Chronological Summary

• Education: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.

     Graduated 1985, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota

• Oct. 2004- Present: Software Consultant

:: Visual Basic .Net- Gorsuch, Ltd , Vail, Colorado - Merchant Planning Purchase Order system

:: Crystal Reports

:: SQL Server 2000 

• Oct. 2001- 2004: Software Consultant

:: Visual Basic 6 - Body Fat Test (www.bodyfattest.com) - Updated and enhanced client entry system.

:: Microsoft Access 2002 (XP) - Backend system to Body Fat Test system.  Included import/export of client history and payments.

:: Microsoft Frontpage - Web sites include: www.pinnacleair.com, www.thesafaribar.com, www.skin-scuba-oahe.com, www.freakytiki.com

:: Microsoft Access 2002 - dp-2-cr graphic conversion system for construction design.

 

 

• Feb.-Oct. 2001: Software Contractor - Encoda Systems, Denver, Colorado 

:: Visual Studio 6.0.  90% work in C++ / 10% Visual Basic. 7 months.

:: International Broadcasting software.  Upgraded several critical applications to new  release.  10 systems.

:: AS 400/DB2 backend, MFC, ADO 2.6, SQL, COM, DLL

:: Code passed unit testing, submitted for Beta, negligible bugs reported,  completed on schedule.

 

• Oct. 2000-Feb. 2001: Software Contractor - Active.com, Westminster, Colorado   

::  "Active Event Manager 2001" - Microsoft Visual Basic 6 UI.  Access 97 and 2000 back-end.  Had to function with both versions.  Solved DAO/Jet incompatibilities.

:: Urgent development life cycle (6 weeks).   Completed on schedule.  Solved two critical hurdles in first week.

:: ADO 2.1, DAO 3.6, Jet 4.0.  Wrote several new Collection/class objects. TDBGRID 7.0 OLE control.  ADODC data control.  OLEDB.  SQL.  Treeview/listview controls.  Registry settings.  

:: FTP download interface.  Database import.   Dynamic table and relationship updates.  

    Replaced ODBC import.

:: Reports interface.  Saved company 1 week of development time by using Access.application object in VB front.   Used to run existing backend reports instead of redeveloping in Crystal reports or other.

          "Active Event Manager 2001" (click on thumbnail to learn more)

• June 1998-Aug. 2000: Software Consultant - BPro Inc, Pierre, South Dakota. 

    South Dakota Board of Accountancy management system

    (click on thumbnail to learn more)

:: Web based pesticide exam system for Department of Agriculture. Visual Basic 6, Interdev, ASP, VBScript.  3-tier system.   COM/ADO middle-layer (ActiveX).  Browser front-end.   SQL-Server 7 backend.    12 chapters, random questions, store/recall answers.

:: SD Board of Accountancy MS Access ’97 app from Q&A/FoxPro 1 ˝ yr. conversion.    

:: Access 2.0 Message Broker module using N-tier concept for Minneapolis accounting firm.  Interfaced with 100 MAS90 tables and dynamically formatted records using Tabledef collection. 

:: General software maintenance to several State agencies, such as Dept. of Criminal Investigation and Dept. of Agriculture.

             

• Jan 10-April 9, 1998: Research Assistant/Programmer - University of Berne, Geography, Hallerstrasse 12, Berne, Switzerland

::  “Jungfraujoch (Alps) special project” research.  Unix (Sun and Silicon Graphics).

::  Access 2.0 and MS C++ 5.0 programs on Windows NT to process meteorology data.

::  Managed program execution to calculate back trajectories of air parcels to determine

   source of ozone pollution discovered in Swiss Alpine (free troposphere) region,

    using supercomputers to run meteorological models.

:: Included work in Reading, England at European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting.

 

• July, 97-Jan.‘98: Software Consultant - BPro Inc, Pierre, South Dakota.

:: Leading role in developing company business plan.

:: Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit to VB 5.0 32-bit client/server conversion, Governor’s office.   SQL-Server upgrade, RDO and COM.

:: Access 2.0 applications for several State agencies, such as Dept of Social Services,     Dept. of Agriculture,  A.G. office, and National Association of State Approving Agency  (Veteran's affairs).

:: National Association for State Approving Agency website - MS Frontpage

 

• June 1994-July 1997: Senior Programmer Analyst - First National Bank of Omaha, First Technology Solutions, Omaha, Nebraska. 

:: Visual C++ import merchant records from Houston ISO.  Helped design relational structure represented in flat file.  Seven record types.   Verified record data, produced error log.

:: Visual C++ Windows 3.1 interface with Oracle Composer IEF CASE.  Struct passing     incoming records.  Relational flat file.:: Discovered use of .MAP files to help Oracle consultant with GPFs.:: Visual C++ Oracle interface.   Cdatabase/Crecordset (ODBC). 

:: “Intro to C++” Metropolitan Community College.  Grade A+ (4.0).

:: Borland C++ Windows 3.1 - interface for Air Force data on CDRom (First Technology Solutions).

:: Access 2.0 reports for Oracle Merchant data involving 75 tables.  Created more than 50 reports over 2 years.

:: Access 2.0 databases for several other internal Merchant division clients.  Complete apps.  importing, exporting, reporting.

:: Visual Basic 4.0 middleware application. COM and HLLAPI to communicate with IBM mainframe COBOL client/server (Early/Cloud).   

:: MIMIC programming language app to simulate credit card terminal requests. 

:: Helped save $1 Million/day from temporary work stoppage due to IDMS-R database leak on defense contract.

 

• Sep 1991-June 1994: Sales/Consulting - Loewenberg Technologies, Bowers PC Consulting.  Sioux Falls, South Dakota

:: Served Hundreds of customers.  All aspects of sale, pricing, billing, support, installation & maintenance of PCs and telephone systems.

:: Provided training/telephone support on new installs.  Some telephone system programming (such as Comdial).

:: Successful $10,000 installation of Cat-5 network.

 

 

• Mar. 1988-Jan 1991: Programmer Analyst - McDonnell Douglas, Bellevue, Nebraska. 

:: USAF B-52 mission planning system.  Wrote two critical portions: B-52 route verification, and  IDMS/R database mission storage.

:: CP/M operating system, REXX editor, IBM 370.  Fortran 77.

:: Overcame 1 million lines of “spaghetti” code in system, 14mb RAM limitation, strict government QA requirements and programming methodologies.  System was successfully delivered. Two year production schedule.

:: VAX/VMS development on separate project with integration in St. Louis.

 

• Sep. 1985-Mar. 1988: Programmer Analyst - South Dakota Department of Transportation.  Pierre, South Dakota

:: COBOL and Natural/ADABAS applications for State of SD. 

:: QBASIC application to convert civil engineering data from theodolite collector into

cross-section plots. 

:: Other FORTRAN coding.