ROSS MARSHALL

790 Cranford Avenue

Westfield, NJ 07090
908-232-8044
rmf36c6@westpost.net

SUMMARY
IT Business Application Architect and Developer with extensive technical experie
nce with a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company.Have designed, developed, implemen
ted and managed systems on multiple platforms and environments to support corpor
ate, research, marketing and manufacturing organizations. A hard working team pl
ayer with excellent problem solving and communication skills. Quickly adapts to
rapidly changing situations.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
C/C++
UNIX
Cognos
HTML
Oracle Pro/C, SQL
Java
Oracle
Introscope
CSS
SiteScope
Perl
MQ Series
Gomez
JavaScript
HP OVIS
UNIX/Linux Shell
Nagios
OpenView Operations
eXceed
Sun Solaris
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Montvale, NJ 2008 a" Present
Store Systems, Development
Developer (
2008 a" Present)
Supported the McKesson Enterprise Rx pharmacy application. Created scripts and
reports using Java, Perl and Oracle SQL to monitor and modify application. Also
need to have Unix Shell Scripting and PERL.
Created and implemented scripts and queries to monitor and manage the Enterprise
Rx application and automated many manual operations.
Created interfaces to and multiple pharmacy market intelligence vendors which ge
nerated income for the company.
Reduce operational and maintenance cost by writing an Java application to automa
tically notify customers when their prescriptions were ready.

MERCK & COMPANY, INC., Whitehouse Station, NJ 1991 - 2008

Enterprise Monitoring Services
Senior Systems Analyst (2004 - 2008)
Implemented prototype CA/Wily Introscope Enterprise Manager (EM) web monitoring
application. Deployed and managed the Nagios monitoring solution for of all of M
erck. Acted as customer liaison for the implementation of end to end monitoring
forMerck's criticalapplications.
Implemented a script to interface the EM to HP OpenView and created Red Hat Pack
age Manager (RPM) to installEMon multiple environments.
Migrated over 3500 SiteScope monitors to Nagios for the Intranet, internet DMZ a
nd network infrastructure environments saving the company over $21,000 in licens
ing fees annually.
Created web based reports in Perl that parsed the threshold data returned by Nag
ios. This allowed users to view the status of network devices at a high level a
nd keep track of trends in the data.
Programmed Nagios plug-ins using shell scripts, Perl and C to monitor the networ
k infrastructure.
Implemented End to End Monitoring forover 20 critical applications using HP OVIS
and Mercury MAM
Enterprise Web Infrastructure
Lead Enterprise Architecture (2001 - 2004)
Supported the Intranet web application run-time environment. Team member respons
ible for developing Merck's enterprise wide monitoring strategy. Product manager
for SiteScope, Topaz, Emprix, Gomex and Keynote monitoring tools.
Supervised the migration of over 100 SilverStream,JServ and Java Web Server appl
ications to Apache/Tomcat, reducing complexity in the web infrastructure environ
ment.
Managed the migration of Crystal Info 7.5 to Crystal Enterprise 9.0 improving op
erations in the reporting environment.
Programmed the interfacefrom the Java/J2EE web servers to Crystal Enterprise usi
ng the Java SDK. This replaced the CORBA interface and allowed function calls fr
om existing reports to remain unchanged.
Web Development Environments
Senior Technical Specialist (2000 - 2001)
Supported the web application development desktop environment.
Led a team of four specialists supporting the SilverStream, JServ, and Crystal R
eports development environments.
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Architecture & Infrastructure Development

Senior Systems Associate (1995 - 2000)
Managed the Y2K testing and remediation project for the Infrastructure Developme
nt group and the Whitehouse Station site. Designed, developed and deployed the I
ntegration Services run-time applications for all of Merck's computing environme
nts.
Led a team to evaluate, test and update legacy applications for Y2K compliance s
o application would continue to operate without any downtime.
Designed anddeveloped the Merck Veneer API isolation layer for MQ Series enablin
g interfaces on multiple platforms to communicate using the same interface. The
interface was implemented using C for the IBM mainframe, AS/400, VMS and UNIX en
vironments and Visual C++ for the Windows environment.
Wrote interface between the LIMS and Batch Information Systems (BIS) using Oracl
e stored procedures.
Architecture and Emerging Technology
Technical Associate (1991 - 1995)
Designed and developed the application interfaces between various laboratory and
manufacturing systems.Developed the architecturefor the corporate desktop envir
onment.
Created interfaces forIBM mainframe, VAX, Windows and UNIX legacy applicationsus
ing C and MQ Series.
Developed interfaces supporting VMS, OS/390, MS Windows, IBM PS/2 and UNIX for t
he manufacturing site in Cramlington,England.The interface was written inC using
TCP sockets to allow different systems to exchange data.
Integrated Microsoft Mail applications programming interface into NCR's C++ base
d Cooperation development environment.
Developed internal office automation system transport using Windows SDK, dbVista
API and Microsoft MAPI.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
THE YOGA & HEALING CENTER Scotch Plains, NJ 2000-Present
Web Developer / Webmaster
Implemented the initial web site used to advertise the center. Maintained and u
pdated the site using HTML, CSS, Perl and JavaScript. Ensured that domain name r
egistration and Internet Service Provider contracts were up to date.
Updated the revised site to ensure that it was validated for HTML 4.01 and CSS 2
.1.
Maintained site by adding schedule updates, announcements and other changes as n
eed. Created additional pages to advertise special events.
Created an Teacher Training registration page in Perl to enable students to regi
ster over the web.
Configured the KompoZer web development tool for the front desk so other non-tec
hnical staff members could update the site.
Added Google Analytics to the site to provide metrics on site usage.
EDUCATION
MS, Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
BS, Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY