Willy Farrell

Phone: 219-218-0688
Fax: 508-437-8425
wf@willyfarrell.com
http://willyfarrell.com

Expertise

Software Development

Extensive

Moderate

Languages/Tools/Technologies

Extensive

Moderate

Communications

Extensive

Seminars/Briefings

Commercial Classes

Faculty Workshops

Academic Classes

Speaking Engagements

Demos and Podcasts

Articles

Certifications

Experience

IBM
Chicago, IL - October 2001 to present
Austin, TX - September 1997 to September 2001

Marketing Engineer, IBM Rational Financial Services Sector - February 2008 to present
Develop technical collateral for use by the field sales force. Conduct training of field sales force on use of collateral. Assist in key sales calls.

Senior Software Engineer - July 2003 to January 2008
Technical Lead of IBM Developer Skills Program. As part of the developerWorks team, provide relevant technical information and insight to developers on the latest e-business and industry trends through Web content, articles, speaking engagements and consulting to faculty at IBM Academic Initiative member universities. As Technical Lead, provide technical leadership for development of all team content (demos, articles, briefings/seminars, etc.) and provide technical input to management team.

e-business Architect - September 1997 to June 2003
Member of Technical Consulting group chartered to evangelize, educate, enable, and assist independent software vendors using IBM software development tools. Provided in-bound and out-bound technical support to software developers using IBM e-business software products and technologies. Duties included:

Originally joined the team as a contractor; demonstrated knowledge and outstanding performance led to a full-time position with IBM (April 1998).

This was a highly technical position, requiring constant, rapid self-education in new products and emerging technologies in order to provide expert assistance to IBM clients and business partners building e-business applications.


Ventura Technology International, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
September 1996 to June 1997

Operations Manager - January 1997 to June 1997
Responsible for day-to-day operations of this Department of Defense contracting firm. Directed and monitored project team leaders. Recruited and hired project team members. Designed and implemented job cost accounting procedures. Developed and administered company budgets. Key member of marketing team: proposal and bid writing; production and delivery of presentations; assessing new business opportunities. Developed and presented overview briefing on Java Platform to government officials. Led in-house Java education and development effort.

Project Team Leader - September 1996 to December 1996
Led eleven member team in development of client/server labor reporting system utilizing full software life cycle: analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, implementation. Extensive use of object-oriented development techniques. Development tools were Ada, Rational, the Open Systems Environment Development Tools (OSEDT) CASE tool/repository, SQL, Solaris, Oracle. Deployment target was Windows clients connected to Solaris/Oracle server. Additionally, evangelized use of Java to company and government officials for future work.


Shamrock Enterprises, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
June 1995 to September 1996

Chief Systems Architect
Developed electronic document management/imaging systems for use by commercial and government organizations. Utilized Clarion for Windows with various VBX and C component libraries to produce a graphical user interface for storing and accessing digitized documents on mass storage devices in a client/server environment.


Midwestern Electric, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
May 1993 to June 1995

Information Analyst
Responsible for computer administration and operations. Designed, developed and implemented a job cost tracking and reporting system with interfaces to the primary accounting system. Designed, developed, and implemented an image-enabled database system with optical mass storage capabilities for use by Indiana Department of Transportation, the first imaging application ever used by State of Indiana employees. Systems were initially developed with Clarion Database Developer and Modula-2 and later migrated to Clarion for Windows.


Wang Laboratories
Indianapolis, IN / Dayton, OH
November 1992 to May 1993

Senior Information Systems Consultant
Provided document imaging and information systems to Army and Air Force administrative and accounting offices. Responsible for activities of four programmer/analysts and help desk specialists. Systems were created using a Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach with Borland C++ and Gupta SQL for deployment on Novell NetWare.


SRA Corporation
Indianapolis, IN
January 1992 to October 1992

Senior Consultant
Assisted in the final development phases and readying for deployment of a large financial system for the U.S. Army using Ada, CICS, and Datacomm/DB on an IBM mainframe. Utilized Rational development and CMVC tools. Primary duties were fine-tuning application to meet end-user requirements and mentoring of junior programmers in OOA/D, software engineering practices, Ada, and use of development tools. Additionally responsible for refinement of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) OSEDT CASE tool/repository, and usage of the DFAS methodologies Information Systems Life Cycle Methodology (ISLCM) and Financial and Accounting System Development Methodology (FASDM).


American Data Imaging, Inc.
Louisville, KY / Ft. Lauderdale, FL
December 1989 to January 1992

Vice President of Operations
Chief operations executive of this start-up data entry and document imaging company. Responsible for technical direction and implementation of the company's products and services, as well as being the key technical resource in meeting clients' requirements. Began with two employees and grew company to more than ninety employees at three sites.


Appalachian Computer Services, Inc.
London, KY
December 1988 to December 1989

Director of MIS Software
Led and managed software development department of over 25 IS professionals. The production and management information systems were primarily in COBOL with embedded Ingres SQL on a large VAX network, with data entry performed on REI Tartan systems. Developed and implemented quality control/audit procedures and standards. Personally led and participated in R&D effort to utilize document imaging to streamline data entry and data collection processes.


Computer Sciences Corporation
Indianapolis, IN
October 1987 to December 1988

Senior Consultant
Participated in development of a large financial system for the U.S. Army using Ada, CICS, and Datacomm/DB on an IBM mainframe (see SRA Corporation above). Utilized Rational development and CMVC tools. Responsibilities included functional and logical design of code modules from end-user specifications and mentoring of junior programmers/analysts. Extensive training and experience with OOA/D; training was conducted by Grady Booch and Richard Bolz, the originators of training for Ada and OOA/D at the U.S. Air Force Academy.


Computer Integrated Engineering, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
April 1985 to October 1987

Software Development Manager
Developed firmware and software for use in computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems. Utilized PL/M, Pascal, Modula-2, C, BASIC, and 80x86 assembler on Intel microprocessors and personal computers. Served as liaison with hardware engineers to develop requirements and specifications for control programs, external and embedded.


U.S. Marine Corps
Camp Pendleton, CA / Okinawa, Japan
November 1977 to April 1985

Staff Sergeant
After a tour as an artillery scout observer, received training and assignment as a computer programmer (January 1981). Designed and developed a telecommunications system for use in troop deployments from Okinawa which was later adopted and implemented throughout the Marine Corps. This system was written in EDL on an IBM Series/1 and involved the in-house design and implementation of databases, low-level access to peripheral devices such as paper tape punches and magnetic tape drives, as well as interfacing to various U.S. Navy communications equipment.

Education

Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
Computer Technology and Business Management

References

Provided upon request.
 
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