Software developer with over 20 years of experience in all phases of development from concept/question to delivery/refinement. At present, I'm best suited to do small system design and architecture, Python programming, database design, C programming and Web-related work. My Unix skill is passable and improving.
Former expertise (no longer current) in Documentum (2.x and 3.x), Visual Basic (versions 3 - 6) and Windows (2000 was the last version I used regularly).
B.S. in Computer Science with an English minor from the Pennsylvania State University, GPA 3.13/4.00.
April 2009 to present.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
(Staff under Brian Soher)
Building application suite for RF pulse creation and signal
processing assisting MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy).
Principal development is in Python using
wxWidgets with some libraries written in
C.
December 2008 to present.
Author and maintainer of two open source extensions to Python written in C. One exposes System V IPC and the other POSIX IPC to Python applications.
September 2005 to November 2008.
Nikita the Spider (Own business)
This service performed Web site HTML and HTTP validation, link checking and more.
Primary tools used were Python and PostgreSQL.
May 2008 to August 2008.
Kreotek, Inc., Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
(Independent telecommute contract with Brian Rieb)
Ground-up rewrite of MenuMagic using
XulRunner, Python, PyXPCOM and Sqlite.
May 2007 to March 2008.
Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina. (Independent contract with Bart Hubbard)
Supporting the Zope-based site DukeHealth.org coding
in Zope TAL, Python, HTML and CSS.
August 2006 to October 2006.
Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. (Contract under Pam Prevatt)
Assisting with automation of conversion of Word documents to HTML in support of the
National Study on Drug Use and Health. Also advising on HTML standards compliance.
July 2006.
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. (Independent contract with Chris Allen)
During this brief contract I updated the VB6 application I wrote while working at GSK in 2004.
November 2004 to May 2005.
American Ukrainian Medical Project (Volunteer under
Russ Ayers)
Rebuilt AUMP's Web site featuring multiple languages (English, Ukrainian and Russian) and
lightweight, valid HTML pages. Primary tools used: PHP and PostgreSQL.
December 2003 to May 2004.
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. (Contract under Paula Martin)
Consolidating 150+ internal Web sites onto GSK's intranet. Performed business and
technical analysis of migration paths. Also reverse-engineered
an undocumented, homegrown system of approximately 1.1M of ASP/VBScript code and
replaced it with a VB6 application.
November 2002 to May 2003.
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. (Contract under Randy Downs)
Analysis, design and Java coding for a system that assisted with FDA
Item 11 compliance. Also analyzed needs and requirements and gave architectural
consultation on a separate system which sought to optimize the use of mathematical
modeling tools within the company.
February 2001 to July 2002.
Meridium Sverige AB, Stockholm, Sweden. (Consultant under Daniel Wengelin)
Various assignments involving database design and development, ASP
coding, Swedish to
English translation, Microsoft Sharepoint development and working (very briefly) as acting
CTO for the startup Chinsay AB. For my peer support
in public forums Microsoft named me the sole European Sharepoint MVP in 2002.
February 2000 to August 2000.
Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (Contract under Paula Martin)
Sole
developer designing and building a Web application to facilitate use of new
investigators in clinical trials. Tools used: VB6, Oracle, HTML, Javascript.
July 1999 to August 2000.
Duke University Primate Center,
Durham, North Carolina. (Volunteer under Heather Thomas)
Tour guide. Responsibilities included giving tours of the facililty to varying groups of children
and adults and answering questions about lemurs and other prosimians.
October 1999 to December 1999.
Becton Dickinson, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina. (Contract under Mike Sweet)
Developer on a team building a system to monitor and collect data
from BD manufacturing plants. Tools used: VB5.
November 1995 to June 1999.
Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (Contract under Paula Martin)
Technical lead for the design and development of a suite of complementary
Visual Basic applications atop Documentum and Oracle that managed
documents, tracked customer enquiries and fulfilled customers' requests for information on
behalf of Glaxo Wellcome's Drug Information departments. System was an essential
part of daily business for over fifty core users and a supplementary tool
for several hundred others. Responsibilities included technical leadership,
business analysis, system architecture, user interface design, coding, test,
debugging, documentation, end user
support, education, and consultation with non-U.S. drug information
departments. System was in operation for over 10 years with over
1 million pages annual throughput.
February 1994 to August 1995.
Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina. (Contract under Randy Sherrer)
Project was
development of a Visual Basic front end for a Documentum-based
system. Responsibilities extended from design to end user support and backup technical leadership.
System survived two corporate mergers and was in use for at least eight years.
May 1993 to October 1993.
Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, Zebulon, North
Carolina. (Contract under Mark Leinhaas)
Project was verification test of
custom enhancements.
July 1990 to December 1992.
IBM,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (Contract under Larry Holt)
Design and coding of large multi-threaded management tool
for large LANs in C under OS/2.
1987 to 1989, various periods.
IBM, Cary,
North Carolina, Burlington, Vermont and Boca Raton, Florida (Internships).
Multithreaded programming in C under OS/2 and programming in C and 8086
assembler under DOS.
References gladly furnished on request.
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