Steve Zivalich

Experience

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  State Farm Insurance

  Feb 1994 - Nov 2002

  Systems Analyst

   Lead Programmer for development of new business reporting system using SAS. Completed project 3 months ahead of mandated schedule Streamlined after hours issue resolution between vendors and Company, resulted in issue reduction of 15% and improved resolution time by average of 2 hours Designed coded applications as needed for auto insurance Department, statistical processing department, and bankcard systems Developed programming to reduce consumer/business credit card systems downtime by 50% Show less

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  Home

  Dec 2002 - Jun 2004

  Caretaker

  Caring for a terminally ill parent

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  Volt Technical Resources

  Mar 2005 - Jan 2009

  Systems Analyst

   Improved by 20%, quality of supplied parts through analyzing, extracting, and transforming raw data from databases and other sources into a monthly report. Streamlined the application reduced report generation from 8 to 3 days Reduced by 15% application development time by designing and implementing code repository. This streamlined the process and allowed for code reusability and versioning Redesigned annual report to pull data from SAS data warehouse, increasing consistency of results through analysis, and enabling report to be run monthly and quarterly. Shorten wait time of reporting from 10 days to 4 days Increased accuracy of data in SAS data warehouse from 82 to 90% using SAS and SQL queries to pull suspected faulty records from 75 million record warehouse to be sent to ETL team for resolution Show less

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  Corporate Transit America

  Jul 2010 - Aug 2012

  Courier

  Picked up and delivered merchandise along assigned routes, on schedule

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  Qik n EZ

  Jul 2011 - Jan 2015

  Senior Sales Representative

  Assisting customers with purchases and answering inquiriesResponsible for opening and closing of storeManage high cost inventory and placing orders to maintain stock levelsHandheld Scanner to reconcile invoices and inventoriesCash Register, Cash handling, reconciling back cash, closing cash drawers

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  Becker Logistics

  Jan 2015 - Nov 2015

  Business Development Representative

  ● Find, convert, and maintain customer relationships via inside sales calls● Identify the customer’s needs, suggesting logistics options ● Studied to become subject matter expert to act as resource for logistics (i.e. Transportation options, various routes, backhaul options etc...)

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  Tire Services Co.

  Sept 2016 - Jun 2018

  Comerical Sales and IT Support

   Managed network environment for the enterprise Managed telecom, and telephony migration Supported CRM and Sales systems Find, convert, and maintain customer relationships, via outside sales calls Identify the customer’s needs, suggesting options and price points Gain experience to act as resource for commercial truck tires

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  Freelance

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2020

  IT Consultant

   Supported multiple small business application development and web services environments FullStack development updated development skills to support HTML, Java Script, MEAN, C#, Python 3, and Django

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  Coding Dojo

  Oct 2019 - Jan 2020

  Graduate

  Web Development, Python, C#.ADO.NET.CORE MEAN STACKS. Fullstack, Front-end, Backend development.

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  Standard Power

  Sept 2021 - now

  Developing APIs for power curtailment application and vendor support.

  • Information Technology Development Manager

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Information Technology Developer

    Sept 2021 - Dec 2021