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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)