Resume of William M. Rawls

William M. Rawls

2279 Perez St

Salinas, CA 93906

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Phone 850-270-1381

850-320-1934

Email william.rawls@gmail.com

Presence LinkedIn (updated recommendations)

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All about me (full contact info)

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Objective

I seek a long term contract (1099, W2, or Corp2Corp), contract to permanent or a permanent position as an application architect, lead software engineer, senior software engineer, or software engineer. Also willing to accept telecommuting remote work to be preformed from my home with occasional on-site work. I am also available as a technology consultant, data/application security consultant, and mentor. I would be willing to consider participating in speculative web ventures. I am open to relocating to just about anywhere for just about any length of time. I especially like Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, Dallas, Tallahassee, Atlanta, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale and am willing to consider relocating to one of these or other places. Ability to work on a challenging project in a team setting with a company following industry best practices is preferred.

Some Endorsements from my LinkedIn Network:

“William is a great asset to any software related project. His programming skills are far more superior than anyone I have met in the industry. I worked with William directly on developing several Enterprise Solution systems, which are still saving Verizon millions of dollars!” (December 8, 2005)

– Abe Minkara

“William's future-fast-forward looking concepts and ideas in technology followed by developing software and solutions today that meet its trends makes William, in my opinion, an exceptional performer and one-of-a-kind technology developer and innovator.” (November 30, 2005)

– Tarek Hoteit

“William is one of the best developers I have worked with.” (September 20, 2005)

– Ramzi Sayyid

“William is one of the greatest programmers I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. His foresight and intuitive grasp of future requirements and potential problems make him a visionary in his field. I would be delighted to work with William on future projects.” (November 30, 2005)

– Lee Saferite

“William is a great person and has outstanding character qualities. He is also an excellent technician and strategist. He has a unique ability to quickly understand business and technical challenges and develop optimal solutions. I have been in the technology industry for 28 years, and William is one of the most technically proficient people that I have ever worked with.” (November 30, 2005)

– Chet Hall

Primary IT Skill List (Full list available on request)

Personal Data

• Male, 40 years old, unmarried

• 23 years of solid programming experience

• Fluent in 11 programming languages under four operating systems and various chip sets

• Have never had complaints about the quality of my work

• Singular drive to learn all things programming which keep me constantly ahead of the curve

• Have held many other computer related jobs to round out my computer knowledge

• Have developed programming techniques several years beyond current techniques

• Worked in many different industries in practically every permutation of team and non-team development used over the last decade

• Readily absorbs information quickly

• Excellent interpersonal skills with a ready smile, gentle disposition, and always willing to listen

• Strong sense of personal ethics and morals

• Able to lead, follow, support, mentor, and encourage across racial, age, and skill levels

• Able to work on several assignments at once

• A self-starter capable of accomplishing tasks quickly and efficiently to speak to both existing and future business needs.

• Brainbench Master Certification for VB6 & ASP

• Brainbench Most Valuable Professional for VB6

• Brainbench Content Expert for VB.NET

Brainbench Job Role Certifications

Brainbench and Other Certifications

Key Work History

FBMC

Lead .NET Software Engineer

Tallahassee, FL

April 2007 to February 2011

Full time Employee

Coding, debugging in a mid-sized team environment. Primarily using the .NET framework 2.0, C#, SQL Server 2005, Sybase 10, IIS, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML, and benefit management technologies to mentor existing team and develop new web pages, data access layer creation, windows applications, and a windows service to accomplish data transfer between different database systems (Sybase and SQL Server 2005). Existing staff are PowerBuilder / Sybase programmers requiring extensive retraining and mentoring on .NET topics. I provided this mentoring and provided guidance in the purchase of hardware, software, and off site training vendors. I won an award for my efforts with training.

Seva Technologies

Applications Architect

Tallahassee, FL

April 2006 to April 2007

Full time Employee

Coding, debugging in a small team environment. Primarily using the .NET framework, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 6 Enterprise, ORACLE 9i, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, manufacturing technologies, SATO printers, biometrics, WonderWare, and .NET remoting to develop 2 web sites, 2 Win Form applications, modify existing systems to accomplish real-time monitoring and data entry for Vistakon's 3rd Generation contact lens lines. The project was nearly 2 months behind schedule when I arrived. We got the project back on track and on schedule while juggling multiple projects and exceeded expectations, even betting our delivery date.

Vistakon - Johnson & Johnson

Consulting Software Engineer

Jacksonville, FL

January 2006 to April 2006

Contract through TEKSystems

Coding, debugging in a small team environment. Primarily using the .NET framework, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 6 Enterprise, ORACLE 9i, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, manufacturing technologies, SATO printers, biometrics, WonderWare, and .NET remoting to develop 2 web sites, 2 Win Form applications, modify existing systems to accomplish real-time monitoring and data entry for Vistakon's 3rd Generation contact lens lines. The project was nearly 2 months behind schedule when I arrived. We got the project back on track and on schedule while juggling multiple projects and exceeded expectations, even betting our delivery date.

