Alexander Sandy Minash
cell: 414-416-5384

Cerification
Actuate certified Version 7 & 4 developer and trainer. 7.5 years Actuate development experience. 3.5 years training and mentoring experience.
Overview
Mr. Minash combines a strong technical background with a focus a level above the code itself. He has an understanding of the customer’s needs and business strategy and can translate that into solutions. He is a strong team player who has specialized in information transfer and mentoring.

Skills
Actuate Versions: 8.x, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
Databases/SQL
Oracle (3.5 years), UDB (five months), Sybase (eight months), Microsoft SQL Server (seven months), Progress (three months), MS-Access

Enterprise Software/Environments
Calidus (5 months), Peregrine Help Desk (5 months), SSR/GEAC Financial Package (8 months). Goldmine salesforce automation software.

Languages
Actuate-Visual Basic 8.x,7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x. Actuate OOP, ASP, Visual Basic (VB.net, + 3.0, 4.0, 5.0), C, Javascript, Macromedia Ultradev, Asymetrics Toolbook
Actuate Training Manual
Mr. Minash has written a 300+ page training manual for use in his own corporation.

Education
MS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BS, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Projects

Senior Consultant/Mentor, Actuate
Banking/Financial Industry
February, 2005 – July, 2005.
For major Midwest bank, Mr. Minash developed approximately 30 financial reports as part of a project to install an enterprise-wide incentive compensation management system, in a Calidus Trucomp 3.7 and Oracle 9i environment. Mr. Minash also wrote the stored procedures to support these reports. Mr. Minash conducted the Actuate certified (version 7) advanced training for the bank’s employees and mentored the bank’s Business Intelligence, Center of Excellence Center staff. Reports ranged from simple to complex bursting reports.

Actuate Trainer & Developer, Ver. 8, 7, 6.x
October, 2004 – Jan., 2005.
For a number of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Minash provided Actuate versions 7 and 8 training. Mr. Minash also provided development to a worldwide investment company. Working in conjunction with an Actuate partner, Mr. Minash provided development for a company specializing in employee absences. For a major international investment company, Mr. Minash provided mentoring and development on version 8 of Actuate.
Environment: Actuate 8,7, Oracle 7.

Senior Consultant, Actuate
Insurance Industry
May, 2004 – October, 2004.
For a major national insurance company, Mr. Minash wrote a number of highly complex reports to support management of the Peregrine ServiceCenter, including incident management average resolution and closure, monthly IM tickets closed count, and monthly SM tickets closed count.. Mr. Minash played a leading role in analyzing and redesigning the datamart to accommodate the reporting effort. Full life-cycle development including writing unit test plans and the technical specifications documentation. Environment: Peregrine, Actuate 7.1, UDB8/AIX.

Actuate Trainer & Developer, Ver. 7, 6.x
March, 2003 – May, 2004.
For a number of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Minash provided certified Actuate Version 7 training working in conjunction with an Actuate partner. For a world leader in the electronic funds industry, Mr. Minash provided certified Actuate7, 6.1 training, including Managing iServer. For two separate industry leaders in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Minash provided certified Actuate 6.1 training, development of complex reporting technologies and mentoring for an intranet application. Development included library development, security consultation including RSSE & LDAP, and the use of browser controls to display parameters. Environment: Calidus, Unix/Aix 5.0, Oracle 8.1.7 and Actuate running on a Unix server.

Senior Actuate Developer/Mentor
February, 2003.
Insurance/Risk Management
For a world leader in its industry, Mr. Minash developed conplex reports and mentored staff. Mr. Minash researched and advised management regarding the implications of the implementation of RSSE_External Registration on the application and administration of the application.
Mr. Minash developed a library strategy. He worked closely with the JSP team to design and develop a method of saving parameters to a table to be captured in JSP. He developed a driver report, mentored on the administrative/management console in version 6 of Actuate, and was an expert resource addressing a variety of Actuate issues. Environment: Actuate 6 in Websphere Cluster, including Java, Active Portal, and Websphere. Microsoft SQL Cluster 200, Actuate Cluster, 20 servers, Actuate Failover & IP Load Balancing.

