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Spokane, Washington, United States

Provide consulting and development services in the areas of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Process Improvement, and Firmware Engineering.

Liberty Lake, Wa

Led eight Systems Engineers which perform all required “Systems V” tasks, architected the next generation firmware of battery-powered gas and water IPv6 devices, and led quality improvement initiatives to promote standardized Systems Engineering and Firmware processes.

I managed a large Smart Metering team (30+ direct reports), was the firmware system architect of my program, and produced as much code as a Principal-level Engineer.

Managed a team that created the Itron Smart Grid Cell Router (SGCR) for Itron. Also wrote several portions of the code.

Worked on a small team to develop and test Itron's RF mesh for the Smart Grid, the RF-LAN. This network is currently deployed in several utilities in North America with millions of nodes.

Worked on a small team to develop and test Itron's RF mesh for the Smart Grid, the RF-LAN. This network is currently deployed at several utilities in North America with millions of active nodes.

* Responsible for all development and maintenance of Visum’s Online Training System (OTS). System utilizes ASP.NET, ASP, ADO, COM, VB, VB.NET, C#, VC++, JavaScript, XML, MSXML, and SQL Server.* Designed and developed ePresentation™. This application compiles Microsoft PowerPoint™ slides into an XML file that is uploaded into an online system for ubiquitous Internet delivery. Presentation display is “skinned” using XHTML templates for easy user interface modification.*Designed and developed an Insurance Data Collection System for a Fortune 100 Visum client. Using XHTML templates and SQL Server, this system collects all insurance renewal information for the client’s North American Operations with over 50 Operating Companies controlling over 80 Reporting Units.* Designed and developed Learning to Go™. This unique application allows the user of the Visum OTS to export any course to ADL™ SCORM™ 1.2 compliant SCOs. These SCOs are then available for offline use using a small ATL-based executeable that acts as a SCORM-compliant LMS. Offline results are batched in an Access™ database and transferred via HTTPS XML POSTs to the OTS once the application is “docked”. As a result of the design, the system can also allow learners to experience imported SCOs from other developers.

Provided oversight and management of the technology behind SHPS' entrance into Disease State Management (DSM). The web-based applications that we created allowed SHPS nurses to remotely interact via video and chat. Remote diagnostic data such as blood pressure, weight, and blood glucose were retrieved by interfacing several different devices. Remote monitoring with triggers allowed nurses to setup watch profiles in order to keep a close eye on chronic conditions such as diabetes and COPD.

Electricity Division

* Designed and developed data acquisition software to interrogate the new Dattus 2000™ gas meter using VB/VC++/COM.* Designed and developed serial communications driver and programming software for the new Dattus 2000™ gas meter using VB/COM/ATL/C++ and the Schlumberger MAPS™ standard.* Produced over 300 pages of developer documentation for the Dattus 2000™ gas meter to assist in third party acquisition support.* Investigated and corrected multi-threading issues with MAPS™ architecture device drivers used by software developed by other third party vendors.* Developed and performed ongoing training efforts on latest Microsoft technologies to all engineering levels.* Designed and implemented cycle billing schedule system for storing and retrieving meter self-read dates by the PC-Pro+™ device programming system.

Designed and developed serial communications driver for the competitive PSI Quad4™ electric meter using COM/ATL/C++ and the Schlumberger MAPS™ standard.

* Investigated and guided third party vendor on how to correct problem with modem communications via the Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) in the Reminder Express™ package.* Developed Java application to graphically create, modify, and play a sequence of musical notes to be sent to the Philips Myna™ numeric pager.* Developed and implemented rxminder.com™, a large-scale internet application used to help healthcare providers in disease state management. This application used IIS 4.0 running on Windows NT 4.0 Server using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, ASP, COM, ADO, and several ActiveX DLLs written in Visual Basic 6.0 to create HTML/DHTML pages manipulated with client-side JavaScript.* Developed and implemented message dispatch engine using Visual C++/MFC. This engine sends pages using any number of protocols via a well-known COM interface. Current TCP/IP protocols developed are SMTP and SNPP.

* Designed and developed ATL COM objects which wrappered windows controls to be embedded in web pages and controlled by a proprietary ORB system using TCP/IP-based RPCs.

Designed and developed the engineering and evaluation software for Fujitsu’s next-generation cable modem. This project heavily used MFC/C++/ATL/COM to provide a rich and scalable medium to sell their product.

* Investigated and corrected a long unresolved bug with a MAPS™ architecture ARDIS device driver written by another third party vendor.* Modified existing WAN software developed by another third party vendor to be more user-friendly and robust.

Member of a three person Y2K remediation team tasked to review and correct over 2.5 million lines of C, C++, VB, and stored procedures for the EnerLink™ Electric and Gas Billing System (16 and 32 Bit). Completed ahead of schedule.

Major development contributor to the EnerLink™ Electric and Gas Billing System 32 Bit Version, including the following:* Designed and developed Automation System running as an NT Service to schedule date/time events amongst several machines in a distributed environment.* Designed and developed full ActiveX Document Container using ATL and Visual C++ 5.0.* Designed and developed Gas Nomination Maintenance application in Visual Basic 5.0.* Created and maintained COM objects written in VB using RDO to access Sybase Adaptive Server via ODBC.* Used ATL to create COM object to share data amongst applications using memory mapped files under Windows NT 4.0.

West Union, Sc

* Technical lead on OLE Automation/COM-based meter programming system in both Windows 3.x and Windows 95/NT environments using MFC/ATL/ODBC/C++/OOD.* Designed, developed, and maintained device driver support for high-end metering device totaling over 250,000 lines of C++ code.* Used Microsoft’s ATL to provide reusable COM components.* Designed and developed ActiveX controls using MFC to enhance user interface experience.* Implemented architectural enhancements to speed development on needed requirements.* Trained incoming Software Engineers and other business units on current Microsoft technology and system architecture.* Maintained 50 user Windows NT Server network.* Project lead on low-cost telephone dial inbound water meter interface unit for tip/ring-powered interrogation using a low-end 4 bit microcontroller.* Designed and developed MFC-based MDI application to maintain system information on large RF meter data acquisition system using Watcom SQL/Oracle/ODBC.* Developed data acquisition portions of a multi-threaded RPC-based device driver which retrieved data over a TCP/IP line from a central RTU.* Developed reporting package for data acquisition engine using Microsoft Access/Access Basic.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Implemented TTY-based full-screen UNIX text editor in C for manipulation of data to be imported into an Oracle database.* Implemented a UNIX Oracle daemon to upload legacy flatfile data automatically into central Oracle database.* Daemon parsed description file of legacy export format using custom grammar via lex/yacc.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Designed end-user interface for modules of Medical Records Optical Storage and Retrieval System under MS-DOS.* Participated in design and development of a generic Optical Storage and Retrieval System under Microsoft Windows 3.x.* Proficient in C, C++, 80x86 assembler, and use of the Microsoft Foundation Classes.* Used Client/Server Gupta SQL RDBMS system within written modules.* Proficient with OS/2 multi-threaded programming, PC Hardware, Microsoft LAN Manager, Novell Netware, and NetBIOS.* Local Area Network experience: installation, configuration, and diagnostics.* Proficient in Microsoft Windows and SQLWindows (4GL) programming.* Proficient in writing TSRs (not really a good skill anymore... :-))