Pietro Cappello

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Scope of Expertise

Operating Systems: Windows (including servers) , OS X , Linux Servers: Microsoft IIS, Apache Programming Languages: Server Side Java and Java servlets, JSP - (Allaire and Weblogix), Javascript, ASP, SQL, HTML, XML, VRML, CFML, Actionscript, C, C++, Visual Basic Database Environments: Mysql, SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, JDBC, MS AccessDevelopment Environments: Joomla, Dreamweaver, Homesite, Flash, Director, Tango developer, 3D Studio,

Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Experience

5/01 – present ,  Fortissimo Enterprises, 324 Canal Street, Suite 4B, New York, NY  10013

I’ve worked with Fortissimo as a consultant and solutions engineer. I’ve project managed Infrastructure roll out ‘s covering aspects from wiring to systems architecture. I am a big proponent of cloud architecture   I have been successful at deploying fully integrated and scalable infrastructure solutions. Including vm’s for phone services, web services as well as mail and web hosting.

In one of the implementations i engineered i have several content management linux vm's, a trixbox voip with Sugar CRM integration running on a Mac Pro, with 10G ram.  It all runs off of vmware fusion.  the vms are all backed up specially by time machine so there is user fault tolerance, where the client could recover to a previous working copy of their system very easily.  This is all running off 1 ip address utilizing mod rewrites to do canonical name based redirection to the appropriate vm's.

12/2002 – 6/2007 Rickys NYC

Originally a Fortissimo client . Ricky’s (A chain of beauty aid and Halloween stores) needed a full time IT Director. The position was very hands on. While working at Ricky’s, I managed and participated in the roll out of 20 new stores throughout Manhattan as well as East Hampton and South Beach Florida. I was responsible for the planning and implementation of network, phone, a/v systems, security camera system and POS. The stores ran on Retail Pro POS systems. One of the challenges I faced in a quick expansion of the chain from 6 stores was the integration of the inventories of all the POS systems. The original six were running on different inventories. I was responsible for the nominalization of that data. My team consisted of project engineer, data entry and management team consisting of 3 people and 2 technical engineers.

8/99 – 5/01 Solbright Inc. , 212 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010

I worked at Solbright as a software engineer. At Solbright we wrote software that streamlined and automated the banner placement , as well as collecting information on “impressions" and “click-through”s. I was responsible for GUI design using HTML, JavaScript and JSP .I was also responsible for analysis and implementation of banner design requirements. Different banner dimensions required new use of the gui. Testing required extensive data modeling of different banner requirements. I was also involved with middle tier programming and analysis in a Java, Java servlet and Oracle JDBC , for integration to the database. This included Implementation of SQL procedures on Oracle database as well as code and maintenance of some back end java applications.

I served as lead programmer on two software products through two versions.

10/98 - 8/99 Bernard Hodes Advertising - Interactive, 555 Madison Avenue,  New York, NY 10022

At BHI I served as Intranet Manager/Intranet Development Manager. I was responsible for, managing the re-design of their corporate intranet. Technology involved Netscape Server, IIS 3.0-4.0, SQL server, Tango enterprise, ShockWave Flash animations used to control JavaScript, JavaScript, server-side as well as client side, and ASP. Development environment is Visual Source Safe, Dreamweaver, Homesite, Visual Basic, Tango, Flash, and Director.

5/98 – 10/98 Netgrocer Inc. - http://www.netgrocer.com , 333 7^th avenue 11^th floor,  New York, NY 10001

Position Held: Internet Developer

Worked with Cold Fusion applications. Created backend systems in Visual Basic and Cold Fusion.

6/95 – 5/98 Consultant,

·Fine Art Acrylic – http://www.fineartacrylic.com/ –designed and implemented web site.

·Architectural Molded Composites – http://www.architecturalmolded.com/ – designed and implemented web site.

