Bruce Ray Email & Phone Number

Baton Rouge, La

Responsible for designing, creating, improving, and documenting a number of software products for the following clients:2008 - present: LASERS – LA State Employees Retirement SystemPresent -* Building services to allow modernization of LASERS web presence, internal operations and development processes. (C#)* Creating and enhancing WCF base infrastructure to provide a simple means for other developers to create small services. (C#)* Establishing basic unit and integration… Show more Responsible for designing, creating, improving, and documenting a number of software products for the following clients:2008 - present: LASERS – LA State Employees Retirement SystemPresent -* Building services to allow modernization of LASERS web presence, internal operations and development processes. (C#)* Creating and enhancing WCF base infrastructure to provide a simple means for other developers to create small services. (C#)* Establishing basic unit and integration testing patterns and base classes to simplify implementing tests. (C#)* Designing and developing an extensible search/business rules engine architecture. (C#)* Redesigning retirement calculation functions in line-of-business web application to uncouple them from data access and to provide enhanced testability. (VB.Net)Prior - * Established patterns and practices to standardize development and testing. (C#/VB.Net)* Refactored unstructured code in line-of-business web application, which was scattered through the UI, business, data and SQL layers into "smart data objects", providing increased testability and maintainability. (VB.Net)* Created and maintained user interface components and business modules for line-of-business application. (VB.Net)* Performed various data maintenance and cleanup functions. (T-SQL, VB.Net)2007: CreditInvest – Created new Sales module for existing web-based credit research and reporting application, updated existing functionality to add additional features2007: Amedisys – created a background desktop application to manage the movement, encryption, transfer and status monitoring/notification of files delivered and received from a remote ftp site.(C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL, XML, SQL Server) Show less

Baton Rouge, La

Upgraded regional electrical contractor cataloging system.Designed and developed a software simulator for high speed toll plaza operations, reviewed toll plaza software designsUpgraded embedded software for an automated ground water sampling unitDesigned and developed embedded and PC software for a computerized engraving machineDeveloped database software for attorney referral servicesDeveloped enhancements for and corrected problems in Shell Oil… Show more Upgraded regional electrical contractor cataloging system.Designed and developed a software simulator for high speed toll plaza operations, reviewed toll plaza software designsUpgraded embedded software for an automated ground water sampling unitDesigned and developed embedded and PC software for a computerized engraving machineDeveloped database software for attorney referral servicesDeveloped enhancements for and corrected problems in Shell Oil Company’s Manual Data Capture software systemActed as the primary point of contact for the U.S. Department of Defense’s use of the Blast communications softwareMaintained several versions of Blast for CRG, US Robotics and Blast, Inc.Developed web sites for various clients(C#, C++, C, Assembler (several variants), VB, HTML, Embedded Systems, Control Systems, Database systems) Show less

15160 S Harrells Ferry Rd, Baton Rouge, La

Operate a weekly coffeehouse, including managing staffing, supplies, opening and closing shop.Spreading the love of Christ through our actions.(Suspended operations with the Great Flood of 2016)

Baton Rogue, La

Worked with the US Department of Defense and Fortune 100 end-users and management to design and specify new product offerings and to expand the market for existing productsManaged small development teams responsible for designing, creating, replacing, improving, and documenting a number of software products, including:Integrity – a highly customisable risk analysis program used by oil and gas pipeline companies for compliance with DOT regulationsData Layer Plugin – a flexible… Show more Worked with the US Department of Defense and Fortune 100 end-users and management to design and specify new product offerings and to expand the market for existing productsManaged small development teams responsible for designing, creating, replacing, improving, and documenting a number of software products, including:Integrity – a highly customisable risk analysis program used by oil and gas pipeline companies for compliance with DOT regulationsData Layer Plugin – a flexible data abstraction product used by other Plexos products to interconnect a wide variety of data sources and to provide a standard interface to the dataInfoCenter – a scalable, secure, standards-based web framework for custom data collection and delivery written in C#CISField – a field services automation system for pipeline inspection data collection, editing and disseminationDeveloped several web services for use with the above packagesDesigned and implemented the embedded software for a GPS-synchronized pipeline corrosion test deviceDetermined operational specifications for new products and features in existing products(C++, C#, VB, Assembler, SQL, XML, TCP, UDP, FTP, SOAP, Windows CE thru XP, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle, Risk Analysis software, Data abstraction software, Collaboration software) Show less

Baton Rouge, La

Designed and specified a large scale music compact disc encoding and storage “server farm”, including data encryption and physical security systemsProvided support to the development team on technical issues related to software capabilities and functionalityImplemented a corporate LAN/WAN for improved communication and collaboration(C/C++, UNIX, Windows, ePAC and MP3, digital media, Online music systems)

Baton Rouge, La

Researched, designed, developed and deployed a Windows “jukebox” application based upon Lucent’s ePAC and current mp3 music encoding technologyWorked with partners to create preliminary designs for home audio systems, portable music players, online music distribution systems and web-based applicationsWorked with Lucent engineers to improve the performance and capabilities of their ePAC codec.(C/C++, UNIX, Windows, ePAC and MP3, digital media, Music software)

Baton Rouge, La

Developed software to automate daily ISP operations using open standardsResponsible for monitoring, maintaining and upgrading systems software and hardware for Baton Rouge’s largest independent Internet Service Provider(C, mySQL, UNIX, UNIX scripting languages, TCP/IP, Networking)

Baton Rouge, La

Added numerous features to the Blast serial file transfer protocolDelivered pre- and post-sales engineering support to Fortune 500 customers, developing custom solutions using Blast in financial, investment banking and retail applicationsDeveloped a new version of Blast for the AS/400Ported Blast to at least seven new Unix-based platforms(C, Assembler, UNIX (many variants), OS/400, TCP, FTP, TELNET, Communications software)

Baton Rouge, La

Designed and developed in-house database systems for accounts receivable, shipping and inventory for the Fastback and Logical Connection product linesResponsible for mechanical design, drivers and operating system software for the Logical ConnectionDesigned enclosure and embedded software for an industrial canning controller(C, Assembler, SQL, Informix 4GL, Data backup software, mechanical engineering)

Baton Rouge, La

Designed and developed Computer Aided Design software, hardware and driversImproved performance and reliability of current CAD softwareSupervised and trained two new programmers(C, Assembler, DEC VMS and RT-11, CP/M, DOS, Windows, various microcomputers and coprocessors, CAD systems)

Downey, Ca

Developed an automated system for generating installation drawings for the Space Shuttle Thermal Protection System (“Tiles”) from raw, numerical design dataDesigned modifications of Space Shuttle crew module, fore and aft fuselage components(Fortran, Assembler, CAD/CAM, mechanical engineering)