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418 East Webster Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126 630-993-0889 w
FAX: 630-993-9935
www.kdhsoftware.com
SUMMARY
My
development background includes creation of browser based, client server, and
mainframe applications as well as management of these projects. My experience encompasses the full
development life cycle from business design to construction and
maintenance. The roles I have played
include architect, team and project manager, mentor, and trainer. I have three plus years experience creating
web sites and thin client applications as well as nine plus years of
Client/Server experience. My web experience includes Cold Fusion, ASP, VXML,
PHP, JavaScript, Perl, JSP, and HTML. I
developed PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and C Client/Server applications. I customized and installed Allaire’s Forums
and Maxum’s Phantom Search Engine. My
seven plus years of developing PowerBuilder
applications helped me earn status as a Certified PowerBuilder Developer. My written and oral communication skills
allow me to interface with all levels of users and management.
HISTORY
wKDH Software,
Inc. August, 1993 - Present
As President and Technical Director of this small software
and contracting house, I am responsible for obtaining clients and meeting their
needs, marketing the company to both clients and potential sub-contractors,
performing accounting duties, and acting as chief architect. My management skills and efforts to provide
clients the consulting services they require continue to earn KDH Software many
extended and repeat engagements.
Clients include The Northern Trust, Aon Reinsurance, Allstate, Corris –
RR Donnelly, Sears, REM Corporation, DK Systems, MyWeddingPlans, Inc., and
ShopTalk Networks. KDH Software
collaborates with Creative Concepts Online, Inc., Automated Information
Management, Inc., and CodeWorks, Inc.
In addition to leading members of clients’ staff, I am responsible for
the sub-contractors that KDH employs.
As chief architect, I produce browser based and client
server applications in a number of programming environments. During my three plus years of web
development, I have played a part in the creation of numerous websites and
browser-based applications. I designed
and developed REM Corporation’s B-to-B website. The benefits from the website to REM Corporation include cost
savings by decreasing the time and efforts needed to deliver products,
increased revenue from web orders, and additional services such as order
tracking and report delivery for the 1800 plus customers and order fulfillers
that now use the website. My B-to-C
experience includes development of a web based registration system and a voice
web message reminder/retrieval application.
My knowledge of Cold Fusion allowed me to customize Allaire’s Forums
product and create custom tags. My
experience in writing ASP, VoiceXML, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and Perl has
been used on a variety of sites. My
development experience with PowerBuilder dates to its version 2.0. Due to this work with PowerBuilder as it
matured, I provided training and mentoring to a number of clients. I participated as programmer, project lead,
and architect on many successful PowerBuilder and Visual Basic projects.
I have been commended for quickly getting up to speed and
becoming productive as well as my ability to work with users and team
members. Please see http://www.kdhsoftware.com/pages/dah_projects.html
for a list of my projects.
wKeane, Inc. July, 1991 – August, 1993
As a Senior Analyst, I met client needs working on on-site
projects as well as working with team members to answer RFPs. Clients included Cotter and Company, ARI
International, ACNielsen, and Aon Reinsurance.
My initial responsibilities included designing, coding, and testing
shell scripts and C applications. For
one project, I acted as system administrator for a Point of Sale system
development environment. As team leader
on his next Unix project, I was responsible for the establishment of the system
and verification testing environments in a client/server architecture. I was instrumental in the debugging process
by finding bugs and creating solutions.
My team leader responsibilities included overseeing creation,
cataloging, and execution of test data and cases as well as writing system
documents.
As a team leader, my responsibilities included prototyping,
designing, scheduling, coding, and implementing an output system using
PowerBuilder. The system gave users the
ability to electronically mail, fax, or print output to contacts selected from
a Sybase database or the mail system. I
coded scripts, triggers, and stored procedures. I also designed and coded Microsoft Word Basic macros and C DLLs
to use MAPI and DDE in order to access Microsoft Mail and Fax Gateway products.
wMotorola National Systems Service Division January, 1990 – April, 1991
I
designed, programmed, tested, and installed software using structured methods
for both in-house and customer use in a UNIX environment. My responsibilities included team leader and
lead programmer. Major projects
included: authored National Systems Service standards document on the
requirements phase of structured programming methods and participated in the
design of standards documents for design, coding, and testing, created detail
designs from customer requirement specifications and developed project system
and unit test plans in a structured programming environment, customized
terminal emulation modules written in C to provide local and remote
communication for National Systems Service's customers and service representatives,
International Law Enforcement Management system and an Equipment Problem
Tracking system. I was instrumental in
the successful on schedule implementation and sign off of these projects that
were written in C, SHELL, and Informix in a UNIX environment.
wInSol, Inc. June, 1988 – January, 1990
I built
a system to create bar coded labels, designed interface programs to existing
accounting software, installed hardware and enhanced software for a radio based
dispatching system, credit authorization and truck/trailer dispatching
systems. My efforts led to the
successful on schedule implementation and sign off of these projects that were
written in C, SHELL, and RM COBOL in a UNIX environment.
wZurich-American
Insurance Company June, 1987 – June,
1988
My roles
included lead programmer and customer liaison.
Using COBOL, BAL, and CICS programming languages, my responsibilities
included all phases of project development from design to implementation as
well as trouble shooting.
wAmeritech June, 1984 – June, 1987
As part
of the CRIS team, I maintained several Cobol and JCL programs. As lead programmer in the Long Distance
Billing group, I created and maintained several C, Cobol, and JCL programs. I was commended for designing and
implementing changes that greatly reduced the number of rejected records and
improved run time of the billing application from six hours to 45 minutes.
wRecommendations upon request or please see
www.kdhsoftware.com/pages/dah_recommend.html
TECHNICAL SKILLS
wGraphic Application Developers/Programming
Languages
Cold
Fusion, VoiceXML, SQL, ASP, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, HTML, JavaScript, JSP,
Perl, PHP, C, Oracle Power Objects, SHELL, Informix 4GL, COBOL, BAL, BASIC,
PL/1
wDatabases, Middleware, and other Products
Oracle,
Sybase, SQL Server, ADO, ODBC, Nuance 7.0, Nuance Foundation SpeechObjects,
Informix, Allaire Forums, BEA Weblogic Server, Maxum Phantom Search Engine,
DB2, Neon Shadow Direct, Access, dBASE based DBs, Paradox
wWeb Sites
www.myweddingplans.com, www.remusa.com, www.barbequejims.com, www.birches.net, www.associationsolutions.com,
www.hinscaucus.org, www.creativeconceptsonline.com,
www.acqfl.com
wOperating Systems
Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, UNIX, SunOS, DOS, XENIX,
MVS/XA
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Illinois - Urbana, 1984