Verizon

Senior Software Engineer

Irving, Texas

February 2001 to August 31, 2005 also February 1999 to November 1999

Contract through Adea Incorporated

Designing, coding, debugging, leading, gathering requirements from the client in a large team environment. Primarily using the .NET Framework, Visual C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 6 Enterprise, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8, IIS, ASP, COM+, XML, BizTalk, MSMQ, and .NET Remoting to develop various enterprise systems, web applications, client applications, packaging, deployment, tracking and server-side objects for both internal and external use. Primary system (100 percent c#) allowed the deployment and configuration of over 1000 internal applications across over 2000 servers by only 200 people around the globe (India, Florida, New York, California, and Texas). Said system had complete web-based historical tracking (asp.net / vb.net & c# upgraded from ASP/VBA) at the per server level and on a per user basis. The entire system (5 web sites, 2 windows services, 1 smart client) was conceived, created, and maintained solely by myself over the course of about 3 years. It is the single largest internal application at Verizon by approximately 8 times.

Firm Solutions

Owner / Lead Software Engineer

Tallahassee, FL also Seaside, CA

September 1996 to Present

Business

Designing, coding, debugging, leading, gathering requirements from the client and all other aspects of the development cycle. Using Visual Studio.NET (both C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, MS Access, SQL Server 2000, MySQL, PHP, IIS, and Apache to research and create various programs and database applications for a variety of clients ranging from a local ISP, a city hall, private schools, http://www.hiremartjobs.com, http://www.shop4zero.net, other clients, and a local computer systems reseller. Created HTML File Walker and a Visual Basic add-in Slice and Dice. Web master for firmsolutions.com and callmarshall.com. One of my many accomplishments was to create an e-mail based remote database synchronization program allowing multiple users at multiple sites to send in (Access) database change requests to a central location via e-mail and then propagate those changes both to the local and central databases. Currently researching Linux technologies and Crystal Reports.

Greentree Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Monterey, California

November 1999 to May 2000

Full time employee

Designing, coding, debugging in a small satellite office environment. Primarily using Visual Basic 6 Enterprise, SQL Server 7.0, IIS, ASP, MTS, and Visual InterDev 6 to facilitate the conversion of 54 business objects into transactional MTS components for “iGreentree” a Human Resources web-based management system.

Sterling Commerce

Senior Consultant – Software Engineer

Addison, Texas

August 1998 to February 1999

Contract through Adea, Incorporated

Designing, coding, debugging in a team environment. Primarily using Turbo Pascal 7, Visual Basic 5 and 6, Visual C++ 5, Access 2.0, Access 8.0, two custom scripting languages, and Delphi 3 to maintain a application suite consisting of over one million lines of code. I was the primary source code maintainer for the DOS and Windows clients and the DOS server. The application suite is used by 99 of the top 100 banks in America (over 450 banks total). During this contract I single-handedly wrote an extension to their DOS based server modem communications program, allowing non-modem based communication directly through a network. This network communication extended to both 16-bit Windows client and a new 32-bit next generation Internet Banking system currently in development.

Computer Professional Staffing

Software Consultant and Engineer

Sarasota, Florida

August 1997 to December 1997

Designing, coding, debugging in a team environment. Primarily using Visual Basic 5, Visual C++ 5, and Access 8 to create components for a soon to be released AATS product and a prototype for another product to be released mid to late next year. One of my many accomplishments was to create what I call a “three dimensional associative array” and the beginnings of “Slice and Dice”, a Visual Basic add-in used to create complex object structures from relational databases (turnkey database persisted objects).

QuadBase Software

Lead Software Engineer

Columbus, GA

July 1995 to January 1996

Full time employee

Designing, coding, debugging and all other aspects of the development cycle. Primarily using Visual Basic 3.0 to create an insurance agency automation program. This product, named AgentCentral 3.0, works in a Windows 3.11, Workgroups, 95, and NT 3.51 environment. Many unique and innovative approaches were used in coding this 30,000 plus line program. Ran www.agentcentral.com allowing prospective agents to study and download a self-running demonstration of AgentCentral.

United States Army

O2 Computer Programmer

U.S. Army, Fort Benning, Georgia

October 1994 to June 1995

Contract through Computer Data Systems, Inc

Designing, coding, debugging, and all other aspects of the development cycle. Primarily using Visual Basic 3.0 and Visual C++ 1.51 in a Windows 3.11, Workgroups, and Windows NT environment on a Banyan Vines network connected to the Internet. The project involved creating a multi-user scheduling and resource allocation for the purposes of infantry scheduling at Army bases around the United States. During Beta testing, I became responsible for distributing the software via the Internet to other Army base locations. Also, beta testers were able to send bug reports via e-mail. OLE 2.01 automation, ODBC 2.0, and the Q&E Clipper ODBC driver were used in creating the TATSS windows drag and drop, relational, and object-oriented GUI. Achieved the respect of my team and successfully integrated myself into the team.

Larry S. Wolfe, CPA and CritiqueCo

Senior Software Engineer

Tallahassee, Florida

October 1987 to October 1991

CritiqueCo performs mystery shopping for many industries and reports on quality of products and service, cleanliness, and customer satisfaction. Designing, coding, and debugging, primarily using Turbo C / C++ in a MS-DOS environment. The projects involved creating several programs for the entry, business interpretation, and executive summary of mystery shopping information provided for various industries. Literally hundreds of different reports, graphs, and years of data were compiled to this end. While there I created "SIMPLE", an easy to process report generation language that was capable of processing years of data that had changing formats from month to month. This was my first job as a computer programmer and I successfully implemented and integrated several complete software solutions.

Education

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida

No Degree: Left during 4th year to pursue career

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Mathematics

Tallahassee Community College

Tallahassee, Florida

Degree: AA with a concentration in Data Processing

Major: Business Data Processing

Lively Vocational-Technical School

Tallahassee, Florida

Degree: Certificate in Business Data Processing

Honors: Completed course in record time

Major: Business Data Processing