## BIO
Brian McCool
| **Objective** | Find a career path that challenges my skills and experience in Information Technology as well as customer relations. While continuing my career in this field, I would also like to explore ways to mentor and teach using my education and career experiences. |
| **Experience** | 2005–Present Los Alamos Nat’l Lab, NM
**Project Leader**
? Completed Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training. Currently implementing a Server Oriented Architecture (SOA) pilot project for certification
? Created a web-based application that allowed non-technical personnel to enter data about High Explosives in a standardized format. This application was re-used with minimal changes to handle the collection of data on facilities.
? Mastered the existing Worker Authorization System (WAS) within a few weeks of starting. Reduced the amount of batch code by 90% while reducing run time by 75%.
? Assisting the Information Management team to develop change management processes to support their Document Control & Records Management system. |
| | 2003–2005 SAIC Los Alamos, NM
**Software Engineer**
? Created the Foreign Travel Office Automation System which eliminated approximately 300 person-hours a year of data entry into the DOE Foreign Travel Management System website.
? Continued to support the Student Postings Initiative.
? Implemented Commercial Off-The-Shelf software for a Chevron Texaco document repository.
? Completed CMMI training geared for SAIC business. |
| | 2001–2003 SAIC JCNNM, NM
**Internet Applications Developer**
? Developed the CMMS Financial Report which gave, for the first time, the ability to determine how much money had been spent on a project or Work Order
? Organized the effort to reproduce 35 CMMS Data Warehouse reports due to legacy systems being retired.
? Designed and developed the Student Postings Initiative websites that allowed students to be better matched to educational opportunities. |
| <br style= "PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always; mso-special-character: line-break" clear="all" /> | 1992–2001 Central Texas Bingo Bugle San Antonio, TX
**Newspaper Publisher & Editor**
? Purchased a franchise that had been “run into the ground†by previous owners. The paper was back in the black within six months of operations.
? Developed marketing and customer relations skills.
? Helped other franchisees to use technology to make publishing easier.
2000–2001 SAIC Brooks AFB, TX
**Web Services Team Lead**
? Designed and implemented a web-based reporting service that allowed management to see metrics concerning customer satisfaction and team effectiveness; data was presented in a way that allowed the same set of metrics to be applied to the entire organization as well as individual teams.
? Maintained and refined a 100% data-driven Intranet used world-wide by over 4,000 users.
? Responsible for training and mentoring the other members of the Web Services team.
1998–1999 Sarco Productions San Antonio, TX
**President & Chief Technical Officer**
? Responsible for projects spanning six clients from basic websites to critical web applications.
? Created a Computer Aided Troubleshooting System (CATS) for Kinetic Concepts Incorporated (KCI) which allowed technicians to diagnose and fix complex medical equipment via the web; this system also provided data about different components to engineers.
? Created a web-based tool that allowed auditors to survey the 150+ service centers that KCI used to maintain and deploy equipment.
1996–1998 Mei Technolo
## Area of Expertise
Access, ARWeb, ASP, ASP.NET, Authorware, COBOL, COM/ActiveX, Delphi, Drumbeat 2000, FORTRAN, IBM PC's and Compatibles, IBM/MVS, IIS 4/5/6, JAVA, Java Script, MultiMedia ToolBook, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Net-It Central, Office 97/2000/2003/2007, Oracle 7.3.3/8, PageMaker, Perl32, Remedy, SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/2005, SSL, UML, UNIX, VB Script, Visual Basic 6, Visual InterDev, Visual [login to view URL], VISIO, VMS, Windows 3.X/95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista |
