401 Penns Way

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

Phone: (973) 769-9108

URL: http://www.wellsideas.com/tcocuzza

Thomas Cocuzza

Profile
Since leaving the brokerage industry in 1998, I have been self-employed. This has allowed me to consult in various areas of IT. I get the most gratification from assisting companies with becoming more successful through the Internet.
Education

Kean University (2003-2005) Union, NJ

B.S., Computer Science - Info Systems

3.86 GPA - summa cum laude

Experience

Fantasy Brains LLC Manasquan, NJ

Senior Web Developer (2007)

  • Built two web sites for the fantasy football industry using php on a Symfony platform
  • Developed and maintained 3 mysql databases
  • Created a custom shopping cart with credit card capabilities
  • Implemented Ajax tecniques to improve the user experience

Wells Ideas Basking Ridge, NJ

IT Consultant (2005-Present)

  • Work with clients to maximum their success using the Internet
  • Assist companies in the purchasing, upgrading, maintenance and assembly of hardware and software
  • Write programs for clients that extends the life or improves their existing software
  • Assist clients with data management, storage, mining and parsing

Aztec Sports and Information Systems Inc. Basking Ridge, NJ

President, CIO (1999-Present)

  • Designed, constructed and maintain Aztecsports.net web site in a LAMP environment
  • The site houses the industry’s best Internet-based scouting software
  • Consults with high school, college and professional football teams in order to develop a technologically efficient workplace

Barmenu.com Morristown, NJ

President, CIO (1999-2004)

  • Designed, constructed and maintained BarMenu.com, a social networking site used to promote bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.
  • Handled all aspects of the company's Internet marketing including SEO and advertisement purchasing
  • Managed a team of 5 advertisement salesman
  • Designed, constructed and maintained approximately 30 web sites for the company’s clients
  • Designed, constructed and maintained an Access database which was used to store over 65,000 establishments
  • Migrated site from asp scripts, Access database and an NT server to PHP, mySQL, and an Apache server
  • Sold the company to a private group in 2005

Montclair Financial Group Montclair, NJ

CIO (1999)

  • Converted Wells Capital Corp. web site into MontclairFinancial.com
  • Hosted and maintained web site
  • Managed a team of 5 advertisement salesman
  • Set up and maintained a network of 6 IBM computers using windows NT
  • Merged Wells Capital Corp. database into MFC

Wells Capital Corp. Livingston, NJ

CIO, CFO (1998)

  • Designed, constructed and maintained the first fully functional web site in the advanced funding industry
  • Designed, constructed and maintained a database of leads and clients
  • Integrated Act database and tutored all brokers to increase productivity
  • Negotiated the sale of the company to the third largest company in the industry
Technical Skills

Languages

  • Java (8years)
  • Perl (8years)
  • Bash scripting (8years)
  • C/C++ (8years)
  • Ruby (4years)

Web Technologies

  • (D)HTML (11years)
  • PHP (8years)
  • ASP (11years)
  • XML Schema (6years)
  • AJAX (7years)
  • XSL/XSLT (6years)
  • RSS (5years)
  • Ruby on Rails (4years)

Databases

  • mySQL (9years)
  • Access (11years)

Operating Systems

  • Linux (Redhat, Fedora Core)
  • Windows (NT, 2000/2003, XP)
References available upon request

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