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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Architected and lead effort to convert all Wells Fargo ATMs (applications and development processes) from Windows XP to Windows 7 platform and remotely upgrade 14 thousand ATMs from XP to 7 (and later, from Windows 7 to Windows 10). Introduced use of Windows PE, virtual machines, and Windows imaging technologies (e.g. ADK, DISM, etc.) for deployment.

Malvern, PA, US

Designed and developed a framework of.NET components allowing developers to quickly and easily implement customized backend “drivers” that allow legacy VB applications to communicate with newly developed medical devices (i.e., blood glucose meters) via USB connections. Drivers exposed COM interfaces via.NET’s COM interop capabilities, thereby providing the.

Re-engineered the core workflow processing engine of HeartBeat, the company’s Human Resource (HR) management application, using.NET 3.5 Workflow Frameword (WF) and WCF web services. Added significant configurability, fault-tolerance capabilities, and performance enhancements to the product. Restructured the development environment (e.g. Visual Studio.

Malvern, PA, US

Developed software for medical hardware product line (i.e., blood glucose meters for hospitals). Designed and implemented a multi-threaded Windows service that exposed WCF web services to reliably transfer realtime data between serial ports and a legacy socket application (using.NET 3.5). Designed and implemented a detailed medical data reporting.

Lead a small development team in the re-architecture, design, and development of a media player management user interface. This project involved converting a monolithic architecture into a customer configurable interface using custom user controls and components, all implemented in C#. Performed additional development on the Mono platform (i.e.,.NET on.

Lead a team of four C#/.NET, Java, and PHP developers. Introduced, evangelized, and lead the use of Fagan’s Software Inspection methodology, a process that dramatically reduces development time and costs and improves the quality of the software and the predictability of the development process. Despite initial skepticism (code reviews had been used several.

St. Louis Park, MN, US

Chevron Federal Credit Union: Senior Consultant, ASP.NET developer – Enhanced and modified a third-party credit union online banking web application. Identified and fixed significant security vulnerabilities, enhanced user-interface features, and dramatically improved performance by redesigning the HTTP handler and request filter (custom HTTP module).

Indianapolis, IN, US

Started my own software consulting business. Developed software and websites for small businesses, using C#,.NET, ASP.NET, Microsoft Office, and client-specific software packages. Created a database-driven, multi-language product marketing website using ASP.NET (www.triangledigital.biz). Provided flexible and powerful business reporting tools using Access.

Reno, Nevada, US

Architected and lead the development of PC-Doctor for Windows v. 4.1, introducing the use of C++, ATL, COM and relational databases. Designed a new development process that improved morale, software quality, and project development time by introducing such best practices as requirements specifications, design specifications, design reviews, code reviews.

New York, New York, US

Designed and implemented a website using a database (ADO) and Active Server Pages (ASP) to display musician information for an artist management company. Trained client’s employee to become a web developer and take over project.

Developed ATL COM components using Visual C++ for a medical orders application. Mentored junior programmers in use of C++ and COM.

Oudergem, Brussels Region, BE

Developed email and browser software for a Windows CE-based tablet device and reverse-engineered parts of the architecture into UML diagrams for documentation and re-design purposes.

Blairgowrie, Gauteng, ZA

Researched and prototyped technique for accessing databases over internet using COM custom-monikers. Designed and implemented a COM interface for accessing database-resident documents via the Informix Content Management Datablade, and provided OLE activation and access to those documents. Designed and prototyped CORBA objects to provide internet-based.

Austin, Texas, US

Application GUI programmer on the Oracle Universal Server Suite application suite. Designed the GUI interface to the User Manager — a multi-threaded, multi-processed administrative applet — and implemented it using Microsoft Visual C++, MFC 4.0, embedded SQL, and the Win32 API. The application included new Windows 95 controls (e.g. list view controls, tab.

System architect and network programmer of a Windows NT-based client/server dial-in system. Designed the network architecture and middleware components for a high throughput, transaction-based server system, using Booch’s Rational Rose. Defined network data formats and internal protocols. Implemented components using Microsoft Visual C++, Win32 API.

Application programmer and Microsoft Access database designer. Designed and implemented a Microsoft Access customer subscription database application, complete with the user interface (forms, queries, reports, etc.), for an aviation publishing company. Performed requirements analysis, database design, application / user-interface development, user.

Configuration Management (CM) and network administration for a Windows-based electronic banking application (Wells Fargo Business Gateway). Designed and maintained a source code library using PVCS. Developed the application build process, established CM standards, and coordinated periodic builds.

Provided hardware, system software, and application support for OS/2 and Windows servers and workstations on a Novell / SNA network.

Westlake, Texas, US

Provided 24-hour customer support for high-performance OS/2 servers that provide financial quote services to Schwab customers. Maintained in-house software that interfaced with the vendor's software and memory-resident database. documented procedures; developed good customer and vendor relations; and developed a PVCS source code library. Supported the.

Designed, programmed, and tested a real-time, multi-threaded client/server application using C and SQL on OS/2. The application calculated state, county, and local tax liabilities for an on-line transaction system.Used Booch's Object-Oriented Design methodology (Rational Rose) to design and implement OS/2 Presentation Manager and Database Manager class.

Marin, CH

Wrote numerous high- and low-level designs and wrote extensive C code for an object-based software development project.Lead OS/2 software support person for an IBM manufacturing floor control system. Diagnosed system problems and developed program fixes that substantially improved system performance and reduced down time. Programmed extensively in C and.

Assisted in the development of a manpower management system for the US Navy, programming in COBOL, JCL, and MANTIS. Described by both project leader and technical director as a "diligent worker who works well in a team environment as well as independently"​ with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to a new environment with minimal time and supervision..