EXPERIENCE:
9/94 - Present		IN-TOUCH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC., Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager In-Touch Management Systems provides inventory, billing and pager programming systems for Paging and PCS companies. Software: Java, SQL, C, Perl, HTML, Informix, Awk, Unix, Windows  Senior Software Engineer / Team Leader of Installation Department Projects:
	Developed several components of a three-tier client server system. Java foundation classes: Data parsing utilities, date formatting functions, and several other data manipulation classes which supported international standards. Design and implementation of JDBC functions to replace an RDBMS Ctree based system. Backend databases used included Informix, MySQL and Oracle. Developed a system which forwarded Internet messages to a personal pager. This system consisted of two pieces. A Message sever which received messages from a CGI script or email server, parsed the messages, and created a protocol to be sent to a Dispatch Server. This piece was developed using Java on a Linux Platform. A Dispatch Server which interfaced with a client’s paging system. This piece was developed using C on a SCO Unix platform. Managed and performed on-site data conversions and system customizations. A conversion involved analyzing customer data, and working closely with the customer to configure the data into a Billing system which met all of their requirements. Further responsibilities included performing code changes, working closely with trainers, and supervising employees. Tools used in the conversion process included C, SQL, Perl/AWK, and several In-house tools. The conversions were performed on various Unix platforms. Developed and managed automated data conversion system for company’s largest client. Maintaining company’s web, mail and DNS servers. Creating and maintained software libraries and custom tools.
7/93 - 8/94		METRO SELIGER INDUSTRIES INC. Senior Engineer/System Administrator Software: PROGRESS 4GL, C, DG Unix Responsibilities: PROGRESS database design and programming in a production environment as well as Unix system administration.
8/91 - 6/93		CANON USA Senior Technical Support Representative Software: Informix SQL, Unix, C Responsibilities: Technical support, Informix SQL programming and Unix system administration.
6/90 - 7/91		THIS WEEK INC. Programmer/System Administrator Software: Dataflex, Unix, C Responsibilities: Database Programming, and XENIX System administration.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:		Created several full life cycle projects for my personal use.
	Design and maintenance of a personal web page: www.coolpix.net Created a Hangman Game in Java:www.panix.com/~acohen/Applets/hangman.html Developed a Compact Disc Tracker: This program maintains compact disc libraries and their songs. It also contains search and report capabilities. It is written in Java and uses JDBC to communicate with a MySQL server running on Linux.
COMPUTER SKILLS:		Languages: C, Java, Perl, SQL, C++, HTML, Awk, PROGRESS Platforms: Various flavors of UNIX, Windows, Novell, Macintosh, VMS
EDUCATION		New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - June 1991 Tutored Physics, Computers and Math; Student Aide in Computer lab. Courses: Systems Analysis, Object Oriented Design, Database Design, C and Unix, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics