Tom Conder

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin

Past

TEKsystems Consultant at Express Scripts
TEKsystems Consultant at Lockheed Martin
Co-owner at Snakman, Inc

Technology Director at Nova Business Systems (startup)
MSX International Consultant at SBC
MSX International Consultant at Grace Hill Neighborhood Services
Software Engineer at Computer Sciences Corporation

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Education

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Centralia High School

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Information Technology and Services

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Tom Conder’s Summary

An Information Systems Professional with over sixteen years of experience in analyzing business practices and engineering software solutions. Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability and experience to successfully work with all levels of management, professionals and customers.

Tom Conder’s Specialties:

Expertise in design, development, documentation, testing and maintaining software systems. Experience producing systems with several thousand users with no downtime.

Tom Conder’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

· Set up external facing pilot environment and while at the same time removed road blocks from team members. Worked with government personnel to get the desired certification.

· Set up authentication and authorization for a web app using OpenSSO. Developed rapid prototype of a mashup-based web app.

· Championed the move of R&D teams to agile development. Gave presentations to management and engineers discussing Scrum methodology. Gave guidance to teams transitioning to Scrum.

· Organized brown bag learning sessions. Presented sessions on JUnit, AspectJ, Groovy and machine learning.

· Collaborated with coworker to present a talk at the LM Connect 2009 conference.
TEKsystems Consultant

Express Scripts

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

September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)

· Completed project to improve faxing in an internal web-based call center application.

· Completed project on a public-facing prescription management web application to allow customers to improve drug savings and to add safety campaign-specific messaging.

· Updated prescription management web application to accommodate users from a newly acquired specialty drug business.

· Wrote code to utilize and helped improve web services provided by middleware group and specialty drug business.
TEKsystems Consultant

Lockheed Martin

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — September 2007 (6 years 10 months)

· Completed project to add web services to the production system. Gave technical presentations to customers, engineers and management.

· Completed projects to add in-transit visibility of logistics entities. Added code to display satellite position reports and correct the locations reported by RFID tag interrogators. Added forecasting technology to predict cargo traffic at a port.

· Wrote GUI code in Swing for military exercise planning tool.

· Participated in peer reviews of design, code, test and installation documentation. Also, trained engineers on technical aspects of system. Worked with remote team members located in different time zones.

· Designed, documented, coded and tested web software rewrite using Javascript, EJBs, Servlets and JSPs. Completed analysis and presented paper to management and customer on existing web security vulnerabilities and steps to mitigate risk. Wrote white paper on potential changes to web software to accommodate low bandwidth customers.
Co-owner

Snakman, Inc

(Food & Beverages industry)

February 2006 — February 2006 (1 month)

Organized records, updated ledger and tax records, completed inventory, restocked vending machines and interviewed potential buyers while keeping company profitable
Technology Director

Nova Business Systems (startup)

(Information Services industry)

June 2000 — December 2000 (7 months)

· Developed and deployed ASP solution for two vertical markets. Set up and maintained a network of Windows workstations and Linux back end servers.
MSX International Consultant

SBC

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

January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)

· Designed, coded and tested a billing system Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) for the middleware group.
MSX International Consultant

Grace Hill Neighborhood Services

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)

July 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 7 months)

· Wrote code and trained employees on Y2K complaint registration and
appointments software. Also, wrote various reports for the health care system.
Software Engineer

Computer Sciences Corporation

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

August 1995 — July 1998 (3 years )

· Functioned as technical lead for Interfaces team performing design and code reviews, giving briefs on technical issues and coding and testing application modules.

· Migrated code from legacy mainframe system to client/server system.

Tom Conder’s Education

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

BA , Computer Science (minor in Mathematics) , 1989 — 1992

Activities and Societies:

ACM
Centralia High School