Summary

• Motivated, organized, analytical and intelligent Technical Professional
• Capable or working independently or in a team environment
• Experience in many facets of technology including data storage, applications, infrastructure both virtual and real, and telecommunications
• Microsoft Certified Professional of Developing and Implementing Web Applications
• Studied SCORM and other educational standards and technologies
• Data store design, development and maintenance
• Software application design, development and quality assurance
• Web application design, development and quality assurance
• Designed, setup, and maintained computer networks and infrastructures, web sites, web servers, data stores, and data servers
• Designed, created and maintained Quality Assurance labs
• Sales, marketing and customer service experience

Programming languages:

VB.Net, C , Java, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, SOAP, JQuery, Ajax, ASPX web server scripting, ASP web server scripting, VB Script, ActiveX, JSP, JavaScript, XML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, DOM, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, WML, MathML, CSS, XForms, XPointer, Pearl, PHP, Python, Flash, ActionScript, VBA, Interop, WinAPI, UML, designing concepts, Regular Expressions, C , BASH VB 6,

Data Software:

MySQL, MSSQL, Access, Excel, Oracle

Development Software:

Visual Studio, Drupal 7, MS Visio, MySQL WorkBench

Graphical Software:

Photoshop Suite, Flash, Illustrator, Premiere

Tracking Software:

GIT, SVN, Bugzilla, PVS, MS Source Safe, Web Trends, Crystal Reports

Infrastructure Software:

VMWare, Virtual Server, MS Office. Windows Active Directory, Windows IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Cold Fusion Server, MS Retail Management System, many more

Operating Systems:

ALL MS Windows OS, UNIX, Linux, MAC

I am a motivated, organized, intelligent person with an immense amount of life experience. I have developed great problem solving skills and fore site that I have used all my life in many different situations and careers. My military service after high school has allowed me to develop excellent working skills either as a team member or alone. I can analyze a situation and quickly develop more than one solution. I am dedicated to what I believe in. I have been called a genius. I have an uncanny ability to not only find information but learn how to use it, how to make whatever I need, and to make sure whatever I make works as it was intended to. I can be a valuable addition to any staff. Complexity and near endless possibilities is what my brain craves in a career .

Employment History

Confidential

Roles:

Web Application Design

Accomplishments:

• DBA
• Using MYSQL community server and WorkBench I redesigned their primary database I looked deep into the data and started to restructure tables to put some human meaning into both the table names and table structures.
• I created a data table history within the different systems that gave them the ability to track changes to data and hold people accountable for data entry.
• I converted common application code from the web application level into the data system using triggers, stored procedures and functions. This in time eliminated code that was spread out between several web user interfaces and brought into a common area that all interfaces could then share. Reducing the time needed to find and update code.
• Development:
• Redesigned web applications to match the new data schemas
• Upgraded Code Charge generated classic asp code to VB.NET 2.0 as a first step towards bringing their primary web interface into a more modern language.
• Integrated JQuery and AJAX into any existing classic asp code as well as the new code I wrote to greatly improve application functionality and user experience.
• Restructured or created new code bases that will be more portable between the different web sites they maintain as well as into the future.
• Network Infrastructure:
• I redesigned their entire infrastructure and set them up on a Microsoft Domain.
• Co-locate their production servers to the Time Warner site in Albany.
• Built high powered and high connectivity File Servers to maintain and secure all data into a local location.
• Using VM Server set up several development and production application and database servers.
• Porting the database servers from Windows / MySQL to Debian / MySQL

Confidential

Roles:

Web Application Design and Development, Database Administration and Design, Network Engineer and Administrator, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Technician

Accomplishments:

• Sole developer in the new U.S. company
• Collaborated on a daily bases with two developers in the U.K. part of the company
• Design and set up of the Visual Studio 2005 web development team environment. This included organizing all software and hardware needed to host a robust development environment. This system used a Dell laptop and VMWare running three copies of Windows 2003 Server.
• Responsible for the .NET 2.0 web interface and web forms to replace the paper system already manually interfaced with their current data stores
• Design and developed and worked off of wire frames a web based land management system using Adobe Photoshop and Visual Studio 2005, with ASPX, .NET 2.0, and MV.NET
• Quality Assurance of the end user's and administrator's user interfaces and the code behind that connected to objects that read and wrote data to their existing data stores
• Design, development and quality assurance of an offline Excel spread sheet using macros and VBA. Once saved the file could then be uploaded in the web based system
• These sites are available only via internal EnCana personnel and security was of high priority in the designs and development

Confidential

Roles:

Technology Director, Web Application Design and Development, Systems Developer, Database Administration and Design, Network Engineer and Administrator, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Technician

Accomplishments:

