Rand Renfroe
Numbers Consulting, Inc.
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
QUALIFICATIONS
* Software development with multiple large and small companies
* Proven integral development team member or smaller one-man projects
* Self motivated, self starter with the ability to analyze system architecture
and information structures, advise management on alternative approaches and drive
projects to completion
* Fast learner with wide range of experience requiring little to no supervision
* B.E.E. Georgia Institute of Technology 1976, GPA 3.78
SKILLS (yrs. of experience)
C#.NET(7+) C++(20+)/MFC(14+) Javascript/JScript/VBScript(10+)
MS T-SQL 2000/5(9+) C(20+) VB6(5)
PL/PgSQL/PostgreSQL/PHP/Apache(Linux, 1+) MQ4(6 months)
Supporting Technologies
ADO/ASP, ADO.NET, HTML, DHTML, XML, COM, ATL, STL, WSH, Windows Forms, WPF, WCF,
WiX, WMI, Visual Studio 2003/5/8, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/8, CGI,
ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE:
Volt Technical Resources - 2009 to present
Software development for Microsoft
Numbers Consulting, Inc - 1989 to 2009
Founder/Owner, software development
Clients Include:
Wenatchee Valley Medical Center
Southwest Microwave
Microsoft (11 years)
AutoDesk
Generic Cad
TekSkil Industries, Inc.
Compaq Computer Corporation - February 1989 to December 1989
Software development
Solbourne, Inc. - January 1987 to January 1989
Software development
Hewlett-Packard Corporation - August 1976 to January 1987
Hardware/software development
Education
Bachelors of Electrical Engineering (BEE)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
G.P.A. 3.78 out of 4.0, 4.0 in E.E.
Salary Requirements - OPEN
PROJECT DETAILS:
Volt Technical Resources
* "Windows Multipoint Server 2010". General development and debugging across the
Multipoint platform.
* Developed sample code for Multipoint mouse SDK.
* Spec’ed and implemented various Multipoint Mouse testing support API’s.
Technologies/Skills used: C#.NET, C++(unmanaged), Device Installation API, WMI,
other internal tools and systems, analysis of system requirements and
modifications.
Numbers Consulting, Inc.
Client Work
Wenatchee Valley Medical Center
* Worked to integrate the MediSpan drug database into the Wenatchee Valley
Medical Center (WVMC) database and related work.
Technologies/Skills used: C#.NET, MS T-SQL 2005, relational database schema
design and system procedures (sprocs), Unit Testing.
Client Work
* Researched, designed, developed and implemented for client a multi-channel,
multi-threaded data streaming and connection protocol for peer-to-peer
bidirectional transmission of real time audio, video and other data between
multiple computers connected in a common session.
* Performed detailed system architecture analysis and design and guided client
on requirements, techniques and alternative approaches.
* Developed proprietary improvements to the STUN protocol to solve connectivity
issues caused by NATing routers using.
* Developed API for integration of audio and video codecs.
* System consists of a user application, a low level transport, a control
server, MS SQL database and a system operations website (MS IIS) .
* Personally responsible for implementation, integration and debugging of
system.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC/ATL/COM, Windows Sockets, MS
T-SQL/sprocs/schema design, C#.NET, ASP/VBScript (running on MS IIS), Windows
Installer, Intel Thread Checker, Intel IPP libraries and other technologies.
Client Work
Wenatchee Valley Medical Clinic
* Developed key business objects for the WVMC database conforming to system
specifications and other requirements.
Technologies/Skills used: C#.NET, Windows Forms and MS T-SQL/sprocs
Client Work
* Assisted and guided client in building and debugging Intel IPP video
processing sample code.
Technologies/Skills used: C/C++, Intel IPP libraries
Client Work
* Website development for a construction supply company
Technologies/Skills used: PHP (4.3), Linux/Apache server hosted by GoDaddy.com.
Client Work
* Researched and wrote a paper for the design, setup and implementation of a
prototype video streaming system using Microsoft Windows Media Server and Windows
Media Encoder.
* The paper detailed setup of the prototype, addressed latency problems and
other issues.
Technologies/Skills used: System architecture analysis
Client Work
Southwest Microwave
* Updated security hardware monitoring software to work with international MBCS
character sets.
* Assisted with the process of translating this program’s resources to target
Asian languages by evaluating a commercial translation tool and advising
management on the purchase of this tool to be used by in-house translation
personnel.
Technologies/Skills used: C/C++, commercial product analysis.
Client Work
* Developed an order processing website/database system for a seed nursery
Technologies/Skills used: Linux Apache server, C++(gcc) CGI program, PostgreSQL
database
Client Work
Microsoft MSN group
Developed backend systems and websites for Microsoft’s MSN group
* iDSS internal reports group (Offsite member of dev team)
* ASP.NET custom control based on a DataGrid object (Offsite member of dev
team)
* Developed internal custom controls for DataGrid as a component in a larger
project (Offsite member of dev team)
* http://newsletters.msn.com (Offsite member of dev team)
* Developed major portions of the website code including working with the
newsletters SQL2000 database and a backend mass emailing system for periodic
delivery of globalized (UNICODE) TEXT and HTML newsletters to 150 million users.
* Extensive work on the database, including schemas and sprocs and the backend
mailing system.
* Newsletters Authoring Tool (Offsite member of dev team)
* Assumed responsibility for the newsletters authoring tool used by content
providers for constructing newsletters.
