Mark E. Burger

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Objective

Mr. Burger is seeking fulltime employment as a systems engineer, pre-sales engineer, systems analyst, enterprise architect or similar position.

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Summary of Qualifications

Mr. Burger has over 25 years of computer engineering experience. His recent activities include data warehousing, CRM, internet strategy, web design, electronic commerce and internet evangelism. Additional experiences include enterprise architecture, design, development, integration, competitive analysis, product / strategic / project planning, and proposal writing on large projects including a 1.3 billion dollar distributed multimedia system for the IRS. Mr. Burger is an award-winning written & oral communicator equally comfortable & skilled in addressing executive management or technical audiences or in preparing formal responses to requests for proposals.

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Work Experience

Consulting Engineer: Internet image consulting, including complete hands-on strategy, design, and implementation for such electronic commerce and internet evangelism projects as OhMyWord!™, The ICHTHUS projecT™, Dad’s Place Ministries and eXtremeWitness.  Activities also include serving on the Board of Directors of Dad’s Place Ministries, the primary non-profit partner of UNIphant Enterprises.  (more details)
 

Consulting Engineer:  Systems architecture and design for multi-million dollar data warehousing and high availability transaction processing projects for the Internal Revenue Service and for other government agency contracts.  (more details)
 

Senior Systems Engineer:  Technical Lead and Technology Enhancement Coordinator for the $1.3 Billion Document Processing System Contract for the Internal Revenue Service.   (more details)
 

Senior Systems Engineer:  Technical Lead and other key design and architectural responsibilities for various large image scanning and character recognition proposals for the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and others.  (more details)
 

Advisory Programmer:  Project Planner and Technical Lead in Forms Processing/Character Recognition development for IBM ImagePlus products.  (more details)
 

Staff Engineer:  Business Area Strategist with emphasis on advanced technology areas.  Other development and planning assignments included competitive analysis, performance analysis, logic design, and project planning.  (more details)
 

Engineer:  Various engineering and programming activities.  (more details)
 

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Professional Achievements

Presentations

Speaker and/or panelist for various topics at Federal Imaging, FOSE, NCC/AIIM, Government Imaging, and Technet (AFCEA).  Created and delivered private seminars for IEEE, IBM, Loral, AT&T GIS, NCR, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. General Accounting Office and others.

Patents/Technical Disclosures

Instruction Buffer Bypass Apparatus, Multi-Register Instruction Completion Detection, Method for Defining a Plurality of Form Definition Data Sets, and others.

Technical Publications

The Whetstone Benchmark, Combining Performance Measurements, More About Combining Performance Measurements, Intelligent Character Recognition & Forms Processing: A Glossary, and Internal Revenue Service Document Processing System: Intelligent Forms Processing.

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Professional Memberships

ACM

Internet Evangelism Coalition

Christian Webmasters Association

International Christian Technologists' Association

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Education

Additional Skills

HTML JavaScript JAVA XML SQL C FrontPage Dreamweaver Word Excel PowerPoint and more

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Work Experience Details

Consulting Engineer:  Internet image consulting, including complete hands-on strategy, design, and implementation for such electronic commerce and internet evangelism projects OhMyWord!™, The ICHTHUS projecT™, Dad’s Place Ministries and eXtremeWitness, all delivered on time and under budget.  Complete webmaster responsibilities for corporate UNIphant internet presence, including HTML, JavaScript and other programming as well as negotiation of online partnerships.  Activities also include serving on the Board of Directors of Dad’s Place Ministries, the primary non-profit partner of UNIphant Enterprises, responsible for property management, planning, accounting, and development for the internet evangelism ministry. (return to experience summary)
 

Consulting Engineer:  Three years sales engineering, systems architecture & design for Teradata data warehousing and high availability transaction processing projects for various government contracts, including a $3 million Department-of-Justice Teradata system, a $7 million electronic tax filing system and over $18 million in very-large database systems for IRS.  Two years systems architecture & design for the Treasury Multi-user Acquisition Contract, the Service Center Replacement Image Processing Systems contract, and various GSA contract acquisitions.  Sole Federal systems engineer trained in the METIS, Visual Enterprise Architecture Planning and Global Information & Technology Planning tools. National Account Solution Group “Pre-Sales Consultant of the Month” and division “Great Performance” award runner-up.  Corporate Consultants’ Council for executive feedback. (return to experience summary)
 

Senior Systems Engineer:  Technical Lead and Technology Enhancement Coordinator for the $1.3 Billion IRS Document Processing System Contract, including a multi-petabyte RAID and optical storage system with Sybase-based workflow.  Responsibilities included project leadership for one of four major subsystems. Additional responsibility for monthly proposals & reports regarding the technical & business case justification for the integration of new products, technologies, and techniques recommended and/or required for the continued and improved operation of the entire system as well as the associated physical workflow and ergonomics. Consistently met or exceeded deadlines and other expectations. Permanent member of the System Architecture Committee. (return to experience summary)
 

Senior Systems Engineer:  Technical Lead with key design & architectural responsibilities for large image scanning and character recognition proposals for Internal Revenue Service, Social Security and others. Principal architect for one of four major subsystems of the winning proposal & demonstration in the highly competitive IRS Document Processing System procurement awarded for $1.3 billion.  Principal technical interface with Kodak Imaging Systems as a major partner in this and similar proposals & contracts.  Invention Achievement Award and other awards for outstanding contributions to this and other projects, including exceptional written & oral contributions during the IRS DPS procurement and a significant number of patents & published technical papers. (return to experience summary)
 

Advisory Programmer:  Technical Project Manager for Forms Processing and Character Recognition development for IBM ImagePlus products.  Responsibilities included requirements gathering via customer interviews & competitive assessment, pricing and other business case analysis, and primary contact with major suppliers & subcontractors, as well as overall technical direction and project scheduling. (return to experience summary)
 

Staff Engineer:  Business Area Strategist with emphasis on advanced technology areas including multimedia, imaging, expert systems, and knowledge management.  Director’s Award.  Technical evaluation, performance analysis, and other competitive planning for mid-range 370 systems, the VM operating system, and SQL database products.  Logic design, development and integration for mid‑range 370 systems. (return to experience summary)
 

Engineer:  Various engineering and programming activities for the design and integration of air traffic control systems, including logic design, assembly language programming, and customer education / training. (return to experience summary)
 

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