MARY ELLEN "Mell" PAUL

Mary Ellen Paul also known as Mell

Profile

Proven organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. Able to learn and comprehend new systems and methods quickly. Strength in analyzing and improving database queries. Thorough and well organized in completing projects. Committed to maintaining quality and efficiency. Effective trouble shooter; can be counted on to get the job done.

Employment

Acute Hare Imagery Baraboo WI       2020--present

Sole Proprietor: Photography, sculpture, painting, sewing.

Madison College Portage WI       2017-2020

Student Librarian: Computer technical support for students, general library duties.

AmeriCorps VISTA at Habitat for Humanity Baraboo WI       2015-2016

Development Coordinator: Grant writing, web design, graphic design including rebranding.

WE Energies Milwaukee WI       1999-2014

Information Consultant: Maintained Aspect phone system and Syntellect IVR, later Interactive Intelligence VOIP phone system. System Administration/Technical Architecture/Database Administration of customer service system on Solaris UNIX operating system, Sybase and Oracle. Project Manager & technical architect for merger-related billing conversion. Remedy/ARSystem administration. Wrote documentation, maintained content management system.

Kohls Department Stores Menomonee Falls WI       1997-1999

Programmer/Analyst: C and PowerBuilder Programming of merchandise allocation system on AIX UNIX operating system.

The Mark Travel Corporation Milwaukee WI     1992-1997

Programmer/Analyst: Programming & DBA on Tandem computers with GUARDIAN 90 Operating System. Upgraded systems that communicate with airlines, including changing applications from "screen scraping" to using structured messages. Assisted with system conversion to SQL. Documentation.

Technical Skills

Languages

active server
awk
C
COBOL
Javascript
HTML
Perl
php
sed
shell scripting
SQL
XML

Software

Microsoft core programs
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
AutoCad
Photoshop
SSIS
TOAD
Visio
WordPress

Operating Systems

UNIX
Windows
Mac OSX

Miscellany

SQL queries and optimization
analytical problem solving

Education