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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. 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: ASP.NET 4.0, Web Forms, Windows Forms, Javascript, WCF, VB.NET, C#, SQL, Visual Studio 2013𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 – 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐛𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨Mar 2015 – Apr 2015• 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, Visual Studio 2013𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤May 2014 – Mar 2015• 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• Contributed to project that executed patent analysis working with ASP.NET 4.0.• Worked with Entity Framework to create a framework for C# and SQL stored procedure algorithm execution.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: ASP.NET 4.0, Windows Forms, C#, SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2013𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐛𝐲Jul 2013 – Feb 2014• Contributed to project that grew automated royalty reporting 20%. • Worked with JavaScript and AJAX to significantly enhance user experience in the royalty reporting application.• Refactored C# command line application which is scheduled to run every half hour to update licensee agreement data in the main application.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: ASP.NET 3.5, Web Forms, C#, JavaScript, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2008

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 developer on this project and managed the build and releases. Set up build script for both test and production environments.Technology: ASP.NET 3.5, Web Forms, C#, JavaScript, SQL Server 2005

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 trail, user account management, application login, electronic signatures, and XML digital signatures to validate XML data.Researched how to integrate Octet with various LIMS systems.Technology: ASP.NET, Windows Forms, C#, SQL, XML

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 Services.Technology: ASP.NET, Windows Forms, C#

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: ASP.NET, Windows Forms, C#

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 toolkit.Wrote data report layout plug-in for Dreamweaver in C++/MFC with a team of four.

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 plug-in written in Visual Basic, creating a visual business workflow development tool.

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 Microsoft Access databases using ODBC.

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 indexing.