Software Engineer

John F. Tehan

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Milford, MA *****

Home: 508-***-****

Cell: 508-***-****

jwfpe1@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of qualifications

**** - **** ***** **** *** Consulting, Inc & Ghostwriter Web Services, Inc

Owner/Operator

As owner/operator of Green Wave Eco Consulting, Inc, operated a retail store in Northborough, MA, to sell recycled and renewably made building materials and other 'green' items. Business was undercapitalized and it failed in Nov of 2009.

Job profile includes:

Open storefront, prepare for business day

Greet customers, assist with merchandise questions

Prepare quotes and project estimates

Program computerized cash register system – Lightspeed POS, Mac OS/X

Prepare business reports, cash deposits

Interview, hire, schedule employees

As owner/operator of Ghostwriter Web Services, Inc, selling web sites and consulting services to small businesses.

Job profile includes:

Establish DNS and hosting setup for web site

Installation and customization of open source modules written in Perl or PHP

MySQL database setup and customization

Email account setup and maintenance

Accounting, sales and all other small business responsibilities

Skills utilized on a daily basis: HTML, CSS, Perl, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, FTP. Quickbooks

1995 - 2009 Fidelity Investments, Marlborough, MA

Principal Software Engineer

Senior level technical expert, leading and managing complex projects in multiple roles, often involving multiple phases.

Job profile includes:

Provide technical leadership and training to other team members

Responsible for directing and monitoring progress of other team members for project completion and user satisfaction

Perform functional analysis for major projects

Act as technical resource on variety of functional issues

Work directly with user community for project definition

Initiate data or database workings with DBA team

Work on multiple projects concurrently

Participate in project implementation

Maintain user/external group relationships

Bring issues to resolution

Build consensus among diverse groups

Provide informational discussions and/or demonstrations to users or external groups

Serve as ‘crisis’ manager as needed

Perform testing and quality assurance

Assist in the planning and conduction of user acceptance testing

Manage vendor relationships

Interview prospective candidates

Major accomplishments:

Technical Lead on a complete re-write of Fidelity’s 401(k)/403(b) statement. Developed requirements from meetings with senior staff, including legal/compliance, marketing, and relationship management teams. Designed functional solution and led a team of developers, bringing the project a successful rollout on time and within budget.

Technical Lead on Fidelity's Master Recordkeeper suite, enabling the Fidelity Participant Recordkeeping System to accurately track annuity products with all associated schedules, contingent deferred sales charges, etc. Developed requirements from meetings with senior staff, including legal/compliance, marketing, and relationship management teams. Designed functional solution, including a rules engine capable of handling any flavor of annuity investment to be found in the industry. Led a team of developers to a successful rollout in a multi-phase release.

Technical lead for a team of developers across multiple business units for the implementation of Fidelity's Guidance offering.

Major modifications to mainframe based daily valuation recordkeeping system where needed to conform to 403(b) regulations.

Adhoc reports, fixes, and production support duties as required.

Skills utilized on a daily basis: Cobol, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MQ, MVS JCL & Utilities, SYNCSORT, Metavante CSF, MicroFocus Cobol, MS Office, MS Project, various productivity aids

1993 - 1995 C. W. Costello and Associates, Inc., Wellesley, MA

Associate, Level 3

Senior level consultant, managing client projects for full life cycle from inception to delivery.

Job profile includes:

Provide technical leadership at client site

Gather requirements, design, code, test and implement major changes to systems

Recruit new staff

Conduct technical interviews and training classes

Major accomplishments:

Complex modifications to the Lahey Clinic Billing System

Streamlined operations for greater efficiency

Conversion to new billing formats supplied by the federal government

Adhoc reports and data fixes as needed

Skills utilized on a daily basis: PL/1, IMS, VSAM, CICS, MVS JCL & Utilities, SYNCSORT, MS Office, various productivity aids

1991 – 1993 Dun & Bradstreet Software, Hamden, CT

Staff Consultant

Junior level consultant, coding and testing client projects, customizing software packages to fit client's needs.

Job profile includes:

Contribute to requirements gathering process

Coding and testing modifications to pre-packaged applications

Delivery of installation packages to client

Support client needs post-installation

Major accomplishments:

Gerber Foods Accounts Receivable system upgrade

Sterling/Winthtrop Accounts Receivable system upgrade

Alberta Government Telephone Order Processing/Warehouse Management system upgrade, resulting in millions of dollars saved

Phillips 66 Houston Chemical Complex Order Processing/Manufacturing interface

Skills utilized on a daily basis: Cobol, DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, MVS JCL & Utilities, SYNCSORT, MS Office, various productivity aids

Education

Waterbury State Technical College, Waterbury, CT

Associates Degree, Data Processing Technology

GPA 4.0 - Trustee’s Medallion, Valedictorian

Academic Excellence, Data Processing Technology

Curriculum included Cobol, CICS, C, MVS JCL, Accounting, Statistics, Human Relations, Technical Writing and Oral Communications

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