David R. Mottern
604 Selma Street, #2
Norristown, Pennsylvania 19401
 [Send email to request phone number] 70-0726 Home
484-868-0091 Cell
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Education                             
West Chester University, West Chester, Pa.                
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science    Graduation: 1986    GPA: 3.47

Experience        
       04/01/07 to present
       Self Employed
Self employed doing web marketing. This included creating and maintaining
affiliate store websites and entertainment websites using PHP, Mysql, cPanel, and
MyDNS on a Linux server.
Self employed setting up home PCs and installing hardware.

09/19/05 to 03/01/07  Business Intelligence Developer
Independence Blue Cross, 1901 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103,
215-241-3253
Developed, enhanced, and supported Cognos Poweplay cubes and Cognos Impromptu
catalogs and reports. This included designing Powerplay models and creating and
modifying DB2 SQL statements.
Spent half a day each week on help desk duty which consisted of helping internal
users with various problems mostly involving database, login, and reporting
problems and questions.

04/08/96 to 07/15/05 Software Engineer
Cotelligent, Inc. 401 Parkway Dr, Broomall PA 19008,  [Send email to request phone number] 59-9200
Developed, enhanced, and supported a web based Cognos Upfront system. This
included developing and maintaining Powerplay models and cubes. It also included
using XML and HTML, as well as writing macros and VB code to automate the
maintenance of  Cognos Access Manager data stores and Cognos Impromptu catalogs.
Also developed, enhanced, and supported Windows based Cognos Powerplay models,
cubes, reports, and macros. 
Enhanced and made bug fixes to a CRM client/server front end written in embedded
VB and SQL Server for CE.
Was part of the team that designed, developed, and supported a Windows based CRM
client/server front end known as Fastrack. It was written using VB 6.0 and Access
2000. I wrote extensive parts of the VB and SQL code. It was a replacement for a
16 bit configurable version of Fastrack which I had been supporting and
maintaining up to that point.
Supported and enhanced both the front and back ends of a CRM client/server
application called ISIS. The back end consisted of Perl, C and Sybase SQL running
under Unix. The front end was written in C  under MS-DOS. I supported this system
until it was retired in 1998.

01/01/94 to 10/05/95 Software Engineer
FNX Limited, 575 E. Swedesford Rd, Wayne, PA 19087.
Developing, enhancing, and maintaining securities risk management software in C
in a Unix environment, using SQL to access Sybase Relational Databases.

07-01-92 to 01-01-94 Self-Employed Computer Consultant
Installing, upgrading, and customizing PC hardware and software.


08/01/87 to 06/31/92 Software Engineer
Keystone Computer Associates, Inc., Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
Worked as part of a GE team to develop a satellite ground station for NASA. 
Responsibilities included working in the design, coding, and testing phases of
the project.  The code was developed on VAX 6300 series mainframes running VMS
5.1. It was written in Ada and compiled with the VAX Ada Compiler version 2.1.
Provided support to the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) by designing and
implementing changes to its Software Problem Reporting (SPR) system.  This system
ran on a VAX 11/785 computer system under Unix and was written in C. Also
developed and maintained programs for use in their VP-PGC lab. These programs
were written in C under Unix and in Dbase and Microsoft Chart under MS-DOS.
Worked at Unisys on a project team maintaining and enhancing the Unisys
OFIS-LINK system, a PC-based office automation application.  Designed and
implemented changes to support the use of a 132 column display mode. Also,
diagnosed and corrected user reported problems.  OFIS-LINK ran in an MS-DOS
environment and was coded in C.
Performed various other tasks working with various tools including Dbase III
Plus, Clipper, and BASIC in an MS-DOS environment.

11/15/82 to 07/31/87 Software Developer
Tele-Dynamics, 525 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
Worked as an independent contractor part time while attending college full time.
 Wrote and maintained financial and manufacturing applications in COBOL and RPGII.