)
	MCP - .net Windows Application Developer (Microsoft Certified Professional)
	MCAD – Microsoft Certified Application Developer (Includes all of the above)
		NOTE:  All of the above were obtained in C#

Engineering: 
• Design and assembly of personal computer systems
• Understanding of LAN and WAN design and implementations
• PC hardware installation and maintenance
• Design and installation of alarm and communication systems
• Web page design with multimedia capability 
• Embedded systems communication protocol design - TCP/IP

Foreign Language: Spanish (Rusty)
 
EXPERIENCE

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				07-06 – 12-06
Consultant – .NET Solution Architect

My client, The Cleveland Clinic., contracted me to design and create a message transport system which would consume a web service provided through Epic’s “MyChart” web application. The message transport system involves a Windows service, web application, and Windows application. The system has a SQL Server back end involving multiple databases. Coding utilized C# through Visual Studio 2005. The databases required multiple tables and stored procedures to support a common SQL component. 
My contract ended was extended to allow for augmentations to functionality and scope. 

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				03-06 – 07-06
Consultant – .NET Solution Architect

My client, National City Bank., contracted me to work on several C# and VB .NET SQL Server projects.
Some were related to project management; others covered areas of risk management and charge-off functionality. My contract ended early due to budget cuts as National City is procuring another bank.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				12-05 – 03-06
Consultant – .NET Solution Architect

My client, Predictive Service Corp., contracted me to create some C# enhancements for a .net solution. The project involved: nUnit, nHibernate, SQLBsae, SQL Server, and .NET 2005. Ultimately the solution was for Rockwell as they are the client of Predictive Services Corp. in this venture.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				08-05 – 11-05
Consultant – .NET Solution Architect

My client, Xerox Global Services, contracted me to create a high level .NET design. This design represented a re-engineering of a legacy system which currently serves their clientele.  The design was a services oriented architecture and a composite solution. It included Web Services, Web Applications, .NET Remoting and Windows Services. Third party components suggested included iWay Adapter Manager, iWay PrintManager and iWay Prime. The databases involved in this 3tier solution were to be SQL Server as well as Oracle.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				05-05 – 08-05
Consultant – SR. .NET Developer

My client, Ohio Savings Bank, contracted me to augment their staff for an on going .NET conversion project of their Gemstone mortgage processing web application. This contract served to be an introduction to Oracle and Toad. The product was a mix between legacy ASP and ASP.NET. Java Script and XML were used extensively along with .NET Remoting. Most of the database work was assigned to the database technology group.
 

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				10-04 – 04-05
Consultant – SR. .NET Developer

Atlas requested my presence for an extended time in Evansville, IN. For the six months I worked on numerous projects. All of these projects were .NET based; some were written in VB.net in conjunction with VBA. Some of these applications supported the product I produced for this client prior to this engagement. Others were proof of concept designs and prototypes. Finally, others were converting existing COM components to .NET Dynamic Linked Libraries. My duties also included mentoring their staff on .NET technologies, improving SQL performance and researching 3rd party geographical mapping products for inclusion into their composite business solution.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				03-04 – 10-04
.Net Architect - Consultant

Atlas World Group, the parent company of Atlas Van Lines brought me on board to design and develop a financial data transfer process. The data source was a mainframe computer. The destination was Microsoft Great Plaines accounting software. The process involved a Windows Service, Web Service, Windows application, XML, and XSLT. This was an intranet solution which will act as a data bridge during the process of reducing reliance on their mainframe.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Cleveland, Ohio 				01-04 – 03-04
Consultant – SR. .NET Developer

Proquest hired me to assist in an ongoing development effort. 
My duties involved .Net development. 
I solved an image uniqueness problem for the Proquest PowerSport DMS product. 
I also wrote extensive DTS packages within SQL Server 2000.

Unified System Solutions Ltd., Dublin, Ohio 					05-02 – 01-04
Consultant – .Net Web Architect and Developer

Started consultancy and began to develop with Microsoft .NET technologies.

Client sites:  The DeadBeatList.com & Community-Life.net

Used: 	C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET,  Java Script, VB Script, 
	HTML, XML, MD5, SQL Server 2000
	I used SourceSafe for version control and Visio for design documentation. 

Implemented: 
	Web Services 
	DB access
	Business Logic (including Authorization and Authentication),
	Email processing
	Web Applications
	User Interface
	Processing Logic
	Caching
	Windows Services
	File Watcher – to start document processing
	Batch Processing via Windows Scheduler
	SQL Server 2000
	Tables (indexes), constraints, foreign Keys
	Stored Procedures with dynamic SQL
	.NET Remoting
	Single Call
	Singleton

Ashland Inc, Dublin, Ohio 							03-99 – 05-02
Systems Analyst

I worked on a team which was responsible for the development of over 1 million company reports which spanned 4 divisions and were delivered via email to every level of employee within the company. We as a team also were responsible for the development and maintenance of the systems and processes which produced the reports. Technologies employed were SQL Server 7 and  Visual Basic 6.  

Other contributions included:
•	Designed configuration management and version control systems. 
•	Lead a multi-dimensional team in an effort to improve operations efficiency. 
•	Implemented a project management/planning system which resulted in easier project management for my team. (based upon Microsoft Project using a shared site to host project files)

PNC Bank, Charlotte, NC  							05-98 – 12-98
Consultant – Systems Analyst

PNC Bank, performed credit card processing for Sears, AAA, and PNC Bank. The bank had a customer service center in Lafayette, IN. As Senior Consultant with PNC, duties included designing, developing and implementing 15 to 20 small banking applications using Visual Basic 6. These Applications used embedded SQL Scripts which called Microsoft Access databases. I also mentored PNC employees.
•	Performed analysis 
•	Gathered requirements
•	Designed solutions
•	Implemented Solutions. 
My contract was transferred from Lafayette, IN to Charlotte, NC during the PNC Bank customer service relocation in October of 1998. After the relocation, I worked as Technical Team Lead in Y2K remediation of existing Visual Basic applications across the customer service area.   

Liebert Corporation, Columbus, Ohio 					03-95 – 05-98
R&D Design Engineer

•	Designed and implemented an embedded communication system, which was developed in C, C++ and Assembler.  This communication system was used to control embedded system variables of a power conditioning product (USRC) under development.
•	Designed and developed communication system protocols using C and C++.  
•	Designed and implemented power transformer design program under MS-Windows NT platform using Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Access.  
•	Used Visual Basic 6 to interface with the LabView electrical component diagnostic package to retrieve data and store it in an acceptable format for PowerPoint presentations.










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