Interesting contract programming opportunities architecting & developing standards-based healthcare applications, server components, installers & operating system extensions using C#, ASP.NET, DotNetNuke or other .NET toolsets in an agile oriented shop.
Professional Experience
Consultant (2000 -- Present)
Client projects follow chronologically.
Enterprise Healthcare Integration Architect enabling Personal Health Records, electronic patient record systems & electronic messaging. Customize Sentillion Vergence JavaScript bridges for hospital wide SSO & CCOW. Use Visual Studio Team System 2010, NetBeans, BizTalk, Chameleon & Iguana. Adopt SDLC & customize Agile (and CMMI) Process Models with Team Foundation Server, with SVN/Trac. South Sound Health Information Exchange Project Management. CAC/JavaCard NetBean applets.
Track down Windows Server 2003 SP2 upgrade issue to Help Service. Apply Security Development Lifecycle methodology to Winhlp32 for Vista. Help train co-workers on SAL Annotations, PREfix, PREfast issue resolution using Visual Studio 2005, Razzle, Product Studio & Source Depot build environment, SharePoint & Microsoft Installer (MSI).
Web Site Design
· ASP.NET, Visual Studio 2003-2010, Expression, Dreamweaver, Flash & Notepad based liquid-layout sites incorporating DotNetNuke, CSS, forms authentication, C# code behind, XML, XSLT, XHTML, dynamic web templates, master pages, CMS based portals
· S-PLUS Integration Architect. Assist interfacing S-PLUS 7 Enterprise Server to web server for display of interactive graphics to clients at a top Wall Street investment bank.
· InstallShield Premier 11 & Windows Installer 3.1 based installation of P2P video viewing client requiring frequent updates across 100K+ installations, numerous custom actions & InstallScript routines.
· IT support including system, firewall & networking specification, purchasing; installation & maintenance.
· Specialization in digital photography editing, organization & workflow
· Designed & developed C++ IIS ISAPI filter + extension, integrated with the Win32 native event logging, visual analyzer, system error stream, IIS web log & metabase. Create initial documentation site & InstallShield setup with JavaScript extensions for ADSI & metabase integration. Aided IIS component debugging with delayed, dynamically loaded DLL's, app to test DLL loading & display system debug stream.
· Wrote thin ATL component to wrap existing API, efficiently exposing its functions (with minimal modifications) as COM methods & properties. Proper scaling the older client code for a server environment required use of a neutral threaded model & connection pooling. Custom VB & ASP programs served as test beds & illustrated source code for accessing the component. Designed for re-implementation by customers at a variety of sites, a premium was placed on documenting both external use & rebuilding/extending the component. Robust error detection eased support staff & downstream developer's effort.
· Initial Site Server component design required familiarization with Ad, Personalization & Knowledge Managers & meeting with Microsoft staff on design issues.
· Maintenance debugging and coding for a Visual Basic & Access based program to create personalized elimination-diet and custom meal plans.
· Implemented a Microsoft Installer compatible setup with InstallShield Express 4.
· Implemented a Microsoft Installer compatible installation package with InstallShield Express 4.
· Implemented a Microsoft Installer compatible installation package for Softrade’s Subtitling System using InstallShield Developer 7.
· English and Japanese installations integrated 3rd party components (MDAC, DirectX & Sentinel) and custom DLLs in a script driven installation.
· Developed complete build system with intuitive directory structure and thorough documentation, checklists and test matrices.
Consultant & Senior Software Engineer (1995 – 1999)
TIBCO (previously Insightful
, MathSoft & StatSci)
· Consulted with a variety of corporate clients on strategies for building ActiveX interfaces between their applications & S-PLUS. Conducted on-site installation & developer training on statistics server product in IIS environments.
· Project lead for
S-PLUS for ArcView GIS, an ATL based client accessing a late binding Automation server via COM, including development of 14 dialogs supported by over 200 Avenue scripts. This ActiveX component allowed ArcView users to transparently access the power of S-PLUS.
· Designed extensions to GeoBrowse, a Java application to analyze hyper-spectral satellite images, identifying forest & crop types as well as human use. Incorporated audio feedback & access to MUTILS image processing library via CORBA. Reviewed object database systems for storing graphical & analysis data.
· Senior developer on integration of C++ based technical graphics application (AXUM) with S-PLUS statistical engine, re-crafting dialogs, handling interfacing between the products using different compilers, using BoundsChecker, HeapAgent & Purify to reduce errors, adding ODBC support.
· Responsible for Win32 port of S-PLUS (90 MB of source code, 300 MB build tree) changing calling conventions & preserving ability to load object code on the fly.
· Helped develop API to access high-end statistical S-Language interpreter (using Lucent Technologies licensed core code) from a remote client.
· Initiated & primary author of ~100 page corporate Intranet.
· Supported system administration group with tougher NT networking & security issues.
Staff Programmer (1993 – 1995)
· Port Windows NT to the
PowerPC. Project lead for port of Setup, SDK/DDK, SQL Server, MFC & printing components, requiring intimate knowledge of NT loaders, hals/kernel/executive, drivers & external API source code.
· Work at
Microsoft with core NT team using SLM, build, VSlick, WinRaid & IDW tools to isolate/resolve bugs.
· Course & material development of NT’s (public & internal) build/debug/development facilities.
· Primary developer & marketing representative at IBM’s 1993 Comdex debut of NT on the PowerPC.
Systems Engineer/Consultant (1991 – 1993)
· Port
UniVerse client-server database from UNIX to Windows NT.
· Adapt 800 modules with 250,000 lines of code, using Win32 facilities: multi-process/thread creation messaging, server/client interaction over named pipes & telnet sockets, DLL entry point processing, exception handling using registration database & event logging.
· Install, use & test Visual/Borland C++, Visual Basic, NT SDK & Server, PVCS, OLE, ODBC, Bourne shell.
· Provide hardware & software recommendations, installation, user training, economic analysis & programming for manufacturing, service, retail, non-profit & governmental associations in Windows, Macintosh & UNIX environments.
Executive Director (1987 – 1991)
· Directed 12 staff at national organization with 23,000 members, 2,000 volunteers & 500 clubs.
· Piloted 280% growth of annual budget to $1,340,000, retiring half-year accounts payables backlog.
· Initiated successful programs in membership (53% record membership growth reversed a previous 33% decline), fundraising ($70,000 new annually), volunteering, planning & budgeting.
· Guided office automation: installed eight PCs, trained operators, converted to in-house accounting system, composed relational databases & created fiscal/marketing reports.
Analytical Laboratory Specialist (1985 – 1986)
· Authored 175 page external design document assimilating suggestions from 106 scientists.
· Evaluated six relational, SQL based, fourth generation database packages on DG mini.
· Headed four-person team in modular design, prototyping, coding & system implementation.
Software Engineer (1983 – 1984)
Dimensional Medicine Incorporated
· Conceived & implemented real time, interactive 3-D diagnostic graphics software for modeling skull & spinal surgery on Silicon Graphics & Adage graphic engines running UNIX.
· Researched & implemented contour tracing, tessellation & shading algorithms in C.
Analyst/Programmer (1982 – 1983)
· Project leader supervising four programmers writing in C, FORTRAN & assembler.
· Managed extensive, state of the art graphics systems on Cray, Sun & VAX computers.
· Conceived & taught six computer courses to students, faculty & state agency personnel.
Programmer/Analyst (1978 – 1981, ~40% time)
Interactive Management Systems
· Develop/maintain database & financial packages (A/P, A/R, GL, payroll) in Business BASIC/DG assembler.
· Trained & troubleshot financial report problems for client Certified Public Accountants