Rèsumè of Dennis Styles

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Have a very diverse background and experience including: web design, programming and support, extensive design and development experience in object oriented methodologies using Smalltalk; extensive project management, analysis/design, and system integration experience.

WORK HISTORY

Insight Solutions - April 1999 - present
Software Consultant

Dennis has had a wide variety of web development consulting assignments for a number of clients. The vast majority of these assignments involved the creation of web sites or internet related work. For brevity sake, a few of the clients and projects are listed below.

National Union of American Families - Developed custom scripts in Perl and PHP. Selected a shopping cart package,  installed, and customized (in Perl) it according to the clients requirements. 

Mail Forwarding Service - Provided recommendation of web hosting company given clients requirements. Created the initial web site and provided initial web administration.

Truth Sets Us Free Committee - Consulted with client on how to register a domain, select a web hosting company. Provided an initial web site according to the client's requirements and turned administration of the web site over to the client.

Zondervan Publishing - Dennis was a subcontractor on a project that parsed HTML files in preparation for input to a proprietary text formatting package. The development was done in Smalltalk.

Innovative Technical Solutions - Provided a wide variety of services to this burgeoning internet marketing company including: analysis and selection of bulk email software (used for marketing various products); web site development and administration, analysis of merchant account providers; analysis and selection of a shopping cart package;  installation, and customization (in Perl) of a shopping cart package; development of custom web pages (in PHP) providing customers access to their information that is stored in a mySQL database.

Sprint – July 1994 through March 1999
Software Consultant

Designed and developed several delivery phases of a PC based customer care system for the residential customer service associates. The system was initially called Quest but was later renamed Odyssey. My first assignment was to recommend an object oriented development environment. Assisted the information systems and the users develop the first requirements for Quest. Serviced as the chief designer and a developer on the first few Quest delivery phases. The early phases interfaced with custom developed transactions on the mainframe systems. A later development phase included integration with Unix servers (via a TCP/IP interface) and Versant databases. My last project was a PC based system for the Receivables department. This project started with requirements definition and went through development. All development was done in Smalltalk.

American Airlines
Senior Systems Analyst - July 1988 to July 1994

Served as the chief hardware and software architect for a distributed computing system which supports the operational nerve center of the airline, System Operations Control (SOC). Involved in the following major activities: published documents describing a distributed computing environment from the users and the systems architecture perspectives; lead a team that selected and managed the installation of a Macintosh workstation and local area network costing $10M in a new building; begun the selection of database server and premise processor hardware;  explored an object oriented development methodology for the workstation environment. Also served as a designer and developer for several Smalltalk applications.

Burlington Northern Motor Carriers Inc.
Manager Corporate Systems - June 1987 to April 1988

Had complete responsibility for the 4381 mainframe including applications development and system software. Managed a development project that linked five remote S/38s together using advanced peer-to-peer communication on the 4381 in CICS. Information was collected in real-time on the 4381 and routed to the appropriate location.

Data Center Manager - March 1986 to June 1987

The duties included responsibility for the corporate data center in a distributed computing environment that included a 4381, S/36s, S/38s and Novell LANs. These responsibilities included computer operations, system software, and hardware acquisition for the IBM 4381.

Gearhart Industries Inc.
Manager Computer Operations - June 1984 to February 1986

The duties of this position included all aspects of managing system software and a 3081 data center. The budget was $3,500,000 and the staff included twenty-five people. He was also responsible for the acquisition and disposition of all computer hardware.

Technical Services Manager - June 1980 to May 1984

My responsibilities included all aspects of managing the activities of the system software group including: annual planning and budgeting, personnel management, evaluating system software products, planning for hardware installations, performance turning and capacity planning. In October 1980, he was project manager for a successful conversion from DOS to MVS conversion using VM. He conducted a successful pilot of the IBM PC in 1983.

Systems Programmer - June 1978 to May 1980

Installed and maintained all system software including VM/SP, DOS/VS, COBOL compiler, CICS/VS, DL/1 and several utilities.

Programmer Analyst - August 1977 to May 1978

Programmer in the manufacturing support group. Wrote CICS inquiry and update programs using DL/1 data bases. Wrote and maintained batch programs using DL/1 and VSAM files.

First National Bank, Ft. Worth, Texas
Programmer Analyst - December 1976 to August 1977

Hobbs Trailer Company, Ft. Worth, Texas
Programmer - May 1975 to December 1976

Computer Operator - December 1974 to May 1975

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SUMMARY

PCs, IBM 43XX and 30XX, Apple Macintosh, Smalltalk (ObjectWorks & VisualAge), Perl, PHP, mySQL, Java (limited), JavaScript (limited), HyperCard, Pascal, COBOL, PL/1, BASIC, IBM Assembler, MVS/XA, MVS/SP, VM/SP, DOS/VS, CICS/VS, IMS/DB, DB2, INTERTEST, RMF, OMEGAMON, OMEGAMON/CICS, MVS Integrated Control System (MICS), ISPF, ISPF/PDF, SAS, Panvalet, numerous Macintosh and PC software products, Linux, Novell Netware

PERSONAL

Born 6/20/53, married, three children, excellent health. He enjoys church, exercise, and reading.

EDUCATION

B.S. Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, 1975.

M.S. Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 1978.