SUMMARY:
Several years experience modifying programs to solve business problems and
meeting the needs of various clients.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
FPL, North Palm Beach, FL
Full-Time Contract Sr. Programmer/Analyst
07/2001 – 11/2002
Application and Intranet/Internet development and support for the selling of
electrical power in Texas via ERCOT and New England/Maine via NEPOOL using
Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access 97, Visual InterDev, and Oracle 8i.
Citco Technology Management Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Full-Time Contract Sr. Programmer/Analyst
07/2000 – 05/2001
Developed and maintained applications in Visual Basic 6.0 for an international
financial/investing corporation. Extensive work with SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0,
including development/maintenance of store procedures and tables associated
with applications. Worked with applications migration between several platforms
of Win 95/98/2000. Provided international support for users of the
applications, resolving any questions, problems, or enhancements that they
wanted.
PetMed Express, Inc Pompano Beach, FL
Programmer/Analyst – Database Administrator
12/1999 – 07/2000
Created data translation and form applications in Visual Basic 6.0. Work as the
SQL Server 7.0 Database Administrator, created tables, filter data, created
stored procedures, etc. Assist in the continued development and maintenance of
the company website (www.petmedexpress.com).
InkTel/From2.Com Miami, FL
AutoNation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Full-Time Contract
09/1999 – 12/1999
Consulting on financial report generation via Crystal Reports and Visual Basic.
Worked on ASP project against SQL-Server backend. Developed web pages in
FrontPage 2000 and Visual InterDev 6.0. In Visual Basic 6.0, created COM
objects for use as data connection objects and business rules objects.
FDP Corp. Coconut Grove, FL
Full-Time Contract Programmer/Analyst
03/1999 - 08/1999
Developed and maintained sections of a Pension application program utilizing
Visual Basic 5.0, including inline COM objects. Responsible for DAO - ADO
conversion and compatibility, including coding and developing written
requirements to make the application compatible with both MS Access and MS
SQL-Server databases. Maintained and tracked all version changes involved with
the Pension program. Solely responsible for maintaining and developing two
parts of the Pension application that imported and exported Pension Plan data
into and out of the database.
American Express, Plantation, FL
Full-Time Contract Programmer/Analyst
10/1998 - 03/1999
Maintained Visual Basic 5.0 COM object programs that handled complaints
involving the domestic side of the American Express Card. Work on QA for these
programs as well as other CMS programs. Moved Legacy programs towards an
Object-Oriented base. Assisted in monitoring and tracking errors generated by
programs in a real time environment. Responsible for scheduling of important
service-related programs that conflicted with Network Maintenance of the
System. Standardize the historical tracking of changes to the programs and the
development of coding standards to be followed in further Visual Basic
development. Helped develop a Web based Customer Support Knowledge Base system.
PRC, Miami, FL
Full-Time Contract Programmer/Analyst-Web Designer
03/1998 - 10/1998
Worked in Visual Basic 5.0 and Crystal Reports, developing applications for
telemarketing environment, and in HTML, ASP, and VBScript to create several
applications for both Intranet and Internet applications. Work on QA for
several Visual Basic program as well as on upkeep and updating of the PRC
Investment and PRC News pages on their web site, www.prcnet.com.
NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Full-Time Contract Programmer/Analyst-Web Designer
04/1996 - 03/1998
Developed and modified programs for the Kennedy Space Center community,
utilizing Visual Basic 3.0, including their QA aspects. Worked on KSC Records
Retirement program. Part of the team involved in design/conversion of Legacy
Clipper applications to Visual Basic. Modified and streamlined existing code
for users, new reports utilizing Crystal Reports and tables with MS Access for
handling the special needs required by various users. Assisted other
programmers with their Visual Basic and SQL problems. Demonstrated HTML
structures for the PC Applications Group. Created and administrated the home
page for PC Applications Group. Identified as the only member on both groups
setting standards for development of Visual Basic and Clipper programs by the
PC Applications Group. Achieved competence with Visual Basic 5.0 during this
assignment.
Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division, Columbia, SC
Full-Time Contract Programmer/ Analyst
03/1996 - 04/1996
Part of a rapid development team assigned to design, code and implement package
for the chemical processing section. Worked in Visual Basic 4.0 against an
Oracle back end on Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, and Windows '95
platforms. Worked with Remote Data Objects (RDO) in development.
Exploration Resources, Athens, GA
Full-Time Contract Programmer/ Analyst
09/1995 - 12/1995
Part of a team of programmers in Visual Basic 3.0 developing a Sales/Call
Tracking System and 911 Emergency Management System using MS Access, Clipper,
and FoxPro to access the databases. Generated reports in Crystal Report, set-up
Visual Basic 3.0 source code library and standardized the method of generating
the firm's key forms.
PMSC, Columbia, SC
Full-Time Contract Programmer/ Analyst
11/1994 - 08/1995
Developed, maintained and provided QA for a Salary Administration System,
Automatic Reservation System and Early Warning System in Visual Basic 3.0 for
the American International Group, a large insurance firm. Development and
maintenance included considerable use of MS SQL-Server stored procedures in
connection with work in ODBC and NSM on both MS SQL Server and MS Access
databases, the creation of MS Access databases/tables/forms, reporting in
Crystal Report, and use of PVCS for version control.
CCC, Atlanta, GA
Southern Company, Birmingham, AL
Full-Time Contract Programmer/ Analyst
02/1994 - 10/1994
Created data entry form programs in Visual Basic 3.0 for MS Access database
tables.
Syscon, Augusta, GA
Sr. Programmer
09/1992 - 01/1994
Developed programs in a C / UNIX environment. Recognized for developing
simulation programs to assist in creating US Army Communications Networks using
Clipper 5.01, prototyping GUI interfaces using Visual Basic 3.0 and acting as
the project's Novell System Administrator.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE:
LANGUAGES:
Visual Basic 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0, HTML 3.0, ASP, VBScript, COBOL, C, PASCAL,
FORTRAN IV, dBase III+, Clipper 5.0/5.01, FoxPro, Microsoft SQL Server
PROGRAMS:
Microsoft Frontpage, WordPerfect 4.2 & 5.1, Word, Windows, Lotus 1-2-3, Data
Junction 4.1, Novell NetWare, Report Writer & Code Generator, DOS 3.2 - 6.2,
UNIX System V
EDUCATION:
B.S. Computer Science, Minor: Math Augusta College, Augusta, GA
DESIGN & STRUCTURE KNOWLEDGE:
Courses in Computer Architecture, Structured Analysis & System Specification
Software Design, Yourdon & Constantine Method of Structured Design