Professor Joseph Corcoran

Joseph J. Corcoran
70 Mayflower Place
Milford, CT 06460
E-mail: tandem_26@hotmail.com

Experience
August 2000-present
Cendant Corporation/Trilegiant, Inc.
40 Oakview Drive
Trumbull, CT 06611
Senior Database Administrator - Project Lead
Current Projects:
Serve as Project Lead and Production DBA for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Project Team; modeled/designed and created (in Oracle v8.1.6.2) the database environment which included: database objects, security, tuning, daily statistics jobs, backup and recovery and standards; Support some 50 production and 65 staging/development Oracle databases (versions 8.0.5 to 8.1.7); Installed and configured Cendant's database backup and recovery solution using Oracle's RMAN/OEM backup and recovery software for all production and staging databases; System Change Requests for Production and Staging Databases; On-Call Support; (Hardware/Software: SunOS v5.8, Oracle v8.1.6.2, RMAN v2.0, OEM v2.1.0.0, Informatica, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Database Administration, E.Piphany v5.0.2)

June 1995-June 2000
Pitney Bowes, Inc
Walter Wheeler Jr. Drive
Stamford, CT 06926-0700
Oracle Database Administrator
Primary support for the Pitney Bowes Customer Care Project whose mission is to upgrade oftware and hardware technology in the major Pitney Bowes Call Centers through the implementation the Customer Relationship Management software Siebel; The project includes the implementation of an inbound and outbound integrated call center Package and a Customer Telephony (CTI) package: Siebel System utilized by PBCC, U.S. Mailing Systems, Business Operations Centers, Small Office Division, Supply Line/Postage by Phone. DBA Functions include: define, alter, support and maintain 3 production systems & 4 test systems; database modeling, design, tuning, naming standards, backups & recoveries; includes 2 production and 4 development Oracle databases on Unix; Supporting two Oracle for Windows NT databases using Priority Management System; Participated on the Architecture Team defining the Operational Data Store for the Enterprise Data Warehouse Project that initially fed data to two data marts; Oracle/Sybase projects include: Manufacturing Livelink System, Wage Garnishment, Resume Tracking, Marketing & Sales Compensation (Hardware/Software: HP 9000 V Series, Oracle v7.3.4, Oracle v8.0.5 on NT, HP Unix v11.0, SIEBEL v5.0.2.23, OEM, SQL*Plus v3.3, Erwin, SQL Lab Tuner v3.1, BMC SQL Backtrack, BMC Patrol, Exceed, FTP, Unix Shell Scripts)

April 1994-May 1995
General Electric Supply Company
Two Corporate Plaza
Shelton, CT 06484
Consultant/Client-Server Specialist
Designed a wrote the GE Supplier Report Card - a comprehensive monthly Document displaying GE Sales, Purchases, Freight, Delivery Performance, Turn & Earn and Invoice Data to be used by all GE Supply Units; participated in the installation of LANs at GE sites; provided technical and software/hardware upgrades/purchases for marketing, finance & HR; LAN Admin on Novell & NT (Hardware/Software: Microsoft Access, SNA Server v2.1, SQL Server for Windows NT, Transact SQL, Sybase, Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server v3.5, LAN Administration Novell v3.11)

March 1993-April 1994
Warnaco, Inc
Lafayette Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Consultant/Project Leader
Participated in the design and implementation of a Sales Force Automation System (SFAS) that supports up to a four tier sales department hierarchy; SFAS allows field sales managers to access and manipulate sales data from Desktop PC's managed by IBM RISC/6000 AIX omputer; sales order management & multi-store ordering; project plan; Business Require-Analysis; Logical/Physical Data Modeling; EDI Specification; Security & Performance; Hardware/Software: IBM RISC System/6000, AIX, IBM SMIT, Sybase, IBM 3090, TSO/SPF, EDI Systems, Northgate PC Notebooks).

May 1987-March 1993
Vistatek, Inc
775 Broadway
New York, New York 10019
Project Manager
Participated in writing the functional specifications, design, coding and implementation of the ODEN Software System that allows data transferal from dissimilar DBMS residing on unique Platforms. Project tasking; presentations to various clients that include: DEC, IBM, Stratus and CDC Corporations; Client/Server Architecture; coded the Informix Gateway and Command Engine Parser modules; assisted in product sales as the technical reference; designed and coded an asynchronous line communications interface between IBM PC & Pyramid 9000. (Hardware/Software: IBM RISC System/6000, AIX, C, IBM PC, MS/DOS, UNIX System V, Pyramid 9000, SQL, Informix, Oraclev4, Sybase, AT&T 3B2, Microsoft Windows

Nov. 1985-May 1987
Olivetti Corporation
1 Enterprise Drive
Shelton, CT
Software Engineer
Designed and installed communications networks which provided on-line brokerage services using Tandem's CMI and CUP communications software; designed and wrote the Message Switch error handler, Bank Control Master Recap Program, Branch Bank Accounting Database Server, ADTRAN Database Record Utilities for the banking application-form filing system Filetran. (Hardware/Software: Tandem NonStop VLX, TAL, Pathway, Scobol, Unix, VMS, C, VAX 11/750, COBOL 85, Requesters/Servers, Guardian)

March 1982-Oct. 1985
National Association Of Securities Dealers
Automated Quotations (NASDAQ)
80 Merritt Boulevard
Trumbull, CT
Systems Analyst/Programmer
Designed, coded & installed financial application systems for the securities industry. Specific projects included: Mutual Funds Trading System, Intermarket Trading System (ITS), Small Order Execution System (SOES) & Options Trading System (NOES); enhanced Computer Assisted Exec.
 (Hardware/Software: Tandem NonStop II, TAL, Cobol 85, Fortran, Univac 1190, PL/I, Assembler, Guardian).

Sept. 1980-March 1982
Textron Lycoming Division
550 South Main Street
Stratford, CT
Technical Systems Programmer
Responsible for the design, coding and implementation of data base programs for the Test Engineering Department; designed, wrote & implemented RAMIS database and PL/I programs for Data Acquisition from the AGT-1500 and ALF-502 Test Engines for the military; data analysis, edits, file creation, retrievals and validations. (Hardware/Software: IBM 3033, OS/MVS, TSO/SPF, PL/I and Fortran).

January 1998-present
Fairfield University, North Benson Rd. Fairfield, CT (part-time)

Instructor - Database Management Systems; Applications in Software Development (Microsoft Access 2000); Database Concepts/Oracle SQL*Plus

Education

Sept. 1977-May 1984
New York University (NYU)
Washington Square (Courant Institute)
New York, New York
Ph. D. in Computer Science (Courses Completed - ABD)

August 1976
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Technology (RPI)
Troy, New York
M.S. in Computer Science

May 1973
Sacred Heart University (SHU)
Fairfield, Connecticut
B.A. in Mathematics; Minor - Physics

Personal
Health: Excellent
Hobbies: Commissioner of a Men's Baseball League (67-97), Swimming, Reading, Golfing, Teaching