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Neil Davis

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Who am I?

Experienced software developer with a background in designing, developing, maintaining and administering software systems for a variety of clientele. This includes 7+ years of IT operations for Higher Education and 3 years in the private sector for the developmentally disabled community. A skillset that combines computer operations with customer service oriented relationships; bridging gaps between tech-oriented programmers and users.

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Education

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Jan 2007 - Dec 2011

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. Concentration: Software Systems

Contact

Neil Davis

Email: ndavisjr@gmail.com

Phone: 614-496-4230

Location: Galveston, TX

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Professional Experience

Applications Analyst II

Coastal Carolina University
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
Responsibilities:
• IT Support for the Office of Financial Services (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounting, Payroll, Procurement, special projects from CFO and Controller’s office)
• Member of the Student Success team devoted to ensuring members from all departments in the University met and worked together
• Administrator for ERP system - Ellucian Colleague, Colleague Finance module
• Accounting account management, creation, termination, record security
• 3rd party implementations with ERP system
• Phases of discovery, implementing, testing, installing, administering
• Project management, workflows, scripting
• Data import/export, sftp (ex: Jaggaer/SciQuest, Bank of America, Softdocs)
• Reporting from ERP system
• Custom reporting via ERP custom programming or terminal database access
• Reporting tools such as Synoptix or Entrinsik’s Informer (utilizes JavaScript)
• Custom modifications of ERP system via a modified version of Eclipse IDE called Colleague Studio
• Tax Processing and Reporting for 1099-MI and 1099-K forms
• Administer of Hyland’s Perceptive Content (university imaging system), Synoptix (business reporting tool), Entrinsik’s Informer (ERP reporting tool), Softdocs (check printing)
• Backup for another programmer who handled Student Accounts department
Technologies Used:
Ellucian’s Colleague/WebAdvisor/Self-Service
Unidata
Unibasic
Uniquery
Colleague Studio
Remote Desktop
VMCenter
PuTTY
Perceptive Content
Informer
Synoptix
Softdocs
Microsoft Office 365 Suite
https://www.coastal.edu/

Software Engineer

Primary Solutions, Inc
Jan 2011 - Dec 2013
Responsibilities:
• Developer for products: Gatekeeper, Advisor, Anywhere, CustomerCare, Up2Date
• Gatekeeper and Advisor are applications made for the Ohio Developmental Disabilities community. Code is maintained in Powerbuilder and uses a SQL Anywhere Sybase backend. These client-server apps also have an extensive reporting section. Responsible for code bug fixes and enhancements including updates to stored procedures and triggers in the database.
• Anywhere 1.0 is an ASP.NET/VB.NET web application that acts as a simplified online version of Gatekeeper and Advisor. Wrote web service calls in C#. Anywhere 2.0 was a complete redesign of Anywhere 1.0. Revised the entire model from the front end and UI to business layers and to database level. Web application was translated into a JavaScript (official and jQuery), Html5, AJAX frontend and C# middle tier.
• Wrote CustomerCare in VB.NET that calls web services in C# that runs on a client’s server to send messages to a client or retrieve information requested by OhioDD.
• Translated Up2Date from VB 6.0 to C#. This program calls web services written in C# to determine if the version on a machine is the latest release.
• Position also includes a backup support role for customers.
• Testing and User Acceptance for every application
• Handled upgrades of certain clients that involved running SQL scripts on client machines and extracting databases.
• Pre-release version of an android app for Gatekeeper using Mobilink
Technologies Used:
Powerbuilder
Java
C#
ASP.NET
VB 6.0
VB.NET
XML
SQL Anywhere
MySQL
ConnectWise
Microsoft Office 2012
JavaScript
jQuery
CSS
ODBC
Stored Procedures
Visual Studio.net
Sybase
.NET Framework 3.5/4.0
Remote Desktop
VMWare
GoToMeeting
http://primarysolutions.net/
Skillsets

Unibasic
Uniquery
SQL
C# (ASP.NET)
HTML
CSS
Javascript
JQuery
JSON
XML
AJAX
GraphQL
Knockout.js
Vue.js
C
C++
Java
Scheme
Assembly (Sparc)
MATLAB
VB.NET
PowerBuilder
SQL Server Management Studio
MySQL
MS Access
Oracle
Sybase
ODBC
UniData
Excel
MongoDB
Microsoft Office
Adobe Acrobat/Photoshop/ImageReady
Eclipse IDE
Javadoc
Perforce
CruiseControl
MbUnit
Visual Studio
VSCode
VMWare/vSphere
ConnectWise
SQLAnywhere/Interactive SQL
Colleague Studio
PuTTY
ImageNow/Perceptive Content
VS extensions
Github
System Software (Development/Cycle)
Networking - Installation/Routers
Communication
Working with teams (development and QA)
Component Based Software
Unit/Component Testing
Technical Writing
Digital Logic - Design and Implementation
Computer Architecture (MIPS)
Linear Algebra / Advanced Calculus and Physics
Numerical Analysis
Business/Time Management
MVC
REST
MVVM
APIs