Computer Software Consultant and Professional
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Independent Consultant at Ernie's Place (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Senior Consultant at Everyware, Incorporated
- Programmer-Analyst at SELF (Self-employed)
- Senior Computer Systems Engineer at Dental Benefit Providers
- Senior Computer Systems Engineer at United Healthcare
- Senior Computer Systems Engineer at CACI
- Store Staff at Southland Corporation/7-Eleven
- Manager Trainee at Neil Burham Enterprises/Philadelphia Mike's, Bethesda, Maryland
- Manager Trainee at Philadelphia Mike's
- Customer Service Representative at Blockbuster Video
- Senior Consultant at MTW Corporation
- Senior Consultant at IMI
- Senior Information Systems Engineer at CACI
- Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager at Executive Resource Associates
- Senior Consultant at Syntellect Business Systems
- Senior Consultant at Syntellect
- Systems Analyst at United States Department of Labor
- Computer Consultant at Astra Associates
- Student Assistant at Indiana State University
- Legal/Statistical Accounting Clerk at Temporaries, Incorporated
- Director at Forum for U.S.-Soviet Dialog
- Translator at Transemantics (Self-employed)
- Editor at Soviet Life Magazine, Novosti Press
- Telephone Solicitor at Time-Life Libraries
- Keypunch and order-verification clerk at CBS, Columbia House Division
- Keypunch verifier at CBS
- Keypunch verifier at Columbia House
- Temporary at Manpower
- Phototypesetter and Graphic Arts Quality Analyst at Volt Information Sciences
- Graphics Quality Analyst at Volt
- Dishwasher at Rose Polytechnic Institute
- Dishwasher at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Education
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- Indiana State University
- Indiana State University - School of Business
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Ernie Cordell’s Summary
Prefer Object-oriented Analysis and/or C++ programming for its advanced capabilities, but would consider improving my Java or building J2EE skills (as well as any efforts which will eventually take me in the direction of information systems development and models of cognitive processing).
Ernie Cordell’s Specialties:
Have used practically every conceivable programming language, development platform, machine and operating system. My experience spans the gamut of the software development lifecycle as well as many other functional areas (e.g. retail, journalism, defense, law, entertainment, pure and applied science, mathematics, foreign language and translation, graphic arts, operational support and hardware architectures).
Ernie Cordell’s Experience
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Independent Consultant
Ernie's Place (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — Present (9 years 8 months)
(Had clearance on early Federal Appointment) Previously built infrastructure for independent consulting practice. Currently experimenting with C++, porting applications across multiple platforms while evaluating the STL in particular (as in Meyers' recent book), simulating Cognition, and modelling Behavioral Neurophysiology. Assembling component modules for a limited-context grammar text processing application.
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Senior Consultant
Everyware, Incorporated
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — April 2000 (7 months)
Consulted to CACI on Project Phoenix for the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, producing interface specifications for interoperability among Law Enforcement and other related divisions, deparments and agencies.
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Programmer-Analyst
SELF (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
August 1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Longstanding Personal Goals and Career Development: Concentrated on increasing skill levels with tools and techniques used in previous assignments, such as C++ programming, X-library and GUI tool use; Experimentation in Software Development, particularly with portability issues such as cross-platform initiatives between capabilities offered by Microsoft and Linux.
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Senior Computer Systems Engineer
Dental Benefit Providers
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Practice industry)
October 1996 — July 1997 (10 months)
Planned and participation in the migration of a Dental Insurance Claim Processing System (MULTICLAIMS) from a Data General COBOL Database environment to a networked, client-server, Oracle database platform using Microfocus COBOL in a DEC UNIX environment.
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Senior Computer Systems Engineer
United Healthcare
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Events Services industry)
October 1996 — July 1997 (10 months)
See Dental Benefit Providers.
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Senior Computer Systems Engineer
CACI
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CACI; Computer Software industry)
October 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 1 month)
Army Sustaining Base Program (SBIS) and Defense Enterprise Integration Support (DEIS). Coordinated efforts between SBIS team members from the companies Lockheed-Martin, Statistica, PRC and AT&T. Served as Data Modelling Lead for Army Training Applications, later working also with Security Clearance and Safety Systems. Standardized the Migration Strategy for Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) prototypes at Ft. Bragg, Barksfield Air Force Base and Camp Pendleton (A Team Effort with BDM).
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Store Staff
Southland Corporation/7-Eleven
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)
October 1992 — October 1993 (1 year 1 month)
Convenience Store Clerk: All store operations including inventory, ordering, stocking, supplying and fast-food preparation. Pushed the store to a 15 percent increase in sales that could not be held after I returned to work in my field. The company subsequently abandoned this location (Bethesda: Woodmont Triangle).
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Manager Trainee
Neil Burham Enterprises/Philadelphia Mike's, Bethesda, Maryland
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food Production industry)
June 1992 — October 1992 (5 months)
Deli/Cafeteria/Restaurant Operations: Order-Taking, Order-Calling, Stocking, Supplying, Equipment Maintenance and Cleaning; Food preparation, especially Cold Bar Sandwiches and Catering Orders.
