John Nicoulakos

1463 Mercury Dr. #501

Schaumburg, IL 60193

jnicoula@yahoo.com
Available for hire

 

 
Will be taking a Java programming at
William Rainey Harper College in the fall.

 

Objective: Seeking a software testing or help-desk position utilizing the following experience:

Employment:

Independent Computer Consultant 1999 – present

Provided software/hardware support for 12 business and 50 residential clients.

Developed Web sites for business clients including design and programming.

  • Developing a Web page for University Printing, The University of Chicago. (still under construction).
  • Developing a Cell phone web site: http://members.xoom.com/foneless (still under construction).
  • Installed McAfee Anti Virus for 15 clients.
  • Repaired, replace and upgraded systems

Environment: HTML, Visual J++, Visual Studio, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, PageMill, Acrobat, Office 2000, TCP/IP, Windows 3.1 – 98

Quality Assurance Associate Software Engineer, HBO & Company 1997-1999

Developed and executed test cases for the company’s main product.

  • Executed testing scripts that saved three days of work. Using Rational SQA robot.
  • Tested EDI 856 (Purchasing), 832 (Catalog), and 810 (Invoicing) Parsers and Viewers. Used a proprietary Visual C++ application.

Environment: SQA Robot for Auto Testing, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 client , Windows NT 4 Client/Server

Information Services Consultant, Cinema Adventure 1996 - 1997

Responsible for the installation and configuration of a 20 PC network for use in a Cyber Café.

  • Trained customers on the use of PCs in the Cyber Café.
  • Set up and secured Windows 95 for customers (Policy/Register Editor).
  • Installed and configured DOS based games for Windows 95.

Environment: MS-Office 95, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Doom 2, Quake 2, War Craft 2, MIRC, and Windows 95

Programmer, Edge Report 1991 - 1993

Modified scripts for a proprietary Competitive Market Analysis (CMA)application. The script editor was a program written in Pascal, Dos version 3.3 and above.

  • Researched and developed product upgrades.
  • Tested CMA and wrote Bug reports.
  • Conducted beta testing for new software development.
  • Provided telephone help-desk support for users who purchased the software. Handled over 20 calls per day

Environment: DOS / Windows 3.11 for Work Group

Computer Skills:

HTML Visual J++ Visual Studio C C++ Visual BASIC Pascal FrontPage Dreamweaver 3 PhotoShop 5.5 Adobe PageMill Adobe Acrobat SQA Suite Office 2000 TCP/IP Windows NT Windows 3.1 – 98 Unix MS-DOS

Education:     Associate in Arts, William Rainey Harper College, 1993