TODD ELLEFSON
16110 Hillsboro Drive
Huntley, IL 60142

TODD ELLEFSON 
SUMMARY

A highly motivated, people oriented, results-driven engineer with 20 years of
experience in execution of technology solutions and excellence. Skilled in all
facets of the project life cycle; from analysis and design through development,
implementation, documentation, testing, and user training. Hard-working,
detailed-oriented, self-starter that takes pride in consistently offering
creative problem-solving solutions with results that strive to exceed business
and customer expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PAGEDEVELOP, INC., Huntley, IL 2004  *  2008

Management/Developer, IT Development and Support 
   Designed and consulted small businesses on the migration of everyday sales
operations over to a web based system using Microsoft FrontPage, Symantec  ™s
Visual Page, and basic HTML programming syntax. One example of a small project is
the following website    http://delectablehills.home.att.net   . 
   Project Manager of all the various projects being support by the company from
end-to-end, using Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and other MS products.
   Consulted and supported Lucent Employee  ™s on multiple everyday issues with
the 4ESS „  switch, 5ESS „  switch, and Out-of-band-Emulator (OOBE) call
processing supporting Q931, TCAP, SS7 protocols.
   Migrations included analyzing day-to-day operations, products produced, and
creating detailed web page designs from product descriptions to a simple online
ordering systems and B2B applications.
   Assisted clients with Windows/MAC based PC restorations, new Windows
operating system implementations, new PC setup installations, and various types
of user training and documentation.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES / BELL LABORATORIES, Naperville, IL 1987  *  2003
Formerly AT&T
Member of Technical Staff, Software Development 1991  *  2003
Tests Tools Development and Integration Support for 4ESS „  Switching Project
   Team lead for the design, development, unit test, and support of performance
monitoring (PM) tools for the Tests Tools Development and Integration Support
4ESS „  Switching Project, using Hp - Mercury Load Runner. Further
responsibilities including the design, development (written primary in    C   
and    Unix „  shell scripts   ) and support of the hardware
installation/development of a multi-million dollar Out-of-band-Emulator (OOBE)
system used in multi 4ESS „  & 5ESS „  Lucent/AT&T R&D system laboratories,
software faulting capability Star Fault Inserter (STARFI) system which caused
circuit pack failures detected by fault recovery software, SunOS to Solaris
migration, and Year 2000 software compliance.
   Appointed technical lead for all tools supported in the Tests Tools
Development and Integration Support for 4ESS „  Switching Project and 5ESS „ 
tool integration.
   Designed, developed, and unit tested software/hardware performance monitoring
PM functions for the (OOBE) call processing supporting Q931, TCAP, SS7
protocols.
   Project Manager for the project to move over 1200 software programs and
supporting software/hardware applications (written primary in    C    and    Unix
„  shell scripts   ) from SunOS/Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris2.8 operating system, and
to Year 2000 Compliancy, affecting over 30 area  ™s and saved the company over
$500K in revenue. 
   Significantly expedited and assisted a team that designed a new
software/hardware    feature and problem reporting    web-based system written
using    Cold Fusion, Symantec  ™s Visual Page, Microsoft Exchange Server &
Microsoft Access   , used across multiple Departmental organizations and
automatically generated Product Development and Realization metrics.
   Administered and maintained multi-Departmental web-based    Informal
Recognition Award System    built on the    Cold Fusion language   , increasing
moral and increasing employee productivity.
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   Cut annual costs by $100K developing automated    off-line    regression
testing scripts, build and release procedures used in the development and the
maintenance of new software features, enforcing the use of SABLIME source control
system, and reducing lab time testing and improving operational efficiency.
   Effectively led and developed ISO-9001 Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) and
Calibration processes and training for 700+ employees used across multiple
Departmental boundaries.
   Member of a Quality Improvement Team for developing ISO-9001 processes and
documentation for Tools Development (consisting of quality records, process and
control documentation), later became PMT team leader
   Developed an    online    web based manual page retrieval tool built on Unix,
html, and CGI scripts.
   Designed, built, and trouble-shouted various circuit pack failures from large
scale TCP/IP systems to Intel iSBC Multibus systems used in the 4ESS „    
telecommunications $100M R&D system Laboratories.
Senior Technical Associate, Software Development 1987  *  1991
Test Environment and Engineering Administrated Team for 4ESS „  Switching
Project. Analyzed, tested, and integrated multiple software/hardware peripheral
assignments in multiple 4ESS „  & 5ESS „  R also knows as Office Dependent Data
(ODD), which is a database structured environment including both hardware and
software assignments for each 4ESS „  computerized switching system peripherals.
   Responsible for network engineering, planning, hardware integration, lab
support, load testing, regression testing, training of new employees, tracking
progress reports, and documentation in a variety of areas.
   Researched and implemented costs savings exercises allowing AT&T to save
approximately $500,000 in Cost Savings projects. These projects included the
reconfiguration of old to new peripheral equipment (re-use/deletion), the
debugging of erroneously assigned software structures, and overall planning on
various projects.
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Operating Systems: Unix, Microsoft Windows (DOS/95/98/ME/XP), SUN sunOS, SUN
solaris
Software/Languages: C, Fortran, Korn Shell, HTML; (Adobe): ColdFusion;
(Microsoft): .NET Framework, Exchange Server, Project, Outlook, FrontPage,
PhotoDraw, Visual Studio; (Office): Word, Excel, Access, Power Point; (Symantec):
Visual Page
Equipment: Data I/O Programmer, HP Logic Analyzer, Digital Voltmeter, Eight
Trace Oscilloscope, Pinion WSST-300, Pinion WSST-CAL, RTG/SRM, PCs
Other: (Unix): Emacs, VI, Shell Scripts, xcip; (Other): HP - Mercury Load
Runner, Sun Applications, FrameMaker, Greenhills Multi source debugger, GPIB,
Sablime version source control, SCCS, TCP/IP, Instruction Set, and Development
Tools, 8085 Microprocessor, 68000 Microprocessor, Assembly.
Processes: ISO-9001 quality management process training, ESD/Calibration process
expert

EDUCATION

MS, Computer Science, GPA 3.57/4.0, University of DePaul, Chicago, IL, 1993
BS, Electronic Engineering Technology, GPA 3.8/4.0, DeVry Institute of
Technology, Chicago, IL, 1987

Honors and Organizations
President  ™s List, President  ™s Honor Society
ISA Member  *  VP DeVry Chapter
Assistant Scoutmaster - Boy Scouts of America (Life Scout)
Assistant Little League Baseball Coach