CAREER:

• Application developer, application architect and/or project leader using Delphi, C#, .Net, Silverlight, SQL and other tools for Windows environments.

SPECIAL SKILLS:

• 14 years client/server and n-tier application development experience. Strong OOP skills using Object Pascal (any version of Delphi), .Net and Silverlight using C# and Visual Studio (2005, 2008), SQL using MS SQLServer (2000, 2005), Sybase, Interbase and other DB engines.

• I have created retail and proprietary applications from specification to delivery, have excellent systems management and interpersonal management skills.  I am comfortable working alone, in a team environment as a project leader on-site or off.

• Experienced creating complex setup programs using InstallShield3 and InstallShield5.

• Version control experience using Visual Source Safe, StarTeam and PVCS; defect management with QA Assist, StarTeam and AQDevTeam.

WORK HISTORY - Summary:

EDUCATION:

• Advanced Delphi (4) by Softbite - 6 day seminar.
• Advanced TransactSQL by Sybase - a 5 day (40 hour) class.
• Santa Rosa Junior College: dBase IV, Pascal, C/C++, Java
• West Branch High School, West Branch, Iowa. Graduated in 1981.
• Misc. management, business and financial seminars.

WORK HISTORY - Detail:

• McArmi Solutions - Janurary 2008 - Present

McArmi Solutions is a small but busy development team working on various special projects. Currently we are writing a warehouse environment monitoring system for the pharmaceutical industry.  This product's back end reads various types of sensors; temperature, humidity, etc, stores that data for the client to report on and mine. I am the DBA and 1 of 2 client side developers using C#.

• Wide Orbit - November 2000 to Present

Wide Orbit is a software company specializing in the media industry. I am one of 10 developers working on this highly robust Sales/Traffic/Billing/Analytical spot placing, on-air automated, work-flow software system designed for TV and radio stations. I am responsible for many areas of this product as well as internal analytical software. 'WOStation' includes a multi-user client, several middle-tier applications and MSSQL databases. It is scaleable and very dynamic. WOStation is fairly complex utilizing many technologies.

• Jurika & Voyles - September 1997 to November 2000

J & V is an investment management firm responsible for about $5 billion in assets. They have 1 MSSQL Server, 3 Sybase, 2 Paradox and 1 Microfocus Cobal databases. I am one of 1.5 software developers using Delphi and other development tools to create client-side access to their information. I created a programming infrastructure of shared resources and wrote numerous applications adding to the productivity of analysts, traders, portfolio managers and more. The company relies heavily on these proprietary tools, programs and automation.

• Pink Enterprises - September 1995 to May 2000*

Developer of QA Assist - Defect management system for software developers. QA Assist 3.0 is complete. The source code and copy rights are for sale. QA Assist3.0 is a database repository that can essentially be a product-line in that it can be easily configured without code changes to reflect different industries. The end-user can further configure it to reflect their particular business.

*The QA Assist project has paralleled my services to the other companies listed.

• Kinetix - April 1997 - September 1997

Install and Build Engineer for Kinetix, a division of Autodesk. I was responsible for writing Setup programs using InstallShield3 for many of their products such as RadioRay, 3D Studio Max, VIZPack, and others. Created a "library" of functionality common to Kinetix to be reused for all Kinetix setup programs. My responsibilities also included weekly release builds for 3D Studio Max and Character Studio.

• QuickResponse Service - February 1997 - August 1997

QRS performs UPC transactions and services for their customer base. Using Installshield3 I created an Intel/Windows based setup program for their suite of Internet products. This single installation program was designed to install any combination of their 11 products. I also created a Setup Wizard for their internal use. The wizard is a user-friendly InstallShield program that is capable of generating 1 of 3 different commonly used setup programs based on user selections and walks the user through the process of creating a setup program for distribution.

• DCC Technical Management Group - February 1996 - December 1996

This is a small software house owned by DCC who is owned by the DANA Corporation. They had one primary product, 'Wyzdom', written in Paradox. It was transaction based desktop asset management repository for large corporations. My first assignment was to "transform" the Lease Transaction of Wyzdom from their old coding methodology to their new one. I wrote a data conversion program to convert NetCensus (adiscovery tool for asset inventory) data into Wyzdom data. I wrote in Paradox, a Wyzdom API that reports on the differences between a Wyzdom database and a NetCensus database.

• The Money Store, Corporate Systems Division - February 1995 - February 1996

TMS develops many proprietary products for its various lending services. I worked on a team of 8 on their "Core Module" product using Paradox for Windows. I was assigned to several projects small and large being responsible for one or more modules of that product at any time. The Core Module ran on over 200 SQL databases on nearly 100 servers across the nation.

• Mindscape (formally The Software Toolworks) - June 1993 - January 1995

Lead software developer of a defect tracking and reporting system written in Paradox for Windows for this "Edutainment" software company.