Henry A. Grant

IT Design, Management, Direction

Employment History


www.decilog.com
Sr Software Engineer
April 2003 to Present
Decilog Inc 
555 Broadhollow Rd.
Melville, NY 11747
Responsibilities:  Design, implementation and testing of Ada software for U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, & Engineering Center (ARDEC) Paladin M1096A Howitzer Automatic Fire Control System (AFCS).  Achievements:  Finalized the design, coding and unit testing of the fire control system operator interface, developed unit test procedures and testing guidelines.


www.qwest.com
Sr Integration Manager
April 2000 to October 2002
Qwest Cyber Solutions LLC 
1899 Wynkoop, Denver, CO. 80202
Responsibilities:  Provide expert technical direction in the creation, delivery and integration of multiple, hosting and ASP solutions based on HP, Sun, IBM and Cisco systems. Achievements:  Managed East Coast data center implementations for twelve ASP hosting clients. Developed processes and procedures for transition, implementation and provisioning. This effort helped the company achieve SAS-70 certification, first in ASP industry.


www.kpmg.com
Consulting Manager
October 1997 to April 2000
KPMG Consulting - Transition Management Services
345 Park Ave, New York, NY 10023
Responsibilities:  Consulting Manager Fortune 100 clients. Provide leadership and direction for all phases of IT project management: performance, planning, change control and configuration management, business risk assessment, contingency planning, business continuity and disaster recovery, external communication procedures, supply chain analysis. Manage business development for e-commerce initiatives from initial proposal and contract negotiations, delivery and long-term association. Achievements:  Managed consultants and multiple software projects involving 10M lines of code. Generated design specifications, test plans and delivered software on time and within budget. My projects passed NY State Bank Board regulatory audit requirements. I managed IT projects in five corporate departments (HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Risk Management) for a global financial services company located in Stamford Ct.

 



www.reuters.com
Project Leader
Oct 1986 to Oct 1997
Reuters Ltd. Transaction Systems Development
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Responsibilities:  Global responsibilities included project management, systems operations, customer support and training. Intimately involved in the design, launch and growth of three successful, international trading systems using both proprietary and Internet technology. Achievements:  Developed seamless migration of global currency and commodities trading systems Forex®, Globex® from New York to London. Reduced operational costs 40% by consolidating hardware and automating manual operations. Managed the development of an NT based enterprise management system.

 

Skills Summary

Education

B.S. Computer Science STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, Stony Brook NY College of Engineering and Applied Science 1979-1982
   
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Post grad. Courses Computer Science 1984-85
Dale Carnegie  Graduate and graduate instructor, Hauppauge, NY. 1986

 

Proficiencies

Languages- Ada, C#, Objective-C, Python, wxPython

IDEs - Visual Studio 2013, Eclipse (Juno), Aonix ObjectAda (Windows),  Android Studio (0.8.9), X-Code(OS X), Texas Instrument Code Composer Studio.

GUI Development - Visual development tools: Apple Interface Builder(IB), Boa-Constructor(Python), wxDesigner. Boa-Constructor and wxDesigner are wxWidgets (wxWindows) editors. wxWidgets is a cross platform GUI library supporting Windows, OS-X, Windows-CE and PocketPC.

Mobile Platforms: Android (4.1 - 4.4), iOS

Web Design - MS Expression-Web

Network Technology - Cisco IOS, Ada Sockets, wireless 802.11x

Licenses, Certifications, Affiliations

IEEE Computer Society - Member
Cisco CCNA Certification - 2003 CSCO10594176
Apple Developer Program Member
FAA - Private Pilot (ASEL, high performance endorsement)
FCC License - WA2AKV General Class

References available upon request.