M. Kenneth Clark

1315 Ruthridge Court

Bel Air, Maryland 21014

(410)836-9928(h), (410)850-4900x355(w)

mkennethclark@comcast.net

Overview: Manager/Supervisor with 13 years total development experience in total life cycle of Software Development.

Skills: Java, J2SE, J2EE, Servlets (Sun Certified Java Programmer, 1.4), XML, HTML, SQL/ODBC/JDBC, Database Design, project planning, UNIX, budgeting

Manager, Software Development

Basys, Inc.

June 1992 – Present

• Manage the teams responsible for basys’ most active software modules (Health Claims processing and Multi-employer Contributions).
• Review all incoming programming requests for programming estimates.
• Highest level for product design for my team
• Ensured that all programming was done to the highest quality level.
• Reduced the time spent on fixing failed testing scenarios to less than 5%.
• Ensured that over 96% of programming was completed by the customer-specified need-by dates.
• Implemented new methodologies to the department (Extreme Programming, better user/technical specification guidelines).
• SD liaison to other departments and customers.

Partner

Small Business Systems

January 1991 – June 1992

• Responsible for all aspects of customer analysis and product design.
• Customers included a small video rental chain, and a company that specialized in energy-efficient lighting.

Towson State University, 1998-1992

Double Major, Applied Mathematics/Computer Science

2004 – IBM Certified Programmer, UniBasic

2003 – Sun Certified Java Programmer

1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 - JavaOne Conference

1999 – Dale Carnegie, Leadership Training for Managers

1998 – Sybase SQL training

2004 – Designed a generic "Wizard" framework. This framework took an XML document as an input and would generate the wizard. The XML schema allows for a java class to be called before and after the wizard is run, and allows other wizards to be called from within it, thus allowing an "add many" function. Initially we used this as a prototype for demonstration purposes at our annual Users Group Conference, but have since created many wizards for our customers to use. The set-up is done via a program, so that those developing the wizards do no need to know XML or programming.

2003 – Integrated basys’ software with a web service provided by a third party that provides off-site check printing. The web service developed allows basys customers and customer participants to view the output over an internet connection. This process used various algorithms to produce the URL string needed, including Checksums, GZIP compression, Base64 encoding, and Blowfish encryption. The third party provided a DLL for use on Windows systems, but since some of our customers use a Solaris box for their web server, I wrote all the logic in java. The third party has since begun to offer my solution to their clients.

2002 – Labor Blue Card. Led the development efforts to integrate our existing Health Claims processing system with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois to obtain live pricing data for claims processing. This was basys’ first b2b application. I used a J2EE service with which our legacy software had to interface. The J2EE service created an XML document and sent it to a BCBSIL URL, waited for a response, and then passed the returned information back to the Claims System. Error checking and data validation were a big concern. This project resulted in a first-year savings to our customers of over $50 million.

2001 – CDI. I developed an EDI system for our Multi-employer Contributions software. This provided a common layout for all EDI having to do with out contributions software. Data would be loaded into a temporary location where data validation could take place, and once verified, it was loaded into the live system.

2000 – GUI Framework. Built an interface framework where our GUI screens could be generated with no coding. The system used various tables in our database to build the interface. All basic java components were implemented, as well as some complex components, such as a multi-add list, address dialogs, etc. All basys interfaces use this framework, allowing the programmers to focus on the business logic, rather than the interface logic.

1999 – Rewrote application security module. Based on security profiles, the system administrator can set security levels for applications and operators. Supervisor overrides were also accommodated. All reports and analysis tools were also recoded.