Edward Clark

With nearly 20 years of Professional IT experience, I am well seasoned in the discipline of Application Development. During my 12 year tenure with The Home Depot, I have built strong interpersonal relationships with valued internal customers. My strong service orientation and bias for action has served well in responding to the needs and concerns of our customers.

Edward Clark’s Specialties:

Application Development, Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly strong in client/server and relational database design using Informix/Oracle/Sybase/mSQL. Strong knowledge of Java J2SE/J2EE, HTML/XML, Perl, PHP, AJAX, Web Page Design, Web Services. I have developed Home Automation/Security Software (www.edtreehouse.com) currently in beta and being tested by numerous Home Automation enthusiasts.

Edward Clark’s Experience

IT Architect

The Home Depot

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

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

My current responsibilities range from Project Management to Systems Architecting & Leading Full Life Cycle Development. Most recently, architected the design of a Centralized Web Service used to generate customer invoices (a.k.a. Customer Agreement). Using an Open Source PDF Generator (iText 1.3), the Websphere 6.0 Web Service accepts XML requests from all Home Depot U.S. stores. It appends State Specific Legal Compliance Documents (stored in Documentum) to the customer agreement. The Legal Compliance Document contains an embedded electronic signature obtained from POS signature capture pads. Also architected the design of Java Server Pages which the Legal Department uses to maintain the Compliance Documents. This project required 6 developers and 1 Project Manager that reported directly to me.
J2EE, Websphere 6.0 (RAD), Documentum, Java Server Pages, Servlets, Portlets, IBM Websphere Message Queue, XML, Novera, JRun, TogetherJ (UML), RMI, ESQL, RPC, JDBC, HP UX 9.0, Informix 7
Lead Developer

The Home Depot

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

December 1997 — September 2008 (10 years 10 months)

Design & development of Java Servlet(s) which accept Customer/Order related data from Broadvision (Web Page) interfaced to the Informix Database via XML. Architected Customer Identification Systems/Tiered Pricing (via Point of Sale & Special Services) utilizing customer assigned (bar-coded) KeyTags. I assisted with Centralizing Customer Data across all THD stores, utilizing RPC for real-time data retrieval from Informix, Java & COBOL. Travel as required (Quebec, Canada; New York; Dallas; San Francisco). I have overseen a team of 7 developers, assigning support related programming tasks.
Contractor

Brannon & Tully Consulting Services

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Assigned to Home Depot, I assisted in the development of the Customer Agreement (Point Of Sale Bar Code Receipt) utilizing FormsXpress 2.0 (Optio), Informix 4gl. Re-engineered Informix Order State Model Engine and provided System Support. Informix 7.1 (HP & AIX).
Consultant

Berger & Company

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 7 months)

Consultant, Systems Engineer Bureau of Land Management, Littleton, Colorado
Designed and implemented a Property Disposal System utilized by BLM Departments around the country for handling Disposed Property. Written in Informix 4gl/New Era on the AIX/RS6000 platform, with Linux driven companion web page - utilizing HTML, FTP, CGI & Perl programming standards.
Consultant

Computer Sciences Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1994 — June 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Supported the Puerto Rico version of the UDS application. The UDS application is a Work Force Management System which utilizes the Informix Database on the AIX/RS6000 or HP/UX 9.0 for dynamically planning resource usage, work schedules, and dispatching the appropriate service personnel at peak/off peak times.
Programmer Analyst II

The Alert Centre

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1990 — June 1995 (5 years 6 months)

Maintaining Informix 4gl on the IBM AIX RS6000 platform. Lead Programmer in a number of Customer Service related development projects. Returned to Alert/ADT as a Consultant (Berger & Co.) during the winter of 1996 where I assisted in converting Alerts’ Informix DBMS to Sybase, ADT’s RDBMS of choice.

Edward Clark’s Education

Omicron Institute of I.S. Professionals

Certificate of Completion , AJAX/Web Services Programming , 2006 — 2006
Omicron Institute of I.S. Professionals

Certificate of Completion , Transition into I.S. Management , 1999 — 1999
Omicron Institute of I.S. Professionals

Certificate of Completion , Introduction to OOP , 1998 — 1998
Omicron Institute of I.S. Professionals

Certificate of Completion , Design Patterns , 1998 — 1998
Berger Training Institute

Certificate of Completion , Introduction to Java Programming , 1996 — 1996
Colorado Computer School

Certificate of Completion , C Programming , 1995 — 1995
Parks Technical/Business College

AA , Computer Science , 1987 — 1989