James S. Terray

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Skills
  • Python / Perl
  • IIS / ASP
  • UltraDev / PHP
  • PowerBuilder
  • SQL Server &
      Transact-SQL

  • Javascript
  • HTML / CSS
  • Oracle & PL/SQL
  • MS Access
  • MS Office Automation

  • Experience (Highlights)
  • State of Pennsylvania
    Information Office Clippings Digest - Developed scanning, storage and retrieval system for daily newspaper clippings using Adobe Acrobat and Active Server Pages.   Expected volume:  in excess of 15,000 pieces/year.   Intranet site consists of several search utilities, including advanced queries employing the MS Index Server with the Acrobat PDF IFilter plug-in.  Perl batch utilities were also provided to assist in the administration of .pdf files.

    Office of General Counsel - Wrote a death row inmate tracking system for the Governor’s legal office using Microsoft Access.  The multi-user application stores all the legal developments of a case and their status, keeps a full audit trail of every change made to the database, alerts users of impending events or deadlines, tracks counsel and other associated parties and how they relate to the case, and allows for detailed note-taking as events occur up to the minute.

    Leave Tracking Application - Developed a web-based intranet application using ASP for the PA House of Representatives to keep track of leave time available to each employee and allow their timekeepers to record when that leave time is used.  Application is built to accomodate a number of different roles:  employees have a read-only view to check their leave time usage, timekeepers can enter leave time taken, supervisors can monitor what their subordinates are doing, and members of the Personnel Department can check and approve submitted time.  The application also includes a number of SQL Server procedure-generated reports, and the ability for Personnel to bestow accrued leave time to all employees all at once using a rule-based system.


  • St. Alphonsus Hospital
    Developed electronic medical record using PowerBuilder 5.0 and PFC using a Sybase DBMS.  Custom-built a business-specific class library from PFC to serve as a foundation for future development.


  • Merrill Lynch & Co.
    Built a report-generation system for Merrill Lynch using PowerBuilder 4.0, Sybase DBMS, Erwin/ERX 2.1 database modeling tools, Excel ODBC & VBA macro language, and financial information gathered from Sungard data service.  Also provided user support and software troubleshooting for pre-existing Excel macros.


  • Education
  • Rider University (Philosophy)