Sr. Application Architect at First Data Corp and Owner, NCwares
Greater Omaha Area
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- Sr. Application Architect at First Data Corp
- Sr. Mobile Architect at First Data
- Owner at NCwares (Sole Proprietorship)
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- Application Architect at First Data Corp
- Application Architect at First Data Corporation - Distributed Technology Solutions
- Sr Application Developer at First Data Corp
- Production Control Rep at First Data Corp
- Warehouse Supervisor at First Data Corp
- Mailroom Supervisor at First Data Corp
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Brent Adkisson’s Summary
Career Summary
Full application life-cycle experience within a large, structured, corporate IT organization with well-defined roles and responsibilities. Possess excellent management, and production support skills. Particularly effective in design, development, testing, implementation
Operating Systems:
Windows 98, Microsoft NT 4.0, Windows2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Linux Redhat, Linux Suse, AIX, Solaris
Languages:
Java, XCode, C++, Visual Basic, ASP, JSP, .NET, C#, SmallTalk, Squeek, Ruby, Perl, javascript, Vbscript, PLSQL, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, UNIX, XML,
Databases:
Oracle 8I, Oracle 9i, DB2, Access, Sybase, MSSQL Server 2000, 2005
Documentation and Design:
Object Oriented Design, UML Data modeling, Use case, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Logical and Physical Designs, Process flow diagrams. XP and Agile development Methodologies.
Other Technical Skills:
MQSeries, Websphere, Struts, Web works, Hibernate, J2ME, Blackberry RIM, GWT, Android, SOAP, Pegasystems workflow, JBoss, IIS, Tomcat, Servlets, Visual Interdev, Eclipse, CVS repository, PVCS repository, Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, MS Office products
Actively engaged and frequently speak at the Dynamic Languages Users Group.
http://www.blainebuxton.com/odynug/index.html
Brent Adkisson’s Specialties:
Ajax GWT Android, J2ME, Blackberry RIM, iPhone (XCode)
Languages:
Java, XCode, C++, Visual Basic, ASP, JSP, .NET, C#, SmallTalk, Squeek, Ruby, Perl, javascript, Vbscript, PLSQL, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, UNIX, XML,
Databases:
Oracle 8I, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g DB2, Access, Sybase, MSSQL Server 2000, 2005
Brent Adkisson’s Experience
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Sr. Application Architect
First Data Corp
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
- Currently leading a team of 3 local and 8 off shore resources, creating a message gateway for multiple backend services using soap and jaxb. Created a banking application for mobile banking in WAP, J2me, Blackberry RIM, Android and a flash version.
- Created the ISO Messenger application U.S. patent pending. A tool to interface
with the FDR Mainframe and translate ISO messages from EBCIDIC to ASCII for
ease of use by the FDR Healthcare clients.
- Developed from ground up a web based credit card collections application.
- Maintain client relationships for IT as Client Lead servicing clients such as
General Electric, First Premier bankcard, Metris, Fleet and several other
smaller clients.
- Maintain a web based Billing application for Value Link Customers.
- Created a web based Billing application for businesses to pay taxes online. -
Sr. Mobile Architect
First Data
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
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Owner
NCwares (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — Present (15 years 11 months)
- Founded in 1994 NCwares Inc a web based company that created and
maintains a client base for Shear Schedule.
- Designed and wrote Shear Schedule a Visual Basic based application that
provides scheduling, inventory, user maintenance and financial support for
Xenon International Beauty Schools in three states and several local salons.
- Design and maintain web sites for several local businesses using ASP and
JSP technologies.
- Created and maintain www.omchl.com, www.neseatcover.com,
www.ncwares.com, www.xenonintl.com, www.xenonGrads.com,
www.x-celerator.com. -
Application Architect
First Data Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — March 2005 (5 years 6 months)
- Developed a web application process to maintain and create gift cards for FDR
Merchants.
- Developed from ground up a web based credit card Disputes application.
- Working in an XP Environment created a web based SmallTalk Healthcare Co-pay
estimation tool used by American Express.
- In an XP Environment created a web base Healthcare Authorization process for
real time claims adjudication with ACH transactions supported for payments. -
Application Architect
First Data Corporation - Distributed Technology Solutions
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2004 (6 years )
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Sr Application Developer
First Data Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Computer Software industry)
August 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 3 months)
- Developed from ground up a web based credit card collections application for
General Electric, Speigal and Eddie Bauer using Pegasystems and Web
Technology.
- Maintained the Collections application using XML, DHTML, Java and object
oriented JavaScript.
- Maintain client relationships for IT as Client Lead gathering requirements,
applying to application development and delivering the product.
- Responsible for completely developing an ActiveX interaction with CTI and Devine
Dialer and PBX technologies.
- Assisted with the creation of an SDM process currently used by Evolve
Collections at First Data.
- technology experience – MQ Series, C++, Java, XML, Visual Basic, DHTML,
Javascript, Vbscript, Oracle, Visio, Data Diagramming Eclipse, Tomcat, IIS,
Linux, CVS, Windows XP/2000/98 -
Production Control Rep
First Data Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Banking industry)
April 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 5 months)
- Working independently to provide support for multiple First Data clients
including First USA bank maintaining insert strategies for a statement facility
producing 3 million credit card statements per day.
- Assisted in the development and design of a Visual Basic based application
that maintains insert strategies for statement facility.
- Maintained time critical data for statement processing. -
Warehouse Supervisor
First Data Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Banking industry)
March 1993 — April 1995 (2 years 2 months)
- Independently managed a team of 21 servicing time critical credit card statement
facility.
- Assisted in the development of a Visual Basic Fox Pro based inventory system
used to maintain inventory at all First Data statement facilities. -
Mailroom Supervisor
First Data Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Banking industry)
April 1989 — March 1993 (4 years )
- Managed a crew of 53 servicing time critical credit card statement and reporting
facility.
- Created and maintained a database containing shipping and client information to
process mail.
Additional Information
Brent Adkisson’s Websites:
Brent Adkisson’s Interests:
Guitar, coding, hockey
Brent Adkisson’s Groups:
Dynamic Languages User Group
Brent Adkisson’s Honors:
US Patent Pending for an ISO Message Bitmap reader and converter.
