Rich Coathup

Rich Coathup

Software Developer at ThinOps Communications

Houston, Texas Area

Current
Past
Education
  • Northwest Missouri State University
  • Sam Houston State University
  • Vermont Technical College
  • Vermont Technical College
  • North Country Union High School
Connections
233 connections
Industry
Telecommunications

Rich Coathup’s Summary

Training Courses
* Course No. 1905: Building XML-Based Web Applications ........ 2000
* Web Development with ASP ........ 2001
* Course No. 1907: Building Distributed Application for Windows 2000 with Visual Basic ........ 2001
* Attended .NET Classes at North Harris College ........ 2003
* Course No. 2933A: Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 ........ 2007

Rich Coathup’s Specialties:

Software Languages
Visual Basic
HTML
ASP
COM/COM+
VB.Net
ASP.NET
Javascript
XML, DTD’s, Schemas, XSLT
Oracle 8i/9i
PL/SQL
SQL Server
TransactSQL
Microsoft Access
LIM’ BMIM (Propietary Scripting Language)
TIBCO Rendezous
ML
Prolog
POVRay
Visual C++
ADA


Rich Coathup’s Experience

  • Software Developer

    ThinOps Communications

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2009Present (2 months)

  • Programmer Anaylst

    Loomis

    (Public Company; Loom-B; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

    October 2008August 2009 (11 months)

    Main responsibilities were creating and maintaining transmissions for our customer. As a part of the Cash Management and Transmission systems team, I worked on the development of new features within the Cash Management and Transmission website known as CIX Manager. CIX Manager is Loomis’ website that allows the customer or support personnel to manage transmissions or do external processing for each of our customers, depending on their security level. Along with the development of new features, I also worked on bug fixes for the website. Also as part of the Cash Management and Transmission system team, we created different incoming and outgoing transmissions to our customers. As a part of the Cash Management and Transmission systems team, I helped in designing and analyzing complex transmission requirements to design a solution to customer requirements.

    Additional Responsibilities:
    • Developed new features in CIX Manager.
    • Developed bug fixes in CIX Manager.
    • Assisted Project Manager with requirements and analysis on the US Bank ATM Transmission.
    • Assisted Project Manager with project changes to the US Bank ATM Transmission.
    • Led development on the US Bank ATM Transmission.
    • Documented requirements, changes, and analysis to the US Bank ATM Transmission.
    • Documented requirement and process flow on complex transmission for CIX.
    • Developed and maintained transmission with the Cash Management and Transmission system.
    • Development of the website (CIX Manager) and transmission using ASP.NET, C#, NHibernate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, BizTalk 2002, SQL Server 2005, COM/COM+, and, Visual Basic.

  • Developer

    Bernard Hodes Group (HodesIQ)

    (Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    February 2008October 2008 (9 months)

    Main responsibilities include development on career sites, employee referral sites, and internal career sites for clients.

    Additional Responsibilities:
    • Developed and maintained Career Site for the Recruiting process.
    • Developed and maintained Employee and Internal sites for the Recruiting process.
    • Developed client specific process using .NET Technology.
    • Development of career sites by using Visual Basic, COM/COM+, Visual Basic Script, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, ASP, SQL Server, and transact SQL.

  • Web Developer

    National Processing Company (NPC)

    (Banking industry)

    July 2005February 2008 (2 years 8 months)

    Main responsibilities include development on the Merchant Application Gateway (MAG) Application. MAG consists of several modules like MAG Data Entry, MAG Admin, RMG, and RTG. The MAG data entry system provides merchants to establish them to start the process for credit card transaction. The MAG data entry system also supports multiple backend banks for business. The MAG Admin module is a module that helps to set up users, banks, sales groups, and other pre-boarding processes. The RMG module is the Risk assessment module that verifies the potential risk of a merchant and verifies the application status for credit card processing. The RTG module verifies on the download of the application to the merchant equipment. Developers were given some control on product and design on how the projects were implemented.

  • VB/SQL Developer

    ChaseCom

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    November 2003July 2005 (1 year 9 months)

    Main responsibilities include development of Pacbell OTBM, Pacbell VAO, and National Hunter Program for ChaseCom LP. The products are used for tele-marketing industry for ChaseCom. As a part of my responsibilities, I would gather up the requirements from the client and client services manager and come up with solutions. The main product I was responsible with was the National Hunter Program for all of their regions. I was the liaison between the client and client service manager on this program. Another part of my responsibilities was to come up with solution for the client and client services manager for the projects.

