Rita Washington

Current

Technical Architect at Astadia
Manager Systems Development and Architecture at Faro Technologies

Past

Independent Consultant at Aggressive Staffing
Senior Software Developer at Diversified Software Inc.
Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies

Software Engineer at System Software Associates

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Education

Lakeland College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Rita Washington’s Summary

Languages and Software: C++, C#, Visual Studio.Net, VB.Net, JavaScript, Trilogy CML (Constraint Modeling Language), Pascal, SQL, HTML, XML, Win32 API, MFC, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, various graphics packages.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000,XP,Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows Vista

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 97/2000/2005; Microsoft Access, EssBase Multidimensional Database

Methodologies: Object Oriented Analysis and Design, OOP, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), UML, User Centered Interface Design, SDLC

Rita Washington’s Specialties:

Software Architecture, SaaS, Salesforce.com, OLAP

Rita Washington’s Experience

Technical Architect

Astadia

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Work throughout all stages of an application life cycle to help shape the usefulness, usability, and aesthetic design for client side applications and some internal applications.
Manager Systems Development and Architecture

Faro Technologies

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FARO; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Independent Consultant

Aggressive Staffing

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Senior Software Developer

Diversified Software Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2001 — February 2005 (3 years 4 months)

• Architect, redesign and code software products line for Visual Studio.Net and SQL Server 2000 utilizing Object Oriented Design, UML and Design Patterns.
• Create and maintain corporate web site.
• Define n-Tier Architecture to support the entire software product line.
• Create installations using InstallShield and maintain company network hardware.
• Create an API which will allow our customers to program their own web interface to our Building Permitting and Code Enforcement software.
Member of Technical Staff

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

February 1996 — May 2000 (4 years 4 months)

• Gathered requirements, wrote detailed technical design, and implemented engineering product configurators (SONET DDM, Wireless, DSX) utilizing MS Office Suite: Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Access
• Designed the object model with Visio and MS PowerPoint and coded the implementation in Trilogy’s CML (Constraint Modeling) language
• Maintained project plan in MS Project and communicated status to department and business units across the US and Europe.
• Designed and implemented a configurator integration utility in Visual Basic 6.0 to parse program code from various developers and merge the code into a single file.
Software Engineer

System Software Associates

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

April 1987 — April 1995 (8 years 1 month)

Software Engineer
• Part of a 40-person team to build a Client/Server General Ledger Module for the Enterprise Resource Planning System.
• Participated in the entire Software Development Life Cycle: requirement walkthroughs, conceptual design specification, technical design, and implementation and test phases.
• Coded in C++ to implement application logic utilizing in-house and third party developed class libraries.
• Designed and implemented a Metrics Management System which automated the download of actual vs. estimated project hours and other statistics from an AS/400 system.

Financial Products Market Analyst
• Wrote functional design specifications for the Payroll module of the Enterprise Resource Planning System.
• Conducted research of federal and state tax regulations to ensure compliance.
• Performed as team leader of a project team to implement major tax enhancements to the Payroll Software module in accordance with IRS regulations.