Resume

Frank Tudor
545 Ave. A
Plattsmouth, NE 68048
402-490-6749 (cell)
frank_tudor@yahoo.com

Objective: To find a Developer position working with Coldfusion position.

Skills:

Scripting languages: ASP, PHP, Coldfusion MX7 and 8, ASP.NET using C#
Presentation: HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery)
Web Services: Apache, IIS
Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Access
Design tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop
Version Control: Surround TTP and SCM
Operating Systems: Windows, MAC OSX 10+, Linux

Examples (sites I either created or had some involvement in developing):

http://www.uprr.com (various Coldfusion applications)
http://www.netshops.com and http://www.netshopsinc.com (Coldfusion based niche stores)
http://www.qa3.com (Financial brokerage)
http://www.eurweb.com (RaberCom Website - Radio personality Raber Lee Bailey's news site)
http://www.dirt123.com (RaberCom's gossip website&totally redesigned and redeveloped)
http://www.300site.com (CMS template, home site, and blog with sample code)
http://www.oxygenbardallas.com (Specialty website)
http://www.asenseofhumordriving.com (Online defensive driving courseware)
http://www.highcountryxtreme.com (Sports information website)
http://shorthorn.uta.edu (College newspaper website)
http://www.uta.edu/anthropology (College department website)
http://langlab.uta.edu/lac (College lab website)

Work History:

Coldfusion Developer - Diversified Solutions/Union Pacific
(Oct 2007 - Present) Omaha, NE

At Union Pacific I created various web applications with Coldfusion, jQuery, and Oracle. These applications were mainly for distribution and approval systems. UP has internal design components called Ricola that is required for all web applications. So the look and feel part of my applications we already created allowing me to focus strictly on development. In this position I used Coldfusion in a mostly object oriented way. I used many CFCs, several web services, and a custom recursive function. We worked in both Coldfusion MX7 and version 8. With jQuery I created sorting effects, hide show toggles, and forced zebra striping. UP was happy with my work and extended me many times over, to continue my development efforts. Additionally, I have created and used some JAVA elements in my applications for various functionality that proved to execute more quickly than Coldfusion equivalents (mainly with string and list management and some XML parsing). Additionally, I worked on technical interviews with Diversified Solutions for potential Coldfusion candidates.

Sr. Developer - QA3 Financial
(Jan 2007 - July 2007) Omaha, NE

I returned now as Senior Developer for QA3 Financial (an Omaha based broker dealer), which nets about 65 million each year by working with independent financial advisors around the U.S.

Here, I work on various existing code based in ASP classic. We have many in house tools and a few simple website fronts that log into back advisor desktop tools. The in house tools spread across 300 ASP pages of various types. The pages cover document repositories, various registration and payment sections, newsletters and forum tools, as well as many forms and reports. I have also created several Coldfusion web applications and reporting tools. Currently, the company has entertained the idea of ASP.NET. In ASP.NET using C# I received 3 training courses, some self study to created roughly 25-30 console applications, and a few small web applications. I am still learning .NET technologies/methodologies, OOP and best practices.

In using Coldfusion, I maintained four Coldfusion servers, updated all our MX servers to Scorpio (Coldfusion 8) upon release, re-applied the data sources, registered custom cfx tags, implemented Fusebox 4 Framework where I could, and created about 20 small to medium automated processes and web applications.

Additionally, we work with all forms of Databases, from Oracle 10G to SQL Server 2000. There are many Access database projects in house as well. A good part of my time was managing these various data sources, creating SQL queries, data exports, imports, and scheduled tasks through DTS and other methods.

Lastly in my position, I focus on functional specification requirement (FRS) writing for our team and other departments who need applications developed. We created Use Cases, Dataflow Diagrams, and Programming Guides, to get a better understanding of the tool that needs to be developed. We do focus on signatures (sign-off) processes, both in planning and development, to prevent any feature creeps or costly rework that often occur without these processes.

Coldfusion Developer - Mandolfo Associates/ Netshops Inc.
(Aug 2006 - Nov 2006) Omaha, NE

Working for Netshops was a truly valuable experience for me. I learned how a large and fast growing Coldfusion development firm works! I not only increased my Coldfusion skills but I also increased my CSS design and Query skills.

