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Sun Prairie, Wi, Us

Royle Printing offers high quality, heatset web and sheetfed printing to publishers & catalogers all across the United States. Our success lies with the knowledge and expertise of our team. Going well beyond paper and ink to provide creative & adaptable resources to our clients.A cornerstone of our heritage and future rests in our culture, something we're quite proud of at Royle. Our culture is focused on people - our employees, clients, business partners and the community.Royle Printing has been awarded the "Best Workplace in the Americas" designation by Printing Industries of America 13 out of 16 years, since the program's inception in 2000. The honor, granted to a few select companies, is the culmination of our team's effort to create a culture that promotes teamwork, hard work and creativity.• Collaborating with production using technology to enhance printing and binding technologies to increase productivity, quality and profitability.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

FIS™ is the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. FIS empowers the financial world with payment processing and banking solutions, including software, services and technology outsourcing. FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries, and our technology powers more billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe.Developing SAP Business Objects tools using the Java SDK.Developing financial dashboards using SAP Design Studio.

Waterford, Wisconsin, Us

• Gathered requirements, designed, implemented, tested, and supported a Java Swing Application used to describe the hardware details for customer installations.• Used the MVC design pattern along with Spring and Hibernate to manage database information and interact with the UI.• Wrote SQL necessary to support new features and populate "metadata" information used to drive the UI and meet customer needs.• Worked with Agile methodologies to meet requirements and deadlines that changed often based on customer and business expectations.• Mentored and helped guide less experienced programmers through the design, development and verification process.• Responsible for all enhancements and maintenance of existing product. Drove continuous improvement by soliciting and incorporating customer feedback. Current product is the recognized industry leader in Vivarium watering systems and environmental monitoring used by the majority of pharmaceutical companies and major universities.• Leveraged expertise in Java, Swing, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, VB6, VB.NET and C# to accelerate project progress.

I have been involved with the Boy Scouts of America since I was a scout myself. Then with my son, as an adult leader in Cub Scouts, Webelos and now Boy Scouting. I've served as Den Leader, Assistant Scoutmaster and Committee member. I've been very active in my son's troop, participating in high adventure outings including backpacking to the summit of Mt. Elbert in Colorado (the tallest mountain in the US Rockies at 14,433 ft.). My son is now an Eagle scout and I am currently serving as an Eagle Mentor to young men working with them to achieve their Eagle Rank.

• Collaborated with the Engineering Design Team to facilitate the creation of InkNet™; a unique, marketable and highly profitable printing ink consumption monitoring system. • Refined the product by driving continuous improvement through solicitation and incorporation of customer feedback.• Designed, developed and enhanced the complete InkNet™ software suite.• Traveled to production facilities to manage installations and train Operators.• Demonstrated proficiency with MS embedded Visual Basic and VB.NET, SQL, MS Access, Visual Studio.

Sussex, Wisconsin, Us

Software Developer – 1999 to 2001• Refined and enhanced Impoze, a vendor’s software package that automated the magazine layout and pagination process.• Radically enhanced the export and merger of data from a MS Access database to a Sybase system. Devised and developed complex SQL queries that decreased the average execution time from two hours to two minutes.• Successfully completed and brought unfinished portions of the software into production by enabling a faster transfer of text to pre-print. Analyzed and matched data structures in Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise and Access 2.0 and 97 to overcome the absence a relational database platform.Special Projects Leader – 1998 to 1999• Conceptualized and created an AB SLC 500 PLC-based controller for a liquid extruder machine. Leveraged skills in AB RSLogix and RSView to create a custom Human Machine Interface. Delivered a complete solution for a 66% savings over vendors quote.Software Engineer – 1994 to 1998• Developed applications in Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0 Enterprise, Access 2.0 and 97.• Maintained and enhanced a customer billing system by introducing upgrades in Active Reports and Microsoft ADO access tools.• Introduced upgrades in Active Reports and Microsoft ADO access tools.• Redesigned and debugged a scheduling program which was written by an outside consulting group.• Provided firsthand knowledge and perspective in supporting IS initiatives using embedded control technologies for linking production equipment to corporate systems. The data gathered reduced downtime and improved load-leveling.

Sussex, Wi, Us

Software Engineer and Team Leader – 1984 to 1994Developed and enhanced printing and binding technologies to increase productivity, quality and profitability. Projects required advanced knowledge of Assembly language on Intel microprocessors and microcontrollers. • Held a leading role in the development of a “state of the art” color registration system.• Managed a Team of five Firmware Engineers. • Enabled new market penetration and with an innovative mapping technique that provided the flexibility to customize the product for different press configurations. • Conceived and implemented a control system for magazine production equipment. Solicited extensive operator and supervisor input to perfect the design. Saved time and money by reusing existing circuit boards for proof of concept testing. Conducted production testing, verification, validation and trained both Operators and Electricians. This new control system was instrumental in win landing lucrative new contracts.• Addressed a machine downtime issue by incorporating a series of sensors and reject gates to divert faulty product without machine stoppage.• Devised a barcode-based device that doubled the capacity of an existing magazine co-mailing machine. This enabled the commingling of 32 different magazine titles into a single money-saving bulk mailing. This industry leading advancement was instrumental in winning several major contracts.

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