Profile

Creative self starter, who is passionate about satisfying client needs, creating exciting systems and values the efficiency of a great design. Team player, who enjoys collaborating with others on multiple projects in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.  Consistent demonstration of ability to translate corporate concepts into sophisticated and interactive experiences. Experienced in ground-up development; from design of database, through testing, deployment at customer site and any ongoing maintenance and support.

 

Experience

Owner, Computer consulting - Ragazzi Enterprise, LLC

2016 – present, Queen Creek, AZ

Owner, Computer consulting - Software By Ragazzi

1994 – 2016, San Francisco, CA

 

• Specialize in ground-up development, working with clients to define their needs and give them the best and most efficient. Design the database, system architecture, data flow and write, test and deploy the application for them

• Proficient in Clarion, its methodology, paradigm and all facets of the template language. Conversion of applications from DOS to Windows. Conversion of C++ code into Clarion

• Website design using Visual Web Developer 2005 and C#

• Manage projects with MS-SQL back-end server, and other smaller specialized projects for commercial release, including the automation of credit card approvals using API interface to ICVerify

 

Senior Project Developer

Integritas, Inc. Corte Madera, CA

1995 – 1997

 

• Brought company’s flagship product, STIX™, (OSHA compliant medical claims system with HL7 interfaces) from a DOS application to be fully Windows compliant. Standardized the dictionary, look-and-feel, processing techniques, wrote templates to ensure standardization across different program modules supporting over 45 DLLs

• In charge of converting the “flat file” system to Sybase as the back-end server, while still supporting the non-Client\Server version

 

Assistant Vice President

Transys, Philadelphia, PA

1993 – 1995

 

• Developed a complete Windows based Return Items System (T.R.I.P.S.™) capable of handling over 10,000 return items nightly; incoming, outgoing and qualified (QRC)

• Participated in the evaluation team for a corporate re-engineering project as well as evaluated new systems for both the main frame and our developing client/server architecture

 

Assistant Vice President

CoreStates Financial Corp. Philadelphia, PA

1992 – 1993

 

Systems Officer, Philadelphia, PA

1991 – 1992

 

Systems Analyst, Philadelphia, PA

 1987 – 1991

 

• Developed for Banking Operations a system (S.T.A.R.™) which organized 7 million CPCS item data collected by 3890 sorters, including adjustments, Lundy rejects, kill bundle and cash letter information in an IMS on-line system. Designed and implemented all storage and access methods for a WORM optical system where data is stored for up to 7 years

• Contributed in design and implementation of real-time systems to access major credit bureaus. Enhancements featured automated credit scoring techniques which allowed 50% of new credit card applications to be processed without human intervention

• Managed several programmers including lead analysts and a technology officer. Group was responsible for supporting: the central tracing and research area, the return items area, the cash processing area, and the S.T.A.R. system

 

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Clemson University 1984

Clemson, SC

 

Operating Systems

Windows

Mac OS X

 

Languages

Clarion for Windows, all versions

Learning; Visual C#, C++, VB, ASP.NET, AJAX

 

Packages

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Web Designer

Microsoft Office

Photoshop CS, Paint.NET

QuickBooks

MS SQL

Windows Networking, Servers, Web, FTP

Other popular packages and utilities