The Resume of Brett L. Scott - blscott@scottnet.com

Project Experience
* Please note that not all of my project experience is listed here for space considerations, non-disclosure agreements, pre-product releases, etc. *

August 2003 to Present - Consultant / Analyst / Developer
An international e-Commerce company - Scottsdale, AZ
Phoenix Capital Management
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor. The client company was having difficulty with its IT department. Their corporate data was co-located and was not being made available to staff outside the IT department. The situation was degrading and they needed an out quickly. I was hired to reverse engineer their systems quietly and off-site. This was accomplished via White hat hacking. Once a copy of the critical data was procured, I re-designed and redeveloped their systems from the ground up. This included front end e-commerce sales, through reporting, administration, CRM, email systems, etc. This was achieved using several components of my existing intellectual property. Coordinating a small development team, 60 days later they were fully operational on the new system and the other parties were let go. Sales have improved. System reliability has improved dramatically and customer satisfaction is at an all time high. Sales throughput has doubled and the company is reaching record numbers for sales, customer retention, and transaction volume. At the core of this company's processing is a private computing grid (grid computing) that handles common tasks and is "cycle scavenging" from the office based PC's and several remote facilities.
Technologies	:	Private Grid Computing / distributed computing / internet computing, ASP, ASP.net, Visual Basic 6.0, VB.net, MS SQL Server 2000, stored procedures, Windows XP, SQL, Visual Source Safe, COM architecture, JavaScript, object oriented middle tier, requirements gathering, technical documentation, systems design, neural computing, .Net, proprietary TCP/IP communications, encryption, project management.
-
April 2003 - August 2003 - Business Process Analyst / Architect / Product Manager / Programmer / Consultant / Lean Analyst / Technical Trainer
A national home mortgage lending company - Tempe, AZ
Wells Fargo
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor. Was asked to perform a comprehensive analysis of the mortgage loan processing technology and processes for a facility housing nearly 300 employees. To apply lean management processes and analysis from the time an application is submitted to the time the loan is sent to archive. To make improvements using technology and process redefinition. The best solution, taking into account all aspects and requirements, was to create a web based workflow management system, supported by a neural computing (grid computing / distributed computing) platform. The web based workflow system was used as a replacement for the 3270 system interface. The neural computing platform was used to synchronize the 3270 system with the web based application system creating a seamless environment between the web apps and the corporate "green screens". By utilizing a neural computing platform the changes occurring on both sides of the system were reflected to the other system in near real time. I designed and built an XML scripting language and the associated scripting interpreters. The web based application was developed using ASP via Macromedia Dreamweaver, and was enhanced by Flash animations and training modules developed in Macromedia Flash. The communication for the neural platform was a combination of XML RPC, XML EDI, and custom developed XML exchanges similar to Microsoft .Net's protocols. The neural platform also served as a translation platform from web based to database communications and all combinations thereof. This enabled the system to easily integrate and/or communicate with a vast array of satellite software and support systems.
Technologies	:	Neural Computing / Private Grid Computing / Distributed Computing, ASP, SQL, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, Attachmate Controls, 3270 Terminal screen scraping, XML, script interpreter development, Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, VBA, MS Access, Macromedia's DreamWeaver, Macromedia Flash
-
January 2003 to April 2003 - GUI Interface Specialist / Programmer
A Computer Hardware VAR - Tempe, AZ
Insight
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor to analyze, debug, and enhance a VB, COM, Java, MS SQL Server application used to add, delete, and maintain the company's product offerings. In two months over 100 bugs were eliminated, customer satisfaction was achieved. Next several new powerful functions and screens were added to the application which dramatically increased the user productivity and increased system reliability. Ultimately, the way was cleared for new systems development for a SAP conversion.
Technologies	:	Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000, Windows XP, SQL, Visual Source Safe, COM architecture, Java, object oriented middle tier, Install Shield, bugzilla, requirements gathering, technical documentation.
