Howard Pepper

Hot Pepper Software
P.O. Box 353788
Palm Coast, FL 32135-3788
(386) 569-9937

Summary
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Have been in the computer-programming field since 1982.

Won CIO Magazine 50/50 award (1998, 1999) for Intranet / Extranet applications.

Background in several programming disciplines, including DOS console,
Windows, Linux and web-based applications.
 
Work in several languages including C/C++, Java, Perl, Pascal, Python, 
Clipper and Basic.
 
Familiar with many development environments including:
Microsoft Visual Studio (MFC and non-MFC), Microsoft Visual Basic,
Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, Eclipse and Netbeans.

Experience
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July 2007 - Present
Vice President, Systems Engineer
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Bank of America
9000 Southside Blvd
Jacksonville, FL  32256

Employed as a Systems Engineer at Bank of America.  Perform the 
duties of Middleware Systems Engineer to assist in the maintenance 
of webMethods Middleware Integration Servers running on Sun 
Solaris 8 and 10, in various datacenters spread throughout the 
United States.  Specifically create and maintain applications 
written in Perl, C and shell script to allow co-workers to more 
easily monitor and maintain the health of the Integration Servers.


April 2007 - June 2007
Middleware Systems Engineer
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TEK Systems
13901 Sutton Park Drive South, Suite 101
Jacksonville, FL  32224

Contracted to Bank of America in Jacksonville, FL to assist in the 
maintenance of webMethods Middleware Integration Servers running on 
Sun Solaris 8 and 10, in various datacenters spread throughout the 
United States.  Specifically created and maintained applications 
written in Perl, C and shell script to allow co-workers to more 
easily monitor and maintain the health of the Integration Servers.


May 2005 - February 2007
Programmer / Analyst
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TEK Systems
13901 Sutton Park Drive South, Suite 101
Jacksonville, FL  32224

Contracted to IBM satellite office in Greenville, SC to assist in the 
day to day maintenance and enhancement of PC-based insurance applications 
IBM out-sourced from Merrill Lynch.  PC-based applications comprised 
of over nine hundred thousand lines of code in multiple languages, 
including Clipper, C, C++ and Visual Basic.  Also created applications in 
Python to assist in the maintenance of the insurance applications, and to 
analyze problems in data files being transfered to and from the Merrill 
Lynch mainframe.


April 2001 - May 2005
Programmer / Analyst
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TEK Systems
13901 Sutton Park Drive South, Suite 101
Jacksonville, FL  32224

Contracted to Merrill Lynch in Jacksonville, FL to assist in the
relocation and subsequent maintenance of forty-nine PC-based insurance
applications from Springfield, MA to Jacksonville, FL.  PC-based 
applications comprised of over nine hundred thousand lines of code
in multiple languages, including Clipper, C, C++ and Visual Basic. 


November 2000 - March 2001

Contract Software Developer
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TMP Worldwide
System One Solutions, Inc.
9119 Corporate Lakes Drive, Suite 200
Tampa, FL  33634

Contracted to Information & Display Systems, Inc. to develop
Java applets to display Golf tournament scores in real-time
over a network, and historically using a database.  Applets
were designed to run on a Windows-based Kiosk, and were
created using Borland JBuilder 3.0 and Sun JDK 1.2.2.
Other technologies utilized included The KLGroup JClass 
LiveTable for the display of data and Microsoft SQL Server 
7.0 for the back-end database.


February 2000 - October 2000

Contract Software Developer
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Contracted to:
RealTime Aide Dot Com, Inc.
3948 South Third Street, No. 111
Jacksonville Beach, FL. USA 32250
904-241-7705

Developed the RealTime Aide HTTP / CGI-based commercial
chat program and accompanying back-end infrastructure
under contract to RealTime Aide Dot Com, Inc.  Utilized
Perl, mod_perl and C on the Apache Web server, with
MySQL as the back-end database, along with Java on 
the client-side.


October 1999 - October 2000

Contract Software Developer
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Contracted to:
321Website.com, Inc.
2542 Elm St.
Dallas, Texas 75226
214-651-7000

Contract Software Developer
Created web applications for 321Website using Perl, with
a MySQL back-end database.  All applications ran under
the Apache web server on the Linux operating system.


January 1997 - January 2000

Applications Developer / Webmaster
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Naval Aviation Depot Jacksonville, FL.
Contracted through:
National Technologies Associates, Inc. 
28 Industrial Loop, Suite 179
Jacksonville, FL. 32073
(904) 264-5453

Developed web-based applications in Perl, C, Java,
Tango and Cold-Fusion on an Oracle 8i back-end
database.  Performed duties of Webmaster for the
T-45 Extranet with The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO.
Won the 1999 CIO 50/50 award for applications 
developed jointly with Boeing.

Developed single-user, multi-user and client / 
server applications in Visual Basic, Delphi and
Visual C++ in support of the NADEP Jacksonville
T-45 Engineering Department.


November 1992 - December 1996

Applications Developer /
Hardware/Software Network Technician
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National Technologies Associates, Inc.
Norfolk, VA (Office closed November 1998)

Developed applications for use in-house and
in support of NADEP Norfolk (Closed by BRAC) using
DBase IV, Clipper 5.02, Visual C++, Visual Basic
and Delphi.  Supported the Drafting and Logistics
departments by providing PC hardware and software
support.  Functioned as Network administrator on
Windows NT 3.51 network.


July 1977 - October 1992

United States Navy
Final rank: Aviation Electronics Technician 1st Class
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Many different duty stations around NAS Oceana, VA.

In addition to regular duties, from 1982 through Oct. 1992,
provided computer hardware and software support to
attached commands.