Bill Bishop

Bill Bishop

Lead Software Engineer at Vertex Inc.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Current
  • Lead Software Engineer at Vertex Inc.
Past
  • Application Development Senior Specialist at CIGNA (Intracorp)
  • Senior Applications Developer at Burlington Coat Factory
  • Principle Software Engineer at Concurrent Computer
  • Senior Project Leader at SCT
  • Technical Consultant at Passport Corporation
  • Senior Applications Developer/DBA at Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics
  • Project Leader/Group Leader at Burlington Coat Factory
  • Senior Applications Programmer at Ikea
  • Software Engineer at General Electric
  • Software Engineer at Unisys

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Education
  • Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management
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Bill Bishop’s Summary

Highly talented and accomplished IT professional with extensive skills in Applications Development and Project Management. Proven ability to design, implement, and support innovative technical applications. Expertise in applications development, database design and implementation, and project coordination. Adept at planning, personnel supervision, client relations, and software lifecycle development direction. Knowledgeable in wide variety of development languages and tools, award-winning background in project management. Able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical persons. Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Bill Bishop’s Specialties:

Project Lead, 4GL Applications Development, Technical Lead, GUI Interface design and implementation, Relational Database application design and implementation.

Bill Bishop’s Experience

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Vertex Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    July 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

    * Currently responsible for the PL/SQL calculation engine which is the core of Vertex’s Quantum Sales Tax for Oracle product as well as the core of interface Oracle’s Financial application via a custom interface. Performing all coding enhancements and maintenance to the software. Providing support for internally developed QA regression testing tools and configuration management software for the Quantum software product suite.
    * Provided support for and managed PL/SQL stored procedure processes which run in an Oracle v10 database for the Data Manager for Vertex O Series tax product suite. This database is used by the Research Content development group to gather and maintain detailed tax information and geographical information on jurisdictions in the US, Canada, Brazil and various other countries. My duties include monthly processing of this data along with data from the USPS to provide monthly data update files for use by Vertex customers.

  • Application Development Senior Specialist

    CIGNA (Intracorp)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CI; Insurance industry)

    November 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 9 months)

    * Lead developer in a team of four responsible for design and implementation of EDI interfaces for the Disability Management Integrated Claims Management System (DM ICMS). Provided analysis of customer requirements for interfaces, working with customers, account managers, database architects, support personnel, and management to implement CIGNA’s standard interfaces and as required architected custom interfaces according to customer specifications.
    * Lead migration of EDI Interfaces to an Oracle v10g database from an Oracle v8.06 database; provided overall direction, planning and technical implementation expertise.
    * Developed and supported EDI interfaces for the DM ICMS system in Oracle v8.x & v10g databases. Provided primary knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL for port of interfaces to Oracle from RDB.
    * Project technical lead for design and implementation of new ICMS employee demographic intake interfaces from and payroll extract interfaces to the Peoplesoft HR system.

  • Senior Applications Developer

    Burlington Coat Factory

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BCF; Retail industry)

    February 2004 — November 2004 (10 months)

    Provided support for sales transaction database while developing reports and systems which support the operations of the Sales Audit, Loss Prevention, Marketing, and Accounting departments using Oracle Discoverer, SQL Navigator, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Oracle DBMS v8 & v9, Unix Shell scripting, FTP, and GPG. Designed and implemented Coupon Redemption Tracking application using Oracle Forms 6i, Oracle Reports 6i, SQL Navigator, Oracle Designer, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Oracle DBMS v8 & v9.

  • Principle Software Engineer

    Concurrent Computer

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; CCUR; Computer Software industry)

    September 2000 — May 2003 (2 years 9 months)

    * Key member of team responsible for design, construction, and maintenance for backoffice management system (BMS) of company’s Video on Demand (VOD) system. Utilized Oracle Developer 2000 IDE, Perl, SQL Server, TOAD, and Oracle 8i databases via ODBC.
    * Authored and supported Perl tools and utilities to manage user database access and backoffice system screens.
    * Developed and maintained applications that managed television and movie programming data and configured data storage and manipulation processes using C++, ODBC, and SQL.
    * Carried out maintenance of VOD data replication applications using C++, PL/SQL, SQL, and Oracle 8i and SQL Server databases.
    * Maintained key web-based and client/server reporting applications, using Crystal Reports, JSP, and HTML.

  • Senior Project Leader

    SCT

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 1 month)

    * Co-managed project team of eight developers and functional domain experts responsible for developing vital module of web-based Knowledge Discovery Database (KDD) business intelligence application, using Rational Unified process for analysis and object-oriented development methodologies.
    * Supervisery / Functional / Technical Lead for project to create enhancements to web modules of BANNER finance software. Coordinated unit testing efforts and delivered data reports.
    * One of eight Project Leads / Project Managers responsible for directing 20-month, 60-developer/analyst, $8 million BANNER Finance software creation project.
    * Personally led 12-person developer and business analyst team, managing functional and technical efforts to produce major enhancements to Purchasing module and prepare system for production release.

  • Technical Consultant

    Passport Corporation

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 1995 — April 1997 (1 year 6 months)

    * Provided technical support to Passport language clients (developers) via telephone and email.
    * Carried out production software distribution administration, participated in pre-sales activities at trade shows, representing company and performing demonstrations.
    * Designed, developed, and implemented software enhancements to meet client specifications.

  • Senior Applications Developer/DBA

    Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Services industry)

    September 1995 — September 1995 (1 month)

  • Project Leader/Group Leader

    Burlington Coat Factory

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BCF; Retail industry)

    February 1993 — August 1995 (2 years 7 months)

    * Coordinated team of eight programmer / analysts and oversaw construction of new order entry application, using Oracle Developer 2000 tool set, as well as PL/SQL, Oracle Case, Sequent, and more.
    * Carried out staff training and mentoring.
    * Supervised six programmer / analysts in successful design and implementation of client-server inventory location-tracking application for multiple sites.
    * Played major role in creation of corporate GUI development standards.
    * Delivered presentation on Integration of Oracle Forms and Oracle Graphics at Oracle International User Week.
    * Actively involved in design and development of Oracle interfaces to real-time merchandise sorting systems. Performed over 30% of project’s interface programming, using Pro*C.
    * Served as Project Lead for upgrade of distribution center application front-end system to Oracle Forms v3.0 and SQL*Menu.

  • Senior Applications Programmer

    Ikea

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Furniture industry)

    September 1988 — February 1993 (4 years 6 months)

  • Software Engineer

    General Electric

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    February 1988 — September 1988 (8 months)

  • Software Engineer

    Unisys

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    June 1985 — February 1988 (2 years 9 months)

Bill Bishop’s Education

  • Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management

    BBA, Computer and Information Sciences, 1981 — 1985

    Activities and Societies:
    Delta Sigma Pi

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Bill Bishop’s Interests:

digital photography, digital art, 3D animation, computers, tennis, science fiction (novels, movies, etc)

Bill Bishop’s Groups:

Delta Sigma Pi, Alumni of Omega Chapter at Temple U.

  •    ΔΣΠ - Delta Sigma Pi
  •    The Apple Mac Group
  •    General Electric Alumni
  •    Temple University Fox School of Business Alumni Association
  •    Unisys Reconnected

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