Jim Whitescarver

 

 

Summary of Qualifications

Hands On” information system architect and engineer. 

Master of UNIX, relational databases, distributed Object Oriented Design and Agile methodologies.

Extensive experience in e-business.

IT pioneer and scientific researcher and educator.

Diverse background with technologies local to northern New Jersey or Manhattan.

Dynamic innovator of Information Technology Business Process. [JrSubs6]


Professional Experience


Consultant  (independent)  11/3/2008-present

 

           Senior Analyst/developer (consultant with scivantage inc.)

Banc of America Investment Services, New York, NY,, 4/7/2008-10/24/2008

 

Senior Analyst/developer (consultant with ASAP staffing)

UPS, United Parcel Service, Paramus, NJ, 11/2007-3/2008 

 

 

Senior Analyst/developer (consultant)

The Casey Group, Parsippany, NJ, 5/2006-9/2007 

 

System archetect/developer(consultant)

SpringVentrures, Hopatcong, NJ, 2/2006 – 5/2006 ]

 

 

Senior Analyst/developer (consultant)

Barclays Capital Prime Brokerage.,  Whippany, NJ, 8/2005–2/2006

 

Chief SYSTEMS ARCHITECT/ Programmer analyst

Xanthus Inc., Newark, NJ, 1999–2005 

 

Consultant

Xanthus Inc., Newark, NJ, 1984–1999 (in parallel with full time NJIT employment below)

 

Project Director for Emerging Technologies in Computing and Information Services; Assistant Director for the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center; Consultant for the Center for Information Age Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 1984–1999

 

Consultant at AT&T, American Bell, Bell Laboratories and Western Electric

Sycomm Systems Inc., Parsippany, NJ, 1981–1984

 

Senior Systems Analyst

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 1975–1981

 

Manager of Data Processing / programmer

The Grand Union Supermarket Co., Carlstadt, NJ, 1968–1975  

 

Education

9/1974-12/1979

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

o        Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with minor in Electrical Engineering

o        Charter member UPE National Computer Science Honor Society.

o        President, Association for Computing Machinery NJIT chapter

o        GPA 3.95/3.25

 

IBM 1967-1971

IBM Customer Education and Systems Science Education

o        Top of class in Systems Science Education.

 

 

Personal


            Profile

 


Skills

Programming

Shell, Java, C, Cobol, SmallTalk, JavaScript, Perl, mod_perl,  Python, TCL, Forth, m4, PHP, ColdFusion, VBA, Delphi, XML, XTML, HTML/XHTML/DHTML,  WSDL, WSFL, CSS, XSLT.

Programming Environments

J2EE, Jboss, Jrun, Hibernate, Weblogic, Websphere,  Ant, Make, Expect, Shell, Bash,  Awk, Eclipse, ksh, Webl, DCL,  JSP, ASP, CGI.

Database

SQL, Sybase, MySQL, SQLServer, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Informix, Ingres, HSQL DbVisualizer , RapidSQL, DB Advantage, normalization, performance  tuning.

Techniques and Applications

Agile/Extreme Programming, RAD, Design Patterns,  UML, Eclipse, Netbeans,  configuration management, enterprise performance and resource  management and monitoring, CVS, SCCS, svn ClearCase,  web services,  Active Email, GroupWare, Knowledge Base, open source integration, horizontal and vertical distribution, legacy systems interface, data mining,  Semantic Web, Web Services, LAMP, CSS, XSL, XSLT, WSDL, Servlet, EJB, SCA, ESB, JMS, JNDI, JDBC, Google AdWords/AdSence, Overture

Protocols

SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, SOAP, LDAP, RealMedia, FIX, FpML.

Operating Systems

UNIX and Windows varieties, VM/CMS, VMS,  Solaris, AIX, HPUX,  BSD/FreeBSD, Linux, SCO.

Management

CCPM, ERP, web marketing, systems security, systems analysis and usability studies.

 

 

Association Memberships

            ACM (1974-), IEEE (1976-), MENSA (1989-) (presently lapsed)

 

Additional Accomplishments

            Publications (coauthored)

            Recommendations  Linkedin  

            Web Portfolioa sampling...