E-mail: art@shadowscreamers.com
Web: https://members.tripod.com/visegrip72
I am a highly experienced, dedicated software developer eager to deliver software through the continuous life cycle of a publicly used program with pride.
| Company: | Magnet City |
| Dates: | December 2003 to Present |
| Position: | Technical advisor/programmer; Contract, as-needed basis |
| Duties: | Create and maintain website; Update custom Microsoft Access software; create custom .Net software; Technical support |
| Company: | Palm Beach County Sheriff Office |
| Dates: | August 2001 to Present |
| Position: | Citizen Observer Patrol Sergeant (unpaid volunteer position) |
| Duties: | Patrol neighborhoods; train other observers; maintain unit COP website |
| Company: | Management Software International |
| Dates: | February 1998 to March 1999 |
| Position: | Software Systems Manager (100% Telecommuting) |
| Duties: | Debug & enhance Lotus Notes ISO9000 / document control software application; technical support; customer training; webmaster; software documentation |
| Accomplishments: | Played a major role upgrading software to the latest release; created the interactive installation application to compliment the software; updated office local area network connecting everyone to the internet as well as setting up the mail server |
| Company: | Online Consulting Group |
| Dates: | September 1997 to November 1997 |
| Position: | Programmer |
| Duties: | Programming major Microsoft Visual C++ Object Oriented database applications for Windows 95/NT using MFC, Btrieve, and SQL |
| Accomplishments: | Created an advertising database program which replaced the existing paper-only system; created programs which calculated hourly payroll from time worked and tasks completed |
| Company: | Siemens Stromberg-Carlson (ISO 9001) |
| Dates: | May 1994 to August 1997 |
| Position: | Technical Conversion Services Tools Engineer |
| Duties: | Primarily programming major client-server and minor software tools in Object Oriented C/C++ and Visual BASIC; SPARC system administrator; PC support and maintenance; mentor other programmers and co-ops; upgrade customer telephone switches; convert customer telephone switches to Siemens EWSD from competitors |
| Accomplishments: | Set up NIS+ network; wrote numerous internal tools which not only saved countless man hours per customer conversion but also greatly improved product quality |
| Company: | Siemens Stromberg-Carlson (ISO 9001) |
| Dates: | August 1992 to May 1994 |
| Position: | Technical Support Tools Engineer |
| Duties: | Programming software tools in C/C++ and BASIC; Novell LAN administrator; PC support and maintenance for over 300 customer service end users |
| Accomplishments: | Orchestrated major replacements of older machines with newer models without loss of data for all of customer service |
| Company: | School Board of Palm Beach County |
| Dates: | January 1992 to April 1995 |
| Position: | Community Night School Teacher - Introduction to Computers; BASIC Computer Programming; Windows 3.1. |
| Duties: | Teach adults; Lantastic network support. |
| Accomplishments: | Taught over 20 people per class and had lowest drop rate |
| Company: | Siemens Stromberg-Carlson (ISO 9001) |
| Dates: | August 1989 to August 1992 |
| Position: | Systems Test Support Engineer |
| Duties: | Programming software tools; instructing beginning Lotus123; assisting engineers; analyzing and assigning fault reports; auditing software patches and fault reports |
| Accomplishments: | Wrote an internal tool to create telephone switch databases eliminating the need to manually create test databases as needed. |
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 1994
| Programming Languages: | C, C++, Visual C++, MFC, Visual BASIC, Lotus Script, Lotus Formula, Access, Pascal, CGI, PERL, PHP, VBScript |
| Programming Platforms: | Windows, UNIX, DOS, PalmOS |
| Applications: | Lotus Notes, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Access, Exceed, Designer, Crystal Reports, Paradox, SQL, BTrieve |
| Operating Systems: | Windows, Solaris, UNIX, Open Windows, DOS |
| Network Administration: | Novell, Windows, NIS+, Lantastic |
| Hardware: | PC, SPARC workstation, Dialogic, Smartcard |
| Telephony: | Siemens, Northern Telecom, Vidar, Alcatel, AT&T |