Tasks Included:

  • Working on holiday enhancements, touch-ups and new features across all 200+ websites. Holiday work has been my main focus and it has been very result driven because of the sales generated for this time of year.
  • Created a variety of email communication enhancements to our Niche shops including abandonment cart', email page to a friend' and help us improve our site' email tools.
  • Developed NetshopsInc.com with Coldfusion code, CSS and graphics to create a compelling corporate presence.
  • Created new functionality to the knowledge base for product skus, giving customers the ability to look through the Q and A of particular product and cascades through 200 retails sites.
  • Created tools to help append htaccess files and rename htaccess files for SEO changes.
  • Created tools to manage and rewrite large lists of Google and Yahoo keywords for the SEO team.
  • Redeveloped roughly 26 home page templates across 200 websites including pre-retail sites.
  • Created various additional Coldfusion components and code to enhance and improve over 200 retail websites.
  • Created various regular expressions for renaming schemes.
  • Developed tools to place Google adsense and Google search boxes in various pages across 200 websites.

PHP Developer - Mandolfo Associates/ West Communications
(Present) Omaha, NE

For West Communications I was brought in to develop a PHP scripting solution for an incident database reporting tool. The tool required a data source migration from a proprietary DB into Microsoft SQL server. Next, we were to create a cron job to run a PHP script that imported the source to a MySQL database. Finally, we had to have the ability for management to run custom reporting against the MySQL source. This is a work in progress and I create components for the project part time and weekends.

Coldfusion Developer - XIG
(Present) Chicago, IL

For XIG Is was brought on to handle overflow work, mainly Coldfusion troubleshooting. I mainly focused on newsletter templates, queries, flow control, character replacement techniques and altering interface options. This work is all done remotely from home.

Additionally, I have worked with Coldfusion file and directory management methods and file archive handling.

The technology we work with is strictly Coldfusion.

XIG is a group of remote programmers and administrative team members spread across the U.S.

ASP/Oracle Developer - Mandolfo Associates/ QA3
(May 2006) Omaha, NE

I came into this project to create break-out reports and search tools using ASP 3.0 and Oracle 10 for their Representative Database' tool on www.qa3.com. This was an emergency, short term project and dealt with financial brokerage elements like variable annuities, oil and gas futures, and mutual funds.

The reports were created separately and cut into their existing AJAX framework to maintain the look and feel of the rest of the site.

The search tool was created using elements of existing search functionality that was abandoned by the initial programmer. That code was brought back to life and additional functionality was added.

I also commented all my code and queries for any future programmers that would be assigned to manage these tools and reports.

Additionally, I created detailed documentation of each days work and how much time was spent on research, coding and design.

Editor and Writer - Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan News Paper
(Sept 2005 to March 2006) Yankton, SD

I learned layout and design as it applies to news print, including story selection, arrangement of relevant news articles, and packaging of local, national, and international stories. I designed every news paper except the Monday paper during my tenure.

In addition to being the layout design editor, I also wrote stories for the paper, which ranged from local beat, news stories with a local impact, enterprise feature stories, and opinion editorials. As a writer I often interfaced with county and city officials and other notable sources for story material. I also created my own graphics to package with my stories.

As a third responsibility, I worked on converting at the Local and Midwest stories to html documents and converted any images from print to a web friendly format. We had specific tools to do this, but sometimes I had to work these files manually. Next we would cut the stories to the live site via an SSH utility. We would then check the site for any issues, and initialize our bulk mail utility for our subscribers.

Coldfusion Developer - HighCountryXtreme.com
(August 2005 - May 2006)

For this project I was brought in to create a website that focused around sporting events that take place mainly in the Colorado Mountains, including skiing and snowboarding. We created very friendly website that allowed for article publishing, tips, and events calendar, product reviews, and other fun informational trinkets. The site featured an administrative section with a login session. There the user could create links, publish their articles, add tips, and events, and turn modules on and off if they didn't need certain aspects. We were also ramping up to create advertisement components for the site, which were completed but not implemented. One of the owners decided to run for the Senate, so the project has been put on hold until the season starts again.

Interim CSC Administrator - University of South Dakota
(Aug 2005 to Sept 2005) Vermillion, SD

The Office of the Dean of Students contacted me to step in with a technology roll-out that was in the process of occurring. Every student on campus was to get new ID badges. These badges had to have access assignment and meal plan selections applied.

Our technology was strictly Unix and Price Point Tools. Each student had to be entered manually and then we would scan in there image. We would run a utility to print out the cards then go into several separate tools to add money, meal plans, and security access to certain buildings and doors.

Technology Manager - ASenseOfHumorDriving.com
(July 2003 to August 2005) Dallas, TX

I partnered up with a defensive driving school operator in Texas. He focused on curriculum and I focused on the technology and development. I bought computers and office equipment, phone systems, and networking hardware. I put together my Unix system using Linux Redhat, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I developed in Windows using EasyPHP and Dreamweaver, I created the MySQL data source tables, using PHPMyAdmin. I created the layout for the site, the images, the pre-registration and registration components.

Later I started to find myself struggling with administrative work, with the TEA (Texas Education Agency - governing agency), I was forced to hire an additional programmer for development, and I moved into the content development and database management and creating queries for reporting tools.

