Name: Gerald Gibson Jr.
City: Kokomo
State: IN
Country: US
Email: [Send email using form at bottom]
Phone: [Send email to request phone number] 38-1763
Publications:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CompressWithWinShellAPICS.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DecompressWinShellAPICS.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/InprocessAsynServicesInCS.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/MSNMessengerActivity.asp
http://microsoftgadgets.com/forums/1160/ShowPost.aspx
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=4fc7af65-c605-4806-8f62-c95f85f06144&l=6
http://gibwo.com
http://geraldgibson.net
Personality Type:
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INTP
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Experience:
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Wowivideo.com
2007-Present
Software Engineer/Web Developer/Project Manager
Setup DotNetNuke websites and Visual Studio websites as well as development of
several C# webservices. Most recently I helped develop the technology behind
OnlineSpokesperson.com and iFuelss.com. This is a Macromedia Flash + JavaScript +
C# ASP.Net technology that uses HD 1080 Digital Video and some highend video
editing software to do green screening to put real live humans on company
websites to talk to visitors to help navigate websites or promote certain
features of a customers website.
Finance Profit Center
November 2001-2007
Software Engineer/Web Developer/Project Manager
Here I have worked with the developers on staff to design and build several
Visual Basic and C# Windows and Web (ASP and ASP.NET) applications. Some examples
of applications I have designed and built here include a VB app that plays Flash
Movies in a kiosk mode and video records/burns to CD the salesman’s session with
the customers, An upload/video conversion app that converts recorded videos to a
streaming format then uploads them to a video server, a video server monitor that
watches for incoming videos and XML files and imports them into the video server
and database, touch screen browser based data entry and reporting tools, browser
based financial calculations applications, etc. After the initial design and
development of these applications I have worked with the developers to guide them
through the process of building installs and distribution issues as well as
making changes to the applications and distributing them. Basically I wrote a
software package for this company in my spare time while at Siligi and now work
full time with them making more applications and converting all their old stuff
to .Net C#. I have brought my background in distributed systems and high end
Microsoft technologies to this small company to give it an edge against its
competitors. From video recording/uploading and streaming over the Internet to
business management software that uses SQL Server as a backend and runs over the
Internet using .Net Deployment and binary HTTP web services, FPC has been taken
from a one product VB6 app company to a company sporting a suite of apps written
mostly in C#. During August and September of 2003 I upgraded the .Net system to
use an Application Center cluster as well as a custom clustering system for SQL
Server. This was done to handle a large number of customers. In addition features
were added to provide “utility computing” services to make it easy to allow
customers to “rent” software off the cluster.
Also I worked to strengthen the back end of our cluster by setting up Windows
Encrypted File System for the MSSQL database files and IPSec to encrypt all
network traffic on the local LAN between the developer PCs and the cluster
servers.
Siligi Inc.
February 2002-February 2003
Software Engineer/Web Developer
Wrote a distributed Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) / COM+ / ASP / MS SQL /VB6
/C#.Net application as a pilot for a larger document management system for
RedstoneArmyTestingCenter and WhiteSandsMissileRange. The application allows
documents of any type to be uploaded through a browser to a file store and link
it to one or more database tables along with various metadata used in the weapons
tests. In addition all searches are distributed across all test sites via XML/RDS
where that sites local database is searched for matches before the results are
sent back to the originating web server and reassembled into a single result
set.
Centillion Digital
December 2000-January 2002
Software Engineer/Web Developer
Here I rewrote a software package that was originally written in ASP/VB/C++ by a
Swedish company. This software package provides the ability for companies to scan
invoices into PDFs and capture key information into the database. From here the
application provides a routing and approval mechanism with a flexible business
rule system that allows any competent ActiveX script developer to completely
customize the rules that determine the routing paths and the approval restraints.
The final output is an archive of all invoices and a data export for consumption
by external accounting systems. The technologies I have used in this rewrite are
VB (a backend NT service), and ASP (interface and other data interface code), and
SQL Server (triggers, stored procs, etcs.) In addition I have worked on updating
the original C++ code that is being used in other products.
Genesis Digital Media (Galaxy Online)
July 2000-December 2000
Software Engineering and Senior Web Integrator
I worked on websites developed as intranets, ISP signup/billing/LDAP
authentication websites, and dynamic news feeds. Had worked on integration
between Microsoft IIS ASP website to an Oracle database. I had worked on Thomson
Electronics international B-to-B web driven service center, I worked on the auto
signup/billing/authentication/etc. for www.galaxyinternet.net an ISP.
Broadwing IT
2000-2000 (3 1/2 months)
Software Engineering
I worked on several websites developed as intranets, intranet/digital dashboards
(Tahoe), e-commerce websites, ISP signup/billing/LDAP authentication websites,
web driven newsgroup using MSExchange backend, COM queue engine written in VB and
using MS SQL Server 7. I built the new www.atomicdogpublishing.com site. All of
my sites are dynamic and database driven because this is my specialty since I
come from a VB database application background.
Eclectica Technologies, Inc.
1999-2000
Software Engineering and Network Technician
At Eclectica I wrote a software development and maintenance product, a Windows
DNA application using Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, MS Transaction Server, MS IIS,
etc… I also administered the Windows NT network. The application was a software
development and maintenance system. It used ADO/RDS to communicate over the
Internet with a SQL Server going through business objects hosted on a MS
Transaction server.