-
July 2002 to January 2003 - Analyst / Architect / Consultant / Programmer / Product Advocate
A Credit Card Company - Scottsdale, AZ
CashX.com
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor to pick up and complete a functioning commercial credit card issuance, processing, and management system. First duties included quickly orienting myself with what development has been completed to date, determine what was to be done, and deliver a roll out as soon as is possible. After inhaling over 65,000 lines of Visual Basic and ASP code, I completed and delivered their fully functional web site within 2 weeks. This involved substantially re-working the majority of the application code developed prior to my arrival. As part of the rollout I was required to orient myself to the company's database structure (SQL Server 2000) of approx. 500 + database objects (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures). I developed nearly 18,000 lines of new code and re-worked over 30 stored procedures for our successful roll out. The rollout was smooth and un-eventful. The second phase of my efforts were to take a more holistic approach to the system's operations and re-work or make refinements as requested or necessary. Including re-analysis, re-design, and re-development, management tools and reporting, customer support tools, and financial reporting and utilities. Systemically, I re-designed and developed the web site and ASP / VB applications supporting the sites operation. Developed a customer support suite to assist the technical support group in resolving customer issues. Developed a reporting package for management to view system trends, business trends, and basic financial reporting.
Technologies	:	ASP, Java Script, ADO, ODBC, InterDev 6.0, FrontPage 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 6.5, MS SQL Server 7.0, MS SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, IIS 5.0, XML document design, XML EDI, Raw HTTP protocol, RAW Windows Sockets (TCP/IP), Visual Basic .Net, ASP.Net, Visual Studio .Net. Some exposure to C#
-
November 2001 to July 2002 - Research and Development Sabbatical
Personal Research and Development - Tempe, AZ
No Company Involvement
Duties	:	Elected to take a sabbatical to study new technologies and methodologies. Developed new intellectual property assets. Developed new work group web sites for several local charitable and political organizations. This development was fruitful in that I was able to offer a service back to my community as well as develop new intellectual property assets. Time well spent.
Technologies	:	ASP, Java Script, ADO, ODBC, InterDev 6.0, FrontPage 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 6.5, MS SQL Server 7.0, MS SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, IIS 5.0, XML document design, XML EDI, Raw HTTP protocol, RAW Windows Sockets (TCP/IP), Visual Basic .Net, ASP.Net, Visual Studio .Net. Some exposure to C#
-
November 1999 to November 2001 - Analyst / Architect / Consultant / Programmer / Product Manager
A training and consulting company - Tempe, AZ
Six Sigma Qualtec, Inc.
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor to analyze, design, and develop a product that is a combination project manager, document creation, knowledge management, and document management system for the practice of Six Sigma. I was placed under a Vice President and reported directly to him. The tool is called 6.Net. It is an expert system for the "Six Sigma" industry and serves as a vertical portal operating as an ASP service. This product is used at some of the worlds largest companies to enhance performance, save money, provide accountability, and to be a publishing platform for local project managers to each other within an enterprise organization. I also authored three "Off-Line" tools that would collect data via a Windows application and EDI (electronic data interchange) the data back to the server via an XML architecture. XML data transfer down to the "off-line" system and a very efficient and cool mechanism to transfer the data back based on a HTTP 1.1 and Windows sockets protocols.
Technologies	:	ASP, ADO, ODBC, InterDev 6.0, FrontPage 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 6.5, MS SQL Server 7.0, MS SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, IIS 5.0, XML document design, XML EDI, Raw HTTP protocol, RAW Windows Sockets (TCP/IP).
-
June 1999 - October 1999 - Programmer / Consultant
A computer chip manufacturer - Chandler, AZ
Intel
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor. My main duties include mentoring, and providing expertise to a development team of 10 people. The project is a groupware tool for the purpose of automating the planning and metrification of the computer chip manufacturing process. This suite of tools is being used by all of the planning groups worldwide.
Technologies	:	VB 6.0, object oriented design, SQL Server 7.0, SQL query design and development, DB Artisan, GUI development, object oriented database design, inter team coordination and management, customer requirements collection and management, MTS, data connection pooling, ADO.
-
November 1998 - June 1999 - Analyst / Architect / Product Manager / Programmer / Consultant
A research and development company - Scottsdale, AZ
Pentawave, MPI
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor. My initial duties included working with the VP of Research and another developer to review and enhance the technical specifications for an on-line job brokering system. This included a review of the data schema, the technologies and methodologies to be utilized. Once the specifications had been stabilized, my duties were to create the Job Seeker side of the system. I completed a fully functional product prototype within 45 days. This system is currently being reviewed, enhanced, and functionally upgraded where requested.
Technologies	:	ASP, Interdev 1.0 and 6.0, MS SQL Server 6.5, and a series of custom Visual Basic applications that I had authored to assist in the development process.