Actuate Developer/Trainer
Apr. 2002 to current. For his own corporation – Advance Training and Reporting, Ltd.
For an industry leading label manufacturer, Mr. Minash mentored, trained – using his own training manual, developed and designed reports for purchase orders & quotes, including: setup, web deployment, Progress database connectivity, library development and queries against multiple databases. Reports were constructed dynamically from raw data via dynamic ordering and analysis of the data and implementation of a decision-making logic tied to frame and page construction. In consultation with development team, advised in database design for maximum efficiency for multiple ad hoc users. Environment: Actuate 4, Unix, Progress Database.
For the industry leading pipe fitting corporation, Mr. Minash trained the entire suite of Actuate products, mentored, developed and designed reports, including: setup, web deployment, Progress database connectivity and library development. Designed and mentored complex sequential sales-force automation reports and graphs with Progress database, and consulted on Actuate implementation, server issues and the use of Excel output, including other areas such as NT authentication, graphs, Actuate Administration issues, Web issues in a Unix/Java environment. Developed unique security model and using API, automated update of dependencies between rov’s and new executables. Environment: Actuate 5, Unix, Progress Database.
For a variety of companies, Mr. Minash provided Actuate development, training and mentoring to a Fortune 500 asset management company, to a major bank, to a computer consulting company, to an industry leader in labeling. Actuate
Version 6 & 5, and implementation of a VB.Net medical project.

Senior Actuate Developer/Mentor
Oct. 2001 to April, 2002.
Banking/Financial Industry
For major national bank. Mr. Minash worked on two projects: 1) he developed 15 reports for the investment division of the bank, to assist brokers in analyzing and reporting on their brokerage deals. Mr. Minash worked closely with the brokers to: 1) develop complex SQL queries and report design on an MS-SQL database; 2) assist in development of approximately 50 reports. Mr. Minash developed a driver report to run on the server and poll the data, automatically kicking off a series of WEB reports on bank security transactions in an Oracle environment. To assist in implementation driven by extreme time pressures, Mr. Minash introduced to the development team Oracle methodologies for returning a result set to Actuate, thus supporting the use of Oracle stored procedures with Actuate. Mr. Minash also developed a dynamic matrix report and performed Actuate WEB development using Javascript, Macromedia, and Actuate. Actuate 5.1, MSsql 7, Oracle 8.1.7.

Actuate Developer/Trainer.
May 2001 to Oct., 2001. Developed 275 page Actuate Training Manual, designed and marketed company website (top google placement under Actuate Training). Designed and marketed midwest art website.
Actuate Developer & Educational Coordinator
May, 2000 to May, 2001.
For Midwest insurer Mr. Minash developed, designed, and tested all reports, libraries, and managed backend development of sdk/api calls, c, Roguewave (Sun environment) to control parameter passing to the reports and direct output to optical drives in the form of PDF files. Mr. Minash was also the lead trainer for the company in the U.K. He conducted over 320 hours of training in the U.K. and U.S. in the entire suite of Actuate products, including 4+ and 5.0. His training included work for Progress Software, Cybersource, Etrade and Bank of America.
Banking/Financial Industry
(SSR/GEAC Financial Package)

Senior Consultant, Actuate
Banking Industry
September, 1999 to May, 2000.
Mr. Minash served as technical lead for worldwide reporting operations. He had primary responsibility for migrating the reporting division from London to Chicago. This involved the training of the banks staff, maintaining and debugging production environment, maintaining daily operations and daily maintenance of Actuate Encyclopedia (Actuate 3.2), fine-tuning queries, integration and modification of stored procedures and understanding of underlying table structure for financial reporting, SSR/GEAC.
Mr. Minash played a central role in ensuring the smooth transition of the worldwide reporting function to the Chicago international headquarters.
A Sybase, 11.3, Windows NT4, Unix Sun OS 5.6 environment. Assignment

Senior Consultant, Actuate
Telecommunications Industry
March, 1999 to Sept., 1999
Mr. Minash served as a developer of Actuate enterprise-wide reports in an Oracle/Clarify environment on an engagement to provide change request reporting of defective software and hardware systems. He had full life-cycle responsibility. Mr. Minash provided innovative object-orientated solutions, developed Oracle-based queries, designed and executed all test methodologies, documented all procedures, and conducted training of permanent staff.

Team Lead - Actuate
Service Industry
October, 1997 – Feb., 1999
Team lead of payroll/benefits' enterprise-wide reporting solution in Actuate in an Oracle/NT environment, organized project.
Assigned roles to developers
Designed reusable object libraries
Supervised development of 60 reports.
Wrote white paper on Actuate’s three-tier object orientated, enterprise-wide reporting technology.
Designed and delivered curriculum and instructional program for Manpower's Actuate programmers.
Developed and executed unit test plan.
Environment: Actuate, Oracle, Visual Basic, Windows NT, Lotus Notes, PVCS (version control software).

