Lyle Cates

Key Skills:

Software development

Virtual System Development

Authentication & Access Control

Global System Deployment

Data Management

Risk Management

Regulatory Compliance

Network System Automation

Education:

Western Iowa Tech
Sioux City, IA
A.A.S Industrial Robotics

Professional Training

University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
C++ Programming

Microsoft Academe
Visual Studio 2005
SQL 2005
Hyper V

Pluralsight
Visual Studio 2012
SQL 2008
Javascript
Regular Expression
CSS3
HTML5

Professional Summary:

Over 10 years experience in mission critical network infrastructure and software development for a diverse clientele. With a professional background in project management, team development, network engineering, programming, security analysis, and data forensics. I can bring your company excellent technical and analytical skills with the ability to provide cost effective solutions to any complex problems.

Colleagues describe me as cheerful, knowledgeable, detail-oriented and motivated.

Personal Perspective:

I have had the privilege of working on teams and task forces comprised of some of the greatest programmers, scientists and network architects in the nation. I owe all that I know about technology to individuals who took the time to teach me, friends who shared the same passion for technology as I do… and a bit of luck.

Technology Summary:

Experience:

02/2014 – Present
Parents as Teachers National Center Web Developer:

06/2013 – 02/2014
Robert Half International Software Consultant:

09/2010 - 06/2013
Sandia Information Design Computer Network Consultant:

06/2008 - 09/2010
Wausau Financial Systems Technical Advisor / Lead Escalation Specialist:

05/2005 - 06/2008
TEK Systems Information Services Consultant:

02/2002 – 05/2005
Sandia Information Design Technology Consultant:

10/2001 - 02/2002
Kelly Technical Services Information Services Consultant:

08/2000 – 10/2001
Robert Half International Information Technology Consultant:

02/1997 – 11/1999
Capps Scrap Metal Operations Manager:

03/1994 – 02/1997
Gateway 2000 Senior Support Technician:

Select Accomplishments:

• Software development: Developed VB.NET/XML/SQL database utilities and training material for the help desk to maintain globally deployed custom developed production and test lab software integrity. Translated Visual Basic script, T-SQL script, to VB.NET with XML data management. Converted VB.NET to C#(C-Sharp).NET and vice versa. Managed custom financial transaction software source code and configured base code for the banking industry.
• Database management: With OSQL command line utility, T-SQL scripts and personally developed VB and C#.NET/XML utilities. Provided the customer support department with tools to maintain bank branch specific information, customer transaction record database, software configuration database and custom proprietary software user security database for globally deployed bank branches.
• Reporting: Primary developer for emerging Crystal reports and extraction code driven by evolving business and reporting needs.
• Government: Technical consultant to the Department of Energy advanced weapons department to help develop a counter terrorism virtual LAN that ensured timely sharing of critical secure information among state and federal government agencies.
• Financial: Team lead for escalation support and primary maintenance programmer for national and global custom developed banking software. Technical advisor to the development team for network related development of emerging technology.
• Management: Directed and trained a team of 26 technicians comprised of state and federal employees and military servicemen to maintain a nationally deployed virtual private network and custom developed data mining and communication software.
• Infrastructure: Network engineer for a diverse team of IT professionals tasked with developing and deploying a FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) compliant private LAN, with Cisco VPN hardware and Windows 2000/2003 server software.
• Quality control: Served on the quality control team to ensure software production integrity through proper documentation, change control, network traffic regulation and active directory monitoring. Reviewed, tested and rewrote existing Crystal reports database extraction code and configuration to work seamlessly with new application code.
• Risk Management: As the private sector representative on the New Mexico Surety Task force helped develop the New Mexico Counter Terrorism Risk Management training material and assisted in the state wide vulnerability assessments.