* Rewrote 95% of this VisualBasic based tool over time and implemented a major
overhaul to incorporate HTML newsletter authoring. It interfaces with the
newsletters database and email backend using ADO and T-SQL.
* This tool has been reworked to be a globalized web based application
accessible by newsletter content providers all over the planet.
* Newsletters “backdoor” using JScript, VBScript, C#.NET, T-SQL (Offsite member
of dev team)
* Developed internal reporting tools (Offsite member of dev team)
* Coded Privacy opt-out site (Offsite member of dev team)
Technologies/Skills used: C#.NET(several console apps), MS IIS, VBScript,
JScript, ADO, C++/ATL/COM, VB6, MS T-SQL/sprocs, XML, many implementation
specifications, user documentation.
Client Work
Microsoft Sidewalk.MSN.com website (Offsite member of dev team)
* Developed numerous server and client side page renderers for the Sidewalk
website.
* Wrote several implementation specifications for page renderers under my
personal responsibility.
* Developed and contributed to many underlying support systems for the Sidewalk
platform including database access, HTML rendering, caching, database data
migration and other activities.
Technologies/Skills used: MS IIS, JScript, ADO, ASP, C++, COM, MS SQL, several
internal publishing tools and systems
Microsoft Chat (“Comic Chat”) - (Offsite, stand alone project)
* Developed supporting software for Microsoft Chat and fixed several problems
involved with using it as an ActiveX control in InternetExplorer.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/ATL/COM/MFC
Microsoft NetMeeting - (Offsite member of dev team)
* Developer of NetMeeting’s Whiteboard and Chat apps for versions of NetMeeting
up through 2.1.
* Developed a Microsoft Exchange extension dll for placing NetMeeting calls from
Exchange.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC, internal tools and systems
Microsoft AtWork - FAX project - (Offsite, stand alone project)
* Ported the bulk of AtWork-FAX from Windows95 to Windows 3.1.
Technologies/Skills used: C/C++/MFC, internal tools and systems
Microsoft AtWork - FAX project - (Offsite member of dev team)
* Developed Windows95 MFC based FAX Viewer for this project.
* Took over and completed development of the AtWork CoverPageEditor.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC, MASM, internal tools and systems
Microsoft IFAX project - (Offsite, stand alone project, overlapped with AtWork)
* Developed the FAX viewer for this project (Windows3.1). Several core pieces of
this viewer were used in the development of the AtWork FAX viewer above.
* Worked on both projects concurrently with responsibility for inter project
coordination.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC, MASM, internal tools and systems
Client Work
AutoDesk/Generic Cad
* Assisted in developing a new CAD package for Windows.
* Developed a "universal" Windows digitizer driver.
* Developed code to translate CADD6.0's GCD graphics file format to AutoCAD
DXE/DWG file formats using SoftSource's DXE Library.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC, MASM
Client Work
Tekskil Industries, Inc.
* Developed software to control teleprompter product.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC
Compaq Computer Corporation
* Investigated "new technologies" for Compaq to pursue.
* Responsibilities included advising management on the feasibility of various
technologies.
* Provided technical support and prototype development to several on-going
"leading edge" projects involving advanced graphics hardware.
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC, MASM
Solbourne, Inc.
* Joined this startup company in Longmont, Colorado
* Employee #9 and classified as a "key" employee.
* Develop a proprietary graphics software library for Solbourne's computers.
* Developed the core graphics libraries for this system
* Involved to varying degrees with Sunview, Pixrects, X11 and PEX (Phigs
Extensions to X) and various object oriented programming projects based on C++.
* Developed demos using Landsat data and rudimentary image processing techniques
(histogram equalization, etc.).
Technologies/Skills used: C++/MFC
Hewlett-Packard Corporation
STARBASE
* Team member for porting parts of STARBASE (specifically, some of the graphics
drivers) to HP's precision architecture computers or SPECTRUM as it was more
commonly known.
* Worked closely with hardware engineers to locate and correct several bugs in a
graphics interface connecting SPECTRUM to HP's high performance graphics
accelerator, RENESSANCE.
* Corrected numerous porting bugs in STARBASE
* Team member that added display list extensions to STARBASE.
* Responsible for the pick modules and the test suite for the pick code.
* Team member for developing HP's version of the GKS graphics standard,
implemented on top of STARBASE.
* Responsible for the segment control and metafile modules as well as a test
suite for those modules.
Technologies/Skills used: C, UNIX, 68000 assembly language
Drivers
* Developed graphics drivers for HP's proprietary graphics system, STARBASE.
Technologies/Skills used: C, UNIX
NMOS III 32 bit microcomputer
* Involved with firmware development (microcode) for HP's NMOS III 32 bit
microcomputer announced at ISSCC in 1981. This chip had 450,000 transistors and
was a significant advance in state of the art integrated circuits at that time.
* Wrote, debugged and had responsibility for 1/5th of the 9000 words of
microcode on this chip.
* Developed a significant portion of the chip’s self test microcode.
* Other major responsibility was building a software emulator that allowed
development and nearly complete debugging of the 9000 words of microcode before
any hardware was available.
* Designed hardware and diagnostic software for in-house test systems for this
chip and was involved in CAD Software Development for the NMOS III integrated
circuit process using LISP.
Technologies/Skills used: HPL, LISP, proprietary microcode and other internal
technologies, digital logic design and prototyping.
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