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Ben Mackin
3400 Tice Creek Way
Sacramento, CA  95833
408•646•3521
bmackin@mac.com

Career Summary

Having spent 2 years self-employed, and 4 years working in the enterprise consulting industry, I have grown to be a great team player, and excellent problem solver. I currently co-lead a team of 8 developers working to build client relationships, and produce quality work products to meet the client needs.

Professional Achievements

Current Responsibilities

  • Co-Leading a team of 8 developers, and performing CMMI level 5 compliance checks on team code. Some of my daily tasks include developing and managing workplans, reviewing technical system change requests, running workgroup meeting with the client to gather requirements, and writing new design documentation.

  • My team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the Federal and State Reports, Client Dashboards, and Business Intelligence Management Reporting for 39 counties in the state of California.

Client Site Oracle Business Intelligence Rollout

  • Initially there was no business intelligence knowledge, or data warehouse foundation at the client project. Spent 2 months learning the toolset (books, CBT, etc), and built a fully functional prototype, which the client approved.<

  • Lead the effort to design a full-featured Business Intelligence solution consisting of 15 dashboards, 60+ Answers Requests, and 3 subject areas using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

  • Lead a team of 5 individuals while working to gather requirements from the client, build out the data model, design and develop the ETL process, and finally oversaw the completion of the end user dashboards.

  • From design to implementation, the entire project took less than 12 months, is used by 3000 county employees, and is continuing to expand.

Successful Self Employed Developer

  • Designed and programmed a faxing application, FaxCenter, for the Mac OS X platform.

  • Personally handled over 6,000 billing transactions and issuing of software key codes, as well as directly answered over 30,000 support emails in the 5 years I supported this software.

  • Worked with a small team of 5 beta testers for the testing aspects of FaxCenter

  • The software was reviewed in a number of publications (both Online and print) in multiple counties around the world (USA, France, Japan, etc).

 

Skills

  • Strong Communication Skills
  • Project Management
  • Business Intelligence (OBIEE)
  • ETL
  • Data Warehousing (OLAP)
  • Oracle BI Publisher
  • Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
  • C/C++/Java/Objective-C
  • HTML/CSS/PHP/JSP/J2EE/EJB
  • Windows and Unix proficiency

Software

  • Eclipse
  • Toad for Oracle
  • Apache
  • Weblogic
  • Adobe LifeCycle
  • Oracle BI Publisher
  • Dreamweaver
  • Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)

Work History

Programmer Analyst/Reports Co-Team Lead

Accenture, Rancho Cordova, CA

1/07 - Present

Working on a client site to maintain the web-based system used by over 39 counties and 15,000+ employees. Responsible for the design, programming, testing, and problem resolution utilizing web-centric application technologies. Major skills utilized include Object Oriented Design using UML, Java programming, HTML, Javascript, SQL, and utilization of testing tools/skills throughout the lifecycle of the application. More advanced skills used include programming with J2EE, JDBC, JSPs, Servlets, and PL/SQL stored procedures.

 

Self Employed

Sacramento, CA

6/02 - 1/07

On a team of one, utilizing the language of Objective-C, designed, programmed, and tested a software application for the Mac OS X platform in its infancy. Additional details can be found in the professional acheivments.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

CSU Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Fall 2006

References

References are available on request.