Catherine (Cary) Bruestle Email & Phone Number

• Chief developer and owner for Internet software service company, providing web-based Software as a Service (SAAS) solutions to colleges and alumni associations.
• Clients include many major universities, such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Colgate, Dartmouth, Wellesley, Smith. Maintain over a hundred custom websites with a common code base.
• Designed and maintained and software components necessary for the company’s SDLC procedures and operations.
• Worked directly as principal contact for many of the business clients.
• Project lead for small team of developers
• Created intelligent ETL system, employing offline and real-time integrated management of alumni CRM data from multiple universities and colleges. Written in VBScript, using the Windows Task Scheduler.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US

• Developed an application that efficiently tracked legal proceedings from complaints about educators, resulting in improved process management and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborated with a skilled team in an Agile environment, continuously delivering quality software solutions on time and within budget.
• Demonstrated strong responsiveness to customer needs by quickly addressing their requests and ensuring their satisfaction throughout the development lifecycle.

• Led the design and development of a cloud-based application that displays insured properties and weather forecasts on a map for Lloyd’s of London property insurance claims adjusters.
• Successfully integrated multiple external data sources to provide comprehensive weather forecasting information within the app.
• Contributed to improving efficiency by developing an app that allows easier coordination of claims reserves assignment within a projected storm path.
• Designed to be scalable for future use, including analyzing long-term trends in weather damage.

• Lead software developer for the market research subsidiary of Gallup Poll.
• Developed an online Survey system that extended the research subject pool far beyond in-person focus groups. Used ASP.Net, Webforms, SQL Server, CSS, Third-Party JavaScript tools, media players configuration and control.
• Developed a collaborative and iterative system for interpreting free-text survey data, vastly increasing the productivity of the Data Analysis team

M.S.E., Computer Science

Ab, Physics