SUMMARY

• Extensive experience with Windows development, from Windows 1.0 SDK and C to Win32 with C++ and MFC.
• Experience with Client/Server architectures, video editors, document management, and SQL databases.
• I have studied iOS development on my own time since 2010. Since October 2015 I have studied it full time, concentrating on Swift.
• Picture oriented front end to the contacts database, featuring overflow and grid layouts in landscape.
• Demo apps to display size classes.
• Demo app doing a simple JSON query and image retrieval
• I believe that with my experience I can make myself useful quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Xcode iOS
• Objective - C
• Swift
• Storyboards
• Alamofire
• SwiftyJSON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Software Engineer

Tools: Visual Studio 2008, C++, MFC, SQL Server 2008, ODBC, Crystal Reports 7 C ++ /MFC/SQL software developer for a property tax appraisal system

• Troubleshot customer issues with data.
• Fixed minor and major bugs.
• Implemented new features

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

C ++, MFC, DirectShow and Windows Developer

Tools: Visual C++, MFC, Platform SDK, DirectShow, Windows Media Format SDK, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7

Responsibilities:

• Rewrote and debugged a major subsystem within two months of hire date while helping debug a major re­lease of the product.
• Wrote a frame by frame video analysis subsystem with minimal impact on the rest of the application and making maximum use of existing code.
• Wrote a video transcoding and editing subsystem.
• It applies edits and transcodes video from one codec to another.
• It is flexible and extensible.
• Adapted a DVD authoring subsystem for another application, keeping it compatible with the original and enhancing the functionality.
• The project included debugging vendor source.
• General user interface maintenance and enhancement.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

C ++, MFC, and Windows Developer

Tools: Visual C ++, MFC, Windows common controls, Windows NT, Windows 95

Responsibilities:

• Took over and completed debugging version 3.1 of the File Transfer subsystem for the FLEXR GT Network Element provisioning tool.
• Simplified its architecture and enhanced its functionality.
• Designed, constructed, and debugged major parts of the FTP modules for FLEXR GT, which improved file transfer throughput from 56K serial to 10BaseT LAN data rates.
• Troubleshot network element idiosyncrasies to identify root causes of file transfer problems.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

C ++, MFC, and Win32 Developer

Tools: Visual C ++, MFC, DAO, SQL, Windows common controls, STL, DICOM, Windows NT, Windows 95, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Wrote a multithreaded application that receives image transfers from multiple clients simultaneously.
• Tracked and organized image files on Access SQL database through DAO API.
• Customer reviewed images captured from multiple devices on one PC workstation.
• Wrote interfaces between the BRIT image viewer and two voice dictation systems to eliminate duplicate data entry.
• Wrote reusable C ++ classes to write logs, retrieve settings, save and restore a window's position automat­ically, and prevent more than one instance of an application running at the same time.

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Programmer/Analyst

Tools: InstallShield, C, Watcom SQL, PowerBuilder, Windows 3.11, Windows 95

• Wrote installation scripts for Quest Order Management, Quest Group Reporting, and customer database updates.
• Wrote system utilities and test programs.
• Troubleshot for internal and external customers.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Advanced System Engineer

Tools: C, Client/Server, Gupta SQLBase, Gupta SQLWindows, Windows 3.11, Netware 3.11

Responsibilities:

• Removed a serious system bottleneck by rewriting the document image print server.
• The new server print­ed document images with a Confidential engine on an HP Laserjet 5si at the rated speed while shortening overall image retrieval time.
• Wrote a document page image prefetch module to optimize document image retrieval.
• It retrieved docu­ment page image files wherever they were stored.
• It prefetched and cached page image files.
• Wrote a reusable document storage/retrieval subsystem which opened and locked documents, and re­trieved and displayed pages.
• Wrote two different document scanning programs.
• Converted over 1 million pages from one document database to a new system.
• The conversion program connected to two databases, Gupta SQLBase and Informix, simultaneously.
• It ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for six months.
• Helped design a generic document database that included all the core document functions.
• Troubleshot for internal and external customers.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Systems Engineer

Tools: PC DOS, C, 8086 assembler, Data General AOS, Data General Eclipse assembler, FORTRAN

Responsibilities:

• Ported the DPL interpreter from Z80 to PC.
• Added eight-way multitasking to the interpreter and an interac­tive debugger similar to CodeView.
• Helped maintain the INTERP file server on two different minicomputers.
• Maintained the DPL compiler.
• Troubleshot installation and system problems at customer sites.
• Enhanced a text formatting program.
• Wrote systems utilities.