Tchikaya Brooks Email & Phone Number

Bowie, MD, US

Washington, DC, US

Directed design, development, and technical support operations for Brooks Logic clients. Key Achievements: Developed and implemented chat rooms & message board applications with the use of C#, WebAPI, Entity Framework, jQuery/JavaScript, and JSON. Championed C# redesign for several applications for Children’s Medical Center. Applications adhered to HIPPA.

Directed design, development, and technical support operations for Brooks Logic clients. Key Achievements: Developed and implemented chat rooms & message board applications with the use of C#, WebAPI, Entity Framework, jQuery/JavaScript, and JSON. Championed C# redesign for several applications for Children’s Medical Center. Applications adhered to HIPPA.

Provided development and maintenance support of N tier, Visual Studio.Net applications.Key Achievements: Led the creation of distributed services and re-usable components that served as the foundation of numerous Vistronix’s projects.  Designed workflow application for intranet publications; End users facilitate changes with a WSIG editor and publish.

• Create the COM+ components for international call center system with over 20,000 users. Application uses the latest technology including Visual Basic 6.0, Rational Rose 2001, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
• Develop and maintain COM+ components using Visual Basic 6.0.
• Over 100 COM+ components used spread out over 6 Windows 2000 servers
• Heavy use of interface inherence for maximum reusability of code
• Developed object model using UML methodologies using Rational Rose 2001. Object Model was forward engineered to create code template
• Several Sybase database is used as backend databases

• Sole person responsible for full life cycle development and various projects. These projects include VB Script active server pages (ASP), database applications, data migration applications utilities, and component.
• Principal developer on numerous Visual Basic, Access, and VB script applications
• Backends have included SQL Server, Access, Sybase, and Oracle, and Lotus Notes
• Reporting tools include Crystal Reports(using OCX) and Access Reports(using OLE)
• Develop financial analytical programs using Visual Basic and/or Access 8.0
• Create and maintain relational database tables, stored procedures, triggers, and views

• Develop N tier intranet and internet web applications using VisualStudo.net for various clients of Information Echo.
• Applications use ASP.Net, XML/XSL for client-side, and VB.Net/C# for business and database tiers.
• Made use of implementation and interface inheritance for maximum reusability of code.
• XML/XSL is used for the presentation layer to keep content separate from style
• Created chat room & message board applications using XML.
• Develop and maintain Web Services and class libraries VB.Net.

• Develop the DCOM/COM components for a government system. The application is a multi-tiered with the MTS components residing on an application server and an Oracle database residing on the database server. The DCOM.
• Develop and maintain DCOM/COM components using Visual Basic 6.0.
• Create custom controls (OCX's) using Visual Basic 6.0
• Used VBScript and JavaScript to create ASP and HTML pages for intranet
• XML is used to pass data between the tiers and to create data specific forms
• Heavy emphasis on database tier. This involves creating and maintaining Oracle stored procedures, views, tables and triggers. This also requires developing of DCOM components that uses these Oracle objects

• Teach 'ASP/Client/Server Integration' course. The course is the capstone course of a 20-month associate degree program. This course is taught with a special emphasis on a structured approach to Visual Basic.
• Instruct on ASP, HTML, and Client/Server concepts
• Teach on connecting to databases via ADO, RDO and DAO. The projects use both bound and unbound controls to connect to relational normalized databases that we create in Oracle and Access.
• A majority of the class is hands-on full life cycle project. Students are given requirements and are taught how fulfill the requirements in a structured, scalable, and maintainable way.
• Students are taught on COM objects, API calls, third party tools, setup distribution, and error handling
• Create and maintain Oracle databases. This includes creating tables, views, triggers, and store procedures. This is done in both PL/SQL and using Oracle navigator

• Develop the interface for a commercial application. The application is a multi-tiered, component based development effort with an emphasis on dynamic user maintainability.
• Create DCOM/COM components using Visual Basic 6.0. These components include several ActiveX dll’s, ocx's, and exe's.
• Create 'Interface Builder' tool. This component allows an administrator level user to change the layout of the interface. Information about the layout of the interface is stored in a common data store. After the.
• Personal user settings are also stored in the common data store and downloaded to the local client so that users always see their most recent personal settings no matter what client machine being used.
• Program connects to many DCOM components on a several different servers. These DCOM components handle all the interaction with the databases and perform the business logic.
• Application makes use of many API calls and third party tools

North Bethesda, Maryland, US

• Technical lead of 3-person team designing applications that converts data from various databases and/ or ASCII flat files into SQL Server using Visual Basic
• Redesign programs from Visual Basic 3.0/4.0 to Visual Basic 6.0. Changing hard coded logic of a rules based expert system to be table driven. This eliminates the need for a re-compile on change requests, more.
• Design employee time management reporting program that allows managers to run several reports based on their own specified criteria. The program queries several tables in a SQL Server 7.0 database and returns Crystal.
• Developed class objects specific to SQL Server tables. These components interface with SQL Server 6.5 via RDO and ADO. All of the inserts, selects, action queries, and calls to stored procedures are done in the.
• Create and maintain SQL Server maintain relational database tables, stored procedures, triggers, and views. Also handled basic DBA duties.
• Create ActiveX ocx's, dll's, and exe's to simplify, encapsulate, easily re-use complicated coding routines, and provide a three tier architecture

Lincoln, Rhode Island, US

• Technical lead of six-person team designing a database application for FDIC that will electronically process time and attendance for the whole corporation.
• Designed time management program, implementing GUI concepts and structured coding approach.
• Assisted and directed team members with daily programming assignments
• Developed class modules to encapsulate code and add to the readability of the program code
• Designed a relational, normalized database in Access 8.0 and ported it over to SQL Server 6.5
• Program links to Microsoft Exchange and/or Outlook through Visual Basic using the MAPI control

• The sole designer of an office management program that is for the specific needs of Bell Atlantic's move to a paperless work environment. This program is coded in Visual Basic 4.0 and runs on Microsoft Access 7.0.
• Redesign program written in 4GL to add functionality and provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for a more user friendly, intuitive design.
• Designed normalized relational database using Access 7.0
• Make use of third party VBX's and OCX's and API calls
• Connected to database using data controls and embedded SQL via DAO
• Engineer code to support exact design specifications and requirements