Greater Denver Area
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- CIO, Database Architect, Founder at TriCalyx
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- Manager Database Development at Webroot Software
- Team Leader Distributed Systems at NYCE Corporation
- Software Engineer at System One
- Lead Technical Support Representative at Telecheck Services Inc.
- Technical Support Representative at British Telecom North America
- Education
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- University of Denver
- Colorado State University
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Trina Blazek’s Summary
Database Architect specializing in database design, database programming, database integration and transformation, data migration, disaster recovery planning, database administration and database security.
My background includes software and web development with an emphasis on database design for client server and web application solutions. I have led several programming teams to build both small and large scale applications including a corporate billing system, a corporate information system and a completely re-architected database system to support a large scale ecommerce application.
I am passionate about designing high quality systems that provide end users and customers with useful, timely, and accurate data and to ensure a company’s success by providing the best user experience for the customer.
As a leader of many high profile projects, I believe in working with and hiring the most experienced, collaborative, and qualified professionals for a team. Team dynamics are very important to me and working with technology experts that are open to new ideas, innovative in their approach to challenges, and motivated to succeed are essential for a team to thrive.
Trina Blazek’s Specialties:
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQLBase
Languages: Transact-SQL, ISQL, OSQL, PHP, HTML, C#, XML, Visual Basic, Visual C++, JAVA
Software Tools: MySQL Administrator, MySQL Workbench, Data Comparer for MySQL, Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2003, SmartSVN, Mantis, Perforce, Horde, Bugzilla, CVS, ONYX Employee Portal v5.5, ONYX Customer Center, Cognos, ErWin, Visio, SourceSafe
Systems: Windows 2003, Windows 2000, NT 4.0, Windows Vista, XP, 98, Guardian 90, UNIX
Trina Blazek’s Experience
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CIO, Database Architect, Founder
TriCalyx
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
TriCalyx optimizes your business for the web. We improve online profitability by getting visitors to your web site, converting visitors to customers and analyzing how to improve that cycle again and again.
As your company grows, we provide a variety of software services to run your business more efficiently; custom software development, reporting, integrating customer data into financial, marketing and sales data, and scalability of your infrastructure. -
Manager Database Development
Webroot Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for developing and managing e-commerce database solutions, with an emphasis on database architecture and design, at Webroot Inc., a security software company specializing in anti-spyware and anti-virus software.
• Converted and consolidated MySQL databases to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases using open queries, DTS packages, and custom scripts to move objects and data to the new databases.
• Re-architected the corporate e-commerce database by designing a relational database using standard concepts of normalization to introduce data integrity and data consistency for product and transactional data.
• Developed a standard transaction processing module in SQL Server to transform transactions from multiple vendors into a single schema with consistent rules for data storage.
• Installed, configured, and deployed new hardware for the production and disaster recovery systems.
• Developed and implemented security standards for all corporate SQL Server databases -
Team Leader Distributed Systems
NYCE Corporation
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)
March 1996 — November 2005 (9 years 9 months)
Responsible for developing and managing Client-Server solutions, with an emphasis on database design, at NYCE Corporation, a financial services company specializing in ATM transaction processing and Point-of-Sale debit card processing.
• Managed the design, development, and deployment of corporate billing and corporate information systems at NYCE.
• Designed database systems including table schemas, stored procedures, user-defined datatypes, triggers, views, user-defined functions, DTS packages, replication, and scheduled jobs
• Installed and managed IIS web site. Designed web based applications using Visual Studio .NET. Programmed web based applications in Visual Basic .NET and C# .NET.
• Designed, customized, implemented, and managed the conversion from ONYX Customer Center to ONYX Employee Portal, a web-based application used throughout the organization for tracking customer calls, contracts, sales, marketing, revenue, and surveys -
Software Engineer
System One
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1993 — September 1996 (3 years 5 months)
Responsible for developing enhancements for a ‘health care claim management system’ and ’provider claim submission software’ at System One, a transaction processing company specializing in automated health care claims.
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Lead Technical Support Representative
Telecheck Services Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
May 1991 — September 1992 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for managing a help desk staff and providing technical support at TeleCheck Services Inc., a provider of automated check authorization through point-of-sale terminals and PC software.
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Technical Support Representative
British Telecom North America
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 1990 — October 1991 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for providing technical support at British Telecom, a provider of automatic credit card and check authorization services through point-of-sale terminals and PC software.
Trina Blazek’s Education
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University of Denver
Advanced Graduate Certificate , Computer Programming , 1991 — 1992
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Colorado State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts , Photography and Metalsmithing , 1981 — 1986
