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Simon McClenahan

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The experience in my career has been focused on working strategically as a software developer and tactically in implementations, support and administration, including legacy systems. With my attention to detail and awareness of my employers goals I have frequently taken the role of technical team lead and mentor to co-workers. This has allowed me to also develop my non-technical skills in leadership, performance monitoring and setting pragmatic business goals. My personal passion to stay current with technology requires me to be efficient and knowledgeable in many areas. My roles in the software industry include information security, software system implementations, support and operations, maintenance, research, development, configuration management, team leadership and mentoring. These skills have been applied over a wide variety of computer system architectures and operating systems. - Simon McClenahan

Simon McClenahan's Background

Simon McClenahan's Experience

Online Software Architect Lead at McKesson

October 2003 - March 2011

- Responsible for leading the implementation of fixing security vulnerabilities in the production environment for general Internet security, PCI compliance and HIPAA requirements. - In my software architect role I was to maintain, enhance, and lead the development of Patient Compass, our hospital patient online billing and payment webapp product. Implemented in Java, EJB's, Oracle, Windows Server, Linux, Solaris. - Fill a project management role for the webapp product. Supervised several full-time and part-time consultants along with employee software engineers. - Available nights and weekends on-call by default to resolve urgent production issues. - Perform technical processes to upgrade customer web sites to latest release while maintaining customizations previously made. - Contact point for customers to communicate technical requirements or processing issues with their own technical staff. - Educate and train team members on how to research and identify issues reported for product support. - Systems administration tasks such as user management, backup management, DBA, virtual machine management, etc. as required. - Work in a fast-paced environment with frequent (intra-day) changes in priorities.

Online Software Architect Lead at RelayHealth

October 2003 - March 2011

RelayHealth is a McKesson business unit. See my McKesson position description.

Software Support and Development Team Lead at HealthCom Partners

October 2003 - April 2006

Initially employed by HealthCom Partners, later bought by McKesson. See my McKesson position description.

Senior Consultant at Alliance Consulting

January 2003 - October 2003

See my Discover Card position description.

Senior Software Engineer at Discover Card

January 2003 - October 2003

- Maintain and upgrade the Apply for a Discover Card on the Internet. - Worked on online Account Center redesign, making a payment.

Senior Consultant at divine, inc.

November 2002 - January 2003

See my Quaker Oats position description.

Software Engineer at Quaker Oats

November 2002 - January 2003

Sensory Testing Laboratory - Design and implement a proof of concept system to replace Quaker’s existing outdated system for creating and running tests. - Created an application to design and create the tests, manage users and judges, and executing the tests by dynamically displaying the test control inputs and storing the results in a database.

Principle Software Engineer at IntraNet Solutions

2001 - 2003

Software Components Division purchased by Stellent. See Stellent position description.

Principle Software Engineer at Stellent

2001 - 2002

Implement the Java interface to the document Transformation Server product.

Senior Software Engineer at CorMedical

2001 - 2001

CorSolutions application development team. Design and implement the next major version of their patient management system.

Senior Software Engineer at BALR

1999 - 2001

Purchased by Whittman-Hart / marchFIRST. See position descriptions for Walgreens and CorMedical.

Senior Software Engineer at Whittman-Hart / marchFIRST

1999 - 2001

Originally employed by BALR Inc. See position descriptions for Walgreens and CorMedical.

Software Engineer at Walgreens

1999 - 2000

- Re-organize and streamline the development environment for the Manager’s WorkBench Intranet application, which presents Key Performance Indicator (KPI) information to Walgreens store managers and corporate users. - Maintain RCS based source code control system with sophisticated UNIX shell scripts. - Design and re-implement legacy to Java servlet architecture. - Mentored Walgreens team members in Learning Java and OOD.

Software Engineer at The CBE Group, Inc.

1996 - 1998

Maintain OpenVMS architecture and develop additional features for their proprietary money collection system software.

Software Engineer at MCI Communications Corporation

March 1995 - February 1997

Intelligent Services Platform - Applied Technology Group Develop prototypes as a “proof of concept”, for the purpose of enhancing and creating new services for MCI’s Intelligent Network. Work with cutting-edge multimedia and Internet technologies. Most work was related to Video-conferencing systems. British Telecom ISN Development, ARU Team Work on development in adapting the ARU (Audio/Automated Response Unit) part of the ISN system in MCI, to work in the United Kingdom for British Telecom.

Consultant at Computer Horizons

March 1995 - February 1997

See my MCI position description.

Supercomputing Support Officer at CSIRO

January 1990 - October 1994

CSIRO Australia - Division of Information Technology - High Performance Computing Laboratory Supercomputing Support Group / Computing Facilities Management Technical support for inter-divisional CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) users of the Cray YMP supercomputer. My duties included Systems Administration tasks, software package installation, providing information on how to make best use of the supercomputing facilities, simple and complex user requests on UNIX systems and Macintoshes, and software maintenance.

Senior Developer at American Express

March 2011

Accertify is an American Express company. See my Accertify position description.

PR at Chicago Java Users Group

January 2005

Co-manage and update CJUG Wiki, Yahoo Group and Facebook pages.

Senior Developer at Accertify, Inc.

March 2011

I am a Senior Developer for Accertify's flagship product Interceptas, a complete solution for online fraud prevention. My speciality is integration with payment gateways.

Simon McClenahan's Education

University of Melbourne

1987 – 1990

Bachelor of Science


Melbourne High School

1984 – 1987

Simon McClenahan's Interests & Activities

Computers and Technology, Science, Cryonics, Martial Arts, Social Networking, Software Development, Information Security, Artificial Intelligence, Family Activities, Genealogy, Payment Processing

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