Career Summary

I have worked as a Programmer Analyst, Business Analyst, Network Information Analyst and Software Engineer and have a total of 25 years experience. Experience includes system design and analysis, managing and mentoring fellow programmers, gathering system's requirements from clients, developing project specifications, writing technical documentation, designing and coding complex applications, training and helping clients, presenting system demos to large groups, resolving system problems onsite/offsite, administering databases, creating system time estimates, building software installation packages and installing software. I am a very fast learner and am continually refining my technical skills by reading technical journals, books, and web pages. From 4/85 to 4/89 I worked at my first office job at First Federal Bank as a Programmer developing financial reports and applications using Wang BASIC, Lotus 1 - 2-3, and dBase III.

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Programmer Analyst responsible for upgrading VB6 applications to Visual Basic .NET and ASP .NET using Visual Studio 2012 and Infragistics components WinGrid, WebGrid, Reporting, etc . Also responsible for managing survey data, writing complex SQL queries for an SQL Server 2005 database and performing some administrative duties building new tables, creating indexes, creating views . Other job duties include developing reports in MS Access, researching new software, writing technical documentation and meeting with users and fellow programmers for the purpose of creating software functional design specifications.

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Software Engineer contractor responsible for developing complex web applications with PeopleSoft's Application Designer using the programming language PeopleCode. Also responsible for writing complex SQL queries for an Oracle database and performing some administrative duties building new tables, creating indexes, creating views . Other job duties include preparing estimates for software enhancements, writing technical documentation and conducting meetings with Business Analysts and users to review software functional design specifications.

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Purchased my own tutoring service franchise, Above Grade Level, but closed the business in early 2013 due to poor sales. To keep my .NET skills sharp I bid on several .NET projects on. One of my projects included upgrading a Time Card Application written in Visual Basic 6 with Access backend to a C WinForms application with a SQL Server 2008 backend. I also upgraded another app developed in Visual Basic 6 Employee database using Visual Basic .NET and ASP. NET. Built a Window's Service in VB .NET to scan URLs from web browser Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and store results in an SQL Server database. These are just three examples - I have worked on several other .NET projects back in 2004. Other technologies used: Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008/2010, ADO .NET, SOAP REST Web Services, Windows Services, WCF, Crystal Reports .NET, jQuery, AJAX, XML, LINQ, Multi-threading, SilverLight controls, TFS, Aspose PDF .NET Kit, UML, Object Oriented concepts Encapsulation, Class Inheritance, Interfaces, Polymorphism, Method Overloading, etc. .

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Left Alphanumeric Systems for more challenging projects at the state where I worked as an Analyst Programmer III responsible for supporting/programming a Court Case Management System CMS and an application CourtFlow used in Superior and District Court to manage cases while court is in session. Both client server applications send and receive data from our mainframe using TCP/IP and were developed with Visual Basic 6 and JavaScript with an Access 2000 backend. Reports were generated in PDF format using the popular PDF library QuickPDF, Crystal Reports 9 and Access 2003. I have also had been involved with developing a financial application written in Java. Used LANDESK on a daily basis to connect to remote machines and provide customer technical support. Other technologies used: Business Objects, COBOL, DB2, Visual SourceSafe, Excel, Word, and Outlook.

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Moved to NC for warmer climate and worked as an Analyst Programmer responsible for supporting/programming FrontOffice sales application which I customized using VBA for Access. Also created reports with Crystal Reports and MS Access, created queries with MS Access and SQL Server, wrote transactional SQL scripts, administered SQL Server database, built applications with Visual Basic 6, set up new employees in various applications, transferred data between databases using XML, etc.

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Confidential to pursue contract work higher pay, more challenging projects as a Web Developer responsible for modifying/enhancing corporate web sites using VB .NET, Crystal Reports for .NET, ASP .NET, C, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, and HTML with SQL Server 2000 backend. One project was helping with building an online time card web application. I also built a WinForm application with VB .NET for accessing maintaining and auto parts inventory database Oracle .

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Programmer Analyst responsible for designing and developing client/server data collection systems, logging programs, and database utilities using Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, Crystal Reports for .NET, C and PowerBuilder 7. I also developed secure internet applications using XML, HTML, ASP Active Server Pages, VBScript, ASP .NET, Cold Fusion, ADO ActiveX Data Objects, and JavaScript. Back end to applications was Sybase SQL Anywhere, SQL Server and MS Access databases. Database administration experience includes building stored-procedures, writing SQL statements, creating relational tables with indexes, and populating tables. In addition, I created many critical web-based Adobe Acrobat PDF reports for upper management using Crystal Reports and Adobe Acrobat Distiller.

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Software Engineer responsible for designing and developing complex multi-user object-oriented applications on a Novell Netware Platform using Visual Basic 3,4, 5 6, Visual C 6, Delphi 4, and Clipper 5.2 for the Engineering Department. I built several applications using VB and VBA that interface with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and AutoCAD via ActiveX Technology. I've also developed intranet applications using Active Server Pages, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript. Developed a VB app to generate an XML file of conveyor system data and sent via FTP to clients. I wrote many SQL statements to extract, add, update, and delete data from Microsoft Access and Oracle databases using DAO Data Access Objects and have extensive knowledge on administering, designing and building relational databases Oracle, Access . I also used Crystal Reports in many of the VB applications and COGNOS to generate reports from date stored in an Oracle database.

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Programmer Analyst part of a team of ten responsible for writing multi-user programs in Foxpro for DOS/Windows on a Novell NetWare Platform for claims branches, resolving software problems via telephone and PC modem link, training users to use software, and installing new releases of software. I also performed maintenance on COBOL programs.

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Worked as a Network Information Analyst responsible for writing programs in Turbo C, BASIC, FoxBASE old FoxPro, and Lotus 1-2-3 macros that processed large volumes of data. Generated critical daily cellular phone performance reports for upper management. I also created charts and graphs using AutoCAD, DesignCAD, and Lotus 1-2-3. I received an award for office automation from the company president for writing an AutoLISP program in AutoCAD that generated a chart in mere minutes which took 4 hours manually.