Herb Ray

Experience

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  General Instrument Corporation

  Mar 1984 - Apr 1988

  Program Leader

  Responsibilities - programming and support for both office automation and engineering/manufacturing with software and hardware needs analysis, hotline support, configuration, and training; seminar leadership in Taiwan, Mexico, and the United States; design of syllabi; in-house video production.Required strong knowledge of STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL, including control charting, process capability, and spatial yield analyses.

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  Time Inc.

  May 1988 - May 1989

  Programmer/Analyst

  Design and programming of magazine photo tracking database system (Paradox); technical support of e-mail user community; training and hotline support in DOS, word processing, e-mail, Lotus 1-2-3; general office automation.

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  SIAC

  May 1989 - Aug 1989

  Senior Programmer

  Basket Portfolio Composition System: written in compiled BASIC 6.0

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  Deloitte, Haskins & Sells

  Sept 1989 - Dec 1989

  Consultant

  Engagement Management SystemIntegration of project management (Project Workbench) with accounting and reporting system written chiefly in Paradox PAL, with minor portions written in compiled MS-BASIC 6.0.

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  Home Insurance Company

  Mar 1990 - Dec 1990

  Consultant

  Risk Manager WorkstationParadox system served as a risk analysis workstation, used chiefly by risk managers whose job it was to optimize insurance plans in terms of risk versus insurance premiums. Interfaced with IMS over 3270 network.

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  Citibank

  Jun 1991 - Mar 1992

  Consultant

  Banker Performance Reporting SystemParadox system interfaced to mainframe tape hand-offs.

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  Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

  Apr 1992 - Sept 1992

  Consultant

  Workers' Compensation Wrap-Up SystemWorkers' Compensation wrap-ups involve the covering of all contractors and subcontractors on a given large construction project under a single unified insurance policy. Although designed chiefly for stand-alone PCs, this Paradox system incorporated full record and table locking intelligence, and error recovery for complete compatibility with multi-user environments.

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  CIBC

  Sept 1992 - Jan 1993

  Consultant

  Loan Syndication SystemResponsibilities included the debugging and repair of this large multi-user Paradox system. The Loan Syndication System managed participations in CIBC syndicated loans by other commercial banks.

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  Morgan Stanley

  Feb 1993 - May 1993

  Consultant

  LAN Billing SystemAutomation of the processing of interdepartmental billing for LAN logins across the WAN. Written in Paradox PAL with some "C" code, integrated with remote UNIX system.

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  Bankers Trust

  Jun 1993 - Feb 2000

  Consultant

  Responsible For:Development of Database Schema and DDLs; Sybase Stored Procedures; Version Control (PVCS); Paradox ObjectPAL Code Library; Excel VBA Code Library, Workstation Configuration; Design of Reporting Applications

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  Navint Consulting, L.L.C.

  Feb 2000 - Jul 2005

  Database Developer

  Responsible For:Development of Database Schema and DDLs (ERwin); Stored Procedures; Triggers; Database Connectivity Middleware (ADO); Version Control (SourceSafe); Data Migration; Release Procedures and Automation (SourceSafe-COM, Perl)Proprietary equities research systems facilitating efficient and seamless business processes for research authoring, workflow and distribution across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Centralization of fundamental, earnings and research publications data. Integration of Microsoft Office (VB-COM/Excel), SQL Server, web-based administration tools, and proprietary back-end Internet transmitters.(Originally a division of Nextera Interactive, then spun off into Navint Consulting) Show less

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  Andrew Davidson & Company, Inc.

  Sept 2005 - now

  DBA

  Data ModelingDatabase AdministrationDatabase ProgrammingTelephony