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Manager Trainee
Philadelphia Mike's
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Restaurants industry)
June 1992 — October 1992 (5 months)
See Neil Burham Enterprises/Philadelphia Mike's, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Customer Service Representative
Blockbuster Video
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
August 1991 — September 1991 (2 months)
Video Circulation Clerk and Cashier. Franchise owned by Barry Zayle.
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Senior Consultant
MTW Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1990 — December 1990 (7 months)
Analyzed Provider, Financial and Clinical Systems Requirements by contract to American Express. Supervised and led consulting, research, technical review, evaluation and training of information systems modelling approaches. Defined technical approach for a "Software Production Line."
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Senior Consultant
IMI
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1990 — June 1990 (3 months)
Assigned to improve data-processing procedures at the Higher Education School Corporation in Albany.
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Senior Information Systems Engineer
CACI
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CACI; Computer Software industry)
October 1988 — March 1990 (1 year 6 months)
Developed and managed a successful software-engineering team, using knowledge and expertise in ZIM. Held final review authority on all physical design considerations. Managed the CACI Information Engineering Technology Center. Stimulated communication among customers, managers, engineers and developers by using JAD, rapid prototyping, verification techniques such as costing procedures. Defined requirements for Air Force Contracts Management, Systems Engineering Concept Development, Strategic Direction and Program Management. Forward-engineered logical designs into Oracle coding specs. Taught CASE Tools usage and mechanisms for modelling and translating logical models into Physical Designs.
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Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager
Executive Resource Associates
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1988 — October 1988 (6 months)
Appointed to serve an instrumental role in a task named "Modelling of the Central System," while manageing the project in the absense of the Project Manager. Successfully planned, supervised and participated in an access-methods conversion of the US Health and Human Services Personnel and Payroll Systems. Improved resource utilization at NIH, reclaiming enough disk space to develop a new Personnel System.
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Senior Consultant
Syntellect Business Systems
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1988 (1 year )
Provided automation support in the form of training, documentation, writing, editing, establishing company philosophy as a basis for the mission of the organization and business planning, creating promotional materials, feasibility studies, requirements analysis and tracking, strategic planning, business area analysis, business system design, applications programming, configuration management, unit, systems & acceptance testing, baseline evaluation, deployment and fielding.
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Senior Consultant
Syntellect
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1987 — 1988 (1 year )
See Syntellect Business Systems.
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Systems Analyst
United States Department of Labor
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Executive Office industry)
May 1984 — July 1987 (3 years 3 months)
Defined requirements for integrating accounting, inventory and procurement functions from existing accounting, property management and procurement systems. Defined coding standards for reducing labor costs on the maintenance of the stock-ordering and warehouse management systems. Cut a million dollars from annual costs by creating a database application for the management of leased vehicles. Reduced error-rate by 40 percent and cut overhead by 20 percent
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Computer Consultant
Astra Associates
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
1983 — 1987 (4 years )
Provided automation support in the form of training, documentation, writing, editing, establishing company philosophy as a basis for the mission of the organization and business planning, creating promotional materials, feasibility studies, requirements analysis and tracking, strategic planning, business area analysis, business system design, applications programming, configuration management, unit, systems & acceptance testing, baseline evaluation, deployment and fielding.
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Student Assistant
Indiana State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
1971 — 1986 (15 years )
My uncle's rare dictionary collection connected me to the [Cunningham Memorial Library], where I worked in the {Circulation Department} while matriculating. Academic Counseling introduced me to Marjorie McDaniels at the [Academic Enrichment and Learning Skills Center] & she hired me as tutor/technician in the learning laboratories. To deal with the registration process, I went to work at the [Registrars' Office] which helped me overcome the weaknesses in the process which I analyzed as a candidate for automation. That led me to work at the [Computer Center], also serving as a teaching assistant in the [Physics Department]. Each of these positions grew in scope and at one time or another I worked in the [Library Cataloguing, Acquisitions and Security Departments] also serving as a research assistant to J.E. Congleton in my uncle's collection on the topic of Variants in Spelling hinting at pronunciation in twelve dictionaries leading up to Johnson's 1789 English Dictionary.
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Legal/Statistical Accounting Clerk
Temporaries, Incorporated
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 1980 — June 1980 (6 months)
(Company was later absorbed by Blue Arrow Temporaries). Served in a number of capacities, including paralegal at Temporaries, Incorporated Federal Credit Union (later Federal Employees Credit Union) where I interpreted Regulation Z of the Truth-In-Lending Act for agency compliance. At the National Rifle Association I was a film librarian. I was a GWMATA bus route investigator and database entry engineer for Barton-Ashman Transportation Consultants. My strength was a broad knowledge of technical areas and the bulk of my work was much like that of an accountant.
