Benjamin Jeffery Holtzman
5360 Toscana Way, Apt 206
San Diego, CA 92122
Phone: 858 964-8996
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Objective: 
To grow, thrive and love what I do as a Microsoft technology centric
applications programmer.

Career Summary:
I’m a Microsoft technology oriented programmer. I’ve done a lot of work on the
.Net platform, Visual Basic, C# and MS Office Platform Development and VBA. I’m a
good problem solver and have a 100% success rate of solving each challenge I’ve
been given. I work well in groups and have always made my deadlines. 
 
Professional Experience:
SAIC											San Diego, CA
Software Engineer II (Employee)								04/09 - Present
	Part of a 2 person development team which developed a working proof of
concept demo (JNMS Lite) as a product replacement for an extremely large legacy
application in use by US military joint forces. 
o	Broke down development into 2 phases. 
	Resource gathering phase which included harvesting databases from a
diverse set of sources. Resource generation which included creating bitmaps
stencil set artwork from concept diagrams.
	Software development phase which included creating MS Office
application add-ins in C# to duplicate targeted functionality.
o	Delivered functional and on time demo with less than 320 development man hours
of labor (2 people, 29 days)
	Fixed difficult upgrade issue for JNMS reporting. Fix allowed the
reporting subsystem to migrate to MS Office 2007.
	Documented application and work done.
	(Environments) LAN, WAN, Remote Desktop using VNC Viewer, Tortius SVN,
Dimensions SVN, Visual C#, VBA, Visio, Word, Excel, Access , MSI and Click Once.

SAIC											San Diego, CA
Software Engineer (Employee)								11/08 – 04/09
	Part of a 3 person development team.
	Delivered multiple versions of a corrosion calculator to a major oil
company.
o	Wrote interface, Automation and GUI code to connect Excel with COM exposed
calculator libraries.
o	Application allowed client to plan and execute refinery campaigns with
confidence of a successful outcome by:
	Showing safe and unsafe crude mixtures.
	Indicating a safe amount of time to run a campaign.
	Indicating when and how long different temperatures should be used in
different parts of the refinery.
	Indicating if fouling conditions are going to occur or if they are
likely to occur.  (Fouling is bad, it’s very costly and time consuming to fix)
	Visually mapping out temporal crude qualities.
	Troubleshot MSI package issues of application components being deleted
and installed at the wrong times.
	Wrote XML reader / writer.
	Documented application.
	 (Environments) LAN, WAN, Visual C#, VBA, Excel, Word, Access, XML and
MSI.

Northrop Grumman									San Diego, CA
Computer Programmer (Freelance)							04/08 – 11/08
	Worked in group of 5 developers plus other project team members.
	Created solutions for widely distributed application.
o	In charge of database application programming.
o	Resource generation for subset of required resources.
o	Update scripts for database data manipulation over wide area networks.
o	In house tool development.
	Coded form presentation and behavior.
	Innovated solutions for tool set limitations. FormDocs had a very
limited scripting language that made certain project requirement unachievable
when approached directly.
	 (Environments) LAN/WAN / Remote Desktop, Access/VBA Excel/VBA,
FormDocs FAB, Visual Basic 2005,  Visual Basic 2008, XSLT, SQL and SQL Server
2000.

Oviatt Consulting Services									San Diego, CA
Computer Programmer  (Freelance)							02/08 – 10/08
	Developed, modified and debugged database applications for San Diego
County and Arizona State homeless shelters.
	Innovated solutions to work with tool set limitations while developing
complex applications inside of MS Access.
o	Created search applications to extend development environment organizational
ability to show relevant resources inside form controls, tables, modules and
class modules.
o	Development version of largest database application was ~200mb with over 100
tables ~80 forms and ~50 modules/class modules.
o	Developed barcode interface to allow quicker and more accurate data entry.
	Addressed reporting issues to present shelter resources/services to
case workers and management.
	(Environments) LAN/WAN / Remote Desktop, Access/VBA Word/VBA and
Visio.


