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Employment History

Technical Skills

Soft Skills and More

Team building and mentoring – including remote / offshore teams (cf United Religions Initiative, Augeo, Fiserv)
Communication – project status, consensus-building, outreach, presentations (cf United Religions Initiative, Augeo, Fiserv)
Business development – grant writing, financial analysis, business plan analysis (cf BiGAUSTIN); technical product development (cf Augeo, Fiserv, independent consulting)

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

MA, physics (1/00 - 8/01); 3.5 GPA
BS, physics (8/96 - 5/99); National Merit Scholar; 3.63 GPA across u-grad classes
CS Coursework: Computational Physics, Database Design, Java (2 semesters), Scientific Computing, Turbo Pascal.

The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science · Denton, TX

High school diploma while dually enrolled at the University of North Texas, graduated with 70 hours college credit (08/94 - 05/96)

Publications

K. Lang, J. Day, S. Eilerts, S. Fuqua, et al. A comprehensive characterization of Hamamatsu 16- and 64-anode PMTs. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 461 (1), p.571-573, Apr 2001.
K. Lang, J. Day, S. Eilerts, S. Fuqua, et al. Characterization of 1600 Hamamatsu 16-anode photomultipliers for the MINOS Far detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 545 (3), p.852-871, Jun 2005.
S. Fuqua. Human interfaces to the photomultiplier tube testing database. Thesis (M.A.)—University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

Quik-to-Fix Foods

MIS Intern, summers '97 and '98, winter '98

Setup corporate intranet server and developed full intranet site.
Aided in administration of Windows NT servers and an HP-UX based server.
Performed general system maintenance (PC and Mac) and help desk functions.

High Energy Phsyics Lab, University of Texas

Research Assistant, 09/98 - 05/99 pt, 06/99 - 05/01 ft

Wrote C++ and HTML interfaces to extract and analyze experimental data from MySQL database. Documentation served as master's thesis, Human Interfaces to the Photomultiplier Tube Database.
Developed programs to acquire and analyze data from National Instruments (GPIB, FieldVIEW) and nuclear experimentation equipment (NIM, CAMAC) using LabVIEW, C++, and Fortran.
Served as primary administrator for 20 PCs running Windows, Linux, and Unix.

BiGAUSTIN

Loan Outreach Coordinator (AmeriCorps*VISTA), 08/01 - 12/02; Business Counselor / MIS Manager, 01/03 - 08/04

Developed client relationships through outreach, business counseling, and creation of detailed financial projections for client business plans.
Designed and implemented a database application to meet the client tracking and contact management needs of an economic development agency using MS Access and Visual Basic for Applications.
Architect and designer of bigaustin.org, including interactive online forms and database back-end.
Implemented and trained users on customized dotProject web-based project management software (MySQL, PHP)
Managed two Windows networks with mixed NT and Linux servers, providing detailed and user-friendly documentation for my replacement.

Augeo Affinity Marketing

Programmer/Data Analyst, 10/04 - 01/06; Lead Software Developer, 01/06 - 09/06

Supported the IT Director in architectural design, project management and resource allocation, security and regulatory analysis, and business development;
Provided team lead coaching and programming in building ASP.Net (C#/Visual Studio 2003) applications for Fortune 500 companies;
Gathered and documented application requirements;
Provided architecture and data model diagrams/narratives for new client proposals;
Developed data architecture and optimized queries on Microsoft SQL Sever 2005 platform;
Building ETL and Reporting solutions with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Fiserv

Senior Programmer/Analyst, 10/06 - present

Site-wide award winner - Accountability, 2008; Inspires and Achieves Excellence, 2009
Directly writing and overseeing offshore delivery of both web (ASP.Net) and Windows-based (WinForms) applications in C# and T-SQL, utilizing a test-driven approach that emphasizes unit test plans and automated testing with NUnit where feasible;
Reviewing and system testing of all code deliveries – enforcing standards, improving performance, and ensuring full integration of code bases;
Object oriented life cycle development from business requirements to functional specifications, detailed design and architecture to unit and system tests (using UML, use cases, and OO patterns);
Managing project plans and resource allocation with agile techniques (iterative plans, prototypes, burndown charts);
Porting and optimizing COBOL to C#;
Architecting enterprise-level ETL with SSIS and enterprise-reporting with SSRS, including application of XML stylesheets (XLST) for formatted file exchanges.

