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Joseph P. Befumo

resume 09/02/08

570-448-2783 Voice

joe @ befumo.com
www.befumo.com
Pleasant Mount, PA, USA

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Consulting engagements within driving distance of Northeastern, PA. (I will no longer subject myself to the indignities of air travel, particularly in this age of heightened airport security, excessive delays, etc..) I'll consider permanent positions in the Scranton, PA or Binghamton, NY area, with the right company.

 

  • ISO Certified Internal Auditor
  • Q/A Process Implementation.
  • MS Great Plains Certified Dexterity Engineer 
  • MS SQL Server DBA
  • Database Design
  • Methodology & process improvement (SEI/CMM, ISO, SPR, RUP)
  • Process enabling/deployment technologies (Rational Unified Process, LBMS Process Engineer, SHL Transform)
  • Software project management, estimating and metrics
  • OOA/OOD/OOP, UML, Rational Rose
  • Parsers, compilers, and threaded interpretive languages
  • Web/Intranet & Client/Server technologies (IIS, ASP, Javascript, ISAPI, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, MTS, DOT.NET)
  • Real-time systems
  • MS Access
  • Software Estimating and Metrics
  • Network installation, configuration, management
  • System administration 

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  • Software Development
  • Health Care 
  • Construction Estimating
  • Mortgage Insurance
  • CIM Scheduling/MRP-II
  • Scientific (laboratory instrument control & data acquisition)
  • Semiconductor Development/Characterization

     

     

  • C/C++, MFC, Visual Basic 4.0 & up, Javascript. 
  • Extensive programming experience with Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95 NT, XP, 2000, 2003 Server, CE, OS/400, and VAX/VMS operating systems.
  • Familiarity with LINUX.
  • Solid working experience with UML, OMT, and Use Case Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, Rational Rose, and other CASE tools.
  • Proficient with use and programming of various Microsoft products (Office Suite, Front Page, Project, MS Access, VBA).
  • Knowledgeable in areas of compilers, threaded interpretive languages and parser implementation.  
  • Have worked with COM/DCOM, HTML, XML, Microsoft Transaction Server, Dot.Net.  
  • Great Plains Dexterity programming.

     

     

    August 2005 - May 2006 - Binghamton University

    Full time Studies - Ph.D. Program

     

    April 2004 – July 2005: Knovel Corporation

    Manager of Quality Control

  • Headed ISO-9000 certification initiative
  • Established development methodologies consistent with ISO certification and general Best Practices
  • Headed evaluation process to standardize on IBM/Rational full-lifecycle tool suite.
  • Wrote successful proposal for $100k NYS Training Grant
  • Contributed to web-based architecture, specifically in areas of reducing bottlenecks
  • Managed Q/C team of testers
  • Conducted seminars on techniques and development practices.
  • Coordinated Alpha- and Beta-test programs with selected internal and external testers
  • Won company-wide advertising slogan competition
  • Coordinated corporate team-building weekend.

     

    November 2001 - January 2004: Infinity Technology Group, Inc. Chief Software Architect

  • Object oriented architectures, design, and development
  • Web application development using Microsoft dot.net technologies
  • Developed MS Access construction estimating system for client
  • MS Access development
  • SQL Server administration
  • Estimating
  • Proposal preparation
  • Database administration (SQL Server 2000)

     

    March 1997 - November 2001: Clarity Development, Inc. Senior Managing Partner/CTO

  • Technical consulting for major healthcare industry client building large web-based information system.
  • Chief Architect for Clarity's KnowledgePipe™--a web-based software process decision-support system
  • Wrote successful application that resulted in Clarity's being awarded a $100k SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grant for development of KnowledgePipe™.
  • Author of Clarity's Acumen™ methodology
  • Opportunity qualification, client development, and proposal generation 
  • Overall corporate Q/A responsibility 
  • Database administration (SQL Server 7.0 and 2000)

     

    March 1995 - February 1997: AT&T Solutions Technology Planning Manager

  • Leader of Center of Excellence for Estimating, Metrics & Quality (12 direct reports)
  • Designed engagement methodologies for the large-scale e-commerce and supply chain projects 
  • Evaluation, selection, and construction of software tools for enterprise-wide maintenance and delivery of process methodologies and components 
  • Liaison to vendors producing specialized CASE tools for support of AT&T Solutions' proprietary design methodologies 
  • Research, definition, tool selection, and implementation of a configuration management infrastructure 
  • Research and development artifact-based estimating metrics based on Object-Oriented primitives (Use Cases, Actors, Classes, attributes, operations, inheritance depths, etc.) 
  • Analysis and Design for client consulting engagements at Computer Associates, to implement a web-based interface (OPAL) to their existing mainframe-based Masterpiece product suite.
  • Led AT&T Solutions to achieve CMM Level III in an unprecedented 18-months.
  • Database administration (SQL Server 6.5)

     

    October 1992 - January 1995: Glenbrook Software, Ltd. Project Manager/Senior Consultant

  • Project Manager for large AS/400 Client/Server product (aXcess/400) 
  • Supervised, led, and mentored 15 technical contributors
  • Implementation of interfaces to the low-level AS/400 API services 
  • Ported lex/yacc UNIX tools to the AS/400 to support the product's calculated-field facility 
  • Designed and implemented the product's (3-tier) client/server architecture 
  • Managed Q/A, formed Standards & Compliance group 
  • Headed consulting engagement at major mortgage insurance firm, architecting a three-tier client-server information system using AS/400 (data server), RS-6000 (application server), and OS/2 (client)

     

    June 1987 - August 1992: Digital Equipment Corporation Sr. Software Engineering Manager

  • Member of the CMOS-3 project, which developed DEC's first 3-layer VLSI chip (dec Alpha). 
  • Project manager for Alpha device-characterization/diagnostics development projects. 
  • Requirements analysis for complex scientific applications for device characterization 
  • Design and development of real time service routines under VMS 
  • Development of code generation tools for laboratory applications 
  • Supervisory responsibility for 20 technical contributors 
  • Member of the CASE Steering Committee 

     

    2006: Binghamton University Ph.D Program (24 credits completed)

    2001: MS SQL Server DBA
    2002: MS Great Plains Certified Dexterity Engineer

    1987: Fitchburg State College
    B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics, Minor Physics
    GPA 3.82 of 4.0 (Summa Cum Laude)

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