Senior TIBCO Architect - Director Level
TIBCO Certified Trainer
TIBCO Certified Professional
Technical Director
American Citizen

Location:     Houston, Texas
Phone:     (713) 979-8412
Email:     jazon@xmarter.com
Company Website:     www.xmarter.com
Personal Website:     www.jazon.net


WORK EXPERIENCE
    August 2006 - April 2009 - Perficient, Inc.
      Director / TIBCO Certified Trainer
      Have been officially certified by TIBCO Software, Inc. to travel within the continental US to teach courses in TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW), Enterprise Message Service (EMS), and General Interface (GI).
      In charge of training company consultants in TIBCO software packages.
      Led a group of TIBCO developers in architecting and developing real-time systems integration interfaces a large pharmaceutical testing company called Covance.
      Was awarded the Perficient Extra Mile Award and the Perficient Promise Award for going above and beyond set expectations
      Trained the Dallas development team of PNM Resources energy company in TIBCO BusinessWorks, EMS, and General Interface. Also, assisted this company in the architecture and development of TIBCO framework services for exception handling, auditing, and application configuration.
      Trained the Indianapolis development team of Golden Rule insurance company in TIBCO BusinessWorks, EMS, General Interface, and PortalBuilder.
      Worked as the lead TIBCO developer for a major phase of a project for a medical management company called McKesson.
      Worked as the lead TIBCO developer for a Proof of Concept performance testing application for IBM.
      Worked as the lead TIBCO General Interface consultant in a Proof of Concept project in Monterrey, Mexico. Collaborated with the TIBCO pre-sales group and the TIBCO Professional Services Group to create General Interface forms to be used by TIBCO iProcess.
      (www.perficient.com)
    July 2005 - August 2006 - Chico's FAS, Inc.
      TIBCO, C#, and SQL Server Developer / Administrator of TIBCO environments / Systems Analyst
      Led the implementation of the entire TIBCO environment for the company. Setup fault tolerance for EMS.
      In charge of administration of all TIBCO applications, software, and hardware.
      Helped develop interfaces needed for integration using TIBCO BusinessWorks.
      Worked extensively with Microsoft Operations Manager to setup monitoring for TIBCO environments.
      Rewrote the entire purchase order invoice matching interface program using strict object-oriented design in C#. Implemented the Factory and Singleton object-oriented design patterns. Used Transact-SQL extensively to write complex stored procedures for the application.
      Resolved complex programming issues in the old purchase order invoice matching interface program.
      (www.chicos.com)
    Nov 2001 - July 2005 - Web4Minds / SellMoreAutos
      Chief Computer Programmer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager
      Worked as chief programmer and infrastructure architect to develop web applications for businesses, including required administration modules. Projects range from applications for marketing to mission-critical systems.
      C#, ASP.NET, XML, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets
      Strict implementation of object-oriented programming
      Extensive experience converting ASP code to ASP.NET
      Extensive use of ADO.NET to connect to SQL Server
      Extensive work on .NET Globalization to make user interface available in both English and Spanish
      Extensive experience in application deployment and maintenance
      Extensive experience in application configuration through the use of configuration files
      Extensive programming for Web Services
      SQL Server Database
      Extensive programming in Transact-SQL to create stored procedures
      Extensive use of Enterprise Manager to perform database administration work
      Extensive use of Query Analyzer for testing
      Servers
      Extensive experience in configuration of Internet Information Server
      Extensive experience in configuration of Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server
      Further work in VB.NET, Visual Basic, and third-party DLLs. I am responsible for the production of complete turnkey solutions, from conceptualization, analysis, design, development, deployment, and support. I am also responsible for the task management and supervision of other programmers.
      (Web4Minds.com / SellMoreAutos.com)
    May 2000 - Nov 2001 - Bombardier Capital
      Web and Database Developer
      Worked with three other web developers to develop and maintain a mission-critical web application called www.capitalsurf.com. Also worked on new development projects ranging from statistical reports to a web application that allowed the company to sell used cars. Worked extensively with ASP, SQL Server, Transact-SQL, HTML, and JavaScript. Also worked with Visual Basic, VBA for Excel, COM, Wireless Markup Language, and proprietary DLLs.
    March 2000 - November 2001 - OptionBase
      E-Commerce Developer
      A business partner and I started an e-commerce business for college students. It was a website where college students can buy and sell their textbooks through bidding. It was just like eBay except focused on college textbooks. I developed an entire web application with very much all the functionality eBay provided. Tools that were used extensively were Active Server Pages, SQL Server, Transact-SQL, Query Analyzer, Visual Basic, VBA for Excel, and COM.
    May 1998 - January 2000 - PiratePatrol
      Visual Basic Programmer
      I developed an incredibly intricate program with all sorts of obscure algorithms that was intended to be sold to large software corporations to stop software piracy. The program was incredible, but my business partners did not succeed in marketing the product. Extensive Visual Basic programming and Microsoft Access database work were required to complete the product.
    January 1996 - May 2000 - United States Army Reserves
      Cargo Specialist
      Graduated from Army Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training. Was awarded the honor of Brigade Soldier of the Month during advanced training. Trained with the 489th Transportation Company for four years. Assisted the unit in computer applications. Created programs using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access to automate numerous company tasks.