I then moved into the Technology manger spot and hired a part-time systems administrator. I focused on project management, outlining programming requirements, and concentrated on helpdesk hiring and training employees. I also created documentation for the TEA, and focused on marketing efforts.

Under my leadership, ASenseOfHumorDriving.com moved from the last place driving school to the third highest grossing online defensive driving school in the state Texas. ASOHD is currently a $1 million plus net profit company.

My main duties included:

  • Hiring and training helpdesk staff in our products, services and philosophy that customers always come first, and that customer service is the most important element of our business.
  • Interfacing with customers that experiences trouble or dissatisfaction with our products services, then turn that into a more positive experience, by listening, empathizing, and by providing them with optimal choices and solutions.
  • Managing the technology group which included working as a lead developer and designer, and systems administrator, to improve our products and services.
  • Other responsibilities include: Improvement processes, managing contracts, investor relations, management relations, new services, and helpdesk retention.

Computer User Assistant - Modern Languages - University of Texas at Arlington
(Sept 2003 to Sept 2004) Arlington, TX

For the University I managed a small computer lab for the Dept. of Modern Languages. I gave orientations to the Language Acquisition Center. I would help students with their online lab material which was hosted through our own website. I also worked as a web developer redesigning the LAC website. In addition to creating web material, I digitized videos, audio, and worked in our student database.

Database Developer - Sociology - University of Texas at Arlington
(April 2004) Arlington, TX

The Sociology department brought me on to develop a database with the help of the Alumni department that contained all the most current information on graduates from both the Anthropology and Sociology Programs. This was a one month Contract Position.

Web Designer - The Shorthorn Newspaper - University of Texas at Arlington
(Summer 2004) Arlington, TX

This was a part-time summer job that allowed me to work with the news team. I would cut all the news stories to the internet and create other web content and website maintenance.

eBussiness Manager - Nationwide Flood Research Inc. Nov.2002 - April.2003

Managing web talent and reporting directly to the CEO of the company.

Direct marketing campaigning included: Branding efforts, creating forms, mailers, graphics, and managing distribution technologies.

Search Engine Efforts included: Managing paid inclusions and Search Engine Optimization SEO to consistently maintain a 2nd through 8th placement on Google, Teoma, Fast, and Inktomi.

Internet website project management including designing developing and deploying relevant content in a search engine friendly way. Additional work included search engine metrics and log file analysis for re-optimization.

Analyst/Developer/Application Support Specialist - Accenture (Formally Anderson Consulting) Aug.1999 - Sept.2002
 Systems Analyst/Developer - HRIS:

Lawson Kronos Security website - website security form project
Head designer and developer for the HR/Payroll online security application with SkyChefs. Development Tools include PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and INC file. My focus was on data integrity and error handling
MACC - website: change control tool project
Developer designer for the MACC project (Managing automated change control)
Development Tools include ASP, Access, SQL, Forms, Triggers, and HTML
This tool incorporates error handling, SMTP, and inline authorization methods

HRIS Application Support:
Lawson - support: HR and payroll software

Lawson Payroll System Security Administrator on HP-UX servers. Created accounts using templates and gave rights to Lawson system functions. I worked on scripting and system jobs with VI, SQL, and Lawson editing tools. Scheduled and configured jobs, which ran on Omniback' software. Printer setup: Configured IP and printer names and sent test print jobs to printers. Edited SQL and Micro Cobol code, recompiled and uploaded code changes from test to production. Started and stopped jobs and services when maintenance was required. I managed domains, printers, routers and gateways through HP-UX the environment. I maintained payroll information for 6 companies nationwide. Conducted benefits eligibility file transmissions and Oracle form and SQL ad-hock reporting. I also managed weekly Payroll rotations including on-call support, 401k, and bank transmissions.

Kronos - support: time keeping software and clocks:

Provided Kronos workforce and timekeeping secondary support. Conducted Kronos clock configuration and IP configuration

Operations and Call Center Support Technician (Skychefs):

Operations and Support for the SCIS department of LSG Sky Chefs
Monitoring critical HP-UX, Solaris, VAXSYS, AS400, NT 4.0 and 2000 servers
Troubleshooting hardware and software problems and monitoring weekly payroll

Web Developer - Anthropology/Biology - University of Texas at Arlington
(Dec 2000 - March 2001) Arlington, TX

This was my first paid position with the University. I redesigned the Anthropology website. In addition, I created a supplemental website for the Biology's entomology lab.

Education and Training:

  • Bachelor's of the Arts: Major Anthropology, Minor MIS. 2001, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Master's of the Arts: Business Communications, Jones International University.

Community Service: Junior Achievement