-
August 1998 - October 1998 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
A commercial software company - San Diego, CA
Epic Solutions
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor. Worked with several project managers on several different projects. Initially I was asked to extensively modify the security system (a keystone function). Upon completion of that I was transitioned to the elimination of bugs in the existing software. I was then transferred to authoring numerous PL/SQL functions, procedures, and triggers for an Oracle 7.3 database. The PL/SQL systems that I developed were for a nationwide Random Drug Testing System, and an automated victim notification system. Following that, I was transitioned to the creation of GUI screens for one of their products. The product is a federal prison management software package for the governments of Australia and New Zealand.
Technologies	:	VB5.0, ActiveX, Analysis, Design, Power Designer, Oracle, Encryption, PL/SQL, Java, the Oracle database management suite including Data Manager, Enterprise Manager, Schema Manager, SQL Plus, project management, documentation, multi-team integration, training.
-
March 1998 - July 1998 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead / Product Manager
A commercial software company - Phoenix, AZ
Computer Guidance Corporation
Duties	:	Hired as a contractor to assist in the enhancement and generation of a new revision of one of their commercial products. My primary function was to modularize their functionality and create a series of ActiveX controls to handle core system functions. While there I also installed Microsoft's IIS and created a web based seminar RSVP system with e-commerce.
Technologies	:	DB2(NT), VB5.0, SQL, analysis, design, data schema review, data schema creation, ERWIN, ActiveX control creation, training, presentations, ASP, Java, IIS, project management, and general consultation.
-
February 1998 - May 1998 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
An Energy Company - Tempe, AZ
Salt River Project (SRP)
Duties	:	Was hired for my experience with EDI and general analytical skills. The purpose of this project was the generation and implementation of a prototype billing system which would function under the new deregulation rules. I was also asked to review the company's Y2K programs.
Technologies	:	EDI (ANSI X.12), VB 5.0, ASP, IIS, Analysis, Design, Full life cycle development, multi-team integration, ActiveX control creation, and training.
-
November 1997 - February 1998 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead / Product Manager
A credit card company - Phoenix, AZ
American Express
Duties	:	Analysis and Design of a semantical network monitoring, tracking, utilization, and problem reporting system. Develop a working prototype using Visual Basic 5.0 and document system design, standards, and testing mechanisms. This system was developed to quickly and accurately detect potential problems in both 3rd party and local networks and to attempt to diagnose the problem before reporting it to a team of specialists. This system also leveraged the data collected to create a 3rd party network utilization and tracking data warehouse. The information collected allows the technical staff to quickly solve a network problem in both local and 3rd party networks. Additionally, this system, using data leveraged from existing repositories, now offers the support team information that is not only extremely accurate, but was once thought impossible to obtain. This provided the customers with a much higher level of potential service from the company.
Technologies	:	Visual Basic, Active X Dll's, TPF operating system, IIS, ASP, Crystal Reports, RAW Windows Sockets (TCP/IP), Sybase, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MS Access.
-
June 1997 - August 1997 - Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
A commercial finance company - Scottsdale, AZ
Franchise Finance Corporation of America
Duties	:	Extensive work with the Coda Financials system. The project required analysis, design, and implementation. Implementation included the use of 16-bit class objects (in and out of process).
Technologies	:	Oracle Objects for OLE, CODA financials, VB 4.0 16 and 32 bit., OLE classes, OLTP, Oracle Database, design and analysis, system optimization, documentation.
-
November 1996 - May 1997 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
An Insurance company - Phoenix, AZ
Eyecare Plan of America
Duties	:	Designed a job-routing and scheduling system for internal use by the IS department. The system was authored in 18 weeks and is installed in all departments (from the desk of the CEO to the desk of the mailroom clerk). This system is used to handle all office procedural systems from the sales team to the technical support group. Additionally, I wrote several utility programs which were used by this system to perform system level tasks such as record processing and refining, file movement, data conversion, etc.
Technologies	:	VB 4.0 32 bit, OLE classes, Access, Oracle, Unix, Windows Sockets (TCP/IP), Novell, Data Junction, design, analysis, excellent communication and project management, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), documentation
-
July 1996 - November 1996 - Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead / Beta Tester
A National Healthcare company - Atlanta, GA
Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Atlanta / Quadramed
Duties	:	Authored an ANSI x.12 EDI packet processing system along several X.12 related utilities and analysis tools. Was asked by the client to serve as a vendor liaison to STC a Pasadena, CA based EDI server firm. While serving in this capacity I was asked by the vendor to serve as a UNIX to NT migration consultant using the NutCracker suite of Unix to NT development tools and to serve as a beta tester.