• Design and set up of the web development team environment. This included organizing and obtaining all software and hardware needed to host a robust development environment. This system used SUN servers and VMWare running Windows 2003. Set up and organize the Visual Source Safe environment. Implemental in the hiring of the development team which at that time consisted of a second developer and a project manger.
• Re-skinned The Hartford Insurance Company's small, medium, and large business web sites working with Adam Knight to convert them from a Microsoft ASP format to the ASPX .NET 1.1 format
• Created the site for The Charles R Wood Foundation designed using Adobe Photoshop and slicing them with Adobe Image Ready and developing the site in Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Designed and developed ecommerce solution for a local wine and market, using Adobe Photoshop and Visual Studio 2005, with ASPX and VB .NET 2.0. This system was a one of kind application that linked into the MS Retail Management System. This allowed the store inventory and the web inventory to both be controlled by the already POS system and MS SQL 2005 database in place. I designed and developed the database and wrote all stored procedures and SQL queries / trigger.
• Developed customer relationship management CRM solution built using Cold Fusion technology
• Developed web-based Content Management Tool CMT solution built using Cold Fusion technology and C .NET
• Designed and developed a one of a kind VB.NET 2.0 web application that utilized XML, XSLT, XPath, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS that could create a custom on the fly html form used in collecting online survey information for the client Creative Advantage out of Schenectady. Information was collected using a MSSQL 2005 Enterprise relational data store I designed and developed consisting of complex stored procedures, cursors, triggers, and views.
• Designed and developed the administrative portal that allowed Creative Advantage managers to collect statistics and data reports from any combination of clients and or searchable phrases into a web based Excel format

Confidential

Roles:

Application Design and Development, Database Administration and Design, Network Engineer and Administrator, Software and Hardware Management and Support, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Technician, and Purchasing Agent

Accomplishments:

• Converted the LAN from a Microsoft Workgroup to a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain
• Assisted in the setup of the Cisco 1600 router and created and configured the WAN to LAN firewall
• Designed and built a firewall / router using Linux
• Assisted in the creation of the Domain Names servers, and Mail servers
• Created and maintain the VERITAS Backup System
• Created and maintain the file and project storage system
• Created and maintain the Quality Assurance Test Lab. This lab consisted of four computers in which a Symantec Ghost driven OS load was used to maintain a rapid method of always having a 'clean' machine with a variety of different operating systems and environments to test on. Continued as the maintainer of these systems
• Responsible for the documentation of the products using Microsoft's Help application, RoboDemo, MS Word and PowerPoint presentations
• Responsible for automated software regression scripts and testing
• Responsible for developing the installation programs for all out going projects using InstallShield.
• Responsible for the installation of the products on client's systems. Was the technical support for the products
• Responsible for the working code samples in Prentice Hall's Deitel Cyber Classroom Book and CD Series
• Member of the team using Adobe Illustrator and Dave's patented JAVA based transform engine to convert Adobe Illustrator files into fully interactive CD and WEB media versions of the Cyber Class room series books.
• Was a member of the team working on the Train it and Asset it project between Microsoft and Prentice Hall
• Developed the .NET reporting system for Thomson's Publishing Nurses Desk Reference, and Uniform Health Insurance which integrated with Crystal Reports / SQL server 2000. I wrote and developed all SQL tables. Stored Procedures, cursors.
• Worked on the team developing the Macromedia Flash applications for Thomson's Publishing Nurses Desk Reference
• Project leader of their flagship product 'e-Learning in a box' which plugged into MS Word 2000 and above
• Key member in the development of the database for the Leaning Management System LMS and in the development of the Web Based Administrative and Learning Portals for the product e-Learning in a Box
• Lead technical contact with clients in Japan and the US
• Exposed and educated on many new technologies and practices involved in design, development, and quality assurance

Confidential

Roles:

Consultant as needed basis

Responsible for Networks and Applications Systems

Accomplishments:

• Responsible for help desk calls for issues that arose on their network system and computers.
• Ran cable and reconfigured their network infrastructure into a Windows 2003 Domain separated via group policies for students and teachers
• Set up an OS image system for quickly adding new computers to their growing class rooms
• Setup and trouble shoot software and hardware

Confidential

Roles:

Help Desk Specialist, Application Developer, and Database Developer

Accomplishments:

• Top tech in the department as a Help Desk Specialist for their nation wide Dial Up ISP
• Assisted in the development of their proxy filtering software
• Worked with Pearl, Java and SQL, on a Solaris / Oracle framework to scour the internet for offensive material to add to our proxy filtering software. This was cutting edge back then and all new to me.
• Quickly learned these languages and became an important piece to the development team.
• After about 9 months promoted into the development department.

Confidential

Roles:

• Purchasing, Expediting, Inventory Management, Hydraulic Assembly and Electrical Wiring.

Accomplishments:

• I started in this company as an electrical assembler and hydraulic assembler.
• Within a few months I was promoted the assistant Purchasing Agent.
• Within 6 months I was the lead Purchasing agent.
• I lead the initiative to place their inventory and purchasing system from a paper and file method, to a computerized and automated ordering and inventory system.