Resume of Patrick A. Levell

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    "name": "Patrick A. Levell",
    "label": "IT Consultant / Software Developer",
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    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://levell.tech",
    "summary": "Results-driven Systems Analyst / Developer, Business Analyst, and Bitcoin enthusiast with broad-based experience in enhancing system functionality and end-user productivity.  Accomplished professional who has earned a reputation for consistently meeting and exceeding aggressive objectives.  Effective communicator possessing excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "palevell",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/palevell"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "palevell",
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    "location": {
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      "city": "London",
      "countryCode": "CA",
      "region": "Ontario"
    }
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Sole Proprietorship",
      "location": "London, Ontario, Canada",
      "description": "IT Consulting / Software Development",
      "position": "Consultant, Software Developer, and Managing Director",
      "startDate": "2012-02-02",
      "summary": "Offering clients 15+ years experience in corporate IT",
      "highlights": [
        "Mentoring clients in building and maintaining their online presence",
        "Performing as technical liason for clients with service providers",
        "Administering client web-sites and databases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Raymond Corporation",
      "location": "Greene, New York, USA",
      "description": "Raymond is the #1 fork-lift manufacturer in North America",
      "position": "Programmer/Analyst",
      "url": "https://raymondcorp.com",
      "startDate": "2007-10-08",
      "endDate": "2012-02-02",
      "summary": "Designing, developing, maintaining cross-functional enterprise applications, including iWarehouse",
      "highlights": [
        "Using JDEdwards EnterpriseOne ERP forms and reports in combination with VB.Net and SQL Reporting Services in delivering optimized business solutions for National Accounts, Sales & Marketing, Warranty Services, and the Raymond dealer network",
        "Developing, designing, implementing, testing and maintaining the iWarehouseTM Fleet Optimization System, Raymond's first commercial software offering",
        "Working closely with executives, consultants, customers, suppliers, and end-users to define and refine requirements for Raymond's IT infrastructure",
        "Monitoring and troubleshooting issues in JDEdwards, data warehouse, and iWarehouse",
        "Developing strategy for streamlining operations by integrating business processes",
        "Supervising consultants and junior programmers working on a variety of projects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vulcraft Corporation",
      "location": "Florence, South Carolina, USA",
      "description": "Vulcraft is the largest producer of open-web steel joists & joist girders in North America",
      "position": "Computer Systems Analyst / Developer",
      "url": "https://vulcraft.com",
      "startDate": "1997-11-18",
      "endDate": "2007-01-06",
      "summary": "Designing, developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining custom applications and reports in JDEdwards OneWorld ERP/MRP for Engineering, EMS/QMS, and other business systems",
      "highlights": [
        "Developing specialized reports & applications with JDEdwards, SQL queries, Excel, Access and VB/VB.Net/SQL Server",
        "Working closely with end users in defining and \u201cfine tuning\u201d requirements & creating documentation",
        "Training and supporting JD Edwards users in Finance, MRP, Sales, Purchasing, and Inventory modules",
        "Served as Senior Lead Internal Auditor for six years. Led the team to make the transition from ISO 9001:1994 to ISO 9001:2000, which included leading the team that re-wrote the quality manual, and moving the quality manual from paper-based to an interactive on-line system, using MS Internet Information Server (IIS), SharePoint, and FrontPage",
        "Routinely served as corporate liaison with outside auditors of both quality and environmental management systems"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "organization": "Electoral District Association (London West), People's Party of Canada",
      "position": "Social Media Advisor",
      "startDate": "2019-06-18",
      "endDate": "2021-09-30",
      "summary": "Building & managing social media presence on Facebook and Instagram for local candidates",
      "highlights": [
        "Promoting events for local EDAs and party leader, Maxime Bernier",
        "Promoting fund-raising and merchandise pages"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "People's Party of Canada",
      "position": "Community Manager",
      "url": "https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca",
      "startDate": "2019-06-18",
      "endDate": "2021-09-30",
      "summary": "Designing, developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining custom Twitter bot",
      "highlights": [
        "Builiding a community for PPC candidates, volunteers, supporters, and critics",
        "Participating in \"hashtag campaigns\" to assist Maxime Bernier in being invited to the national Leaders' Debates, and to draw attention to the PPC platform",
        "Co-ordinating Twitter support teams for PPC candidates",
        "Developing specialized reports for Twitter users"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault",
      "position": "Volunteer Advocate",
      "url": "http://www.peedeecoalition.org",
      "startDate": "2005-08-23",
      "endDate": "2005-12-31",
      "summary": "Assisting the facilitator of the Alternatives to Violence (ATV) program",
      "highlights": [
        "Studying curriculum for leading group meetings",
        "Observing & participating in group meetings",
        "Conducting intake interviews"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Vulcraft News & Views",
      "position": "Publisher, Editor, and Contributing Author",
      "startDate": "2000-01-01",
      "endDate": "2006-12-31",
      "summary": "Overseeing all aspects of producing the quarterly employee newsletter, from writing & editing articles, to page layout & design, printing & mailing",
      "highlights": [
        "Writing a regular computer help column",
        "Reducing production costs by 97% in only three years"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "DeVry University",
      "url": "https://devry.edu",
      "area": "Computer Information Systems",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "startDate": "1992-06-01",
      "endDate": "1995-06-15",
      "score": "3.62 (Honours)"
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      "name": "Laravel from Scratch",
      "date": "2025-05-12",
      "url": "https://traversymedia.com",
      "issuer": "Traversy Media"
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    {
      "name": "Reiki Master (Usui & Akhanda Ru)",
      "date": "2010-12-06",
