Kwynn Buess, software engineer; Atlanta, GA, USA

Superceded by new resume (email and phone removed from this version)

Elevator Pitch / Summary

: Programming professionally starting 20 years ago. I wrote my first program at eight years old on a TI-99/4A with 16kb of RAM in BASIC. I was a software engineer for 2,000-employee software companies for almost four years, and I've done a growing list of freelance projects since.

Skills

LAMP / WAMP – Linux / Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, AJAX, Java / J2EE, C#, C++, C, shell scripting, Firefox AddOns (extensions), Tomcat
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
Intuit QBMS (QuickBooks Merchant Services) payments, low-level USB hardware programming
Customer Support, Systems Analysis, Consulting, Web Administration

Experience (all companies are in the Atlanta area unless otherwise noted)

2012

MageCoders Feb - April

Consulted on integrating Magento with another eCommerce solution
Fixed a bug in a Magento extension, including a bit of database admin (LAMP)

(undisclosed) lawyer Feb - April

Queried a metro-Atlanta county court's online lawsuit list to create a mailing list, to solicit clients.

2011

IDG Education Solutions May - November

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

Webdezyners July - September

Coded fifteen easy to moderate enhancements / bug fixes on a LAMP application.
Eight easy to very involved enhancements / bug fixes on a Java / J2EE / JSP / Tomcat application.

Braineo Web Solutions Feb - August

Wrote a C# DLL / API / high-level driver for brand-new hardware controlled through a Cypress Semiconductor I2C-USB Bridge. (Cypress project notes)
Wrote an Intuit QBMS payment application for the WebsiteBaker CMS in PHP.

BizGenie.net March - April

Wrote a Firefox AddOn (extension) to count characters of a Facebook post while one types, so one doesn't exceed the 420 (now 500) character limit.

Hatcher Team2007 – 2010

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

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

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 Consultants2005 – 2006

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

Object Alliance 2004

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 (now part of Oracle) 2000 – 2002

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 (now Ventyx) 1997 – 1999

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

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

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