Technologies	:	installation, configuration, and beta debugging of STC's DataGate product for Windows NT, VB 4.0 32-bit, OLTP, ANSI X.12 parsing and generating, installation and configuration of MS SQL Server 6.5, data schema design and implementation, system analysis, optimization, reporting via Crystal Reports and dynamic HTML generators, documentation, training developers and users.
-
August 1996 - November 1996 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
An Aerospace company - Phoenix, AZ
Allied Signal
Duties	:	Developed a 3270 terminal screen scraper program to capture additional information about engine failures. This project was badly behind schedule and several previous contractors failed to provide a solution. The project was ultimately successful despite several major specification changes and networking setbacks. This product is currently in use and has proceeded into its second phase of development.
Technologies	:	Attachmate Controls, VB 4.0 16-bit, system design, database design, system analysis, MS Access, Oracle database, network design, customer relations
-
March 1996 - August 1996 - Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead / Start-Up Guru / Network Engineer
A Commercial Internet Access Provider - Phoenix, AZ
Internet Media Networks / Genuity / BBNPlanet
Duties	:	I was the number five hire. The first duties were to assist in the initial set-up and configuration of the company's networks, and to tackle any technical issues. I was also responsible for most of the design and continued configuration of the primary information systems. This involved developing applets, applications, and stored procedures to interface, customize, and enhance the Onyx Customer Center product. Additionally, I was used to develop other crucial applets and applications such as HTML generators, IIS and ISAPI web systems, an inventory tracking system, and an OLE architecture system for integrating all of the company's applications and systems. This involved systems like HP Open View, IIS Web serves, MS SQL server databases, Access Databases, Oracle databases, an EDI system, auditor programs, monitoring programs, and other such start-up and core systems development. During our involvement on this project I was also used as a consultant to customers of the company, and as a developer to the Parent Corporation.
Technologies	:	Complete network design and implementation, complete software specification and software build out, customer relations, ISAPI, Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, VB 4.0 32-bit, MS Access, HP Open View, ONYX customer center installation and configuration, TCP/IP servers and clients, Common Log parsing and processing agents, network monitoring agents, SNMP configuration programs, Intranet design and implementation, web development, HTML, HP Open View, IIS Web Servers, ANSI X.12 EDI, automated data auditor systems, Internet server / service monitoring systems, and many more.
-
August 1995 - March 1996 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
A Construction company - Houston, TX
Bechtel COrporation
Duties	:	I was hired by their primary development group and was responsible for several additions to a number of applications which are part of a totally object oriented system (three tier). Because of my experience with the Documentum product of Xerox Corporation I was loaned to the information services group to extensively customize Documentum. I was also responsible for the design of several systems that are being used globally. Additionally I setup the developers Intranet Web site, designed their global help file system strategy, and developed many HTML generator programs.
Technologies	:	true three-tier client server, Oracle, Access, VB 3.0, VB 4.0, Intranet design and implementation, HTML, HTML generators, C debugging, C++ debugging, Documentum, source code managers, documentation, user relations, and much more.
-
July 1995 - September 1995 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
An Electronics Manufacturer - Indianapolis, IN
Thompson Electronics / RCA
Duties	:	Was hand selected by the head of my rep agency to make this project happen. This project was far behind schedule and nearing cancellation. My responsibilities included designing the system and creating the project scope definition, work schedule, several drafts the work requirements, and to find the correct developers to complete the task. The server and basic client module were my design and programming. My trainees completed the extended feature set. This system was to be rolled out to over 7000 technical service centers, worldwide.
Technologies	:	Windows Sockets servers and clients, system analysis, design, and implementation, WAIS server development, much more.
-
May 1995 - July 1995 - Analyst / Architect / Programmer / Consultant / Team Lead
A Pharmaceutical company - Indianapolis, IN
Boehringer Mannheim
Duties	:	I was brought in as a contractor to develop custom code modules to interface with Documentum, a product of Xerox, which is a document server system and was solely responsible for the extensive customization and creation of all custom code modules. These modules were used to replace most of the core functionality of Documentum, as well as incorporate workflow. This system was rolled out to over 500 users and was targeted for a global rollout of over 5000 users.
