Cliff Hearn
5060 Little Turtle Drive
Birmingham, AL 35242
Cell: (205) 529-6384
Home: (205) 981-0992
wchearn3@writeme.com
  3535 Colonnade Parkway
North W3C
Birmingham, AL 35243
Work: (205) 977-0408
Cliff.Hearn@att.com


Profile of Qualifications
Results oriented professional with strong management, coordinating, programming and administrative skills. A proven team player and motivating leader with established strengths in innovative thinking, adaptability, communication, networking, fine details, and timeliness. Experienced in working with technical and non-technical management, employees, and contractors to realize a team solution that will benefit corporate goals. Experienced in balancing high performance versus corporate cost by implementing UNIX / Linux solutions to fit need including HPUX, Sun OS, Red Hat, SuSE, and Mandrake.

Professional Experience
2008-Current
  • Senior Subject Matter Expert/Technical Architect, Amdocs (Contact with AT&T) - Birmingham, Alabama
    Completed conversion of Legacy AT&T tariffs to Legacy BellSouth's Catalog of Prices and Rates system (BCPR); BCPR system was named best practices by new AT&T. Implemented FL Extended Area Service (EAS) expansion, adding over 2M calling points while coming in under budget. Migrated/ported and upgraded many applications and systems between LINUX (Red Hat/SuSE) and UNIX (HPUX/Solaris).
2007
  • Technical Architect, AT&T - Birmingham, Alabama
    Employee commendation for implementing State Commission ordered service restoration to 7 central office switches that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina; about 4,000 customers were impacted. Implemented expanded local calling area expansions that impacted over 200,000 AT&T customers by giving them larger calling areas. Mechanized system interface to feed billing control data of Banded Area Measured Service (BAMS) into SimCall for billing simulations. Implemented a reign wide V&H coordinate upgrade on schedule in spite of multiple roadblocks.
2004-2007
  • Senior Manager of Pricing Strategy (Senior Programmer/Analyst), BellSouth - Birmingham, Alabama
    Garnered multi-millions in annual benefits by designing data feed allowing BellSouth's billing of switched access usage. Saved Network Services annual head count by mechanizing system feeds. Laid the groundwork to create best in class pricing, usage analysis, and carrier access analysis tools for strategic pricing by directing IT equipment ordering (including hardware and software), installation, and configuration of multiple large (1TB) database warehouse layouts (Oracle 8i/9i/10g). Targeted top 20% of high value customers for senior management by coordinating data feeds and assisting in creating ISP/broadband study. Recovered company assets to assist in Hurricane Katrina losses by coordinating building equipment round up. Managed projects, served as team lead, and developed solutions that fit the client specifications and came in under budget. Migrated/ported and upgraded many applications and systems between DOS/Windows (1.3/9x/NT/2000/XP), LINUX (Red Hat/ Mandrake/ SuSE), and UNIX (HPUX/Solaris).
1996-2004
  • Manager in Usage Analysis (Programmer/Analyst), BellSouth - Birmingham, Alabama
    Reduced internal maintenance by 35% and increased client's update control by designing a customized reporting system, which allows clients access to control their data feeds and reports. Developed applications for updating databases, pushing data to remote sites, customizing reports, downloading data files, and navigating departmental web site. Reduced cost by developing web interfaces and reports to mechanize paper-reporting systems of over 1800 pages that had to be shipped out to multiple office locations across the region. Mechanized system interfaces to allow users a single point web access for multi-system changes including cross system runs, logs, and data transfers.

Independent Contractor
2001-Current
  • Photographer
    Captured weddings, birthday parties, family reunions, and other special occasions using a digital still camera to create photo CDs and prints. Digitally edited photos to create customized collages, repair water and time damage, or cleanup red-eye and blemishes per client needs.
2000-Current
  • PC Repair/System Assistance/Teacher/Tutor
    Assisted and taught clients how to resolve software and hardware problems, installations, upgrades, and repairs. Helped clients determine the best system for the required needs and budget. Taught clients how to build websites, home networks, write programs, or use software.
1999-Current
  • Website Host/Designer/Programmer
    Assisted clients to have a better web presence by hosting, designing, and maintaining both business and personal websites.

Education
1996-Current
  • Postgraduate Classes - Company Training Program
    Java and JSP Programming, Oracle SQL Tuning Techniques, Oracle 9i SQL and PL/SQL, MCSE Classes, MCP, Interactive Web Designing, Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL, Access 97, Java Programming, Visual BASIC 4, Relational Database Design, Structured Query Language, Developing Applications Using Informix-ESQL/C
1992-94
  • Troy State University - Troy, Alabama (BS, November 1994)
    Computer Information Science Major
    Business Administration Major

COMPUTER SKILLS
CURRENT
Skill Name   Experience
DOS/Windows   15 years
C   15 years
UNIX   15 years
CGI   14 years
HTML   14 years
LINUX   13 years
JavaScript   10 years
Perl   12 years
PHP   10 years
Team Lead   8 years
Expect   7 years
MySQL   7 years
Oracle   6 years
Project Management   5 years
TOTAL EXPERIENCE
Languages
  • Assembler, C/C++, COBOL II, Expect, FORTRAN, Java/JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, RPGII, SQL, VBASIC
Databases
  • Access 2000, dBase IV, Informix, MySQL, Oracle
Operating Systems
  • DOS, Linux, MVS, UNIX, Vax, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Network Applications
  • IPX/SPX, Microsoft Networks, NetBEUI, NetManage, Novell NetWare, TCP/IP
Web Programming
  • ASP, CGI, HTML/DHTML, PHP, Microsoft FrontPage, Symantec Visual Page
Web Related
  • Apache, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Netscape Enterprise Server
Word Processors
  • AmiPro 3.0, MS-Word XP, Norton Editor, Professional Write, VI, WordPerfect 6.0
Spreadsheets
  • As-Easy-As 3.01, Microsoft Excel 2000, Lotus 1-2-3 97, QuatroPro 4.0, VP Planner
Utilities
  • DJM, FTP, FTP Server, Gzip, Kermit, Norton Utilities, pcAnywhere, PC Tools, Pkware, Telnet, VNC, WinZip, X Windows
Others
  • Batch Script, JCL, JECL, Shell Script


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