Alex Grant

Current

• Systems Analyst at UNUM

Past

• Sr. Software Engineer at BCGI
• Staff Software Engineer at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
• Staff Software Engineer at IBM

• Software Consultant at Teltech, Inc.
• Programmer/Analyst at Recom Techologies

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Education

• University of Southern Maine
• De Anza College

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Industry

Computer Software

Alex Grant’s Summary

Application Developer with expertise in wafer manufacturing, hardware interfaces, distributed application design, SOA, and web applications. Worked in a variety of industries (Computer Hardware, Wireless, and Insurance), played a variety of roles (principal software engineer, programmer/analyst), and worked in both large and small software shops. I enjoy a challenge.

Alex Grant’s Specialties:

Web sites, wafer manufacturing, robot control, standard and proprietary hardware interfaces, test measurement and automation, web applications and services. .NET 1.1 - 3.0. Primary software langauages C#, Java, C++, XML, HTML, CSS, javascript, and PHP.

Alex Grant’s Experience

• Systems Analyst

  UNUM

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UNM; Insurance industry)

  November 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Develop and maintain the websites of Unum Group Insurance companies. Perform a variety of development and maintanence tasks on a team of 20 software developers. HTML, CSS, C#, .NET. Currently developing new website for Unum Group, bringing new functionality and an updated look and feel. Full Microsoft shop (Microsoft perferred partner), SOA system.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  BCGI

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BCGI; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2006 — October 2006 (8 months)

  Documented, designed, implemented, and tested software solutions for the BCGI Voyager billing platform. Worked exclusively on interfaces to switches for wireless networks and the Qualcomm BREW Distribution System. Implemented mediation and provisioning solutions using UNIX Bourne shell scripts, Java POJOs, C++ programs, PERL scripts, and XML transformations.

• Staff Software Engineer

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2003 — February 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  Staff Software Engineer for the Head Tester Engineering department. Designed and Implemented multiple magnetic recording tester applications. Applications ran on Windows O/S, distributed, and data driven. Implemented using DCOM, XML, javascript, mutliple web services, DHTML and XSLT.

• Staff Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1998 — December 2002 (5 years)

  Staff Software Engineer for Head Tester Engineering department. Designed and Implemented multiple magnetic recording head tester applications. Applications ran on Windows O/S, distributed, and data-driven.

• Software Consultant

  Teltech, Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  September 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 4 months)

  Consulted with Asyst on Wafer Management System software. Implemented Software for Windows that managed GEM equipment that communicated via SECS protocol.

• Programmer/Analyst

  Recom Techologies

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 7 months)

  Programmer/Analyist for consulting firm that contracted at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffet Field, CA. Worked on Online forms system, Secure Email Pilot project, Financial software conversion from mainframe to distributed systems, and query applications for the EEO Office.

Alex Grant’s Education

• University of Southern Maine

  BS, Computer Science, 2006 — 2009 (expected)

• De Anza College

  AA, Systems Programming, 1988 — 1994