Deborah A. Whitehurst
Twenty years of professional experience in computer software solutions including analysis, coding, implementing, and customer acceptance of systems primarily in the area of manufacturing, warehousing, telecommunications and finance.
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Computer Science at the University of Alabama; 1984.
Summary of
Professional Experience
2007 – 2008: Senior Software Developer, Raymond James. Brokerage. Completed Fee Waiver project. Analysis and code for the Symbols Change
project. All code in Scobol/Cobol85 with Enscribe and MPSQL database.
2007 – 2007: Senior Software Developer, Symmetrex. Credit/Debit card system. Tier three level maintenance of existing COBOL85/SCOBOL,
Enscribe legacy system called EBT for the Food Stamp program.
2006 – 2007: Senior Software Analyst, Amdocs. Maintain existing software for billing cable subscribers. Major maintenance project to transfer data origin
from Tandem to Unix for the DDP (finance and billing) transactions. All code written in C language with Tandem SQL/MP database. Testing using XML case tools.
2004 – 2005: Contract Programmer, Northrup Grumman. Design, and wrote communications driver using MQ Series 5.0 (WebSphere). Technical lead for three of the major enhancement to the IMPCA+ manufacturing system sending shop floor transaction to PIOS and MRP from the Tandem to AIX and IBM systems. Design multiple new batch processes for the Industrial Engineering mangers that determined performance standards for shop employees. Reports hours earned week over week and accumulative hours earned. SME on quality assurance non-conformance reporting for the shop floor for the F18, F35 and Global Hawk programs. All phases including requirements, detail design, coding and testing and production support. All code written in Tandem Native COBOL/SCOBOL using ENSCRIBE data files.
2000 – 2002: Software Engineer III, Sprint PCS. Developed and implemented cell phone data delivery and finance business solutions for the Finance Delivery Decision Support group at Sprint PCS. Guided team members in small projects. Provided technical support to other software engineers and business analysis. Identified and implemented business process improvements. Coded entire KPI reports for Sprint PCS’s affiliates subsystem. Data gathered from Data Warehouse and sent to ESBASE process designed to present data in an Excel Spread Sheet for customer viewing. Responsible for Sprint PCS’s activation and deactivation counts for the quarterly financial statement to
shareholders.
2/2000 – 8/2000: Contract Programmer, GTE (Verizon). Designed and developed software for cell phone division to investigate the validity of disputed customer-roaming charges. Wrote all Tandem software in COBOL and SQL database which transfers messaging through Tandem’s Remote Server Control application to a front-end web application.
1999 - 2000: Contract Programmer, Sprint. Designed , developed and implemented credit card settlements processing for Sprint's Prepaid Phone Card Refresh process.
Clearing process written in Tandem C language and SQL database.
1995 - 1998: Contract Programmer, Mobil Oil. Supported Tandem communications line handler and downstream processes written in TAL. Point of Sales front-end devices used tcpip satellite communications, while the back-end used frame relay X.25 and dial-up. Built a credit card authorization process using Switch Virtual X.25 line handler written in TAL. For Y2k, built testing environment and provided quality assurance for majority of code changes necessary. All transaction in COBOL and had to be certified Y2K compliant with credit card companies. Wrote in COBOL Speed Pass software for Mobil Fleet credit card POS processing.
Systems Analyst, Sprint. Designed and developed a data mapper /memory manager and a Tcp/Ip client in Unix C to port data from DMS250/300 telecomm switches to a Unix and then on to a Tandem computer. The data mapper had a keepalive/memory manager per switch. The processes were multi-threaded and Tandem HAT's provided a system level keep alive. Designed the entire set of programs as a rules based transaction system. Programs used SQL Oracle 7 with database replication.
1994 - 1995: Programmer/Analyst shop floor control, Hughes Missile Systems. Support Phalanx and Tomahawk shop floors. Wrote auto retrieval of parts for guidance system for the Standard Missile Program . Responsible for implementation and customer acceptance of automated timecard in all 16 shop floor systems.
Tandem
C, Tandem/TAL, Native COBOL, COBOL85 , SCOBOL, Pathway, SQL & PL/SQL (Tandem & Unix Oracle 7, 8i), Enform, TACL, RMS, Control, Cron, Guardian, Bourne Shell.
Additionally, Fortran, BASIC, Perl 5.0, Excel, HTML, XML.
X.25 Frame Relay and Virtual/
Line handler, FTP, MQ Series 5.0 (WebSphere).
CVS, Tandem Control, RCS., RMS.
MS Word, Windows Works, Word Perfect.
Visual Studio, Visual SlickEdit, Beyond Compare.
Designed, developed, and implemented credit card point of sales, authorizations, and settlements processing. Developed real-time Store and forward audit messaging to UNIX.
Support Tandem telecommunications line handler and downstream
processes written in TAL & C. Processes communicate with Sprint's
Norhern Telecom DMS250 telecomm switches. Designed and developed
TCP/IP line handler on Unix in C. Supported Tcp/Ip Cient/Server for 43 hub switches
written in Tandem C language.
Worked on a Shop Floor Control system. Developed conversational
screens that interfaced with PC workstations. Transactions
performed "Store" and "Remove" carrier from carousel. Also,
transactions that determined "hottest" part to "pick" for operators.
Also, supported shop floor for Tomahawk and Phalanx systems.
Developed Point of Sales "Smart Card" technology. Wrote in TAL the
data conversion/edit check and download portion of the communication
line handler.
Completed phase on a logistics/inventory package for Tandem called
LOTS. Transaction level audit trails for parts tracking within a networked
shared database.
Programmed a major revision of a Bank's ATM authorization message
Handling written in Tandem TAL for Master Card and Visa transactions.
The bank had previously received messages in a fixed format which needed to be
modified to accept ISO standards bit-mapped variable length format. The bank’s
software had to be certified by Visa and Master card. The software was intergrated
with ACI’s switch software which was the predecessor to Base24.
Contracts with
Lockheed,
GE,
Sovran Bank (Nations Bank),
NYNEX,
MicroTel,
Littion,
Hughes Aircraft,
Mobil Oil,
Sprint,
GTE (Verizon),
Northrop Grumman, CA