Professional Experience - Corporate
14 years experience: September 1985 - September 1999
Motorola, Inc - Business Systems Analyst
Global Communications corporation. Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, Scottsdale, AZ
- Led software development projects, gathered business requirements, mapped technology needs, and developed software.
- Designed web user interfaces.
- Tracked project deliverables and managed development tasks.
- Contributed as part of 8-person software development team, developing applications for quality assurance departments using object-oriented technologies.
- Mentored and trained team in programming using C language.
Motorola, Inc - Programmer Analyst
- Developed software applications in support of the Logic and Analog Technologies Group (LATG) quality assurance department.
- Managed desktop support for over 50 users and supervised 1 desktop support specialist.
- Spearheaded the design of C application which automatically generated pages of an ASICs data book used by customers, saving hundreds of man hours in document editing annually.
- Developed client/server database application capable of generating and storing a failure analysis report and transmitting to customers – with cutting-edge features, including embedded digital photographs – resulting in a reliable application utilized for 6 years in Phoenix, Manila, and Taiwan.
- Implemented bulletin board system enabling real-time communication and document sharing between offices around the world, and slashing document transmission times by about a week.
- Applied for patent (not awarded): “Method for dynamically creating user-configurable data-based rules for the purpose of deriving data using data structure metadata in a relational database.”
- Contributed as member of software engineering process group and achieved SEI level 3 award.
- Participated in a Motorola-sponsored elementary school mentoring program, teaching Logo language to 4th graders from 1992 - 1993.
- Honored with Outstanding Contributor Award for participation in division SEI Level 3 achievement (1996).
- Awarded Silver Quill Award as result of publishing an article in SciTech Quarterly magazine on behalf of Motorola (1992).
- Received Award of Excellence in Total Customer Satisfaction competition (1992).