Indiana Gaming Commission
1998
Software Engineer
Here I wrote a Visual Basic application with a centralized MS SQL Server at the
Indianapolis HQ that all police officers at all casinos around Indiana use to
enter new employee information, create FBI background investigation forms, as
well as create and track fees associated with employee security cards. The front
end was written in VB and used RDO to communicate with the SQL Server.
Indiana Department of Corrections & Prosecutors Software Inc.
1997-1999
Software Engineer
Wrote a Visual Basic database management application (Community Corrections
Information System) to allow several of Indiana’s counties to keep track of their
community corrections offenders and send reports to the state. A friend of mine,
that I trained to program in Visual Basic, and I worked on these projects.
Indiana Trial Lawyer's Association
1998
Website developer
I created a Website used to allow attorneys to do searches through Indiana’s
trial lawyer cases. I used MS Front Page on this site.
Public Affairs Resources, Inc.
1997-1998
Software Engineering and Network Technician
At PAR I wrote several Visual Basic and Visual Objects applications including
employee project tracking software for Sprint and a Visual Basic/Website data
collection and data reporting tool for legislative law tracking. The legislative
law tracking software used a Visual Basic front end where the users entered data
into a Jet database. Then various companies around the country would login at
the Website and use the web interface to run queries against this Jet database to
find out what bills were in what stages in particular states or in the U.S.
Congress. The tools I used here are MS Access, MS Visual Basic, and Visual
Objects. The Visual Objects application was an app that was already written as a
16bit application by another developer, but I upgraded this app to a 32bit
version. The application that was written for Sprint was a simple Visual Basic
front end that stored all of it’s data in a Jet database. This Sprint app tracked
the various public relations events that the employees volunteered their time at
and how much time was volunteered by whom.
Lacey, O'Mahoney, Mahoney, King, & McCann / Prosecuters Software, Inc.
1995-1998
Software Engineering and Network Technician
Here I have worked on a project by project basis maintaining their network. The
tools I used here were Novell 3.12 and various CDROM server based lawyer
information software.
Chancellor's Learning Systems, Inc.
1996-1997
Software Engineering and Network Technician
At CLS I wrote a sales automation, a seminar reservation, and shipping system in
MS Access running against a Microsoft SQL Server. Also I served as the local
network administrator for Novell and Microsoft NT. In addition I used SQL Server
to import and massage data from various lead lists from various state nursing
organizations into a single SQL Server database where we could query for leads in
certain areas of the country and then send the data off to printers to print
various marketing material. The tools I used here are MS Access and MS Visual
Basic.
Allison Business Software, Inc.
1994-1996
Software Engineering and Network Technician
Here I wrote database management software and a software demo application. In
addition I performed computer technician services for ~70% of the automotive body
shops in Indiana and Kentucky for Mitchell International, the leader in
automotive body shop software. The tools I used here are MS Access, MS Visual
C++, and MS Visual Basic. I used MS Access and Visual Basic to write a DBMS
application to track various information for prosecutors in Howard county. I used
VC++ to create a program that would capture mouse and keyboard inputs and play
them back to demo various aspects of the software that we sold.
Technology:::Skill Level:::Experience:::Date Last Used
Project Management:::Advanced:::5 years:::Current
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Novell 3.x:::Intermediate:::2 years:::1995
DOS/Windows 3.x/Windows 95/98:::Expert:::20 years:::Current
Windows NT 3.51/ 4/ 2000:::Expert:::12 years:::Current
Windows XP / 2003:::Expert:::6 Years:::Current
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LANGUAGES / DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
MS C#:::Expert:::9 years:::Current
MS VC++:::Advanced:::4 years:::2008
Visual Basic:::Expert:::12 years:::2003
VB Script:::Expert:::12 years:::2003
JavaScript:::Advanced:::12 years:::Current
DHTML:::Advanced:::12 years:::Current
Visual Objects:::Intermediate:::8 months:::1998
Source Safe:::Advanced:::6 years:::Current
Macromedia Flash:::Advanced:::3 years:::Current
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DATABASES
MS Jet:::Advanced:::15 years:::Current
FoxPro:::Intermediate:::8 months:::1998
MS SQL Server 6.x,7, 2000,2005:::Advanced:::10 years:::Current
Oracle 7:::Intermediate:::3 months:::2000
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OTHER
MTServer/COM+/DCOM:::Advanced:::6 years:::2001
MS Internet Information Server:::Expert:::12 years:::Current
ASP/ASP.Net/.Net Web Services:::Expert:::12 years:::Current
MAPI:::Intermediate:::6 months:::1998
DAO,RDO,ADO,OLEDB:::Advanced:::12 years:::Current
Access 2,95,97,02:::Expert:::15 years:::Current
MS Office Integration:::Advanced:::2 years:::1999
Crystal Reports:::Intermediate:::2 years:::1999
MS Message Queue:::Intermediate:::3 years:::2008
MS NLB Clustering:::Advanced:::4 years:::2008
References:
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Heechang Yang
Finance Profit Center
Kokomo, IN
Tel: 317-413-3366
heechang@hotmail.com
Tom Word
Saint-Gobain
Federal Way, WA
Tel: 206-999-9436
Thomas.E.Word@saint-gobain.com
Steve Welborn
stevefpc@hotmail.com
steve.welborn@bitwisesolutions.com
Shane Gibson
Ryder Logistics
Tel: 517-294-7699
drutchlin@hotmail.com
Gary Huston
eGolfData.com
317-590-0400
gary@egolfdata.com
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