United Religions Initiative

Volunteer; Consultant 2002 - 2007; Regional Coordinator 04/04 - 12/07

Originally volunteer and consultant for the central office in San Francisco and for the previous Regional Coordinator, supporting development of URI.org and regional newsletter.
From April, 2004, through 2007, adjunct staff as Regional Coordinator for North America
Coordinated volunteers in promoting communication and learning between over 40 local affiliates in the U.S. and Canada.
Developed URI-NA.org blog on WordPress 2, then migrated to Drupal 5.1.
From 2002 to 2007, developed and edited InterfaithNews.News web-magazine.

Spiritual Assembly of the Baháís of St. Paul

04/07 - present

Elected member of local religious administrative institution for the city of St. Paul, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
2007, 2009, 2010 served as Treasurer. Revamped the accounting system using Quickbooks and closer alignment to GAP.
Often called upon to provide pastoral care in the community for those facing personal difficulties.

Audobon MN / University of Minnesota

11/09

Paid consultant developing a web application for collection and analysis of citizen science bird observation data, Missississippi River Twin Cities Landbird Monitoring Program
Also a citizen-scientist volunteer supporting the monitoring of landbird populations at Battle Creek West Regional Park in St. Paul, Minnesota.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

01/96 - present

Originally learned HTML as a way to join the geek crowd in high school; been hand-building standards-based HTML, CSS, and light JavaScript ever since.

Layout, Charting Tools

01/96 - present

Started with Photoshop 3.0 around '96 or '97 for web site design; have also used Fireworks, The Gimp, and Visio for basic mockups and/or detailed site design.

Since 2004, I have frequently used Visio for building network diagrams, data and process flow charts, data models, and UML object oriented models. At various times, I've also used Illustrator, PageMaker, and Publisher for newsletter and flyer design.

ASP, SQL Server

6/97 - 1/99

Built corporate Intranet using classic ASP, with small datastore in Microsoft SQL Server 7.

LabView, Fortran, C++, Perl

9/98 - 5/01

Created advanced data acquisition and analysis routines, data storage and retrieval interfaces, for particle physics research

PHP, MySQL

6/99 - 6/07

Designed data-driven websites in PHP and MySQL for both UT HEP Lab and for BiGAUSTIN; customized a few different CRM packages; and built custom (unpublished) plugins for the DotProject and Drupal platforms.

VBA, Access

8/01 - 01/05

Developed client-tracking database for BiGAUSTIN, using extensive VBA scripting to manage complex user interfaces in Microsoft Access

ASP, SQL Server

10/04 - 9/27/06

At Augeo, completely rebuilt existing data-driven loyalty marketing website, using better coding practices, SQL stored procedures, and integrated security measures.

.Net, SQL Server

01/06 - present

Lead Augeo's development team in building .Net platform of loyalty web sites used by The Home Depot, Pepsi Co, US Foodservice, and others.

At Fiserv, have lead offshore and onshore development of custom ETL applications and end-user GUIs (web, Windows Forms).

At both Augeo and Fiserv, I have been principal designer and, at times, administrator of SQL Server 2005 databases – installing, designing tables, implementing encryption, tuning query performance, configuring replication, and more.

Report Server, SSIS

06/05 - present

Worked with Microsoft MVPs to learn and develop basis of Augeo's business intelligence system, including build of numerous reports and basic SSIS packages.

Use of both tools has continued at Fiserv, where I've created advanced SSIS packages that incorporate web service calls and fuzzy logic, and have learned to use XML transformations to create complex text files through Reporting Services.