PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• Programmer & Systems Developer with 10 years experience and a specialist in
short-term Microsoft Visual Basic, Access and SQL projects.
• Experience covers a wide array of business applications in a variety of
industries involving companies of various sizes and levels of technical
sophistication.
• Quick learner with the unique ability to adapt to new environments and become
productive very quickly.
• Accustomed to working with both internal and external customers.
• Works well with technical and non-technical people and possesses excellent
communication and interpersonal skills.
Operating Systems: WINDOWS 2000/XP/NT
Programming Languages: VISUAL BASIC, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, ASP, C, REXX, JAVA, XML,
VB.NET
Components: ADO, DLL, OCX, ACTIVEX, COM, ADO.NET
Database MS ACCESS, SQL SERVER, ODBC
Methodologies: OBJECT ORIENTED (OOP), RATIONAL UNIFIED (RUP)
Software: MS OFFICE, VBA, CRYSTAL REPORTS, EXCEL, LOTUS 123
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CUSTOM SOFTWARE CONSULTANT-St. Louis, MO 2001-Present
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Client: Clark Door Company Current
• Quote entry software for use by salespersons
• Currency Exchange Rate component
• Interface with database to quote components or by calculating square feet of
material.
• Includes a custom cover/summary letter in MS Word
Environment: MS Access, MS Word and VBA
Client: Edward J McCarthy, CPA 9/2004-Current
Project:
• Read SQL database
• Populate a data grid
• User interface to edit data
• Send data back to SQL database
Environment: VB.net and SQL Server
Project:
• Reconciles an MS Excel file to a text bank statement
• Updates Excel check listing
• The data is processed in a SQL Server database
• Produces reconciliation reports
Environment: VB.net, SQL Server and Excel spreadsheet
Project: Software completed. Data conversion on hold until after tax season
2005
• Full Life Cycle Development of loan processing software from lender
perspective
• Import Data from QuickBooks
• Convert data from proprietary systems
• Includes interest and fee calculations for early, late, partial and multiple
payments
Environment: Visual Basic, MS Access, VBA and QuickBooks.
Client: The Charles Crane Agency Current
• Develop and modify a complex insurance billing and reporting program.
• Quickly developed delinquent account reports, invoices and financial analysis.
• Developed rate tables and algorithms to compute premiums.
Environment: Ms Access with Visual Basic Coding
DIAGRAPH CORPORATION, St. Louis, MO 5/2001-1/2003
Assigned to several clients of Diagraph as a Systems Developer.
Projects included-
Client: Cabot Creamery, Inc. 2/2002-10/2002
• Designed, developed and installed a custom labeling and data collection system
for a cheese production line.
• This project was implemented with consulting assistance from Diagraph
programmers.
• Used Active X objects to control terminal operations of a software application
that maintained a database of unit numbers and weights.
• Researched hardware components and recommended best equipment for the
manufacturing environment.
• Designed, developed, installed and tested software.
• Trained users and managers on site.
Environment: Visual Basic 6.0 with an MS Access database
Client: Osram Sylvania, Inc 5/2001-8/2001
• Debugged EZLabel, a product of Tharo Systems, resulting in a new release of
this commercial software package.
• Designed test software in Visual Basic and used inductive and deductive
reasoning to pinpoint where the error occurred.
Environment: Original software was written in C++.
Client: Procter & Gamble 9/2001-1/2002
• Object oriented programming methods
• Altered a bar code labeling application to be scalable and to accept new
components without loss of production.
• Produced bar-codes for cases of personal care products from an inkjet printer
on the production line.
Environment: DLL, COM and Active X objects in Visual Basic 6.
ADVANCED RESOURCES, INC. – St. Louis, MO 5/1996-1/2001
Software Consultant
Client: Ameren-UE
• Part of a team
• Assisted in development and support of a human resources database application.
• Software tracked employee benefits and personnel issues
• In-house Advanced Resources, Inc. project for Ameren-UE
Environment: Visual Basic, SQL Server and Sybase.
Client: Mercantile Corp. Card Services
• Developed on-demand analysis of complex credit card databases.
• Enabled financial analysis of credit card data to determine credit class.
• Short timeline for project completion, involving over one million data
records.
Environment: Merged data from a mainframe with Access 2.00 and Visual Basic 4.
Client: FKG Oil
• Fuel purchase system that reported fuel rates to buyers from fuel
distributors.
• Tracked pricing rates for several types of fuel from suppliers.
• Generated a monthly tax report for payment of taxes.
• Buyers input the data to share with other agents.
• Gathered requirements, produced design specifications, coded, tested software,
• Trained users and installed software on site.
Environment: MS Access 95
Client: Southern Metal Processing
• Created software to generate receipts to customers for recycled metals.
• Software calculated rate per pound based on a sliding scale.
• Full life cycle project from design specifications to coding and testing.
• Installation and training users.
Environment: Access 95
Client: Facts and Comparisons Co.
• Imported and scrubbed pharmaceutical data
• Successfully converted the data into a useable database.
Environment: From a VAX system into MS Access 2.0
Client: SLARC-St. Louis Association for Retarded Citizens
• Repaired existing medical software program
• Designed for use by nurses dispensing medication and services to clients in a
residential care facility.
Environment: MS Access 95
Contingent Staffing Inc.-St. Louis, Missouri 1996
Software Consultant
Client: St. Charles County Government
• Developed a work requisition system that assigns tasks to employees.
Environment: MS Access 2.0
Enterprise Rent-A-Car-St. Louis, Missouri 1994-1995
Programmer
• As part of a team developed setup application for point of purchase
terminals.
Environment: Rexx 1.3 for OS2
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