Dana P'Simer

Information Systems Architect

Greater Atlanta Area

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Dana P'Simer’s Summary

I architect information technology solutions for my customers. I believe information technology is just a tool. What businesses really need are solutions that leverage their core expertise. To that end, I use leading Analysis and Design processes to produce systems that work.

I have participated in the development of over 15 large scale enterprise software applications. I have also developed quality procedures for customers designed to meet the requirements of FDA 510(k) submissions. I can apply this experience to your software development process and help you realize the full potential of your software development team.

Dana P'Simer’s Specialties:

Medical Device Development, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence Applications, Web Design & Development, web development consultant, computer software systems architecture, quality software development processes, networking consulting, interface design consulting, quality assurance, quality control, Java, J2EE, SOAP, SOA, SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, BEA WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, Hibernate, C, C++, COM, CORBA, ATL, MFC.

Dana P'Simer’s Experience

  • Consultant/Technical Lead

    InterContinental Hotels Group

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2007 — Present (2 years )

  • Principal Software Engineer

    DHP Technologies, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 1999 — Present (10 years 8 months)

    As an IT Consultant in the Atlanta, GA metro area I was engaged by IMS Health, BellSouth.Net, ResMed, Inc., Cingular Wireless, Connecture, Inc., Matrix Projects, and Intercontiental Hotels Group. For each of these customers I have performed full life-cycle software development tasks from collecting user requirements through to production rollout and support. Please see the entries below for details.

  • Consultant

    Matrix Projects

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

    December 2006 — April 2007 (5 months)

    In this position we developed a system to help Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, manage its supply of parts from various suppliers. The system is being developed in Java/J2EE with Spring, Hibernate, and Stripes.

  • Consultant

    L2C, Inc.

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

    June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)

    L2C engaged my company along with our partner, SoftNet Technologies, Inc., to develop a new data source that they could use in their credit decision system. The system used a proprietary score assigned to each person in the database and delivered that score through a web service style interface. It was written in Java/J2EE using Hibernate, Spring, AppFuse, and Lucene.

  • Consultant

    Connecture

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2005 — June 2006 (1 year )

    Connecture engaged my services to help them develop their solution to enable on-line applications by consumers for their client, Independence BlueSheild of Pennsylvania. The project provided functionality for the entry and underwriting of applications for individual and family insurance products. The system was developed using J2EE technologies, in IBM WebSphere. We used Connecture's proprietary web framework and insurance industry specific components.

  • Consultant

    Cingular Wireless, Inc.

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

    September 2004 — June 2005 (10 months)

    Participated in the integration of the Amdocs Clarify CM system for use by Cingular's Call Center Customer Service Representatives. My duties included integration of the system with PeopleSoft and the Company's two billing systems, Telegence and Care. On this project we used Java, J2EE, XSL and BEA Weblogic.

  • Consultant

    ResMed Inc

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RMD; Medical Devices industry)

    December 2001 — September 2004 (2 years 10 months)

    On this project we developed a Telemedicine application. This applciation due to it's direct contact with a device that delivered therapy to the patient, is classified as a medical device and therefore was submitted for approval by the FDA under a 510(k) application. The application was cleared for market release by the FDA in the Fall 2004. I participated in every aspect of the system's design and held the position as Middleware Architect. My duties included overseeing the design and implementation of the Middleware that connected the doctor/therapist user interface with the medicial devices distributed in patient homes. These devices are connected to our servers using narrowband PCS wireless technology. I also participated in the development of the UI elements, the firmware for the wireless device, and the development of an automated testing platform. Technologies used in this engagement were Java, J2EE, BEA WebLogic, CreataLinkXL, C++, C, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Struts, and UML.

  • Consultant

    BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BLS; Internet industry)

    September 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 4 months)

    I was engaged here to help in the development of an ordering tool for business services such as Managed Routers, Wholesale PPP, VPN and Managed VPN solutions. The tool used Java, JSP, and ran on ServletExec and iPlanet. I also participated in the development of the DSL and Dialup registration CDs. For that project we used a Java applciation with an embedded HTML browser.

  • Consultant

    IMS Health, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RX; Computer Software industry)

    April 1999 — September 1999 (6 months)

    Participated in a port of IMS Health's popular Snap/Rx application to the Windows CE platform. We used C++, the Active Template Library (ATL), and Sybases SQL Anywhere database server.

  • Product Architect

    Barfield, Cauthen, and Associates, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 1996 — April 1999 (3 years 2 months)

    In this position we developed Sales Force Automation and Business Intelligence applications. Our applications were targeted to the airline industry and our customers included Lufthansa, Delta Airlines, TWA, South African Airways, and United Arab Emerites Airlines. The software was designed using OMT, a precursor to UML, and was written in C++ using MFC and ODBC.

    In this position, I was the lead developer and managed the technical direction of the project consisting of 4 developers.

  • Consultant

    BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.

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

    July 1995 — March 1996 (9 months)

    On this assignment I was responsible for the design and implementation of an application for the presentation and analysis of a customer’s telephone bill distributed on either floppy disk(s) or CD-ROM. The software had to be capable of handling bills with numbers of records in excess of 1.5 million. The system was implemented using Visual C++ v1.52, CodeBase++ v5.1, and Crystal Reports. The user interface utilizes tabbed forms and MDI to allow the user to easily change criteria, sort order, and other options for canned reports that were shipped with the product.

  • Consultant

    Sales Technologies, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1993 — July 1995 (2 years 2 months)

    I participated in the development of this company's Snap line of Sales Force Automation tools. These included Snap/CPG, for the consumer packaged good market, and Snap/Rx, for the pharmaceutical industry. This product was developed using the Booch method and implemented using C++, MFC, and Sybase's SQL Anywhere.

  • Consultant

    Peachtree Software

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1992 — June 1993 (10 months)

    Participated in the re-write of Peachtree’s Windows accounting package: Peachtree Accounting for Windows Release 2. This software won many awards including PC Magazines Editor’s Choice. The program was written using MSC++ v7.0. All work was done utilizing the Windows SDK and Betrieve.

  • Programmer

    Brownstone Research Group

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 1989 — September 1992 (2 years 10 months)

    One of two programmers working on a suite of productivity tools for educators. The suite included a gradebook program, an exam generator, a calendar program, and a proctoring program. The tool was written for MS-DOS in C and Basic.

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