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Dearborn Works

• Technical support and code maintenance for internal process control applications dealing with the full life-cycle of steel processing from raw materials through steel coils.
• The system consists of numerous windows apps, web apps, console apps (dumb terminals connecting to servers as well as hand-held devices) and hundreds of server side batch processes all communicating through a.
• Environments supported: SCO Unix, Linux (Redhat… Show more
• Environments supported: SCO Unix, Linux (Redhat Enterprise), Windows XP.
• Programming Languages: Java (JDK 1.4.2), C and Pro*C (Oracle tool that allows embedding of PL/SQL in C code), Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures, Perl, UNIX shell scripting and a little Python.
• Tools/Frameworks: Tomcat v5, SCCS (version control on SCO boxes), CVS (version control on Linux boxes), Mercurial (for my local version control), Toad (client for Oracle DB). Show less

• Designed, wrote and maintained billing code which consists of approximately 7,500 lines of Java code and over 1,000 lines of shell scripts. The system reads from Oracle and generates a daily report, a weekly report and.
• Designed, wrote and maintained billing code which consists of approximately 1,200 lines of Java code. The program reads from an Oracle database and… Show more
• Designed, wrote and maintained billing code which consists of approximately 1,200 lines of Java code. The program reads from an Oracle database and generates a monthly report which is fed into a down-stream system for.
• Maintained and supported User Setup Forms, a large Java web application consisting of over 180,000 lines of Java and JSP and other web content files within the Struts framework. Tools: JDeveloper, ClearCase, JDK 1.4.2.
• Maintained and supported TONIR, a web-based report viewer for commercial banking customers allowing them to view their account balances and transaction histories. A dozen DLLs over 100 ASP/html/css files. Tools.
• Wrote a number of Python scripts to parse web log files and do general system maintenance tasks on TONIR servers.

• Designed and implemented the low level C++ classes for moving the RapportNET objects to storage in an SQL Server v7 database. Tools used were Visual C++ v6 and SQL Server v7.
• Leveraged my knowledge of COM AddRef/Release issues to institute usage of smart pointers in all COM code, resulting in elimination of dangling AddRef issues in the existing and future C++ code base.
• Investigated ADO.NET in both VB.NET and C# for the purposes of migrating our product from a COM solution to a… Show more
• Investigated ADO.NET in both VB.NET and C# for the purposes of migrating our product from a COM solution to a.NET solution. The work involved writing test apps in VB.NET to access our SQL Server database as well as.
• Utilized in-house developed C++ base classes to port three existing subsystems to C++/COM based solutions. Technologies used: STL, ATL and COM. Tools used were Visual C++ v6 and VisualBASIC v6.
• Designed and implemented the content access control system for RapportNET. Technologies used: ATL and COM. Tools used were Visual C++ v6 and SQL Server v7.

• Designed and wrote a utility to automate updating files in a web site by reading new/updated files via FTP and entering data in a DB. Tools used were Java JDK 1.1.8 and DB2.
• Designed the architecture and functioned as lead developer on the Daimler-Chrysler Visual Alert System project which is a messaging system to monitor parts assembly lines. Tools used were Java JDK 1.1.8 and DB2.
• Designed and implemented the error handling and logging system in the UCCnet project which is a… Show more
• Designed and implemented the error handling and logging system in the UCCnet project which is a large scale n-tier system written in Java using EJB. Tools used were Java JDK 1.2.2, XML, WebLogic and Tomcat.
• Added encrypted cookie password support to WSL ISAPI, which is the primary web site security system in use by Ford Motor Corporation. Code written in Visual C++ v6. Technologies used: NT Service with COM interface.
• Configuration Management for Ford’s FOCALpt project. Major work on the automated build system and the installation program. Work done in Visual Basic v5 and Visual C++ v5. Other tools used: Visual Source Safe v5, SQL.

• Wrote the server-side code for a number of web sites developed by Argon Ventures. Work involved Perl scripts, VBScript Active Server Pages and custom C++ CGI programs, as well as a custom macro processing system for.
• Configured and maintained a co-located web server running Windows NT 4, IIS 4, NTMail and WarFTP server, hosting 16 active web sites.
• Designed and implemented a set of libraries for common code written entirely in C++ using… Show more
• Designed and implemented a set of libraries for common code written entirely in C++ using the latest standard library code including template-based containers. One of the libraries uses MFC classes to interface to ODBC.
• Performed maintenance and upgrades to a mail sort-control program written in C under the Lynx operating system. The entire system consisted of over 100,000 lines of C code and 25,000 lines of header files. I was.
• Raised the company's language standards from K&R C to ANSI C and then from ANSI C to ANSI C++.

• Handled customer technical support on the phone and by mail.
• Maintained and troubleshot in-house equipment and software, including a four user network for order taking.
• Designed and maintained a PC-File database containing an in-house and commercially available mailing list of over 25,000 names and addresses.
• Researched and tested office productivity software, both for in-house use, and as potential new products.
• Wrote the installation program and a demonstration program… Show more
• Wrote the installation program and a demonstration program for our major product, Corporate Voice.

• Assembled and tested IBM PC clone computer systems from board-level parts.
• Installed and provided customer support for Novell Networks.
• Handled customer support and maintenance on the phone, in the shop, and on-site.