Resume of Nicholas Forystek

[Nicholas R Forystek]

Nicholas R Forystek

Experience

SCICOM Data Services, MN - 6/03 to 4/05
Data and e-Document warehouse for various financial institutions.
VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# Developer
. Helped maintain old Visual Basic applications and ASP applications.
. Developed new application to push PDF documents from legacy mainframe
systems to the internet.
. Developed reports for customer support sites which presented document
statistics to our clients about their housed documents and their usage.
. Responsible for setting up Linux servers to test the security of our
client's data internally and externally.
. Development technologies used in these applications: VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#,
VB, HTML, ADO, SQL, Linux, and MSOffice.

The Improve Group, Minneapolis, MN - 6/02 to 6/03
Software Company that develops a variety of strategic planning,
facilitation, community, and evaluation projects for the state of Minnesota.
Consultant Developer - VB developer
. Recruited by the owner to develop a monitoring application called
Destination 2010.
. This application which monitors schoolchildren's progress in the
Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts has won State educational awards.
. Development technologies used in this application: VB, HTML, ADO, UDA and
MSOffice.

United Health Group, Bloomington, MN - 5/00 to 5/02
The leading health and well-being Company in the healthcare industry.
Consistently ranked first or second in Fortune magazine's annual survey of
the most admired health care companies in America.
Application Programmer - ASP/VB developer
. Began as project member on the Company's Knowledge Library application, an
ASP/HTML knowledge base of medical information.
. Recommended and implemented changes in architecture, administration, and
accessibility for the Library which resulted in the number of hits going
from 5,000/day to 1,000,000/day.
. Awarded Technical leader status with responsibility for Priority 1
projects.
. Technical leader for the Flexible Spending Account project that moved
United into paperless claims.
. Development technologies used on these projects include: 3 tier design,
ASP, IIS, SQL, ADO, UDA, DB2, MTS, OCX, DLL, VB, Java, JavaScript, DHTML,
and XML.

Neotext Software - 98 to Present
Neotext is a self developed independent software creation organization
providing file transfer and scheduling applications for businesses.
Technical Director
. Responsible for design and architecture of Neotext desktop applications.
. In charge of product planning for Neotext's website.
. Directed purchase and implementation of all software and hardware.
. Responsible for redesign of Max-FTP from Visual Basic to VisualBasic.NET
including new architecture and implementation.
. Max-FTP an internet file management application consists of 8 projects
(over 500k lines of code). The main program, Scheduling Service, Visual
Integrated Development Environment, supporting DLL's and ActiveX controls.
. Development technologies used on these projects include: 3 tier design,
VB.NET, ADO.NET, UDA, ASP, IIS, SQL, MTS, OCX, DLL, VB, VBScript,
JavaScript, DHTML, and XML.

Applied Systems, Bloomington, MN - 1/99 to 2/00
Applied Systems is an independent software company that develops insurance
applications to aid in the creation and processing of policies for home
insurance.
Application Programmer - VB developer
. Developed a TCP/IP client / server production manager. Client runs on
employee's computers allowing them to log their time, attendance, and
company production on a Windows NT server. Also allows managers of
different departments to generate Excel sheets of weekly, monthly, or yearly
reports from heterogeneous data sources.
. Developed a 3-tier client for logging all program corrections using
Microsoft Transaction Server and SQL Server.
. Developed and maintained an internal IIS web server to distribute Word &
Excel documents to employees.
. Development technologies used in these applications: VB, HTML, ADO, UDA,
SQL, MTS, and MSOffice.
Programming Skills
. VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, and JavaScript
. Win 98, Win NT, Win 2K and Win XP
. SQL Server, Visual Studio, InterDev, MTS and IIS
. ADO and UDA
. Networking over LANs in all Windows platforms

Education/Training
. Microsoft certification through United Health Group - 2000
. Microsoft .NET training and seminars through United Health Group.
. Hennepin Technical College - Computer Science -1998
. Mound Westonka High School, Mound, MN - 1996
. Advanced Placement Computer Science courses

Other experience:
. I did computer related retail sales for Computer Renaissance who buys and
sells all sorts of computer related equipment; I started at the Minnetonka
Minnesota location and ended at the Eden Prairie Minnesota location.
. I stocked groceries for Jerry's Foods store in Eden Prairie Minnesota
taking palettes from the back and brining them out to be put onto the
shelves and to ensure the shelves looked neat for their marketing.
. I operated rides at the amusement park Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America
in Bloomington Minnesota, ensuring customers are safe and the rides stay
orderly and clean.
. I washed dishes and did some prep cooking for St. Albans Boathouse in
Excelsior Minnesota and Chez Foley in Wayzata Minnesota.
. I delivered mail packages by van to commercial and residential routes as a
delivery man for Airborne Express during the time that it was purchased by
D.H.L. and I continued delivery for them for some time.
. I did various other temporary jobs for short periods of time such as
sorting outgoing mail and data entry for two different temporary hiring
firms at different times.