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Superceded by new resume again (2013/02) (email and phone removed from this version)

Valid through 2011/06; superceded by next resume (started 2011/10)

Kwynn Buess, software engineer; Atlanta, GA, USA

Skills

• LAMP / WAMP – Linux / Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, C#, C++, C, shell scripting, Firefox AddOns (extensions)
• Oracle PL/SQL, MS SQL Server T-SQL (Transact-SQL), IBM DB2 UDB procedural SQL, RDBMS performance tuning
• Hyperion Essbase OLAP engine, Informatica PowerMart / PowerCenter data warehousing tools
• Customer Support, Systems Analysis, Consulting, Web Administration
• low-level, USB hardware programming

IDG Education Solutions: 2011, May - June (Smyrna, GA)

• Moved the LAMP-based FYMM online class product from procedural to OO.
• Numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

Braineo Web Solutions: 2011, Feb - April (Atlanta, GA)

• Wrote a C# application to demonstrate prototype hardware through a Cypress Semiconductor I2C-USB Bridge. (Cypress project notes)

BizGenie.net: 2011, March - April (Atlanta, GA)

• Wrote a Firefox AddOn (extension) to count characters of a Facebook post while one types, so one doesn't exceed the 420 character limit.

Hatcher Team: 2007 – July, 2010 (Atlanta, GA)

• Systems analysis, coding, and support of a LAMP / WAMP application to keep track of sales calls

Forever Numerology: May 2010 (Portland, OR)

• Wrote a JavaScript application to do ten numerology calculations based on name and birth date

Syed Consulting: Dec 2009 – Jan 2010 (Norcross, GA)

• Reverse engineered several fields of a Misys Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system and converted the data from Informix RBDMS format to Windows-searchable files and file names.

Professor H's Classes: 2009 (Chicago, IL)

• Set up a web site for online children's classes—configured databases for forums and chat, installed and customized the php-BB forum system and a chat program; set up password protection
• Trained teachers to create new classes from the template I built

SE Neurodevelopmental Consultants: 2005 – 2006 (Atlanta, GA)

• Systems analysis and coding of a LAMP / WAMP application to analyze blood chemistry data

Object Alliance: 2004 (Atlanta, GA)

• Performed systems analysis and rewrote a CRM -data-driven OLAP / data analysis / data warehousing system after a Siebel CRM transaction system upgrade. The OLAP system was in Oracle RDBMS and Hyperion Essbase
• Performance tuning - Reduced the RDBMS analysis calculation (PL/SQL routines) by 8 times--12 hours down to 1-1/2 hours
• Reduced the Essbase calculation time from infinite to a workable number of hours.  Also performed outline changes. 

Forever Numerology, 2003 (Vancouver, WA)

• Java program to do nine numerology calculations based on name and birth date.

Hyperion Solutions, 2000 – 2002 (Kennesaw, GA)

• CRM-data-driven OLAP consulting that continued with Object Alliance in 2004.
• Original development of data analysis / OLAP systems in PL/SQL, Informatica, and Hyperion Essbase
• Some DBA experience beyond tuning - built my own test environments.

Indus International, 1997 – 1999 (Atlanta, GA)

• Worked all aspects of an industrial maintenance support system--customer support, bug fixing, fix testing, and installation at client sites. System written in C and SQL.

Numerically Yours, 1996 (Atlanta, GA)

• Wrote a C program to perform 19 numerology calculations based on name and birth day.

University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, 1993 (Marina Del Rey, CA)

• Wrote a Gopher client in C using the Prospero distributed file system. Academic citations and notes.

Education

• BS in Computer Science, Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta, GA): 2005, 4.0 GPA
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles): 1991 – 1993, 3.4 GPA
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 1991 (Summer School), 3.85 GPA

Citizenship: US Citizen