Summary


SOFTWARE DESIGN ENGINEER


I am a versatile, creative and independently productive software designer and developer with broad and accomplished experience in a variety of application areas and environments .I seek challenge and opportunity to apply my highly developed talents for research, problem analysis and solution development, whether in new or past areas of experience, whether with new or existing software. My primary objective is simply to produce good and valuable work, though I would give minor preference to opportunities to extend my. NET experience or to leverage my experience in a leadership position. My broad technical experience facilitates quick acquisition and transfer of new technology .I am a strong listener and communicator with an inclination to teach and learn .I am experienced with high-pressure and high-visibility situations. Open to employment or contract/contract-to-hire arrangements.
C# C++ C PL/I SAS SQL PL/SQL T-SQL VB VBA Ideal Perl AWK COBOL Mainframe ALC 80x86 assembler Other Search Words
VM MVS ARTIC MULTIPORT RCM RICES COMEDS AWN AUTODIN NEDN Intel Zilog simulation protocols BAL USART RS232 8251 82530 SCN26562 GPIB BAL FORTRAN GCOS PS/2 CLR WinForms

PC application Software Development

Design and implementation of PC applications under DOS, OS/2, Windows MFC and Windows .NET. Lead responsibilities and key roles. Heavy experience in development of spread sheet, mathematical, program language processing, general-purpose program install ation, hardware interfac ing, database, 3 - D graphics and word processor software. Proficient with C, C++, C#, Perl, AWK, Pascal and 80x86 assembler languages.
Embedded Software Development
Lead responsibility for design and implementation of kernel and functional embedded real-time software for data communications, peripheral interfacing and video display functions. Intel 8080, 8085, 80186 and 80386 and Zilog Z8, Z80 and Z280 microprocessors and associated peripheral components, the Signetics SCN26562 and Intel 82530 serial communication control lers. Extensive experience with IBM ARTIC family of sophisticated serial I/O boards and the IBM RCM/RICES real-time environment. Experienced with programming bare PC architec ture as a dedicated platform for embedded software. Experienced in resolving soft ware-hardware trade-offs and debugging prototype hardware.
Server Software Development
Lead responsibility for design and implementation of search engine components for data organization and staging, HTML parsing and word search. C++ and Perl programming under UNIX on December Alpha servers.
Mainframe Software Development
Extensive experience designing and developing PL/I, SAS, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, ALC application and infrastructure software on IBM main frames with CMS under VM, TSO and ISPF/PDF under MVS. Datacom/DB, Oracle, SQL Server, VSAM, CICS, Ideal, REXX, EXEC2 and AFP programming. Also, application development, compiler development and operating system maintenance/debugging in COBOL and assembly language on Honeywell mainframes.
Multiple projects for long-term clients are lumped together, resulting in overlapping time intervals. For instance, my relationship with CTB spanned most of my other relationships.
Resume with full detailed work experience available on request.
Professional references available on request.


Employment

2008 -  2009

Designed and developed Windows. NET-based productivity application for digital portrait photographers. Also VS automation for product deployment.

1980 -  2008

Lead responsibility for multitude of projects involving design and development of complex software for customer applications, system infrastructure and tools and components for database maintenance, corporate management, software development and QA in a large-scale, production-line mainframe environment. Also some Windows VB and VBA projects.

1999 -  2001

Lead responsibility for design and development of data organization and staging, HTML parser and word search components for Internet search engine start-up.

1992 -  1993

Designed and developed file configura tion maintenance and product installation software for Windows graphics software products. Also 3 D chart generation and memory management.

1981 -  1992

Designed and developed kernel and functional realtime firmware and optimized transport protocol for family of local printer adaptors and remote printer connectivity products. Runtime platforms included 8085 - based custom boxes and dedicated no OS 80385 - based PC boxes.
1991, J.C. Penny Business Services, Inc
Designed and developed embedded low-level I/O software for a multiport multidrop communications node for a credit card transac tion processing network. Also wrote winning technical proposal.
1991, Unihorn Software, Inc
Developed technical proposals to support 3 bids for datacom software/firmware development contracts, of which 2 were successful.
1990, Software Publishing Corporation
Designed and developed software for installation file management, data compression, master installation diskette generation and script-driven product installation to PC-DOS and OS/2 host platforms.
1990, Townsend and Townsend
Provided technical consultation on firmware operation and technical patent interpretation in support of a patent suit defense involving the Hayes Stack modem.
1987, Migent Software, Inc
Designed and developed extension to PC-based spreadsheet product to export formulas to Lotus 1 2 3 spreadsheets.

1984 -  1986
Queue Associate

Designed and developed spreadsheet, generic printing, database and word processor functionality for integrated business productivity applications in start-up project sponsored by Ashton-Tate, integrating their dBase III functionality.

Education