Griff Jay
SUMMARY
Project
Director; Software Developer; MS Office VBA, Graphics, GIS, BPM, KM, BI,
Scientific Applications;
Strong
record delivering commercial software products; Experience in five tech
start-ups; Successful in R&D.
Ability to
take complex sciences from the lab, integrate them with technological advances,
deliver intuitive
applications to end users, and maintain apps on
multiple platforms and through multiple versions.
EXPERIENCE
· [Swanson Group Manufacturing] MS Excel applications for the company COO, CFO, and for mill operations.
[Advanced Technology Partners] MS Word applications & database support for ATP nationwide T-Mobile tech projects.
· Coached development team in implementing agile processes. Consulted with founders to systematically evaluate
prospective software partner companies. Charted status and development framework for initial two products.
· Speced automating existing database reporting applications w/ samples and prototype for Lucas Group, Atlanta, GA.
Prototyped MS Office app, user forms & development framework for non-profit Random Acts of Flowers, Knoxville TN.
· Stabilized, documented, and upgraded Excel-based applications for cost accounting, pricing, and sales management; Introduced effective software standards; Refactored disordered spaghetti code into structured, logical, modular system.
·
Firm
advises and manages wealth of
· Developed database, procedures, and MS Office applications for ATP project to upgrade computer memory in all
T-Mobile
retail stores and kiosks nationwide; coordinated activities of 23 technicians
from NY to
· West coast & Mountain states project manager for T-Mobiles nationwide technical survey of 1186 point-of-sale stores; managed 12 techs & 4 data clerks; wrote Excel-Access automation; database QA & admin.
· Wrote scientific whitepapers & accompanying presentation for companys patented, breakthrough assembled material, based on Buckminster Fullers tensegrity principles; researched SBIR technology funding.
· Speced in-house, business-critical CRM system; designed conversion of existing VB6 system into browser-based intranet app; developed system wireframe using ASP, Dreamweaver, and VB.Net.
· IT support on research projects for NASA, FAA, VA, PNNL, and major commercial airlines. New regional office - from inception, to proposal, to charter, to launch, to staffing, to product delivery. Senior Research Scientist.
· Graphical display of commercial airline flight parameters, statistical processing, atypicality analysis, database creation, automated reports, OLE automation, on-site delivery & support.
· Field data collection application for ARCO International - assess needs, develop software, and field test ARCO E-Field pen-based GIS product for field geology & oil exploration.
· Planning for rapidly developing municipality - design & specification of GIS, CAD, and field engineering applications - develop & install municipal utility billing system.
· Broadband field engineering project - fielded 10 self-contained, pen-based field data units (hardware and software) to design engineers w/ land base and customized telecom CAD application.
· New software product releases. Technical liaison for developer network.
VB & C++ apps development integrating GIS, satellite imagery, aerial photography, plus CAD & GPS.
· Start-up software products company - desktop GIS software used in school systems for redistricting and in banks for geoprocessing CRA compliance data; Developed space oblique Mercator projection application for mineral exploration.
· Key programmer in startup software firm still in business after 30 years; Principal architect/developer/project manager for GIS & image processing: Arc/Info Live Link, map projections, vector-to-raster conversion, & indexing aerial photos.
· Software engineer / lead programmer on 14 successful technology projects in Radar & Instrumentation Lab, Computer Science & Technology Lab, and Electromagnetics Lab.
EDUCATION
M.R.P - City and Regional Planning -
Graduate
Computer Science Courses -
B.A. - Economics
TECHNICAL SKILLS
VBA, Visual Basic, C/C#, Fortran
MS Office Automation [Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, S_Plus]
Visual Studio, .NET, Dreamweaver, ASP
Windows, DOS, UNIX
GIS, Arc/Info-ArcView-MapObjects, AutoCad, ERDAS, FieldNotes,
DTED, DFAD, DGN, DLG, TIGER, HPGL, IGL, GSSCGI, Atlas*GIS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS QUANTIFIED
1) reduced time from 5 weeks to 48 hours to return oil exploration data from field to hqtrs for expert geologist interpretation
2) reduced time to produce airline quarterly management report from 6 weeks to 4 days
3) 1st successful driver to properly register Arc/Info vector maps over satellite images in real-time in a commercial product; now used by millions
4) developed local utility billing system from concept to delivery in 6 months
5) wrote digitizing and map projections software
which was in use for 11 years through 9 versions -
supported user community of 1,000 users nationwide and internationally
6) managed 12 technicians in 9 states performing point-of-sale technology inventory in 230 retail stores
7) field data software/hardware for 10 engineers reduced time required to take field survey to final broadband fiber optics build-out design from 5 weeks to 1 week; entirely eliminated costs of separate manual drafting stage
8) 3 banks passed Federal CRA audits where they had previously failed; 2 school systems mapped student districts which withstood Federal desegregation judicial review
9) top secret system used by Presidents national security staff; 8 networked workstations processing 20 canisters of aerial images each daily
10) reduced project overhead by 65% via programming collaboration performed online via web real-time interaction
11) delivered spec of municipal information system to CFO in 3 weeks
12) 14 successful R&D projects over a 9 year span at GTRI
13) 1 of a
kind radar solution for President Reagans Air Force One approach
and landing in his return trips to
14) order of magnitude increase in productivity resulting from introduction of advanced professional software organization techniques - the time necessary to make and test system changes was reduced from 4-5 weeks to 1 day; those changes could be made with a much higher degree of confidence and much higher probability of success than previously
15) system
languishing in Army research lab was resurrected, professionally overhauled,
and made operational on
4 Army bases
16) updated 22 metropolitan series maps for 1980 U.S. Census
17) commanded
100+ USAF aircraft mechanics and electronics technicians
18) 95%
successful projects through my career vs. computer industry 90%+ failure
record