      "issuer": "International Center for Reiki Training"
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    {
      "name": "Volunteer Victim Advocacy Training",
      "date": "2005-08-22",
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      "issuer": "Pee Dee Coaltion Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault"
    },
    {
      "name": "Enterprise Report Writing",
      "date": "2002-11-12",
      "url": "https://jdedwards.com",
      "issuer": "J.D. Edwards and Company"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quality Management Systems Auditor / Senior Auditor",
      "date": "2002-08-16",
      "url": "https://www.qmii.com",
      "issuer": "Quality Management International, Inc. (QMII)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quality Management Systems Lead Auditor Training Class",
      "date": "2002-08-16",
      "url": "https://www.qmii.com",
      "issuer": "Quality Management International, Inc. (QMII)"
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      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "BASH",
        "C/C++",
        "GO",
        "HTML",
        "JavaScript",
        "PHP",
        "Python",
        "SQL",
        "VB.net",
        "Visual Basic"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Databases",
      "keywords": [
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MySQL",
        "SQL Server",
        "SQLite",
        "SSAS",
        "SSIS",
        "SSRS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Libraries / Frameworks",
      "keywords": [
        "Django",
        "Flask",
        "Hugo",
        "Laravel",
        "Node.JS",
        "Pandas",
        "PyQt6",
        "SQLAlchemy",
        "Tailwind CSS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Productivity",
      "keywords": [
        "MS Office",
        "Libre Office",
        "Access",
        "Excel",
        "Outlook",
        "PowerPoint",
        "Publisher",
        "SharePoint",
        "Word"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "System Software",
      "keywords": [
        "JD Edwards OneWorld Xe",
        "Oracle EnterpriseOne",
        "Ubuntu",
        "Linux",
        "MacOS",
        "QNX",
        "Unix",
        "Windows"
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    },
    {
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      "keywords": [
        "Apache",
        "Docker",
        "Emacs",
        "Git",
        "NginX",
        "PyCharm",
        "SQitch",
        "VScode",
        "WordPress"
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      "name": "Active Pursuits",
      "keywords": [
        "Music",
        "Travel",
        "Coding"
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    {
      "name": "Health & Fitness",
      "keywords": [
        "Diet",
        "Nutrition",
        "Hiking"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Technology",
      "keywords": [
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Social Media",
        "Bitcoin",
        "Cryptocurrencies"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Maintaining computer systems for family, friends, and associates",
      "keywords": [
        "Linux",
        "iPad",
        "iOS",
        "Android",
        "Windows",
        "Internet",
        "VPN",
        "WiFi"
      ]
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  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Paul McCabe, Research Engineer Fellow at The Raymond Corporation",
      "reference": "Patrick provided software support for a project that I was directing. His work was performed conscientiously, on time and he was an asset to the team."
    },
    {
      "name": "Joe LaFergola, Marketing Manager, Business and Information Solutions",
      "reference": "Patrick was instrumental in developing our GUI interface. His continuous efforts to get it right and attention to detail was greatly appreciated. He worked well with various departments within the organization. Though Patrick did not report directly to me he took business direction from me during much of his time with the company."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pierre Brock, Programmer/Analyst",
      "reference": "I worked with Patrick at Raymond Corporation and was totally amazed at the wealth of knowledge has. Patrick was the Principal iWarehouse Architect/Developer and the main go to guy for just about any IT issue. Patrick is truly a well-rounded technical expert and a pleasure to work with. High recommendations from me and I look forward to working with him again in the near future "
    },
    {
      "name": "Greg Smiley, Head of Industrial Design, Toyota Material Handling North America and Industrial Design Manager at The Raymond Corporation",
      "reference": "Patrick worked with me on groundbreaking development of a web-based telematics program, me on the user interface front end (manager of outside GUI development) and Patrick on the database management/architect side. We were members of an ititial team of a dozen or so that continued to grow as the product deveoped. I recommend Patrick as a friend, coworker and team member. Patrick was the go to person for any technical detail or IT related question. "
    },
    {
      "name": "Kathy Giannetti, IT Business Solutions Manager at The Raymond Corporation",
      "reference": "Patrick was responsible for the development of the application and the back end database for a new offering by the Business to our customers. He embraced the technology challenge in this role and delivered as promised. "
    }
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  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "iWarehouse Gateway",
      "description": "A commercial B2B web application for fleet management and optimization; modules include the following:",
      "highlights": [
        "iImpact - Impact monitoring (asset protection)",
        "iMetrics - Vehicle and operator utilization",
        "iVerify - Operator checklist monitoring",
        "iBattery - battery utilization"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "iWarehouse",
        "Fleet Management",
        "SQL Server",
        "JDEdwards OneWorld",
        "Oracle EnterpriseOne",
        "VB.Net"
      ],
      "startDate": "2008-09-15",
      "endDate": "2012-02-03",
      "url": "https://www.iwarehouseknows.com/",
      "roles": [
        "Systems Analyst",
        "Programmer",
        "Database Engineer"
      ],
      "entity": "Raymond Corporation",
      "type": "application"
    },
    {
      "name": "Domain Name Recovery",
      "description": "Recovered stolen Internet domain name for a Colorado-based real estate brokerage firm",
      "highlights": [
        "Tracked domain records down in Australia and the owner in Spain",
        "Obtained assistance from the International Trade Administration at the US Department of Commerce"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Crime Investigations",
        "Forensics",
        "ICANN"
      ],
      "startDate": "2007-06-15",
      "endDate": "2007-07-10",
      "roles": [
        "Investigator"
      ],
      "entity": "Telluride Premier Properties"
    }
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