MARTINA JAMES
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Manager and IT architect with strong leadership abilities, proven track record developing, implementing and reengineering corporate Internet/Intranet sites and content management systems. Full project life cycle, from winning the project, scoping, taking it from concept through implementation with superb technical and management skills. Fast adaptation to the new technologies and environments, strong analytical and problem solving skills. Extensive experience (13+ years) in web-related technologies.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1/2009 - current
Manager

IBM Manager of Global Solutions team at IBM, ibm.com. I manage a team of about 25 people, out of which 10 are US-based, the rest is globally distributed. Responsible for staffing, operations, sales, leadership, motivation and development of employees. Team specializes in creating and supporting web solutions for IBM, including custom development projects, content management implementations and migrations, systems integration, management of development environment, production support.

10/2003 - 12/2008
Team lead, IT Architect

IBM Team lead for 10-15 person team of application developers. Technologies in projects managed include Domino, PHP, Java, Webshpere, DB2, Interwoven. Responsibilities: resource management, work allocation, sizing and scoping, application architecture.

10/99 - 10/2003
Consultant

Synchronized Dynamics, Inc. Responsibilities include strategic decision-making, project management and hands-on development. Managed creating multiple client web sites, intranets and custom web applications. Clients include: UBS PaineWebber, Deutsche Bank, IBM, barnesandnoble.com, JP Morgan, Xceed, Bredin Business Information and NYU School of Medicine.
Core skills: Project management, XML, XSL, PERL, SQL, PHP, Java, shell scripting, DHTML

IBM (3/02 - 10/03). Team lead for the corporate standard content management templates development. Advised on the international - corporate wide content management council. Developed 30+ templates, implemented on AIX and Windows servers. Used XML, DTD, XSL (Xalan, FOP), Interwoven TeamSite Templating.
UBS PaineWebber (9/00 - 7/01). Team lead on the reengineering project for Import-Export team, used Object Oriented Perl, stored procedures for Sybase and shell scripting. Reduced Import-Export process from several hours to 10 minutes. Redesigned technical implementation of site-wide navigation system for a financial portal (JavaScript, JSP). Managed and assisted with a CD-ROM presentation demoing a financial portal.
Whosearmy.com (1/00 - 9/00). Managed development of a B2B portal and assisted with various aspects of implementation. The site used Java (beans, servlets and JSP), Oracle, Perl (for reporting), JavaScript.
7/00 - 12/01
Lecturer

New York University. Classes: Intensive Web Design and Production, JavaScript, DHTML. Students get solid foundation in World Wide Web technologies: TCP/IP, Unix 101, installation and maintenance of web server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI, Perl, SQL, security.

4/99 - 10/99
Consultant

IntelliMark. As an independent consultant for Philip Morris, created and implemented a web site for the Human Resources Intranet. Created a style guide, trained an employee to add content to the site. On a short assignment with Bowne International, developed the DHTML components of the web site and helped with ASP development.
Skills: ASP, DHTML, PhotoShop, ImageReady, FrontPage, HomeSite

5/98 - 4/99
Director of Web Development

Tumble Interactive Media, Inc. Created and maintained client internet and intranet sites, requirement assesment and evaluation directly with clients. Managed a diverse team throughout a series of implementations including sites for IBM, ABC (intranet), and the Hearst Corporation.
Skills: PERL/CGI, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Photoshop, BBEdit, CometSite, RealAudio, Flash Implementation

11/95 - 5/98
Country Web Manager

IBM Slovakia. Managed www.ibm.com/sk for IBM Slovakia, reporting directly to the Director of Communications. As chief liaison between IBM's Corporate Headquarters in New York and local management, ensured coordination of design standards, maintained, gathered content for, and created content for complete English and Slovak versions of the site. Chosen for 3 month, select international assignment at IBM Corporate Internet Programs, New York City.

6/95 - 5/97
Consultant

Privately consulted with a number of multinational companies based in Slovakia who were in the process of creating web sites and company intranets. Created and led a series of presentations on Web development and taught the basics of web technology to both technical and non-technical staff.
Skills: Unix, JavaScript, HTML, PhotoShop, Animated Gifs

EDUCATION

9/94 - 6/99
Comenius University, Faculty of Management
Bratislava, Slovakia

Masters in Management of Information Systems (GPA 4.0, top of class)
Bachelors in Business Management (GPA 3.9)
Thesis project developed in PERL, CGI, Oracle DBMS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PhotoShop

SKILLS

In-depth knowledge of:

Object Oriented Perl, SQL, Regular Expressions, XSLT, XSL-FO, JavaScript, CGI, JSP, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Web Publishing.

Operating systems

UNIX (Linux, AIX), Windows and Mac

Applications

TeamSiteTM, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint), MS Outlook, MS Project, Lotus Notes, PVCS Version Manager, PVCS Tracker, EOWin, ESPWin, XML Spy, vi and other unix tools.

Graphic software

Adobe Photoshop

Databases

DB2, MySQL, ORACLE, Sybase

LANGUAGES

English, Slovak, Czech, German

ACTIVITIES

Center for Management Development and Applied Research

Founder, Member (10/95), Electronic Mail and Data Supervisor (1/96)

LaNo Theater Group, Na Tahu Theater Group

Member: Oct. 1991 - Nov. 1995


References available upon request.

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