S t e p h e n   P h e b u s

 

 

Software Developer

 

45 East End Avenue, #5E

New York, NY 10028

T: 212.744.6048

C: 347.421.3652

email: stephen.phebus@gmail.com

 

Executive Summary

Programming and managing project development, coding, user training, organizational integration

 

Highlights of Qualifications

  • Experience in insurance, finance, accounting, academia, and arts organizations
  • Ability to interpret users requests and integrate with management objectives
  • Results-oriented programming, creation of user-friendly practical systems, enhancing and automating office production workflow and maintenance

 

Professional Experience

 

Chief Software Developer

Mark Ross & Co. 1997 - Present.  Insurance/Financial Brokerage 

                Representative projects:

·         Developed office automation systems integrating financial database with legal, trust, and insurance document production

·         Developed in-house valuation routines for financial products integrated with office database

·         Managed a staff of VB programmers in developing inter-operable applications for marketing, data capture, presentation, and data-mining

·         Blackberry Manager – Training, integration, and third-party synchronization

·         Other Responsibilities include:

o        Network maintenance and troubleshooting

o        Backup procedures for servers and phone system

o        Server maintenance

o        Norton Antivirus roll-out to clients

·         Virtual Office:  Recently engineered and managed the technical and physical conversion of the Mark Ross & Co. offices to a virtual arrangement:

o        Set up 22 employees in NY, NJ, FL, CA

o        Established servers in co-location site

o        Connected all employees via fixed and/or dynamic VPN to remote server via Watchguard SOHO

o        Configured workstations for data access, remote drive mapping, and remote printing

 

Technical Consultant

Stryker Global Corporate Strategies, Inc. 1992-1996.  Independent insurance agency

·         Created annuity software system and corporate financial analysis impact study incorporating balance sheet, P&L, tax account projection, and stock impact study

·         Designed and implemented corporate website with interactive online system

·         Produced corporate presentation materials for insurance funding


 

Managing Director, Information Systems

IIC Resources, Ltd.  American Healthcare, Inc. 1990-1992.  A National Life of Vermont Agency

·         Managed IT staff in support of a sales force of 30 agents

·         Created large scale illustration programs for corporate clients

·         Designed funding plans for corporate liabilities and insurance/non-insurance solutions for a wide variety of problems encountered by medium to large corporations

·         VEBA Multi-Life projects coupled with Corporate Balance Sheet impacts statements

 

Programmer/Analyst

Wolper Ross & Company, Ltd. 1985 to 1990. Insurance /Pension/Actuarial/Financial Brokerage

·         Creation of new software methodologies, standards, and conventions

·         Maintenance of standard programming library routines

·         Data management and file access methods

·         Implementation of PC Backup procedures

 

Programmer

Hospital Audiences, Inc. 1982 to 1985.  Non-profit arts organization

·         Position: HP 250 Programmer/Arts Coordinator

·         Designed and maintained database for state, city, and federally funded projects

·         Integrated database and internal accounting systems

·         Managed NYS and NYC grants totaling $2.5mm for arts experiences for the disabled

 

Other Work Experience

1972 to 1982

·         Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Chairman of Fine Arts Department,  Coordinator of Inter-School Arts Programs

·         University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Ballet Department Faculty- taught courses in Sound and Movement & Choreography I and II

·         Cleveland Opera Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. Music Director/Pianist for seven seasons, producing 30 operas and operettas

·         Kenley Players, Ohio.  Assistant Music Director for touring companies of Grease, The Wiz, My Fair Lady and South Pacific

·         Music Director for two local theatres, conducting more than 35 musicals

·         Piano Teacher - Opera coach - Recital Accompanist - Concert Pianist

 

Technical Summary

·         Languages: Visual Studio.Net, ado.net, Visual Basic, MS SQL, MS Access, dBase, FoxPro, Filemaker, JCL, Pascal, HPBasic, COBOL

·         Database:  Sybase SQL Anywhere (ASA), MS SQL, MS Access, FoxPro, dBase

·         Operating Systems:  Windows (all), DOS, Linux

·         Design Tools:  VB-IDE, ColdFusion, Crystal Developer, Adobe Developer, Word VBA, Excel VBA

·         Internet Development:  Perl, JavaScript, ASP, PHP,MS Visual Studio

·         Server tools:  MS Active Directory, Veritas, Symantec, Watchguard

 

Education

·         Columbia University, 1984. Certificate course in Business Programming: COBOL, JCL, DBASE II

·         Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Music, 1973.  B.M. in Piano

 

Memberships:  Opera Index (Board of Directors), American Wagner Society, Rachmaninoff Society, The Players Club (Website Committee)