·Ruder Finn - web page coding and Java Scripting

·Saatchi & Saatchi - web page coding and Java Scripting

·United Nations - VB, C, C++ Programming

·Pratt School for Professional Studies- Design and Implementation New York school’s web site http://www.pratt.edu/ .

·Viacomm “Noggin”- Broadcast Graphics for children’s TV prototype

·Voice Processing Corporation -Logo design, icon design and 3D splash screen animation

6/90 to 6/95    The Bank of New York,  101 Barclay, NYC

I worked at the Bank of New York as a sr. programmer analyst in the securities systems division.

I was responsible for various components of our securities trading software called “The Workstation”. This product was coded using Visual Basic, Access, ODBC, C.
The workstation is the Windows version of Laser (see below). It relies heavily on Visual Basic, Access, ODBC. I was involved with the project from its inception. Visual Basic was used from version 1.0 through version 3.0. The workstation uses database functionality in every aspect of the program. The workstation used Access database. The software communicates using VT100 emulation and custom code to read scripts. This incorporates Access and ODBC to set and store values, which define user configurations and dialog options. The workstation software consists of the following calculators: standard, scientific, discount yield, interest at maturity, and notes and bonds calculations. Implemented using an assortment of financial functions compiled to a DLL using C, and front ended with Visual Basic encompassing an array of creative semaphores to mimic an actual table top calculator with paper roll. The core of the product revolves around Instruction Entry and View /Change/ Cancel processing - This facility allows modification to trades after they have been entered and before they have been sent to the mainframe for initial processing Changes can be made in a summary view, or full screen mode. Implemented in Visual Basic.

Laser 3.x (Local access securities exchange & reporting) written in C in a DOS Environment

I was responsible for the Institutional Delivery component. This consisted of 3 major parts. Download portion that receives security trades from mainframes that are to be confirmed. Summary / Detail, view/affirm portion that displays the records and allows the records to be affirmed, canceled, unaffirmed uncanceled, and held. Upload portion that sends completed trades back to mainframe for final processing and reporting. Implemented using a table driven methodology that allows unlimited inclusion of new file types and formats without code modification. Tables used for reading, displaying and report generation of all files.

Laser 2.x written in C in a DOS Environment . I worked on report generation - implementing hard coded formatting of templates. I also worked on the export facility - output to Lotus WKS format, comma delimited format, and report Image to text file.

1/88 to 6/90 American Express TRS,  770 Broadway, NYC

I was initially hired to administer and maintain the, New York International Festival of the Arts card member advanced ticketing system. This was a project that belonged to the performance engineering division of the planning and analysis department. After the festival was over I continued in performance engineering department as a systems developer. My department worked closely with Industrial engineers to study and improve on many operational processes throughout the company. Much of the work we did involved c programs running on pc’s interacting with mainframe systems via API, to automate various functions such as intelligent account review and card cancellation. I was then given the automated “Be My Guest” System to develop. The initial idea for the project came from one of the performance engineering team members. I wrote the program in C in AIX environment on an IBM RT. I was responsible for writing the entire system. The Be My Guest System was a new product offering. The system I wrote did point of sale, order entry, credit authorization, billing, reporting, and actual production of final product, which includes American Express "ROC", Invitation with custom personalized messages and custom mailing envelope. The system was successful and I was asked to redevelop the system in our west regional operations center.

7/84 to 1/88  Home Life Insurance Co., Piscataway, NJ

· Positions Held: Programmer - Office Automation, Sr. Data Communications Technician - Operations, Network Operator - Operations, Systems Operator - Operations

· Accomplishments:  Planning and implementation of a data center relocation, a LAN relocation and relocation of ancillary DP equipment. Creation of a token ring LAN using twisted pair wiring. Installation of a state of the art communications network.

12/81 to 2/84 Conversion - Input Technology / Erisco / Thomas National Group, Staten Island, NY

· Positions Held: Systems Operator

Education:

• Pace University, NYC College of Staten IslandPratt Institute NYC