Larry Kolinek, Founder of Web Interactive Consulting, LLC

Technical / Computer Skills

Before starting Web Interactive:

7 years of full project life cycle and software development experience including:

· Define and write functional and detailed requirements
· Database design and modeling of data structures
· Develop class and object frameworks
· Design, develop, test and implement business logic code and user interfaces (GUI)
· Project planning, mentoring, and application analysis

After starting Web Interactive:

• 2 plus years of running all aspects of a company from ground up.
• Successfully manage client websites/projects for over 40 clients.
• Managing marketing, advertising of company and client websites.

Acquired skills and knowledge

• Macromedia Studio MX, with extensive knowledge using Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
• Designing custom graphics and creative marketing.
• Extensive knowledge on Internet search engine marketing and optimization.
• The ability to completely finish a company website from inception to going live in a short amount of time.
• The ability to implement company business logic and business rules using a website tehnology including MySQL database and PHP.

 SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

PROBLEM SOLVING
Highly developed analytical skills, able to define and evaluate all variables of the problem and determine a course of action to best solve the problem. Ability to understand and plan for multifaceted projects requiring interdepartmental coordination.

TEAM MEMBER & TEAM LEADER
Team oriented, able work in partnership with teammates of varied backgrounds and talents to achieve the needed goal. Willing and confident to mentor and train as necessary.

CLIENT RELATIONS
Recognized for ability to communicate on client's level of expertise and understanding. Experience in dealing quickly with anticipated and unknown problems while establishing and maintaining frank dialogue with the client resulting in consistent higher levels of company success and profits.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Demonstrate depth of management experience, including planning, organizing, scheduling, and implementing. Independent capability in all project aspects. Excellent ability to gain understanding of requirements and communicate to all levels of the organization.

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder and Owner of Web Interactive Consulting, Austin, TX 2001 - Present

TIVOLI SYSTEMS, Austin, TX 2000 - 2001
Technology & Process Manager

· Defined and formalized the Inside Sales Group (ISG) system processes including issue resolutions, requirements, release schedules, change management, technology, testing, implementation and deployment.

· Served as liaison between ISG, Marketing, IT and IBM project teams providing a forum for open discussions and feedback, resulting in continued improvement in the tool, process and an increase in the number of qualified sales leads generated.

· Designed a "closed-loop" sales tool to manage 2nd tier business partner opportunities. As a result, within 6 months $28M was being tracked as pipeline revenue and $1.1M as closed 2nd tier revenue. This level of data was a first for Tivoli Systems Sales & Marketing.

· Completed three major enhancements to the ISG lead management tool:
* System stability and real time reporting
* Increased user friendliness, performance and searching capabilities
* Integration of "closed-loop" business partner sales tool
* Directly imports leads from the external Tivoli web site

GRANT THORNTON LLP, Chicago, IL 1995 - 2000
Senior Consultant
Completed several client-server and E-commerce team projects, ranging from 3 to 21 months in duration in many US cities. The following are descriptions of each project.

HUMANA, Louisville, KY 9/99 - 3/00
Member of development team chartered to design and create an application that would verify and reconcile health insurance payments received from HCFA. This was an extremely critical solution in that it provided monthly financial reports associated with millions of dollars.

· Defined and Wrote Functional and Detailed Requirements
Scoped the project requirement through numerous group interviews within Humana. Completed requirement documentation after many sessions with users, management, and team members.

· Created, Designed and Implemented Database
Designed an Oracle 8 database to handle and process over 20 million records effectively and efficiently. Future functionality of the front-end application was also designed into to the database, along with the complex reporting needs and high scalability. The database model was flexible enough to allow for expansion with little or no change to the design of the system.

· Developing Business Logic
Designed, coded, and tested all business logic in Oracle PL-SQL procedures. The complexity of the code included handling over 100,000 records in arrays, processing adjustments, calculating then processing the correct payment. Processing speed was one of the most challenging requirements to overcome while developing these procedures. Extensive testing and recoding was done to minimize the time it took to process each record.

National Association of Realtors, Chicago, IL 12/98 - 9/99

· Designed the class framework for the entire E-Commerce application. This platform or hierarchy consists of 3 levels and contains Net Dynamics 4.0 and Java 1.2 applications. It was designed to be expandable and integrate reusable objects between the different languages.

