Education & Training

Feb. 2001

Advanced EJB Development –2 week intensive (Thomson)

Jan. 2001

Core Java Programming - 2 week intensive (Thomson)

Dec. 2000

XML for Developers – 1week overview (Thomson)

1994-1996

Hunter College,City University of New York: BA,CS program


Skills & Experience

Years

Access

6

ASP

5

CGI

6

Cocoon/Tomcat

1

Dreamweaver

2

Homesite

2

HTML

7

Illustrator 9

2

Java

1

Javascript

7

Unix/Linux

7

MS-DOS

10

Office Automation

5

PC Hardware

10

Perl

6

Photoshop

5

SQL Server

3

VBA

5

VBScript

6

Visual Basic

4

XML

1


Robert Sherman

 

Washington, DC 20001

202.667.2429 / bob@nyckidd.com


Employment History

Senior Web Developer · Thomson Financial Services · June 2000–October 2001

  • Served as technical lead for Product Syndication team.

  • Designed custom product interfaces for licensed partner use of Thomson products

  • Developed middleware solutions to facilitate easy product customization

  • Provided technical assistance to the team’s Web Authors on advanced situations.

Programmer/Analyst · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. · June 1998–October 1999

  • Lead development efforts for all Human Resources software projects.

  • Developed and maintained a complete HR database system, building upon and extending HRVantage, an MS Access based HR Management system

  • Revised and adjusted plans as legal and corporate requirement changes dictated

  • Analyzed need for and initiated development of an intranet interface to allow Employees direct access to HR data.

Junior Developer · Willis Corroon Corporation · July 1997–June 1998

  • Developed database systems in Visual Basic and Microsoft Access to support various Risk Management functions, for both internal use and outside clients.

  • Designed and Implemented an internet-accessible Disaster Recovery system, making emergency contact, vital function, office space and equipment needs information readily available in the event our offices became inaccessible.

Database Developer · Condé Nast Publications · October 1996–July 1997

  • Developed a database system, using Microsoft Access, to track all publication contracts from writers, photographers, models; and relate those contracts to issue pages for permissioning purposes.

  • Supported contracts staff with various technical issues, including application and hardware problems.

Archives Data Specialist - Sony Music Entertainment· October 1994–October 1996

  • Worked as part of a special team put together to digitize an ancient card catalog system in which the history of all sound recordings made at SMEI's many labels has been stored dating back to company’s inception.

  • Sorted, researched, and entered data on an artist-by-artist basis.

  • Identified several time saving steps which were implemented by the entire team.

  • Assisted IT developers with requirements analysis and ongoing testing and feedback during development of a replacement for the mainframe based system.

Software Consultant - MetroList · August 1995–February 1996 (Contract Position)

  • Analyzed a real-estate listings database created in Filemaker Pro

  • Determined where the prior developer had left off

  • Identified and implemented several enhancements.

  • Transformed unidirectional data flow, into an enhanced two-way system allowing more up to date information and less labor for my client.

Customer Services Technician - Nationwide Computer · April 1991–April 1993

  • Reconciled customer service problems for a large computer reseller, by analyzing problems and making decisions to benefit both sides.

  • Provided technical support to customers.

  • Assembled and tested PC systems



Professional References readily available upon request