Technologies	:	ANSI C, Documentum Server, Documentum Client, Forecasting and Statistical Analysis, VB, OLE, API, Oracle
-

API Experience
Windows API going back to Win 16. Microsoft Transaction Server Neural Computing / Grid Computing eCommerce (Authorize.net/Auth.net,PayPal, Echo, EdelWeiss, EPX, Neunex, SkipJack, YourPay) Google Maps (mapping, geocoding, etc) RSS Lego RIS 2.0, Lego NXT	Coda Financials Onyx Customer Center Microsoft Site Server TCP/IP ExactTarget Melissa Data ANSI x.12 EDI TCP/IP Protocols (SMTP, POP3, HTTP (1.0,1.1), HTTPS, NNTP. ICMP, DNS)	Xerox's Documentum Oracle Objects for OLE DCOM and Windows Sockets FedEx Ship, Track, manage USPS Custom API development, SAAS, (design and development)

Operating / Networking Systems
Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP (pro and home), Windows Vista, Windows NT 3.50, 3.51,4.0,5.0(2000), Win ME, Windows 95, Win 98, Win 3.1, Win 3.11)	Unix	Dos	PowerPC (insignia windows)
Novell (2.12, 3.0, 3.11,3.12,4.0)	Free BSD, BSDI	SunOS	Linux (Ubuntu 6.04, 6.10,7.04, 7.10, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Server (LAMP))

Database Experience
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005	Oracle	Sybase	Real SQL	Informix	Access
dBase	Paradox	FoxPro	mySQL	DB2	Flat Structures

Earlier Projects
A local commercial software company	I designed and built several technical support systems including a BBS, a fax support system, and an on-line technical reference for the technical support staff and the recruiting staff. Then I integrated the four systems into a linear document distribution system. The design of this system has yet to be duplicated commercially and will probably be the next step in document management.
A video production company	I designed and built a business card-on-a-floppy program to run on the PowerPC and Windows based machines.
A technical recruiting firm	I was a lecturer on visual basic, and the Internet and appointed to the technical committee which created the technical proficiency exams and generated training materials. I authored a skills matrix program which would allow people to enter their skills into a data schema which was self managing and integrated with the firms central database. The system was built as an open standard. It appears that this program will soon also be considered the next step in it's category.
A local ISP	I set-up and configured the primary development systems, generated several network monitoring systems, a web crawling engine, and HTML generators, working extensively with ASP scripting and server side ActiveX controls I also authored. I designed and built several web sites and installed and configured their SQL Server. I created a three tier database access system for the automated semantical network management programs to communicate with each other, the administrators, and the database itself.
A local technical recruiting firm	I re-designed their web site and added functionality to allow employees and prospective consultants to view basic information about positions being offered by the firm. I authored an open standard time card system, and several feedback mechanisms, as well as a common log parsing engine for the processing of the web sites visit logs. I created an on-line mail-to form which uses ASP and a server side e-mail control of my design

Third Party Controls - Basics
Windows Sockets Spreadsheet Controls Socket Libraries Spread from Far Point Software ImageFX - Iterated Systems Elastics from Apex; other vendors Oracle Objects for OLE SA-FileUp	Data Aware Controls Image Manipulation Custom ActiveX Controls Truegrid from Apex Quick Pack Professional-Crescent PowerTCP Zip Utilities and other compression libs	Elastics Database Access Obj. Scientific and DAQ Distinct TCP/IP VB Assist - Apex Crescent Internet Toolpak Sheridan Data Controls

Visual Basic Development Capability – the short-list.
TCP/IP Applications, including Data Distribution Networks, Networking Front Ends, Custom Servers SQL based dB front ends, etc. Two-Tier and Three-Tier via traditional methods or the Web. Imaging Systems and Editors Bar Code(ing) Systems Animation’s and Presentations Sounds and Music Spreadsheets	E-Mail - routers, managers, mailers, servers, calendars and organizers EDI systems and Telephony including XML EDI / EC Fax Servers Document Management Systems HTML Generators Help File Systems Network Monitoring and Support Agents Web Systems, IntraNets, ExtraNets, CommerceNets, WorkNets.