Rick Pinson Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, California, United States

Long Beach Ca

The Advocacy Chair works with the Government Affairs Grassroots Advocacy Manager and other National Office staff to mobilize local advocates to educate elected officials about our legislative priorities with a focus on increasing federal funding for pancreatic cancer research.

Long Beach Ca

Long Beach, Ca

Providing SQL Server/Oracle database and Microsoft .NET web application design and development consulting services.My major project over the past several years has been as the lead developer/support person for a commercial software package, LabTrack (www.labtrack.com), developed in ASP.NET on top of SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 10G databases. LabTrack is marketed to pharmaceutical and other scientific-research laboratories, allowing them to replace their paper-based laboratory notebooks with an online system that allows the recording of each experiment/result (with a detailed audit trail) and allows the online sharing of these notebooks with other researchers.

Long Beach, Ca

Pick up food donations from donor companies/organizations and deliver it to non-profit organizations in need.

Long Beach, Ca

Prepare Federal and California State tax returns for clients. August 2012: passed the IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer exam. November 2013: passed Tax Specialist 3 and Retirement Specialty exams, May/June 2014: passed Tax Advisor 3 and Tax Advisor 4 exams. August 2014: passed Senior Tax Advisor 1 exam. September-December 2014: passed the three parts of the IRS Special Enrollment exam..

Fullerton, Ca

Initially tasked with getting the paperwork for this non-profit organization founded by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, DC of Cooperstown Chiropractic up to speed (completing Guidestar information, updating IRS and state charitable organization filings). Worked on grantwriting and fundraising initiatives.

Provided onsite software support of the Greater Giving PC-based Event Software package for non-profit fundraising events.

Fullerton, Ca

Worked with Dr. Ken Cooper, DC of Cooperstown Chiropractic in Fullerton, CA to develop content and post it to a new website to assist in marketing and patient education. Also developed a presence on Facebook and LinkedIn for Cooperstown.

Led design, analysis and development/test activities for the LabTrack Electronic Laboratory Notebook commercial package (see www.labtrack.com for more details). Also provided programming support for their Laboratory Information Management System.

I am a member of the Board of Directors for this agency (www.ccdlb.org), which provides early child care and education services to low-income families in the Long Beach area. Currently, I am serving as the Board Secretary and am on the planning committee for CCD's annual Bayou Festival fundraiser (www.longbeachfestival.com)

The annual CAMEO fashion show fundraiser raises an average of over $75,000/year to support the youth programs of the League. My duties:1. To manage all computer-related operations for the registration, silent/live auction purchase and payment departments.2. Work with the heads of other departments to coordinate all activities.3. Train volunteers to perform registration and data-entry tasks.4. Develop and support a Silent Auction control system (in Access) that supplements the Greater Giving vendor package in support of this show.

Performed onsite Microsoft .NET/ASP.NEt assignments on a contract basis for several clients in the Los Angeles area.

Redondo Beach, Ca

Four years of experience simultaneously managing software development (nine developers) and customer support/help desk (five support people) departments.Senior analyst/developer/tester/trainer involved in the entire development lifecycle and operational support of an Oracle-based, enterprise-wide Data Warehouse system.Several years of experience as a mainframe/IMS lead developer and analyst.

Graduated with honors with an emphasis in International Business.

Mba, International Business

Bs, Computer Science

Minors in Accounting and Finance