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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

St Louis Park, Minnesota

Managed and mentored 15 to 30 Associate Consultants / Software Engineers. Staffed new software development projects based on technical and consulting skill based on project needs. Created interview and technical screening process for hiring. Interviewed approximately 100 candidates and hired approximately 75.

San Francisco, California

• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩Apr 2015 – Oct 2015
• Contributed to five different applications that are part of a suite used by different business units that manage and ship vehicles.
• Applications include a public-facing web application, a Windows application to create and manage orders, a Windows application to manage train and truck shipping, and a web application that runs on a handheld scanner..
• Contributed to a project to manage and distribute pensions and pension payments. My primary focus was on a WCF service that prints and emails pension statements and checks.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: ASP.NET 4.5, C#, Web Forms, WCF.
• Contributed to a project that creates and manages projects at owned and leased properties, including creating and managing project budgets.
• Integrated SAP NetWeaver Gateway Rest services.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: ASP.NET 4.5, MVC, C#, JavaScript, Visual Studio 2013𝐁𝐂𝐆Feb 2014 – Apr 2014

1580 Pinole Valley Rd, Pinole, CA 94564

Own and operate a bowling pro shop. Pinole Bowler’s Supply sells bowling balls, bags, shoes, and other bowling equipment. I’m responsible for all finances, bookkeeping, and management of the store.

Richmond, California

Designed and implemented ASP.NET 3.5/C# website for cosmetics manufacturers and distributors to report products containing chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer, congenital disabilities, or other reproductive toxicity.Designed and implemented a database in SQL Server 2005 to store cosmetic products and the chemicals they contain.I was the sole.

Stanford, California

KZSU is a free-form community radio station broadcasting from Stanford University. I have DJ’d/hosted a music show since 1989.In the past, I have taught the broadcast training class as Chief Announcer, built the on-air schedule as Program Director, and been Music Director and Metal Director.

Richmond, California, United States

Maintained and added features to RASSCLE II application, written in C# and ASP.NET. The system tracks children with lead poisoning and potential lead poisoning in California.Technology: ASP.NET, C#, SQL

Menlo Park, California

Developed code for the Octet System in C# and Windows Forms. This software controls hardware and enables real-time, automated analysis of biomolecular interactions to do kinetics and quantitative analysis of proteins.Added features throughout the entire application to make the application 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. Features include a system-wide audit.

Richmond, California

Worked with a team of seven to develop RASSCLE II, which is written in C# and ASP.NET. The system tracks children with lead poisoning or potential lead poisoning in California.Wrote SQL stored procedures to convert legacy RASSCLE FoxPro database to new Microsoft SQL Server schema.Technology: ASP.NET, C#, SQL

Menlo Park, California

Developed code for the Octet System in C# using Windows Forms. This software controls hardware and enables real-time, automated analysis of biomolecular interactions to do kinetics and quantitative analysis of proteins.Technology: ASP.NET, Windows Forms, C#, SQL, XML

Mountain View, California

Worked on a team of three to develop AQMS, a C# Windows Forms client to monitor and analyze an entire manufacturing environment. AQMS communicated with Web Services (also written in C#) using SOAP.Wrote small C# Windows Forms client to control a serial port. This client was used to program and test handheld barcode readers and allow remote access via Web.

Mountain View, California

Participated in the rapid development of Looking Glass, a C# Windows client that monitors Web Services traffic. The client application used SOAP to communicate with a Java server and is built on the Microsoft.NET framework.Integrated third-party.NET charting component in the application for monitoring Web Services performance indicators.Technology.

San Francisco, California

Designed, wrote functional specifications, and coded numerous Windows client applications in C++/MFC, focusing on the user interface and usability. These applications included a database query building tool, an HTML hyperlink creator, and a JavaScript expression building tool. Worked with MSXML parser as well as SAX XML parser and Microsoft’s SOAP.

San Mateo, California

Implemented Microsoft Script Host in C++/ATL COM object. This involved implementing five COM interfaces that interact with the Microsoft script engines as well as building an interface for other objects to call.Developed server administration tool in the form of an MMC Snap-in, a unique COM object (ActiveX DLL) created in Visual Basic.Worked on a Visio.

Emeryville, California

Wrote five ActiveX DLLs in Visual Basic 5.0 for use by internal Scopus engineers and end-users. Maintained older ActiveX DLLs and converted them from Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 5.Internationalized all ActiveX DLLs to work in seven languages, including Japanese, Korean, German, Chinese, Hebrew, French, and Spanish.

Palo Alto, California

Wrote a custom control (OCX) in C++ and MFC. The control reads and writes quality assurance questionnaires applicable to call centers. The control stored the questions and answers in Microsoft SQL Server.Designed and wrote four Microsoft Windows applications that listen for, convert, and write ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) call-volume reports to.

Menlo Park, California

Upgraded hardware control system written in Visual Basic to communicate with a DDE server engine written in Borland C\C++.Wrote Windows 3.1 utilities in Visual Basic 4.0 for flash memory testing hardware.Designed and coded a Windows editor in C++ and MFC for editing audio chip vectors.

Palo Alto, California

Wrote programs in PL/I on VM/CMS to convert data from various input formats to an internal proprietary format for subsequent processing.Responsible for all technical development of 30 CD-ROM products. Developed large-scale PC-based CD-ROM database products under VM/CMS using PL/I for data conversion. Used REXX and IBM/370 assembly language tools for.