Senior Technology Consultant, Renee Taylor Consulting Inc., Sacramento, California. 2002 - Present

• Responsible for defining requirements, business modeling, data modeling, and analysis of solution alternatives for the Time Reporting project at the California Department of Fish and Game. Conducted user interviews and developed UML Activity Diagrams, High-Level Context Diagrams, Use Case Map Diagram, and Use Case narratives. Investigated available systems at other state agencies, commercial time management applications, workflow products, and form management products that could be used as the basis for the time reporting system for 2,200 employees of the Department.

Senior Software Engineer, Powerschool, Inc. (Division of Apple) Folsom, California. 2001 - 2002

• Senior member of the technical team on the Scheduler team. Responsible for integrating Nordex school scheduling engine with the Powerschool Student Information System (SIS). Designed and developed data exchange infrastructure between the SIS and the engine. Wrote over 30 data export and import programs. Implemented validation and optimization functionality. Coordinated schema changes and evaluated impact of changes on the existing systems.
• Responsible for enhancements to the Import module that allows schools and school districts to populate the SIS with real data from flat files. Developed support for new data types and user-defined formulas.

Senior Developer/Architect, Citadon, Inc. (Division of Apple) San Francisco, California. 2000 - 2001

• Design and development of ProjectCD, a comprehensive project archiving application.
• Architecture, development, and maintenance of FileManager, Web-based file management and exchange tool for the construction industry.
• Developed and documented globalization architecture for WebObjects applications. Created internationalization framework for use by developers.
• Implemented significant performance improvements in the response time of WebObjects applications at Citadon utilizing advanced caching strategies and features of Enterprise Objects Framework.

Senior Internet Consultant, Maas Intek / Magley & Associates. San Francisco, California. 2000

• Analysis, design and development of RepNet, e-commerce system for the horse industry. Evaluated back-end management system. Developed trade show sweepstakes system in WebObjects.

Software Design Engineer, Hewlett-Packard / USCaden. Mountain View, California. 1999 - 2000

• Design and development of the e-commerce functionality of the HP Electronic Support Service Center. Participated in third-party reseller integration, firewall issues, interactions with marketing and support.

Developer Info Technology III - V, Apple Computer / ICC Corp. Cupertino, California. 1994 - 1999

• As a senior technical member of the Enterprise Technology Services group:
  • Designed and developed WebObjects-based DirectoryServices framework and the extensions to the Oracle back-end system for uniform authentication and person data management across Intranet and Internet applications such as Apple Store, Product Registration, Developer Relations.
  • Participated in the large Oracle data warehousing project to consolidate global financial and manufacturing data. Designed and developed build process for the large multidimensional OLAP structure. Using complex optimization strategies reduced structure build time from 32 to 3 hours.
  • Investigated alternatives for replacing SAP standard login with Apple single sign-on.
  • Developed a Java-based client application to access LDAP-based Netscape Directory Server.
  • Responsible for business data identification, acquisition, conversion, and interface development in the implementation of the Supply Chain Planner and Demand Planner from i2 Technologies.
  • Ported IMS (Interface Management System) and IMSWeb from AIX to Solaris.
  • Developed a system to replace standard UNIX authentication with Apple single sign-on.
  • Lead an effort to evaluate, benchmark, and select the distributed job scheduler.
  • Provided technical consulting, documentation, training and developer support.
• Participated in the worldwide implementation of Manugistics for MVS, a manufacturing planning, distribution and forecasting package. Designed and developed interfaces with SAP.