SUMMARY:

I am a programmer & team leader with long experience in web applications, content management, database design, structured and unstructured text processing, machine learning applied to scientific text classification, and building linkages between applications and databases.

SKILL:

Programming Languages: JavaScript, Perl, PHP, SQL, ColdFusion, Regular expressions, HTML, CSS, C/C++.

Software: Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Git version control, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), jQuery, jQuery UI, JSON, Web services, AJAX, Yahoo User Interface library (YUI), Perl, ColdFusion, Visio, SharePoint, Excel, HP Quick Test Pro (now known as UFT, web app functional testing), Chrome browser extensions.

General: I have created and presented countless presentations to groups large and small and I am a good writer and editor. Many programmers sought my help with questions about algorithms and programming in general.

EXPERIENCE:

IT Contractor

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• I support databases, ETL, and other infrastructure activities within Confidential ’s Cancer Center for my employer, Confidential Software.
• This work involves database support and design, and ETL work that is mostly done in Perl. My description of the work might sound like back - room stuff, but it involves quite a bit of interaction with our large base of users as we work to resolve data integrity issues and enhance processes.

Software consulting

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• I provided ongoing support for Confidential research applications (largely in ColdFusion, Perl, and Excel), and worked with Excel and Visio to support the documentation needs of a small manufacturing business seeking UL listing.

Analyst Programmer (Senior, then Lead)

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• I led the IT project developing Confidential ’s first Internet website for its research programs. We built custom content management systems (the CMS market was truly undeveloped at that time) in Perl and then in ColdFusion.
• I was the lead developer for Confidential, a ColdFusion web application recording the scholarly activities of more than 15,000 of Confidential ’s staff.
• From the users’ perspective, it is an electronic CV system; from the management perspective it is a reporting and search tool.
• I managed the IT effort and was the lead developer from planning through approval, implementation, and support. It is a very broad and deep project, with electronic links to many institutional and external databases.
• The back-end of this system was a Sybase database that was ultimately migrated into MS SQL Server. ETL is accomplished with some very sophisticated code in Perl and other tools, while the application is implemented with ColdFusion, jQuery and Yahoo’s Javascript UI library (YUI).
• I was the lead developer for a reporting tool used in annual reviews of Confidential ’s research departments and staff. This was a ColdFusion app that generated large and sophisticated Excel reports for each department.
• I developed web-based tools for the maintenance of staff bibliographies using a combination of Perl and ColdFusion.

Partner & Engineer

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• developed and sold custom sensors and data acquisition equipment for mechanical testing purposes.
• Our devices could be characterized as desktop robotic material test machinery.

Engineer

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• I developed and supported electronic hardware and software for use in data collection during biomechanics experiments.
• I also developed surgical simulation software for osteotomy procedures.

Test & Simulation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I performed digital logic design simulations and developed test pattern sets for Confidential integrated circuits.
• Also developed CAD software in support of the same.