EDUCATION
    Spring 1997 - Spring 2001 - Jacksonville University
      • Earned Bachelors Degree in Computer Information Systems and minors in Philosophy and Religion
      • Graduated Cum Laude
    Fall 2004 - Fall 2005 - Florida Community College at Jacksonville
      • Took computer programming courses every semester for self-improvement
    Fall 2005 - Chico's FAS, Inc.
      • Completed one week of training in TIBCO BusinessWorks development by in-house experts and consultants from TIBCO Professional Services Group and Adjoined Consulting
    Fall 2005 - Falls Church, Virginia
      • Completed official TIBCO training in BusinessWorks Administration
    Fall 2005 - Arlington, Texas
      • Completed official TIBCO training in Enterprise Message Service (EMS) Administration
    Spring 2006 - Orlando, Florida
      • Attended the 2006 TIBCO User Conference (TUCON)
    Spring 2006 - Bloomingdale, Illinois
      • Completed official Microsoft training in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
    Spring 2007 - Palo Alto, California
      • Earned the title of TIBCO Certified Trainer in TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, and TIBCO General Interface
    Summer 2007 - New York City, New York
      • Completed official TIBCO training in General Interface (GI)
    Fall 2008 - Houston, Texas
      • Earned the title of TIBCO Certified Professional in TIBCO BusinessWorks

TECHNICAL SKILLS
    Development
      TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO General Interface, TIBCO BusinessEvents, TIBCO Administrator, Java, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP, Web Services, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, JSP, CSS, AJAX, J#.NET, ASP, Visual Basic, VBA, XHTML, HTML, C++, C, PHP, BASH Scripting, COBOL

    Database Systems
      Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access

    Operating Systems
      Microsoft Windows Servers, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Windows XP,

    Web Servers
      Microsoft Internet Information Server, Linux Apache Server

OTHER INTERESTS
    Public speaking (one of my biggest passions in life), leadership development, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the art of persuasion, Artificial Intelligence, philosophy, cosmology, theology, bodybuilding, football, tennis, and NASCAR

REFERENCES
Jeff Huang
Managing Director
Perficient, Inc.
(713) 876-3525
jeff.huang@perficient.com
  Bill Kefalas
Technical Director
Perficient, Inc.
(713) 291-5426
bill.kefalas@perficient.com
  Tolga Tari
Chief Executive Officer
Web4Minds/SellMoreAutos
Jacksonville, FL
(904) 662-3523
(904) 642-3546
tolga.tari@web4minds.com
  Maria Klitch
I.T. Trainer
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL
(904) 256-8000 ext. 7508
mklitch@ju.edu