1. Trent Ballentine
410 Willard Ave
Bloomington, IL 61701
Ph: 402-202-3505
HYPERLINK "mailto:trent@manicnomad.com" trent@manicnomad.com
Summary:
Information technology professional with over 15 years of business rules engineering
experience, focused mainly in the property casualty insurance industry. Specializing in
designing and implementing maintainable business rules applications. Excellent
leadership skills with a strong work ethic.
Experience:
Manic Nomad LLC, Herndon, VA Jan 2014 to Present
Small self-owned consulting company focused on system consulting and business rules engineering.
President 2011-Present
Software Engineer, (Client: General Dynamics) Jan 2014-Present
Served as a technical consultant and lead in designing and developing an IBM WODM/ILog Jrules
technical proof of concept.
Served as a technical consultant and lead in designing and developing a JBoss/Drools rule engine
technical proof of concept.
Software Engineer, (Client: Country Financial) April 2015-Present
Serve as technical consultant maintaining and enhancing a legacy auto insurance application.
Jrules Rule engine, COBOL and CICS maintenance and support.
BANK OF AMERICA, Charlotte, NC Aug 2013 to Jan 2014
A large financial institution with a focus on personal financial needs.
Vice President; Senior Consultant: Business Technology Analysis
Serve as technical consultant to iLog JRules business team.
Develop best practices and coding standards.
Mentor and train developers and business analysts on how to productively utilize iLog Jrules suite of
products.
COUNTRY FINANCIAL, Bloomington, IL Jan 2009 to Aug 2013
A midsize insurance and financial services firm with a focus on customer service.
Application Development Specialist
Serve as technical lead on iLog JRules development team.
Create and enforce architectural standards as new rules applications are developed.
Develop decision table infrastructure to promote easily maintainable rules applications.
2. Create high level and detailed design specifications from business requirement artifacts.
ILog JRules Developer
Extensive use of JUnits to ensure high quality end products.
Design and implemented robust rules tracing/logging.
XOM/BOM creation and maintenance.
Create, maintain and support test environments for enterprise-wide applications.
Develop underlying Java objects and methods
Developed test infrastructure for business rules applications.
Troubleshoot critical environment problems to enable on-time deployment of mission critical applications.
Support production applications to ensure 24x7 system availability for financial representatives and home
office personnel.
ECIRO, Lincoln, NE & Normal, IL Nov 1997 to Jan 2009
Small self-owned consulting company focused on system consulting and business rules engineering.
President 1997-2009
Managed a small consulting company. Tasks included new client acquisition, recruiting,
payroll, tax, and marketing services.
Software Engineer, (Client: Country Financial) 2003-2009
Successfully converted an Auto Underwriting system from Aion to Jrules
Developed and implemented new rules architecture focused on streamlining business
rules and establishing maintainability.
Reversed engineered legacy code to determine requirements.
Implemented a Meta data structure to further enhance maintainability.
Supported existing legacy auto policy admin system.
Created work estimates and task lists used to develop project plans.
Worked closely with business users to develop requirements.
Trained and mentored team of rules developers.
Software Engineer, (Client: State of Nebraska) 1997-2002
Developed and maintained AION knowledge bases that determine welfare eligibility for
welfare applicants.
Converted Aion code from version 7.0 to 8.1.1
Converted Aion code from version 6.4 to 7.0
Reversed engineered legacy code to determine business requirements
Migrated Aion code from 0S/2 to NT environments.
Determined impact of changes across multiple systems and 48 knowledge bases.
Developed work estimates.
Gathered requirements.
Maintained and supported production system including 48 knowledge bases.
Mentored co-workers.
Anderson Consulting (Accenture), Kansas City, MO Aug 1996- Oct 1997
A large management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing firm specializing in helping clients
3. become high performance businesses.
Systems Consultant
Developed knowledge bases with AION development tool that determine welfare
eligibility for welfare applicants.
Coordinated changes across multiple system platforms.
Maintained production knowledge bases.
Supported end users of knowledge based welfare system
Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, NE Feb 1993- Jul 1996
A leading provider of life insurance, supplemental insurance, disability insurance and annuities.
Senior Systems Analyst
Performed relational data modeling, including both logical and physical design, and
denormalization
Designed, developed, and enhanced an Individual Health and Life Data Warehouse
system.
Developed a group health care system.
Supported and Enhanced Individual health and life customer service phone center
application which consolidated multiple legacy mainframe systems into one front end
system used by novice users to successfully answer client questions without being an
expert on each individual system.
Developed process models for new development and legacy maintenance and
enhancements.
Tracked project using Project Workbench
Designed/coded file conversion COBOL programs from VSAM to DB2.
Wrote reports using both COBOL and SAS.
Developed work estimates for projects.
Managed small 4-6 person teams.
Managed version controls and system migrations.
Education:
BS, Management Information Systems & Decision Science • University of Nebraska,
Omaha • 1993
Technical Skills:
Business Rules Development Tools Database Tools / Languages
iLog Rule Team Server DB2
IBM Websphere Operational Decision
Manager (WODM)
JBoss/Drools
SQL
Aion Cleverpath QMF
Development Languages Primavera Project Manager
Java/J2EE Source Management / Change Control
COBOL CVS
SOAP web services Subversion