  • Visual Basic Developer

    Sungard Energy Systems

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SDS; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2002August 2003 (1 year 7 months)

    Main responsibilities include development for the Caminus Gas and Caminus Pipeline Application. The Caminus Gas Product is the energy transaction management application that automates and integrates the complex processes involved in buying, selling and transporting natural gas. The Caminus Pipeline product is an enterprise-wide solution for pipelines, gathering systems and local distribution companies (LDCs) and completely automates the process of transporting and storing natural gas. The product consists of several different modules on how a user will conduct their business. Some of the modules in the product are the following: contract module, nomination module, scheduling module, a gas accounting module, and also a data admin module for customizing the product. Developed and understood the GISB/NEASB rules for development purpose on the Caminus Gas and Caminus Pipeline Application.

  • Staff IT Development

    Enron Net Works

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ENE; Oil & Energy industry)

    September 2000December 2001 (1 year 4 months)

    Main responsibilities include development for Market Knowledge Management (MKM) and Logical Information Machine (LIM) operations. LIM is a third-party market rate server, which Enron has location in London, Houston, and Singapore. LIM provided all types of data for the trader to use. I was supporting traders on the products and making sure the application and servers were up and running. MKM is a large-scale web-based distributed network that establishes standards for the communication of metadata and time series data. By establishing standards for communicating and describing data, services are developed that work against any data provider that adheres to the MKM data standards.

  • Jr. Visual Basic Programmer (Contractor)

    ReservationSource.com

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

    August 2000September 2000 (2 months)

    Develop front-end applications using Visual Basic to create application that would be used in booking restaurant reservation.

    Additional Responsibilities:
    · Developed and Maintained the Reservation application, which takes reservation either from the web or the restaurant.
    · Developed and Maintained WebSync application, which syncs the SQL Server database on the web server to the local SQL Server at the site.
    · Developed application by using Visual Basic and SQL Server.

  • System Developer

    Cerner Corporation

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CERN; Computer Software industry)

    June 1998April 2000 (1 year 11 months)

    Main responsibilities include development for Health Network Architecture (HNA) Millennium products. HNA Millennium is a platform of products designed for the health care industry. HNA Millennium is design to make both retrieving and disseminating patient-specific clinical and financial data across the entire health care industry.

    Additional Responsibilities:
    · Lead development on the Front-end Installation process
    · Development on Desktop Management Application.
    · Created Engineering Slams of current Operating Systems.
    · Supported users on current issues on HNA Millennium.
    · Developed application by using Visual Basic, COM, Wise Installation System, and Access.


Rich Coathup’s Education

  • Northwest Missouri State University

    BS , Computer Science , 19961998

    Activities and Societies:
    Association of Computing Machinery
  • Sam Houston State University

    19951996

  • Vermont Technical College

    A.E. , Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology , 19901991

  • Vermont Technical College

    A.E. , Computer Technology , 19871989

  • North Country Union High School

    19831987


Additional Information

Rich Coathup’s Groups:

IT Professionals

  •    InHouston
  •    OpenNetworker.com
  •    SunGard Alumni Group
  •    Healthcare-IT/ EHR/ HIS
  •    App developers
  •    .NET People
  •    .NET Developers
  •    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Houston Technology Professionals
  •    Open Networkers
  •    Altra Energy Alumni
  •    Payment Systems Network
  •    Job & Career Network
  •    Enron Alumni
  •    Plaxo Pulse
  •    Energy Trading - Power, Gas, Carbon, Oil and everything else
  •    Strategic Business Partners
  •    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
  •    The Former Enron Employee Networking Group
  •    Houston IT Professionals
  •    Cerner Alumni
  •    Connect to California
  •    Houston IT
  •    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Houston Networking News
  •    NWMSU Alumni Group
  •    Cerner Employees Group
  •    Caminus Alumni
  •    Freelance .NET ontwikkelaars
  •    Software Professionals
  •    Houston .NET User Group
  •    Enron
  •    Software developers in Houston
  •    SharePoint Contractor & FTE Jobs
  •    Cerner Healthcare Professionals
  •    Houston Professionals
  •    Houston Jobs
  •    Houston At Work
  •    Best Places to Work in Texas TX Jobs in Houston Dallas SanAntonio Careers
  •    RSA Corp
  •    Orange Tree Open Networkers
  •    Dutch Open Networkers
  •    TopLinked.com - Grow Bigger Networks
  •    InvitesWelcome.com - I Welcome Invites!

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