Software Developer Peter Mantos, Websites, IT & Software
PETER H. MANTOS
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Masters of Science (Computer Science) • M.B.A. (Finance) • Project Management Professional PMP
SUMMARY
Information technology (I.T.) software developer current in best business practices. Currently programming in C# (C sharp) using .NET (dot net), Visual Studio, MVC, and GIT. Over twenty years of technical and managerial positions in global organizations and small businesses. A team-player with exceptional communication skills who is capable of assuming diverse roles as needed including programmer, tester, design, and I.T. project manager. Experience spans many industries including healthcare (medical and dental), semi-conductor manufacturing, oil & gas, legal, and others. Graduate degrees in business management and in computer science. Brings world-class I.T. and management experience to public and private organizations of all sizes. A self-directed, trouble-shooter versatile in many programming languages, databases, and operating systems.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Electrical Engineer, Head Engineering Services November 2018– Present
Head Engineering Services Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Projects in support of governmental agencies and programs of a confidential nature (Active Clearance)
• Software Development Contractor developing real-time data acquisition and control applications.
• Most applications are built using C#, .Net, using Visual Studio.
• Instituted documented software versioning systems using GitLab, Linux, on a Raspberry Pi 4.
• Development of scientific applications for offline data analysis using MatLab.
• Work primarily independently within a small team on multiple projects as needed and simultaneously
President/Consultant, Mantos Consulting, Inc. August 1988 – Present
Mantos Consulting, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Software development: typically for web applications, mobile apps, and for integration purposes implementing innovative strategies including data warehousing, web services, and transaction processes that span multiple software applications and database architectures.
• Familiar with Infrastructure, network, architecture, database, and software design, and SDLC.
• Procurement and liaison of third-party IT software, hardware, and service vendors on behalf of clients.
• Conduct strategic I.T. analysis to propose strategies as well as projects to support those strategies. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders including mentorship and professional project management to ensure organizational success. Assume roles as required including business analyst and system design.
• Over ten years of healthcare experience with ACC HealthCare. As the contracted C.I.O., I led projects to capture medical and dental data at remote (mobile) sites for U.S. military. Automated several processes, integrated and secured central records repository, reformatted and transmitted records to military databases using various semi-manual and automated procedures using custom software.
• Managed multiple employees, client personnel, and multiple projects simultaneously.
• Mentored the I.T. manager of an academic medical group, as an independent consultant, to assist in ongoing process and Organizational Development improvement efforts. Ultimately developed I.T. strategies and recommended projects to modernize I.T. infrastructure in preparation of industry wide changes such as HL10. Developed a set of internal customer-centric quality and performance metrics.
• Maintained a web-based application that permitted physicians in a specialty practice to record patient interactions at hospitals, including capture of ICD and CPT codes, into the practice-based system. Automated procedures to produce summary reports to referring physicians saving both physician and staff time, while increasing quality of outcomes and accuracy of billing to multiple insurance providers.
• Performed various services for one of New Mexico’s reference laboratories including a company-wide, interdepartmental project to ensure readiness and business continuity. Helped with selection of C.I.O. per direction of C.E.O. via informal interviews of candidates with respect to technical issues. Became familiar with inter-organizational, healthcare information systems and industry standards including HL7.
• Trusted advisor to small business owners including direct mentoring of their I.T. managers and staff
• Act as an effective communication bridge between management, users, technical staff, and vendors.
• Ad-Hoc C.I.O. addressing Strategic Management, Project management (PMP), and Quality Management
• RFP development including eliciting and documenting business and technical requirements and developing related customer-based metrics of success. Sometimes act as liaison to successful bidder.
• Transition management helping to smoothly implement potentially disruptive technologies
Project Manager, NM State Land Office February 2016 – June 2017
TekSystems, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico
Assumed role as part-time, contract I.T. project manager for the Land Information Management System (LIMS). This $7M, 5 year project was the first to migrate a significant portion of a 20 year old legacy mainframe system to a modern Microsoft .NET, SQL-based, MVC architecture. Applied best practices per PMI to help a project in danger of failure. Reported directly to the NMSLO C.I.O. as well as to Department of Information Technology (DOIT) oversight and SLO executive steering committee. Personally reconciled project budget, developed and managed project roadmaps and schedules using Microsoft Project, and addressed critical areas of concern identified by external Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) resources. Organized and led user forums to prioritize work, develop requirements and associated user acceptance test criteria and scripts. Successfully closed this project under budget. Initiated LIMS support and development in-house using cloud-based TFS (VSTS) in an Agile environment. Aided in development of the NMSLO IT Strategic plan for Fiscal years. Automated metrics using moderately complex VBA from excel using real-time, web-based data sources.
Software Developer, NM Department of Game and Fish February 2014 – May 2017
TekSystems, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico
Maintained and enhanced a suite of on-line applications designed to manage the sale of hunting of fishing licenses as well as related administrative functions such as third-party sales, wildlife management, hunter education, enforcement, and off-highway vehicles. Primary environment used ZEND and Doctrine’s MVC. Personally developed web services to facilitate interaction by third-party partners in hunter education; delivered an in-house time and cost application to ensure NMDGF’s ability to collect federal funds (FACTS); and migrated applications to use state-of-the art practices to better ensure PCI compliance. Introduce modern Agile practices.
Sort 9/11 Automation Group Leader (and other positions) March 1990 – August 1998
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (most work performed in Rio Rancho, NM)
• Sort 9/11 Automation Group Leader; Direct supervision of staff of 7-12 I.T. professionals
• Member of Rio Rancho Site Computing Council coordinating 5,000 office desktops
• Member of Factory Finance committee negotiating and managing $20M shared budget for Sort 9/11
• Year 2000 Program Coordinator, Responsible for multiple related projects across the globe
• Member of Back-end Automation SCS responsible for 5-year automation roadmap
Various positions of increasing technical and managerial responsibility ranging from contract programming using formal software development methods to leading an automation group.
Technical Skills
Operating Environments: Windows Clients, Windows Servers (Hyper-V, SharePoint / Exchange); Unix/Linux (Ubuntu), Raspberry PI, Apache 2, WAMP & LAMP, IS (ASP), Legacy Systems including VAX/VMS & DOS
Programming Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio (.Net), Microsoft VBA, ZEND Studio, Agile Development, GIT, Eclipse
Programming Languages: .NET (C# and VB) HP (and Perl), Ruby, MATLAB, Command Scripts, Object Oriented Languages, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Artificial Intelligence (LISP), Legacy (COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC)
Databases: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle
Education
• Master of Science in Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1993.
• MBA Finance, Robert O. Anderson Graduate School at UNM, Albuquerque NM, 1992.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of New Mexico
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, Courses at UNMCE 2018
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