SUMMARY:

• 18+ years experience building applications (primarily winforms) using Visual Basic versions 4 through .NET with a SQL Server backend
• Microsoft Certified in VB5
• 1 year experience with ASP.NET
• Product lifecycle planning, development, implementation and support
• Health Level 7 (HL7) interface development
• Experience with Telephony technology
• Experience with software/hardware integration
• Report writing using Crystal Reports (stand-alone and Visual Studio add-in)
• Great problem solving skills
• Excellent customer relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Software Developer/Support

• Some Visual Studio 2013 software development for existing windows and web application using a SQL Server 2012 backend database.
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) - Set up server and created multiple reports. Created web application dashboard/reporting tool to display reports.
• Support of new software development used as front end of robotics assembly line for a pharmaceutical mail-order industry.
• Customer liaison
• Support/training/demo of software

Software Developer

• VB.Net 2003 software development for existing windows and web application using a SQL Server 2005 backend database.
• Responsibilities included debugging and enhancing existing software and writing new software as needed.
• Responsible for editing and writing stored procedures and was asked to create tables for new functionality.
• Worked on software upgrade from the .Net Framework 1 to the .Net Framework 4 using VB 2013 and SQL Server 2014.

Confidential, Boxford, MA

PC Implementation Programmer

• Using Iatric’s custom interface engines, I scoped, developed and implemented HL7 interfaces for hospitals and physician’s offices for the purpose of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) processing.
• Working from home, I was responsible for completing projects involving multiple Iatric products within a given time-frame.
• Projects included “Listening” for various incoming data (ADT, Charges, Orders and Results) primarily via socket communications, formatting messages according to a provided specification and forwarding this modified data on to various destinations including databases, other vendors and physicians and hospitals.
• Worked with MEDITECH programmers to ensure that data was being sent appropriately.
• Development of custom interface modules using VB6 and VB.NET.
• Other product functionality I worked with includes “listening” for result data coming from monitors attached to patients and matching up specs for feeds coming from various sources.
• Full implementation cycle of delivery, possible custom code changes to accommodate spec, testing and taking the project LIVE.

Software Specialist I

• Stationed at Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office
• Support and maintenance of legacy Sheriff’s Office software responsible for supporting all aspects of the Sheriff’s office including Warrants, Detention, Detectives, 911 Call Center and Dispatch, Human Resources and Accounting.
• New Development as needs arise for existing software
• Completed conversion of software from Advantage Database to SQL Server 2003
• Began re-write of the Sheriff’s Office Records Management software from VB6 to .NET with a SQL Server 2003 database. Two years in progress when I left. Began with the Employee Medical module which is comprised of a user interface to allow data entry for maintaining employee health records. Other modules include Warrants, Patrol Division and Detectives.

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Senior Software Engineer

• Project Management responsibilities required involvement in all stages of the product life cycle including design, development, implementation, troubleshooting, installation and support.
• Telephony application to transmit ‘Real Time’ data to a television station’s on-air equipment using VB, Windows API, Parity Voice Software, Dialogic Voice Boards, Access 2000, Crystal Reports 8. Moved to SQL Server in 2003.
• Internal applications to simplify in-office procedures such as voice recordings for telephony applications, backup program for customer data, Installation programs to allow technical assistants to automatically update clients with latest software (VB4-6/WISE).
• Promoted to Senior Software Engineer, September 2005. On a team developing new product software using Visual Studio 2005.
• Client support for application issues, installations and product updates:
• On-site installation, training and support for more than 100 television clients in the US.
• Use of a company developed software language to create scripts for the purpose of Interfacing with television graphics hardware.
• Technical Services Director responsibilities included teaming with consultant to develop web-based Auto Update program for clients of our software. I was also a technical advisor both on television installation site visits and in the office.

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Customer reports (using Seagate Crystal Reports 8) using a report generation program for two legacy products which required complex queries and data manipulation.
• In-house scripting language (FSL) used to create call-flow scripts for telephony applications.
• Automatic Data Import program using VB6, multiple text file formats, Access 97. Rebuilt existing product to improve speed by over 60%.