Cheyenne Christman

13702 Apple Knoll Ct. Houston, TX 77059
 [Send email to request phone number] 280785 (cell) * 281-4887008 (home) * [Send email using form at bottom]
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OBJECTIVE:
Seeking for a software development or quality assurance testing position in a
challenging software development environment.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
•	Over 15 years of professional software engineer experiences in all phases of
life cycle of development and production environments, from analysis and design
to implementation and maintenance
•	Proven success in delivering reliable, durable and dependable applications
with various development tools, languages, and environments.
•	Demonstrated abilities with database management and system administration
•	Keeping up with the new technologies. Motivated self-starter. Excellent team
worker

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
•	Languages: 	C++, C, Java, JavaScript, JSP, CSS, HTML, XML, T-SQL, QA Partner,
ADA
•	Shell:		NT-Shell, Korn-Shell, Perl
•	Databases:  	MS SQL 2005/2008, IBM DB2
•	Platforms:	Windows NT/XP, Linux, AIX, UNIX, IBM OS2, MS-DOS
•	Frames:		WebSphere, JBOSS/Tomcat, JE22
•	Software: 	RedGate, VMware, SecureCRT, MyEclipse
•	3D Software:	Maya

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

9/2009 – 3/2011:  GHG, Senior Software Engineer, Electronic Time Sheet Software
System (eTSS)
•	Responsibilities include the implementation and maintenance of the Employee
Leave Management and Scheduling systems. These systems allow the employee setup
the working schedules and then automatically populate the employee timesheets and
generate the proper reports accordingly. (Java/JSP/Java Scripts/CSS/SQL
2008/JBOSS/Tomcat/My Eclipse)
•	Troubleshooting the real time application and DB errors on the customer sites.
 

7/2008 – 9/2009:  IBM, Senior Software Engineer, High Performance Storage System
(HPSS)
•	Designed and implemented a meta-data conversion utility that converts a JSON
formatted source file to the DB2 database. This utility performs as a two-step
ETL tools. The first step is to read and parse the XML or JSON formatted flat
files to the intermediate binary data files.  These binary files have the very
similar data structures as the tables designed in the DB2 database.   The second
step is to convert the binary files and load the data into the database tables.
(C, DB2, AIX/Linux, JSON, XML)
•	Administer and support AIX and Linux development environment. (KSH,
AIX/Linux)
•	Responsible for day-to-day High Performance Storage System maintenance, such
as installing the new images, compiling the systems, performing the integration
test, monitoring servers’ events and performance, troubleshooting configuration
and programming errors, gathering dumps and reports. (KSH, AIX/Linux)
•	Analyze system requirements, develop test plans, implement and execute the
test scripts. (KSH, Perl, C)

2/2006 – 6/2008: IBM, Senior Software Engineer, Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)
Retail System
•	Participated in all aspects of SQL DBA activities such as DB installation,
building DB scheme, tables, procedures and permissions, database optimization,
backups, replication, failover and data recovery on the cluster SQL server
environment.  (WinXP, SQL2005)
•	Implemented the SQL Stored Procedures that interacted with Java applications
and provided the complex queries, inserting, updating and purging operations on
the databases.  (WebSphere, T_SQL, )
•	Assessed the configuration of the pier-to-pier replication in the clustered
SQL server environments.
•	Designed and developed the full, differential and transaction log backup plans
based on the database’s performance. (Red Gate, SQL2005)
•	Implemented the NT Shell scripts to automate the database file system
operations. (NT Script)
•	Extensively tested of the system’s CPU and memory performance on various
servers like SQL and WAS.
•	Prepared functional specification test plans, executed the white-box/black-box
system test on the integrated systems and the databases.  (4690, VMWare,
SecureCRT, psftp, SQL)

5/1998 – 1/2006: IBM, Senior Software Engineer, USPS POS ONE Retail System
•	Experienced in all phases of software development lifecycle including software
design and development, system integrations, unit and system test, functional
enhancements, defects correction, trouble shooting and customer support.  (WinNT,
C++)
•	Led or participated software enhancements and new functionality developments. 
Fluent understood both User Interface and Business Logic of the application and
was capable of implementing the effective and efficient workflows.

8/1995 – 4/1998: IBM, Software Engineer, Clinical Information / USPS POS ONE
Retail Systems
•	Designed and developed hundreds of QA Partner scripts that automated the test
scenarios to verify the system’s GUI and functionality behaviors. (QA Partner)
•	Other responsibilities included requirement analyzing, test plan developing,
unit and system testing, defect addressing, test record verification,
demonstrating the application and customer support.  

6/1993 - 5/1995: University of New Orleans, Graduate Assistant
•	Designed and developed a Department Equipment Database Management Database
System using the relational data modeling concepts. (Unix, SQL)
•	Implemented an application that mathematically analyzes the utilization of a
computer operating system such as the utilization of CPU, system response time,
user's queue, and system throughout. (Unix, Fortran)
•	Developed a 3D graphic animation which provided the basic animation
capabilities of object drawing, shading, rotating, and painting.  (Unix, C)

EDUCATION:
•	M.S - Computer Science, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
•	B.S. - Computer Science, Computer Technology Institute, Peking University,
China
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