Roderick P. Person

315 West 12th Ave Ext. - Homestead, Pa 15120 - (412)205-3121 - rodperson@rodperson.net

Summary Of Qualifications

• Expertise in Object-Oriented Analysis/Design, skilled at progressing from a problem statement to design documentation
• Extensive experience in user interface design in a corporate setting as well as web application interface design and implementation
• Extensive user and administrative experience in a FreeBSD Unix environment
• Solid ability to work professionally as a team member, as well as independently
• Ability to grasp Language concepts quickly
• Analytical thinker with unique, proactive problem solving skills and strong attention to detail with the ability to see the problem and solution from different perspectives

Technical Expertise

Certifications and Training:

• Delphi 5 Programming
• Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 MFC
• General Unix Administration
• PHP 4
• Seagate Info 7 Advanced Administration & Deployment
• Visual Studio Team System 2008
• Cognos Power Play
• Cognos Report Net
• Cognos Metadata Training
• Software Testing Foundation (UPMC)
• Software Require (UPMC)
• HIPAA


• Languages: C#, Python (2.x, 3), Delphi, Object Pascal (Free Pascal, Lazarus), T-SQL, ANSI SQL, HTML, PHP 5, JavaScript, Java, BASH scripting
• API/Toolkits: .Net 3.5, COM, ADO, Win32, QCodo/Qcube PHP Framework, PyQT, PyGTK, wxPython, pyGTK, Django, JpGraph
• Software: Borland Delphi, Visual Studio, Komodo IDE, Eclipse, Eric IDE, Visio, Word, Zend Studio , Enterprise Architect, MS Office, StarOffice, Open Office, Entourage, Apache, Crystal Reports
• Systems:Windows(3.1,95,98,NT,2000,XP,2003), FreeBSD(3.5 - 8), Apple OS X, Apple OS 9, Linux(Red Hat, Debian, SUSE), DOS, Solaris 8 - 10
• Hardware: PCs(Intel/AMD), DEC Alpha, Sun SPARCs, Apple G3, G4

Professional Experience

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh Pa
Senior Programmer 1998-Present

• Member of the team that designed and implemented the infrastructure and programs for the nation’s first behavioral health managed care organization for Medicaid recipients
• Designed, implemented and maintained various applications for compliance with Pennsylvania State regulatory departments. These include financial, member population and program utilization reports. The applications generally access data from a SQL server through a python, Delphi or C# front end
• Maintenance and upgrades of server software and applications such as Apache and PHP for web servers and web server applications
• Design, implementation and maintenance of finance reporting application that simplifies the creation of state required fiscal reports. The application retrieves data from a MS SQL database and Oracle database. It populates Excel spreadsheets as well as creates a flat text file by reading the information in the Excel spreadsheets and formatting it to state specifications. The front end is currently written in C# and accesses the databases using ADO
• Creation, implementation and maintenance of company static web site in conjunction with outside contractor
• Design, implementation and maintenance of web application to allow provider to submit and review authorizations of care from members. The application was designed as a Java and JRUN application then redesigned in Delphi using IntraWeb and ADO. Ultimately rewrote the entire web application in PHP 5 and the Qcodo framework. The application enters and retrieves data from a MS SQL database in real time. All stored procedures for the application are ANSI standard SQL. Currently there are 500 to 1000 authorizations daily. As part of the maintaince of this application, I must pass a yearly UPMC security audit and purchase the SSL license
• Design and implementation of a Web based survey system for members and providers to help track members’ effectiveness of care
• Develop and maintain various automated flat file loaders using Delphi and Python
• Design and programming of shared base libraries in Delphi, C#, Python and PHP for CCBH such as libraries simplifying the automation of Excel or connecting to Exchange servers
• Design and programming of Delphi component and C# Widgets
• Initiated and implemented company usage of Apache Web Server from IIS
• Creation and documentation of company programming style standards
• Evaluation and recommendation of Development software and hardware
• Primary desktop application developer

Hickory Height Golf Club, Bridgeville, Pa
Freelance Programmer 2009 – 2010

• Design and programmer of website http://www.hickoryheightsgc.com/
• Conversion of web hosting provider

Homestead Tax Collector’s Office, Homestead Pa
Freelance Programmer 2003-2007

• Maintance of local tax collection database
• Creation of custom report templates

HealthAmerica, Pittsburgh, Pa
Transplant Claims Analyst 1995-1998

• Evaluation, analysis and payment of all aspects of claims related to transplant surgery
• Creation of daily reporting system
• Creation and implementation of a daily report generation system to manage office work flow. The system generated daily report from a Access front end that imported data generated from a VAX based system

OSS Experience

FreeBSD Project 1999 – Present

• Active member of FreeBSD community support forums
• Debugged issues with LSI SCSI driver in FreeBSD 7.0 Release
• Created patch for py-panel to allow alignment setting via keywords or percentage http://www.rodperson.com/code.php

Debian Linux Project 1997 – 1999

• Active member of Debian community
• Created Debian package for XC-Mail V1.0
  (http://www.js-home.org/XCmail/download/index.php no longer maintained)

Education

Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa
A.S. in Music and Video Engineering

California University of Pennsylvania
Major Computer Science/Electrical Engineering

Community College Of Allegheny County South Campus, Pittsburgh, Pa
A.S in Electrical Engineering Technology