IT Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Database Designer, and Technical Writer with advanced, comprehensive expertise in the management, planning, design, coding, testing, documentation, and administration of computer software and hardware projects
• Educational background in Applied Mathematics and Software Design
• Exquisite communication, analytical, and presentation skills
• Organized, efficient, task-oriented management style
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Database Designer / Excel Programmer • September 2006 to November 2010
The Waikiki Health Center • Honolulu, Hawaii
• Designed and developed a Windows XP database application with MS Access and Access VBA to expedite the data entry of client healthcare information and to create reports, including the use of OLE embedded Excel spreadsheets with custom-programmed macros for processing billing and financial data.
• Responsible for all database administration, security, and the maintenance of data accuracy.
• Responsible for the design, development, testing, documentation, implementation, maintenance, integrity, support, and security of all database activities, including coordinating present and future data management policies, and end-user training and user-interface issues.
• Designed and programmed database SQL queries and algorithms for numerical computation and data fitting using neural networks, Fast Fourier Transforms, and various types of weighted regression statistical analysis that incorporated Big-Data analytic procedures.
Offsite Consulting Software Engineer • December 1998 to May 2003
The MDE Group • Morristown, New Jersey
• Augmented legacy-code Visual Basic financial applications to expand features and functionality for optimizing the sale of stock options, and for general financial planning and asset management.
• Utilized the Win32 API, VB6 SP4, MS Access, MS Excel, Crystal Reports, and embedded SQL statements to program and enhance Windows client/server financial applications running under Novell Netware.
• Developed context-sensitive Windows help files and installation scripts for the commercial distribution of the client’s MDE Option Optimizer software.
• Created complex data reformatting software and import/export processingprograms with VB and Access to enable the client’s software tointerface with other third-party financial applications.
• Financial Analysis: Implemented the optimization of stock options salesto maximize profit, and the calculation of the projected value of assets into the future based upon complex sets of financial assumptions and constraints, for Win32 software products using Visual Basic, Visual C++, MS Access, and OLE embedded Excel spreadsheets with custom-programmed macros to facilitate the calculation of complex financial formulae.
Software Engineering Project Manager • January 1995 to March 1998
AS Software, Inc. • Englewood, New Jersey
• Managed a three-person development team that designed and developed a highly-sophisticated clinical patient charting software application for Windows 95 using Visual Basic, MS Access, and SQL Server.
• Designed relational databases for use in hospitals and medical clinics to facilitate paperless recordkeeping of patient information, medical diagnoses and procedures, OB-GYN ultrasound image data, and IVF laboratory processes.
• Employed numerous third-party OCX controls to implement advanced software features: VideoBlaster and ImageGear for the video capturing and archiving of ultrasound images, PDQComm2 for capturing lab test results via RS-232 serial communication, and Graphics Server SDK to implement the display of complex, multi-dimensional bar andtime-series graphs to describe fetal growth.
• Created comprehensive written documentation for all systems, including user’s manuals and programmer’s guides.
• Drafted and reviewed competitive bids for software contracts with major metropolitan hospitals.
• Designed and developed a module to print invoices and generic business documents using Borland C++ and the Borland container class library to achieve an ANSI standard, object-oriented source code implementation that was ported to SCO Unix 386 with minimal tweaking.
On Sabbatical • January 1992 to December 1994
Consulting Programmer/Analyst • October 1991 to December 1991
Merrill Lynch •Somerset, New Jersey
Consulting Programmer/Analyst • November 1990 to August 1991
Kean College of New Jersey • Union, New Jersey
Consulting Programmer/Analyst • December 1989 to June 1990
AT&T • Piscataway, New Jersey
Programmer/Analyst • September 1988 to September 1989
The Prudential •Roseland, New Jersey
EDUCATION
Kean College of New Jersey, 1985
Earned 102 credits toward B.A. in Applied Mathematics
The Chubb Institute, 1988
Diploma, Computer Programming
NRI/McGraw-Hill Continuing Education Center, 1991
Diploma, PC Software Engineering
TECHNICAL
Hardware: Intel 80x86, IBM PC, IBM System 370 mainframe
Software: MVS/XA, VM CMS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, Btrieve, MS Access, MS Excel, SQL Server, Oracle, VBX/OCX, OLE, DDE, ODBC, Win16/Win32 API, MFC, Crystal Reports, LanTastic, Novell Netware, Visual Studio, SourceSafe, Visual Test, ActiveX, 3270 terminal emulation, Windows Server, DOS, Unix, Linux
Languages: Visual C++, Borland C++, Visual Basic, VBA, ANSI C, FORTRAN, COBOL, HTML, XML, VB.NET, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
Applications: GUI, Telecommunications, Brokerage, Insurance, Medical Records, Financial Planning, Stock Options, Real Estate, Automated Pattern Recognition and Matching, Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Non-Stochastic Trend Forecasting, Cryptography, Algorithmic Optimization, Data Mining, Probability and Statistics
SALARY REQUIREMENTS
Negotiable
REFERENCES
Available subsequent to an introductory telephone interview