Bill Darcy Email & Phone Number

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Ashe-Bots is team number 4016 in the FIRST Robotics Competition (http://www.usfirst.org/). It is a High School level competition that involves a new challenge every year and 6 weeks to design, build, program and test a robot to enter into the contest to compete against robots of other teams.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Designing and developing ASP.NET web sites for customers including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to allow their members to access and leverage EPRI's research.

Manchester, Nh

- Revised & improved critical ERP 4GL database programs.- Coordinated improvements to campus-wide wireless network and web pages to improve capacity and ease of use.- Planned upgrade to eCommerce component of campus ERP system.

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Lead and instruct hiking in all seasons and back country skiing at all levels from introducing people to safely having fun in the mountains under a variety of conditions to managing themselves and groups in above treeline alpine and difficult conditions.

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- Planed, lead and instructed volunteer trail workers in basic and advanced trail maintenance and reconstruction.- Maintain tool inventory and budget- Participate in volunteer leadership of the AMC's NH Chapter

- Designed and developed a multithreaded client/server software system to communicate with a medical device, MySQL database and user to manage the device and retrieve, store and view its data.- Consulted, supported and assisted engineers on Windows development.- C#, Win Forms, C++ , MySQL, COM, JavaScript, WAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows), TCP, XML

Nuance bought eCopy in 2009. I helped transition eCopy's projects to Nuance's development team in Hungary.

Scanning solutions that provide paper-to-digital storage and workflows and support business process automation efforts. eCopy was recently acquired by Nuance.Lead engineer in the specification, design, development of new, top selling software components that enable customers to move paper documents into repositories. Microsoft SharePoint: Specified, designed and implemented new components to store scanned documents. Researched poorly documented SharePoint Web Services. - C#, C++ COM, ATL, SOAP, XPath. - Product became an important part of the company’s flagship product, ShareScan. Microsoft Exchange: Redesigned product for increased reliability and maintainability. - C#, C++/CLI, UML, Windows Forms, reusable classes and assemblies, and legacy C++ COM components- Developed reusable classes and components that increased reliability and maintainability and reduced time to market.- The most used ShareScan component.Open Text/Hummingbird: Designed new component to store scanned documents. Reverse engineered web server code for features not understood by Hummingbird support staff. - C++ COM, ATL, WTL, Hummingbird COM API, SQL, VB SCRIPT AND JAVA SCRIPT. - One of the top selling ShareScan components.Collaborated with product managers, QA engineers, writers, support staff and senior management to define requirements, solve customer business problems and ensure quality.Maintained and enhanced award winning desktop PDF scanning product. - C++, COM, Win32, MFC, HTTP/WinInet, imaging APIs. - Developed initial top selling components that connect to document database servers.

Software to filter, view and interact with live and filtered news. Customers included news portal sites, stock brokerages, investment managers, accounting and financial companies.Custom Applications: Collaborated with sales people, senior management, project managers, engineers and customers to define requirements, author functional specification, design, develop, test, install, and support a variety of custom applications that connected NewsEdge’s server with people, wall display units, Microsoft Excel and databases. - C++, Visual Basic, SQL.News Web Portal: Specified, designed, developed, tested, and supported the server application that received and parsed news from various sources, used Verity's profiler to categorize stories, and stored them in a SQL Server database. - C++ and SQL. - Users had world wide access to this news database via a dedicated website.

Led a small team in designing, developing and enhancing real-time client news components for ADP's desktop application used by traders at stock brokerage firms. - C++ COM

Ported industrial batch processing product from OS/2 to Windows NT 3.5. Extensively used SQL databases (Oracle and SQL Server) and hardware communications software.Customized Intellution's standard industrial automation software based on customer requirements. Projects included communications with factory controllers (serial and other), scheduling, state machines, and more. All projects included customer interaction to define, and document requirements and support installations.- C and C++, MFC, Windows, DOS, OS/2 and VMS

Developed and maintained Environmental and marine monitoring software to monitor and analyze marine data collected via remote microprocessor-based systems for the Endeco division.