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Fairfax, California, United States

Information Technology - Systems Design, Management, Quality Assurance

Sausalito CA

Helped position the owner of the company to secure funding from a private equity firm.

Angel investor. Funded and consulted to a startup that provided E-Business Marketplace and Exchange solutions

Chicago, Illinois

Drove Research and Development: Published Articles; Strategized Large Sales; and Presented Talks, Nationally and Internationally

San Francisco

Wrote an original computer software product, successfully built and sold the resulting company (TransCentury Data Systems).. Became Corporate Director of the acquiring company, Platinum Technology, Inc (which itself was later acquired by Computer Associates)... The product became part of a permanent coding solution and is still being used today in the.

San Francisco

Converted Time-Deposit and ATM systems in preparation for bank acquisitions. Also, worked on the calculation of the penalties associated with the early redemption of products which crossed the Y2K boundary.

San Francisco

Developed Online programs to support the redesign of the item/vendor file maintenance system. Strategized on the work plan to implement the changes.

San Francisco

Improved interfaces between the general ledger and securities processing. Worked on a report which was reviewed daily by the highest of corporate officers. It had been out of balance for years, but was able to uncover (and fix) the source of the discrepancy.

Oakland California

Re-designed and authored an in-house Accounts Receivable system. Also, made modifications to the Juror Selection and Maintenance system.

Oakland California

Worked with Market Research to track cash-flow between customer accounts. This served as the basis for mass mailing targeting prospective customers with newly introduced products.

San Francisco

Maintained Fortex C-ARMS Accounts Receivable system. Also made substantial changes to the Sales Analysis system. Plus participated in two years of merger activity as Crown-Zellerbach was merged into James River Corporation and then Zellerbach was sold to Meade Paper products.

Burlingame, California

Wrote interface and conversion programs to transfer accounts from the Fortex A/R package to an in-house authored system. Facilitated CMS to ROSCOE conversion. Implemented backup-restore procedures.

Oakland California

Brought applications in-house from service bureaus; as part of the original ATT divestiture.

San Francisco

Worked on several employee related systems as well as accounts payable. Also, brought the PGE college scholarship program in-house. This project through which awards were granted to students within the community based on SAT scores and class-rankings - had fairly public visibility through the Public Activities Department.

Berkeley California

Coded and Tested modifications to the ISI payroll package..... Also worked on salary increases based on both seniority and merit......

San Francisco

Wrote and modified programs that converted employee payroll/personnel files.

San Francisco

Worked on Pension Fund simulation program (which could accommodate 5 different asset classes). Also, modified a system that tracked the movement of railroad shipping cars through major terminals such as Chicago and St Louis.

Sausalito California

Worked on a Crew Management system that would determine the most efficient means of assigning work details to a group of employees.

Greater Chicago Area

Helped implement a computer system that maintained assignment schedules and payroll transactions for flight attendants. This online system was used by crew schedulers and supervisors.

Chicago, Illinois

Performed venipuncture of patients on the wards, in the early morning. And performed chemical analyses of the samples for the rest of the day.....

Greater Chicago Area

Helped maintain the Fortex's Accounts Receivable Package. Started by writing Print Modules. Later worked on Edit and Update - and - eventually the Accrual program. These skills would be used later at two future clients. GTE/Sprint and Zellerbach Paper.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked as a summer intern in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Ehret (a pioneer in circadian rhythm research). Wrote a FORTRAN software program to interface with the DISSPLA graphics package which allowed research scientists to plot a wide sampling of laboratory data.

Greater Chicago Area

COBOL,UNIVAC: Worked on the Alumni Development System. Involved editing, updating and reporting from the alumni database for purposes of sending out mailers etc. Also worked on various student-file and faculty-file reporting systems that were used by accreditation teams.

Denver Colorado

Assisted in the analysis of laboratory rat experimental data using the method of Least Squares Curve Fitting (a technique that I would use 8 years later in my Master's Thesis).(At this time, a desktop calculator was the size of a small toaster oven and attempted to calculate infinity (one digit at a time) when instructed to divide an integer by zero).

Masters Of Science, Biology

Activities and Societies: AEPi Fraternity. CORE Courses: Biochemistry, Microbiology, Developmental Biology . MASTER'S THESIS: My Master's.

Biochemisty And Physical Chemistry

Bachelors Of Science, Biology

Activities and Societies: AEPi Fraternity. Core courses in Biochemistry, Microbiology, Embryology and Cellular Biology. . Minor in.

Ap Biology; Ap Physics: Ap Mathematics, B Average

1) Programmed in Fortran on an IBM 1130 that cost $100K, was housed in a trailer and travelled from one Denver High School to another. 2).