Kevin Dayton

Current

• Team Lead for Software Systems Design and Development at DRC
• Application/Database Developer at Volatile Eight Industries

Past

• Software Systems Application and Database Developer at Dynamics Research

Education

• Oklahoma State University
• Oklahoma State University

Connections

6 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Kevin Dayton’s Summary

I have been working with Web technologies for nearly 10 years. From the early days of simple HTML Web sites to today's advanced, dynamic data driven Web applications, I have always sought to stay on the cutting edge of this ever evolving communication medium.

My primary focus in recent years has been database management. For the past 4 years, I have maintained and overseen the expansion of an Oracle database that drives a Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Web application known as OpSTAR. I also serve as the application development task lead for OpSTAR.

When time allows, I also work independently under the guise of my self-owned business Volatile Eight Industries. I also volunteer as Webmaster and developer for The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City.

Kevin Dayton’s Specialties:

• OS/Development Environments: Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X
• Programming/Scripting Languages: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, C++, C#, XML, Objective-C/Cocoa
• Relational Databases: MySQL, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Web Servers: Microsoft IIS, Apache httpd
• General Software: Microsoft Office, Adobe Graphics Software

Kevin Dayton’s Experience

• Team Lead for Software Systems Design and Development

  DRC

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  • Serve as primary DBA (see below)
  • Helped position the National Air Training Center in Oklahoma City to become the primary training and standardization site and headquarters for aviation training for the CBP Air and Marine
  • Served as technical expert on bidding team that successfully secured $11.5M contract
  • Migrated the NATC training system from an old inflexible code base to a more modern framework that allows advancement in the technology required by our customer
  • Created an addition to our project known as VTM that tracks the budgetary transactions for nationwide vendor-based flight training and oversaw its delivery in half the expected time
  • Served as the primary point of contact between the application developers, management, and the technical representative for ourcustomer
  • Created development plans and procedures to ensure quality control of our product and manage feature and deadline expectations

• Application/Database Developer

  Volatile Eight Industries

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  • Self-Owned Business
  • Currently developing Web-based personal finance software utilizing "semantic" technologies (i.e., XML, JSON, OFX) to allow for multi-interface access to financial data.
  • Developed V8 SportsPage, a flexible PHP/MySQL-based turnkey Web content management system for sports news and statistics
  • Developed an extensive database to support storage of news, events, and other necessary Web content
  • Built the Web interface from the ground up along with integrating third-party software to create features such as RSS content and user communities
  • Designed overall look and feel of the Web interface using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and standard graphic design software

• Software Systems Application and Database Developer

  Dynamics Research

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  • Solely responsible for managing and extending Oracle 9i database which serves as the core of OpSTAR.
  • Managed the creation and alteration of the database structure as required for the development of individual software modules.
  • Coordinated patching, backup, recovery, and data synchronization schemes across primary production and development servers.
  • Developed PHP5-based object-oriented applications using strict PHP along with the PRADO framework.
  • Worked with fellow developers to create data objects that easily share information and interact with databases and other data sources

Kevin Dayton’s Education

• Oklahoma State University

  M.S. , Telecommunications Management , 2001 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Kappa Phi, Intramural Basketball (2003 Champions)

• Oklahoma State University

  B.A. , News-Editorial Journalism , 1996 — 2001

  Ran independent arts and entertainment magazine called Renton Magazine.

  Activities and Societies:

  Intramural Basketball & Soccer

Additional Information

Kevin Dayton’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Kevin Dayton’s Groups:

•    PRADO
•    Oklahoma Networking Group

Kevin Dayton’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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