Peter Ragone
Post: 131 South St. Hingham
MA 02043 | email: peter@ragone.org
| Phone: 781-710-5526
Skills Summary
Sun Certified Java Programmer with 10
years experience developing and deploying multi-tier information technology
solutions, including application development Current
President, co-founder, Austrann, Inc., Hingham, MA (www.austrann.com)
Fall 2003 to Present A privately held technology consulting and
software development corporation. Austrann provides full IT support for small
business, and eCommerce solutions for large enterprise. Create business model, manage internal and
external business relationships, manage financials, seek new clients,
negotiate legal affairs, design and implement customer solutions. Project Experience
Senior Principal Consultant Nov 2004 to Feb 2005 Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care Quincy, MA
Analyze & model current business
processes, write specifications and documentation (including UML), and
develop software. Tools
Used: Oracle 10g, HTML DB, TOAD, Oracle Developer Suite Consultant June 2004 to Present AZ Studio
Hingham, MA
Design & implement IT infrastructure
for new second salon and upgrade for existing salon of this “Best of Boston”
winner. Coordinate with owner, architect, contractors and vendors. Coordinate
leasing & purchases. Purchase new equipment. Perform data migration,
including client schedules & purchase history, employee payroll, etc.
Train staff. Analyze & model current business processes, write
specifications and proposals. Design & implement IT infrastructure of
both salons for cross-salon scheduling and automated remote backup via VPN.
Troubleshoot and repair any issues. Consultant June 2004 to Present Dixon Associates
Duxbury, MA
Maintain and upgrade IT infrastructure for
this independent insurance brokerage serving over 450 small to medium sized
businesses. Coordinate with owner and vendors. Troubleshoot and repair any
hardware or software issues. Design and write proposal plans for backup and
increased stability. (Enrolled in Harvard grad courses ~
2001-2003) Senior Software Engineer Feb 2001 to Aug 2001 WebCT, Inc.
Lynnfield, MA
Technical advisor of new search engine
technology for redesigned product, including needs & risk assesment,
product analyses. Completed by negotiating technical end of agreement and
helping with formal financial commitment signed between WebCT & search
engine company. Senior Software Engineer Jan 2000 to Feb 2001 eFORCE, Inc.
Hayward, CA
Designed data schema, developed scripts,
developed Enterprise Java Beans (EJB’s) on J2EE platform for startup venture
of major insurance firm. Helped design & implement persistence layer.
Analyze existing code in PowerBuilder for current business practice of the
insurance firm. Tools
Used: DB2, IBM VisualAge, IBM WebSphere, J2EE, EJB, Rational Rose (RUP) Set up internal WAP Server for client
demonstration. Designed & implemented LDAP authorization schema. Tools
Used: iPlanet Suite (Address, Calendar, LDAP, WAP, Web Server) Performed preliminary work for
architecture of data storage, search, and LDAP authorization for
membership-oriented dot-com site using Blue Martini implementation. Tools
Used: Oracle 8i, Blue Martini, iPlanet LDAP, Rational Rose (RUP), NAS-SAN
Storage Designed, customized, and implemented an
adaptation of AltaVista search engine for a dot-com focused on personal
health. On shortened project schedule the work was completed on time with
full documentation and installation CD for site setup. Tools
Used: AltaVista Software Development Kit (AVSE 3.0), Interwoven, MS IIS Researched and proposed designs for
improved database search engine to find products sold on dot-com site.
Solution proposed was customization of Oracle's interMedia (the linguistic
text search technology a.k.a. ConText cartridge on 8.0.x and Oracle Text on
9i) search engine using natural language interpolation. Tools
Used: Oracle 8i Senior Consultant Jul 1998 to Jan 2000 AnswerThink Consulting
Group, Miami, FL
Designed and wrote billing system for
corporate web hosting venture within major cable company, including data
extraction & transfer to Oracle, Data schema, stored procedures and
packages. The system extracts and compiles billing metrics from web site size
and usage, uses Oracle’s Advanced Queuing (remote message queuing) as
communication link to feed company’s central corporate billing system. Tools
Used: Oracle 8i, WebTrends, LDAP, Netscape Enterprise Server For a major athletic association,
customized web-based application design and development using SQL stored
procedures, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, Javascript. Wrote all Web pages and SQL
queries for the statistics and reports pages, a major part of the new site
presence. Tools
Used: MS IIS, SQL Server, MS Visual InterDev, MS Source Safe For publishing company, designed and
implemented a Scopus Software and Oracle database call center CRM solution
for a business relying entirely on telephone interaction with their clients. Tools
Used: Scopus CRM (now Siebel), Oracle Consultant Jun 1996 to Jul 1998 Computing Helpdesk,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA
The IT resource for the president’s
offices and other top-level offices at MIT. Helped design and implement call
tracking tool for Helpdesk (Scopus & Oracle). Tools used: Scopus, Oracle,
networking tools, various standard office software Technical Instructor (a faculty position) Jan 1992 to Jul 1996 Dept. of Materials Sci.
& Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Integrate computers into undergraduate
curriculum. Help teach course. Help build DMSE web site. Tools used: rcs, Apache Server on
HP/UX, data acquisition software/hardware Recent Coursework
Student Fall 2001 to Fall 2003 Harvard University
Extension School. Cambridge, MA
Courses included the following: Discrete
Math With Computer Applications | Groups, Graphs, Algebraic Structures For
Computing | Artificial Intelligence (LISP) | Communication Protocols | Data
Structures | Java for Distributed Computing | C, UNIX, CGI Programming Education
BE, Electromechanical Engineering. Thayer School of
Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH BA, Philosophy, Minor in Physics, College of Wooster, Wooster
OH Other Skills
Proficient speaking & reading French
and some German. |
Key Skills &
Knowledge
Operating Systems UNIX/Solaris (Var. Versions) Apple Microsoft Languages SQL, PL/SQL Java 2, Sun Certified C TCL Basic/Visual Basic HTML/DHTML XML/XSL JavaScript/VBScript
Databases Oracle DB2 Sybase MS SQL Server Hardware Sun, HP, Apple, IBM NAS & SAN devices Software
Tools Oracle Dev Tools Oracle HTML DB iPlanet Suite (Web, Cal. &
Address, WAP, LDAP) AltaVista Engine ATG Dynamo BEA Weblogic Blue Martini ERWin IBM VisualAge IBM WebSphere Interwoven J2EE with EJB MS Visual Studio MS SourceSafe Rational Rose Scopus (now Siebel) |
