David Chu
Syracuse, NY
Summary of Qualifications
- Tenacious, analytical, creative problem-solver
- Capable of critical thinking and high productivity with minimal direction
- Learns new technology rapidly
- Communicates highly technical concepts clearly with others
- Excellent writing skills
Skills
- Web
- Installation, development, customization, themes, templates, troubleshooting: WordPress, Genesis, Thesis, other WordPress theme frameworks, MODx CMS (Content Management System), GetSimple
- Fluent in: CSS (stylesheets), PHP, MySQL, jQuery
- Creates HTML and CSS templates from PSD or other image formats.
- Email newsletter custom development in Mailchimp and Constant Contact
- Working knowledge of many other Content Management Systems, such as Concrete5, CMS Made Simple, X-Cart, etc.
- Working knowledge of: XML, Linux, Unix
Experience
- Web Development (6/96 – present) Please see bottom of home page for recent work.
- Professional Musician – Self-employed (6/90 – present)
- Performed, arranged, and composed music in a wide variety of musical styles and ensembles
- Featured as a Guitar Soloist
- Instructed students of all ages
- Programmer Analyst Consultant – AXA/Mutual of New York (Several projects during the period 5/04 – 1/07)
- Developed and implemented four systems which allowed legacy mainframe applications to be invoked from the web. Took a leadership role in facilitating parts of the testing which required cooperation and communication between multiple departments. Made extensive modifications to a special program, the purpose of which is to feed mainframe data to various web applications
- Implemented procedures and methods for incorporating an additional data source for quarterly mailings. AXA merged with MONY, resulting in customer data for mailings being located on two completely separate systems. Determined how this could be accomplished, and wrote programs and batch jobs to do so. Helped other programmers to build similar processes
- Organized and implemented version updates for large online and batch systems
- Programmer Analyst Consultant – Information Systems Staffing, Inc. (4/00 – 1/02)
- Developed and implemented a system which consolidated information from three mainframe data sources into a single Access database, increasing efficiency of Death Benefit servicing procedures by 100 percent or more in many cases
- Enhanced a critical mainframe report system to add fax and email report delivery via MQSeries and Lotus Notes
- Created a procedure for converting a huge year-end mainframe report to Word format, and added enhanced searching, updating, and printing capabilities using VBA
- Documented three new systems and three legacy systems, became the de facto Subject Matter Expert for several of them, and instructed several programmers in their functions
- Programmer Analyst Consultant – Comforce I. T., Inc. (12/97 – 2/00)
- Developed systems used to detect fraudulent Medicare practitioners, resulting in cost savings to taxpayers
- Learned three new languages with no training and implemented systems using them, including translation of mainframe data to more user-friendly Excel data with bar charts and graphs created with VBA
- Programmer Analyst – Helpdesk Analyst Mutual of New York (6/90 – 11/97)
- Provided technical support to nationwide clients for a large variety of PC, LAN, UNIX network, telecommunication, and mainframe software applications and applicable hardware
- Developed programs for helpdesk problem resolution, database and file maintenance, system analysis, and reporting
- Responsible for maintenance, enhancements, support, and debugging of a large variety of online and batch mainframe systems
- Real Estate – Self-employed (7/01 – present)
- Purchased, oversaw rehabilitation of, and managed several rental properties
Education
- Bryant & Stratton Business Institute A. S. Degree, Data Processing 3.8 GPA, North Syracuse, NY
- State University College at Oswego B. A. Degree, Music Theory Spanish Minor Dean’s List all semesters, Oswego, NY