JAMES KOLLAR

9308 81st Street SW Lakewood, Washington 98498 253-984-7092 jameskollar@earthlink.net

DATABASE PROGRAMMER Highly successful and extremely motivated programming professional with 15 years of experience delivering innovative strategic enhancements that boost efficiency and raise overall operational performance. Visionary leader with exceptional troubleshooting skills, consistently producing creative solutions to overcome technical and organizational roadblocks . Adept at performing in-depth analysis of complex challenges with consideration of fixed variables such as timelines, personnel, and finances. Creative and well organized, with a proven track record delivering exceptional performance under challenging circumstances.

Microsoft SQL Server Sybase Server T-SQL C# C .Net PowerBuilder Stored Procedures Triggers Troubleshooting PowerDesigner Visio Erwin Data Modeling Windows Server 2003/2008 Windows XP Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Office Suite Microsoft Project Visual Source Safe Seapine Source Code Control Project Management Business Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BREWER CONSULTING / Washington State Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Organizes/coordinates data on 400K clients and $130M in benefits for Washington WIC program. Database Administrator/Programmer Contractor Olympia, Washington 2000-2010 Spearheaded dramatic system enhancement initiatives, transforming efficiency and reliability of system following initial contract as backup Database Administrator. Performed extensive database and report development in support of system processes. Provided critical efforts to implement and support a replicating environment enabling support of 170 remote clinics. Worked to develop new programs and enhance current systems, creating procedures, scripts, and frameworks for database and program upgrades. Conducted continual analysis of all systems to identify and remove impediments to operational success, developing and spearheading countless improved back end and front end processes. Created hundreds of ad-hoc requests in SQL, with on-going requests written as stored procedure in T-SQL and added to report engine. Key Contributions: Dramatically reduced report processing timesfrom 2+ hours to 1 minuteby championing, creating, and implementing data warehouse, performing all analysis, data modeling, and development. Greatly improved data consistency of WIC Reports and reduced maintenance needs by unifying program, database structure, set of stored procedures, and report presentation Enhanced accuracy and consistency of database workwhile reducing required labor hours through creation of DBATools program that auto-performed numerous repetitive tasks. Drastically expanded geographic area clinic staff could provide full service to by developing process enabling database information to be copied and fully utilized in remote areas. Implemented Seapine Source Code control, as well as documentation to allow widespread use. Reduced workload on state staff by writing process that transformed WIC data for insertion into SQL Server database used by separate organization.

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Created a robust and reusable framework of system maintenance and enhancement processes for implementing data translations, database model changes, database upgrades and application upgrades applied to a production environment.

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ANALYST INTERNATIONAL / WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Programming organization, with 20-member technical team and 4 managers. PowerBuilder Programmer Contractor Olympia 1996-2000 Conducted countless programming tasks to address wide-ranging concerns, utilizing MS SQL Server, Erwin, & PowerBuilder. Performed extensive operations as data analyst, data architect, database modeler, and program developer. Key Contributions: Developed program that digitized roadway right of ways, reducing costs and required time, while improving data accuracy and simplifying maintenance operations. Created program to interface with mainframe file dump to normalize/import accounting data into a SQL Server database from numerous sites, enable user interactivity, and prepare for export to other systems. Ensured Y2K compliance across all programs. EDUCATION Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, Washington SOFTWARE Microsoft SQL Server Sybase Server Visual Studio PC Anywhere RDP MS Office Suite Microsoft Project Visio PowerDesigner Erwin Seapine Source Code Control Visual Source Safe COMPUTER LANGUAGES SQL T-SQL PowerBuilder C C# .Net OPERATING SYSTEMS DOS Windows XP/2003/2008/7 UNIX

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