ALAN ELKNER 112 Chanticleer, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 (609) 605-1945 [email protected]

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. Close to thirty years experience in the development of web applications and data hosting systems for the Unix, Intel PC and IBM mainframe environments . Extensive experience developing back-end systems for integration between clients and servers . Consistently recognized by management and peers for producing high-quality work; attention to simplicity of structure, leading to highly reliable and maintainable systems . Trusted by management to deal with clients from design phase to installation; strong inter- personal skills leading to high customer satisfaction . One year experience each working in Germany and Italy while gaining fluency in both languages

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

. Web platforms, and , using Python, running on Linux, Sun Solaris . MySQL and PostgreSQL database systems . HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, including Ajax . Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, Access and SQL Server, Active Server Pages

EXPERIENCE

2013 – 2015 HelpHOPELive Cherry Hill, NJ . Django/Python developer for a non-profit specializing in crowd-funded campaigns for patients in need of assistance with medical expenses. Responsibilities include implementing requirements as defined in JIRA ticket system for feature enhancements to the core web application, written for the Django and Python programming language. Utilized JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS on the browser side.

2013 – 2014 NovaWebDevelopment Cherry Hill, NJ . Project Manager, Django/Python Developer and Mentor for a start-up non-profit specializing in writing web applications in Django and Python. Contract involved creating a web application for teaching deaf children to read. Application presents images, videos and words to the student in a jQuery event-driven set of web pages, including timer events for animation.

2007 – 2012 SchoolTool Cherry Hill, NJ . Web Developer for an open source School Information System web application. Written in Zope and Python, application allows schools to enroll students in classrooms, grade them on activities and cut report cards. Intervention system allows all stakeholders of a given student to track messages and goals surrounding a student's disciplinary issues.

2005 – 2006 Chase Paymentech Silver Spring, MD . Enterprise Developer/Installation Manager for a Credit Card Processing company which processes 3,000,000+ credit card transactions per day. The system consists of Python and C processes running on Solaris servers. Responsibilities include development support for the core system as well as packaging releases for deployment to the various target servers. EXPERIENCE (cont’)

2004 – 2005 Center for Innovative Communities Arlington, VA . Serving as project manager/lead developer for Web Data Hosting application for Virginia Public Schools. Application, written in Python for a Zope Server, allows users to track competencies for students and submit competency coverage reports to the State of Virginia.

2002 – 2003 Escom Cinzano, Italy . Worked on Web Data Hosting application for the hotel industry, involving the use of server-side scripts in Visual Basic for a Microsoft SQL database and browser-side scripts in Script. Application allows hotels to create and track inventory for its rooms, restaurant halls, and wine cellars, keep track of customer’s bills, and handle hotel’s general accounting.

1986 – 2001 Donovan Data Systems New York, NY . Designed and developed large-scale database, data communications and end-user systems (1,000,000+ records) for number one data processing vendor to the advertising industry. Company’s systems supply data administration services to the largest worldwide advertising agencies including Young & Rubicam and Saatchi & Saatchi. Systems handle agency functions such as Market Research, Media Planning and Budgeting, Media Buying, Commercial Production, Commercial Trafficking, Accounting and Talent Payment. Incomparable systems integration resulting in 80% worldwide market share. . Developed end-user system for Saatchi & Saatchi’s Program Exchange Department, which handled its largest client, General Mills, with an annual budget of $100,000,000+. Program allowed the department to enter special deals between its client and the media stations, request custom reports and automatically transfer media expenditures to the main system. Automatic transfer capability saved the department hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in labor costs otherwise necessary for inputting into the main system. . Developed PC Data Server for Commercial Production. System consisted of continuously running processes for monitoring changes to mainframe database and PC-side SQL database, automatically restructuring and transferring data between them (100,000+ records daily). System allowed company to offer PC front-end application for Commercial Production that no competitor could offer. Elegance of design and coding techniques allowed system to be taken over by a new with no training required. . On long-term assignment in Düsseldorf, Germany office, developed system for one of Young & Rubicam’s largest clients, DaimlerChrysler. System allows client to request blocks of mainframe data to be downloaded, restructured and reported upon in MS Access application, and finally re-uploaded in restructured format. System leveraged the PC’s application development-friendly environment, saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars otherwise necessary to provide a mainframe-side solution.

EDUCATION

BA Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.