Coaliance										San Marcos, CA
Computer Programmer									06/07 – 11/07
	Coded enterprise database and reporting applications for international
restaurant group.
o	Worked with cubes, metrics, data transformation, analysis and reporting tools
in BIDS.
o	Worked with SQL Server 2005 SP’s and running jobs.
o	Developed email alerts for problem conditions.
	Debugged legacy Access database application which allowed for direct PO
generation.
	Developed database documentation application which generates a word
document detailing the SQL Server database system.
	 (Environments) LAN/WAN / Remote Desktop, Access/VBA Excel/VBA Word/VBA
SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, SP, Visual Basic 2005 and C# 2005.


Sach’s Scientific										San Diego, CA
Computer Programmer (Freelance)							03/07 – 10/07
	Wrote an accounts reporting system which took reports from other
systems and inserted them into an Excel workbook. 
o	Produces over 100 worksheets of complex 3 dimensional data.
o	Saves over 60 man hours of labor each month. The reports it generates were
previously put together by hand.
o	Reduces errors to nothing.
o	Produces a report that took 1.5 weeks to produce by hand in about 5 minutes.
	Installed and trained staff on using the application.
	Debugged on target systems. 
	Delivered the product to spec and on time.
	Developed a good relationship with the client and won client’s
confidence.
	(Environments) WAN / Email / Onsite for training and install Excel 2003
/ VBA and Access 2003 / VBA.

Icon International									San Diego, CA
Computer Programmer									02/05 – 06/06
	Wrote and implemented 8 applications to automatically create 20,000
high end product and country specific econometric forecasts annually with Access,
Word and VBA. (All published)
	Wrote and implemented application to automate the writing of estimated
100,000 timeline books. 
	Wrote and implemented a mission critical applications monitor which
allowed programmers to respond and fix most problems within minutes of detection
with Access, Outlook, VBA and remote desktop. 
o	This was an in-process innovation to allow me to reach a tight deadline of
running and readying 25,000 titles for distribution to distributors in 2 weeks
time. (It impressed the boss.) 
	Harvested, cleaned, formatted and made ready extremely large databases
(i.e., British Library of Congress, US and International Patents, Medical
Journals, Project Gutenberg, etc...) for book creation using Access, Excel and
VBA. 
	(Environments) LAN/WAN / Remote Desktop, Access 2000 / VBA, Excel 2000
/ VBA, Word, 2000/ VBA and Visual Basic 2005. Worked in large computer lab with
around 50 computers and 2 programmers.

Computer Proficiency:
VB 2005/2008, C# 2005/2008, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SSNS, SSMS, VB6, VBA, SQL (Jet
4.0), T-SQL (SQL Server 2005), ADO.NET, DAO, ADODB, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, XSLT,
VSTO, Java Script, Java JDK 1.6 (Studied, but no experience with), RTF, FAB
(FormDocs), WinForms, XAML and WPF, Client Side Web Browser
Automation/Integration.
Have a lot of experience programming MS Office Apps (Access, Excel and Word) 
Have a lot of experience working in Windows XP/Vista 
Have some experience programming MS Office Apps (Outlook and Visio)
Have some experience working in Windows 95/2000/ME and DOS Batch Scripting.

Universities Attended:
Orange Coast College & Cal State University Long Beach

Awards:
• Awarded President's List for achieving 4.0 GPA at Orange Coast College
• Received Dean's List for top 10% GPA at Cal State University Long Beach

Major:
Math / Computer Science Major

Customers:
US Military Joint Forces, British Petroleum, Los Angeles Police Department,
Catalina Restaurant Corporation (Zensho), Daphne’s, Ace Parking, San Diego County
and Arizona State Homeless Shelters and United Through Reading.

Publications:
40,000 annually produced country / product category specific econometric studies
from work done at Icon International Inc. in connection with INSEAD
(Fontainebleau, France). Estimated 100,000 Webster’s timeline books.

Personal Attributes:
I can solve difficult programming problems. I have a 100% success rate in
meeting project requirements. I’m reliable. I enjoy what I do. I’m not above
doing grunt work.

References:
Available upon request.