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Director
Forum for U.S.-Soviet Dialog
(Computer Software industry)
1978 — 1980 (2 years )
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Translator
Transemantics (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Services industry)
October 1978 — December 1979 (1 year 3 months)
Sub-contracting to Batelle Memorial Institute with STD/NI at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, worked on a keyword-in-context database of a variety of foreign scientific and technical publications under a project known as CIRCII/O.L.I.P.S. (Central Information Reference and Control/Open Literature Index Processing System), producing translations of French and Russian periodicals ranging from only popular science but extending mostly to Soviet Semiconductor Physics and Technology. Also formatted these translations and selected formatting/wording compatible with the scanning and entry facilities of the aforementioned system.
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Editor
Soviet Life Magazine, Novosti Press
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Writing and Editing industry)
September 1978 — April 1979 (8 months)
Under a bi-lateral agreement and with a declaration to the United States Department of Justice, served as an editor to the magazine "Soviet Life," a largely tourist-oriented glossy pictorial publication produced by Novosti Press Agency in the former Soviet Union. Consulted on matters of taste, composition, layout, orientation, content and journalistic value/style, producing 6 monthly issues of the said periodical. While bi-lines were reserved for soviet journalists, I wrote two articles, basing one on my translation of a TASS wire story "How American Airmen Were Rescued."
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Telephone Solicitor
Time-Life Libraries
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)
August 1978 — September 1978 (2 months)
Sold popular titles by phone from the Time-Life Library Series, particularly "Foliage House Plants" and other "Do-It-Yourself" Titles.
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Keypunch and order-verification clerk
CBS, Columbia House Division
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CBS; Broadcast Media industry)
May 1978 — July 1978 (3 months)
Verified customer orders by reconciling card punches to order forms.
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Keypunch verifier
CBS
(Computer Software industry)
May 1978 — July 1978 (3 months)
See CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Service), Columbia House Division.
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Keypunch verifier
Columbia House
(Computer Software industry)
May 1978 — July 1978 (3 months)
See CBS, Columbia House Division. Worked for Pat Duregger.
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Temporary
Manpower
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
July 1973 — July 1978 (5 years 1 month)
Started with a day-labor assignment in the Pacific Northwest (Eugene, Oregon if I correctly recall) where I moved furniture for the first guy who came along with a truck. Did some typing on call in the late 70s before everybody started using a computing sledgehammer to thread a literal needle.
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Phototypesetter and Graphic Arts Quality Analyst
Volt Information Sciences
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Graphic Design industry)
March 1976 — January 1977 (11 months)
Opaqued negatives to burn plates, repaired broken type, prepared galleys for page layout, assured quality of advertisements, assisted in routinizing print block characteristics on the Digilog APS9000 phototypesetting system and specified typefaces for printed materials. Produced most of the Chicago region's phone directories.
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Graphics Quality Analyst
Volt
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
March 1976 — January 1977 (11 months)
See Volt Information Sciences: Company started when Bill and Jerry Shaw started producing Defense Manuals in their garage. Main Office is (was?) on Avenue of Americas in Manhattan (New York, NY).
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Dishwasher
Rose Polytechnic Institute
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Facilities Services industry)
1970 — 1971 (1 year )
Worked in Engineering School Food Services for Banquet Services to earn money for Gerstmeyer High School's Junior Prom.
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Dishwasher
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Facilities Services industry)
1970 — 1971 (1 year )
Same as other dishwasher position: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was formerly called "Rose Polytechnic Institute."
Ernie Cordell’s Education
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Indiana State University
BA, BA (76,77,2*[1/2MA]) , French & Russian Language, Literature and Culture , 1971 — 1985
Insufficient Seniority upon initial freshman registration disallowed necessary class load to transfer to engineering school, causing strategy change for scholarship/financing: Changed to Pure Sciences and earned degree in Foreign Language at the request of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Returned for a second undergrad degree in Russian. Started a Masters' program in French pending establishment of Computer Science Curriculum. Undergraduate minor offered after I graduated. After near-fatal accident in 1980, re-enrolled in Computer Science as a graduate student (see also Business School), but graduate curriculum apart from Mathematics Deparment didn't go to committee. Accepted Internship at the United States Department of Labor, finally relinquishing further formal academic pursuit.
- Activities and Societies:
- Eta Sigma Phi Honorary Classics Fraternity,
Physics Club & Teaching Assistant,
Student Assistant Tutor/Technician in Academic Enrichment and Learning Skills Center, Library Circulation; Cataloguing; Acquisitions & Security; Automation Facilitator,
Registrars' Office: Gopher/Analyst/Coder,
Computer Center Monitor/Consultant/Programmer
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Indiana State University - School of Business
A.A. , Business Administration, Communication/Secretarial , 1981 — 1983
Concurrent with other academic/professional pursuits.
- Activities and Societies:
- Le Cercle Francais, Founding Member
ISU Chapter of ACM, Officer and Founding Member
ISU Chapter of IEEE Computer Society, Computer Society Proponent
Additional Information
Ernie Cordell’s Websites:
Ernie Cordell’s Interests:
Computer Science, Cognition, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and related medical science, Law, Literature, Art, Library Science
Ernie Cordell’s Groups:
ITtoolbox Wiki, ITtoolbox Blogs, Boston House Condominium Association
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oDesk
Ernie Cordell’s Contact Settings
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