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Rome, Ny, Us

Rome, Ny

• Support research and development activities including software defined radio, network configuration management, signal processing, testing and hardware experimentation. • Maintain, refactor and add features to modern C++ libraries and applications.

• Worked independently and collaboratively within cross functional teams to build and maintain all types of software including desktop applications, mobile apps, single page web applications, services and daemons.• Architected and developed a proprietary search and retrieval engine written in C++.• Implemented a custom TCP/IP based OLE DB provider and ADO.NET data provider written in C++ and C# respectively.• Spearheaded the implementation of numerous search and retrieval features including: full-text search, federated search, faceted search, browse search, relevance ranking, word stemming and autocomplete suggestions.• Unified the structure and layout of search-related indexes and refactored indexing routines optimized for speed.• Developed a rule-based metadata extraction and rendering engine for presenting formatted search results. Written in C# and SQL.• Created a web-based toolkit of UI components written in JavaScript. Notable components include: a find tool widget, a boolean query builder and an autocomplete drop list.• Developed the first commercial implementation of the MyLIbrary! iOS mobile application. Written in Objective-C.• Designed and implemented a secure license management service and runtime verification checker. The backend service was written in C/C++ and integrated with a third party Customer Resource Management System. The front end management application was written in JavaScript using Backbone.js and jQuery.• Participated in developing microservices for a next generation library system. Written in Java using the Spring Framework and Docker.• Automated time-consuming development tasks using PowerShell and Bash.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Developed software based on client needs functioning as an independent contractor.• Administered computer network and computing environment, including computer hardware and systems software.• Notable projects written in C++ include: digital image processing for medical application, compressed image storage engine, and a scatter plot generator.

Utica, New York Area

• Supported and maintained TCP/IP protocol libraries designed to simplify the development of FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, SNMP and Telnet client and server applications.• Developed a collection of step by step sample applications written in C and C++ demonstrating the use of PowerTCP internet software components. • Designed and developed a Telnet VT220 terminal emulator for Windows application written in C++.

Liverpool, Ny

• Developed a general support language in C++ for preparing and converting new customer data to an internal processing format. Also, responsible for writing a custom control (VBX) to process continuous- tone images. The custom control was TWAIN compliant and supported the JPEG algorithm.

Vestal, Ny

• Wrote, tested and documented several components of an integrated manufacturing system, including: inventory control, production tracking, quotation processing and engineering/manufacturing design.

• Specialized in troubleshooting various computer systems and peripheral devices. Duties included running operational tests, diagnosing problems and making routine repairs to electronic equipment.

Holland, Mi

• Duties included the troubleshooting and repair of various electronic communications and photographic facsimile equipment.

Dexter, Mi

• Set-up, tested and diagnosed a variety of computer equipment and peripheral items. Repaired and reconditioned equipment for resale.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Electrical Engineering Technology