Business Analyst / Sales Support
College Placement Service
May, 1997 – Sept., 1997
Interviewed staff, wrote workflow analysis, designed a solution to automate the various office and data functions of the business, and developed a series of prototype applications in Visual Basic, FrontPage, HTML and Visual Basic script, according to this design. Environment: Visio, Visual Basic 4.0, FrontPage, Visual Basic Script.

Technical Lead, Development & Coordination of Statewide Migration and Customer Care
Insurance Industry
Jan., 1996 – Feb., 1997

Technical lead in sales-force automation project. Implemented migration of contact-management software from mainframe legacy environment to the PC, including:
Migration of legacy data and integration with purchased database.
Laptop installation.
Data synchronization between laptop and WAN.
Analysis of user base and customer training throughout the four company regions within Wisconsin.
Documentation of system.
Environment: MS-Access SQL,Goldmine, Goldbox, Visual Basic 4.0, Windows NT Server 4.0, Novell Wide Area Network.
Researched and prototyped 3-tier client/server, business model, using Visual Basic 4's RDO and ODBC data base connectivity and OLE object orientated technology with class modules. Developed three Visual Basic Applications: 1) Automated a manually processed claims procedure using Visual Basic and the Window's API to integrate IRMA (a PC/Mainframe tool) as a client/server application and allow UWS "clients" to process claims by the Benefits Examiner in a split-screen environment - with the IRMA/mainframe screen for claim information and the Visual Basic screen for group benefits; 2) Developed a reporting system to process AT&T data for UWS, tracking unit cost and related information per account, using Visual Basic, running multiple queries to a single data control bound to Crystal Reports; 3) Developed an ad-hoc query and reporting tool for complex, non-uniform, user-driven queries using Visual Basic, and Formula1 (a Sybase owned WEB product) that can be operated either in a stand-alone environment or as an Intranet/Internet plugin.
Environment: Visual Basic 4, MS-Access, and SQL.

Project Manager / Sales Support
Medical Technology Industry
(Medical Resonance)
Project manager for Japanese medical systems account for a Fortune 500 company. Designed and developed a conversion of paper-based, engineering drawings and part lists to software application.
Full life cycle responsibilities including:
Programming.
Quotation of work.
System design.
Debugging, and testing.
Environment: MS - Windows, Asymetric's Toolbook
MS - Access.
(Nuclear Imaging)
As project manager, developed CBT/sales-force automation and trade show application to graphically reproduce the hospital workstation functionality. This sales force automation application simulated the graphical and administrative image library and data base systems (Nuclear Imaging Environment) that tracks and archives patient records.
Full responsibility for all phases of the project's development including graphic design, programming, program design, testing and debugging.
Environment: MS - Windows, Asymetric's Toolbook, Aldus Photostyler, & MS - Access.
Environment: MS-Windows, Asymetric's Toolbook, & MS - Access

"I was the training manager with Actuate for several years. We used Mr. Minash on several of our larger training engagements. He is very experienced with the product line and provided our clients with extraordinary training/facilitation. You will be very pleased with the training Mr. Minash provides." Analalisa Adams-Qualtiere

"Thanks for the class, I felt it went very well and your prototype will definitely help us with our design for my project." Stacy Poulos, Bayer.

"We came away from Mr. Minash's Developer Workbench 1 course
feeling confident that we had attained a good grounding in Actuate. This has indeed been the case, and the course notes have been a handy reference when grappling with report writing in the real world. The course was packed with essential information and handy tips as well as being thoroughly enjoyable."
Sue Finnigan, SystemCare, U.K.

"Mr. Minash has shown a high degree of professional pride and commitment in the quality of his work. His testing has been concientious and thorough. He has persisted in the resolution of difficult technical issues. He has remained good-humored in the face of numerous unexpected obstacles (not of his making). He has put in many long hours to help keep the project on schedule. He has often worked evenings and weekends ...He has shown a real sensitivity to the need for "user-friendly" procedures and strong skills in the creation of professional quality documentation formats. In my experience, programming abiliity and good communication skill sets are not often combined in a single individual."
Jim Waeffler, Project Manager, Cobalt Corporation, U.S.

"Excellent. A most enjoyable experience; well delivered and paced correctly. Covered all the points I needed to know and many elements of information which I can see will assist me in the future."
David Wright, DSL, U.K.