· Created generic Java objects that are used in the E-Commerce application but can be used by any Java project. These objects include Oracle 8 database access via JDBC that can perform inserts, updates, deletes, and transactions. Other objects include email, file zipping, and file I/O. All objects have error handling and error logging built in.

· Designed, created, implemented, and tested Oracle 8 PL-SQL procedures that perform all business logic for the Member Invoicing application of the E-Commerce platform. The reason why all business logic was put into procedures was to have a single source of code. A Net Dynamics application and a Java batch process then used this logic. I was able to create procedures that can interface with Net Dynamics or Java. Before this project, I had no prior knowledge of PL-SQL or procedures. During this project I self-learned PL-SQL and became very proficient with Oracle procedures.

· Created, implemented, and tested a Java batch process that sent member-billing notices to each member or creates a report of all member invoices for their manager. This batch process queried a request table and ran nightly. A manager would request either to send out billing notices via email to all members or request a report be sent to himself.

· Helped the client stabilize a Net Dynamics 3.0 on-line membership application. This application needed many enhancements and bugs to be solved in a short amount of time. I was able to solve all outstanding issues, implement a version control system, and improve communications between analysts, management, and developers.

Meridian, St. Louis, MO 8/98 - 11/98

· Helped project team design and implement a new, system-wide incentive program application. This application makes use of N-tier architectures consisting of Java for the back-end processing, Sybase Jaguar as the middle transaction server, and a Power Builder GUI. Oracle was used for the database.

· Design, implement, and test Java classes. These classes server as the only interaction between the GUI and the database. They also provided the generic logic that could run on any type of front end.

EmCare, St. Louis, MO 5/98 - 7/98

· This firm was in the process of separating from its parent company. The goal was to take all the functionality of their current system and move it to the newly formed company. This system was made up of many undocumented applications and programs. My tasks included documenting all the pieces of the system, moving each application to its new location, and trouble shooting the entire system.

· The system was one that could not have any downtime, due to the 24-hour turn-around time for bills. Worked with other consultants to provide insight as to how and what needed to be moved.

AgriBank, St. Paul, MN 6/96 - 3/98

· Incorporated client ideas to define business and design requirements for an application that allows for local and remote users to distribute documents via print, fax, and e-mail seamlessly to other branches or customers. This application uses object-oriented design that allows the data to come from the database or user input. The application was developed with this "generic" mindset to allow for easy interoperability between all independent business units. These class libraries were developed using SQL Windows and a third party tool (JetForms).

· Created documentation and workable templates that act as a tutorial, explaining the detailed processes in customizing class libraries to fit specific needs within different business functions. This will significantly help the current and future staff of the client when implementing similar applications in the future. Helped the client's local and remote technical support team solve problems. Trained employees on using JetForms and the class libraries I designed.

· Redesigned an existing application used to view summary and detailed loan data. This redesigned tab application dramatically increased performance due to the functionality of the class libraries I created. These libraries can be used to increase performance in any potential application that accesses a database. Also, created reports for each individual tab. Development was done using SQL Window, Report Windows, and SQL Base.

· Acted in a consultative capacity to help client define requirements and created a database replication application to assist remote users connecting to the network. Once connected, the GUI interface allows users to easily map to another server and download zipped database files. These files are then unzipped and loaded to their local database. This application integrated SQL Windows and Windows 95 DialUp Networking.

Federal Aviation Administration, Oklahoma City, OK 12/95 - 3/96

· Led the efforts in redesigning an existing application that automated a data dictionary for a database, which had over 300 tables and 4500 fields. Developers and end users throughout the Agency use the data dictionary.

· This application will enhance the user's ability to write SQL statements and find the data that they are looking for. The new design improves performance, the viewing of information, and increases user friendliness. System features include dynamic searching and drag drop capabilities. Development was done using PowerBuilder 4.0 running against Oracle 7.2.

TASS Independent, Englewood, CO 8/95 - 11/95

· Developed the system interface, and reporting functionality to allow users to obtain an array of complex financial information. The interface allows the user to select from various report types and to set the options for each report. The application utilizes a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) for all data processing. The system was developed using SQL Windows, ReportWindows, and SQLBase.

 EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX
BA, Management Information Systems, 1995
Major GPA 3.5/4.0