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Kansas City, Ks, Us

Computer Communications– KC, KS. – Windows Programmer/ Software/ Hardware Engineer Self-employed. while Between Positions Create message specifications then use C, C++ as cgi server interface. Interface to clients running iphone, Android, PC java applets. Use Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Photoshop, Pinnacle Studio 7, Sound Forge, HTML & JAVA to create custom web sites. Use MS Visual Studio 8 & assembly language to support hardware designs. Design economic simulation program. Creation of closed captioning decoder. Computer service and hardware / software installation, Created web based library for the KU Medical Center’s TBI lending library project. Created the interactive graffitti “Wall” at http://artizt.com/wall and other programs located at http://artizt.com.

Constructed an app in PERL, HTML, Javascript, CSS, AJAX to send purchase orders to cell phones, and an app to process 25,000 rows of weekly data for confirmation of billing and shipments to SWH customers.

Advanced Ground Information Systems Inc. - KC, KS - Software Engineer Developing embedded software solution for handheld pocket PC mobile phones and PC using MS Visual Studio. AGIS product LifeRing features real time position reporting that gives military and first response personnel a common operational picture. Improved GUI and communications, integrated live streaming video feeds to cell phones and PCs. Developed white boarding and picture transfer facilities added chat functionality. Later involved in Android development using eclipse IDE.. Worked closely with marketing to provided above average customer support and installation expertise.

Lenexa, Kansas, Us

Digital Ally Inc. – Grain Valley, MO – Software EngineerDesign of application to capture and display video from USB device. Engineered driver interface using ATL-COM and MFC to create an embedded / remote Media Player application for annotating recorded video segments and keeping trail of custody for video recordings. Worked with other electronics designers to implement a USB serial video solution for the video flashlight. Also worked on capture code for the rear view mirror cam.

Reston, Va, Us

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) – Kansas City, MO.– Software R&D Engineer Team lead responsible for direction of architectural and functional OOP design, inter-application messaging structure and GUI display of real time video capture systems for railroad and truck terminal applications. Interface to line and area scan cameras, OCR engine and nuclear radiation detection systems. Paired nuclear radiation data from exploranium gamma detector with line scan video at the display terminal for the Port of Virginia. Designed a program to acquire serial signals and communicate with remote computers using discrete inputs and outputs and UDP/TCP/IP sockets. Developed traffic control systems using embedded Rabbit microprocessors. Traffic control system implemented to control 10 lanes of continuous truck traffic for the CN Speedgate in Montreal Canada.

Generation Technologies – Overland Park, KS – Visual C++ Programmer Programming in Microsoft Visual C++ using MFC, STL, ATL (COM, DCOM), VB, VBA, SQL OLEDB, and MS SQL server 7 to enhance and modify newsroom management software as used by news and information agencies. Worked with Windows API, Developer Studio IDE and Source Safe. Created design documentation. Coding to interface with MS Word embedded Media Player and other COM objects. Designed GUI interface for Video display from RF Video card input.

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Informix Software – Lenexa, KS - Database Programmer -- Contract.Programming in Informix 4GL, SQL, SPL, IWCF (CGI) to create the Informix web based product catalog system. The product catalog is used by customers and sales representatives of Informix to locate, order and download Informix products. Mostly 4GL with some C coding to replace legacy code in library functions. The continuation of a previous project, responsible for making it all work together.

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Marketingcom -– Prairie Village, KS. - Windows ProgrammerDevelopment of the Sales Activity Management System (SAMS) for Caterpillar Sales Engine Division. Conducted distributed application programming in C++ 6.0 using MFC for Windows, use of SQL / ODBC, and Access database components managing multiple client connections to a remote server.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Sprint Communications - Gardner, KS. - SQL Database ProgrammerWorked in Network Support, help desk environment, responsible for database maintenance. Program in dbase III, SQL, Bourne Shell for Unix, and REXX Scripts for OS2 to query, analyze, and update the main EWO Informix database. Created reports in Excel spreadsheet used EWO drafting system and .dwg files.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Public Television 19 Inc., KCPT - KC, MO. - Broadcast EngineerMaintenance, repair and operation of broadcast production equipment: High Power U.H.F. transmitters, tape machines, cameras, computers and special effects generators Developed hardware interfaces and custom software solutions in assembly language, C and Visual basic. Used Autocad to create drawings and Auto Lisp to implement designs in code. Custom automation and database software to facilitate the editing of nightly promo reels. SCO Unix C programming to create internet gateway and graphical user interface to the internet. C++ code to create a multiline dialogic custom telephone answering system.

J.C. Air a division of Goodyear Tires - Gardner, KS. - C++ Programmer / Computer Engineer Part time contract. Worked on front end of a stand alone ATE device for testing and troubleshooting of DME equipment, wrote analytic interpreter software in MS C++ to decode instructions sent via an IEEE 488 serial interface. Software sent commands to Visual Basic user interface and test engine software.

H & K Computers Inc. - KC, MO. - Electronics Design EngineerConsultant 4-86 to 4-88.. Computer, calculator, video and electronic customer service, sales and field repair to design, prototyping, testing, board layout, programming and manufacturing of an embedded processor controlled clock operated switch. Utilizing embedded Motorola microprocessor programmed as a clock, and hand-held programmer. Device controls heavy AC loads for the outdoor advertising industry. Featuring a unique relay design that uses a photodiode to detect and adjust power relay timing, a separate liquid crystal display programmer to initialize clock & Sunrise Sunset calculation programs. Development of a 3 pass assembler to process mnemonic assembly code.

Central Valley Electronics - KC, MO. - Hardware & Software Design Engineer Hardware & software design and development of a slow scan video facsimile device. Accepts NTSC video signal digitizes it and sends it to a computer one line at a time via an RS232 serial interface. Wrote software to anti-alias and display the video. Hardware and software interface engineer responsible for development and manufacturing. Design of an OCR program in Motorola 6502 assembly language.

Broadcast Electronics Engineer I repaired sophisticated broadcast equipment tape machines / transmitters / monitors / cameras etc... I also created an edit lister program and ran Master Control.

Harmon Electronics - Grain Valley, MO. - Design EngineerFull time. Designed railroad trackside signaling, crossing equipment and related protection devices. Delivered designs to manufacturing and reviewed their construction. The design of relay logic and its conversion to discrete logic lead to an interest in computers and computer programming.

Did Not Seek Degree. Course Work I Was Interested In., Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electronics Applications.