Professional Objective
To become a Active Member of a Software Development Team
Summary Statement
**-**** ****** ** * in-house software developer with extensive experience
in the design and maintenance of client and web based applications.
Skilled in problem-solving and communications. Work well both independently
and as a team member. Proficient in the follow skills:
Unix/Linux Administration and shell scripting
Perl
C/C++
VB
VB.NET, ASP.NET
Oracle Administration
SQL/PLSQL
XML, XSLT
HTML, CSS, Javascript
Ruby on Rails
Professional Experience
Lundbeck Research USA (formerly Synaptic 1997 - 2010
Pharmaceutical), Paramus, NJ
Programmer Analyst
Development of a in-house Life Sciences application using Ruby on Rails
Unix/Linux system administration
Oracle database administration
Oracle database schema design
Design and coding of platform specific as well as web based applications
and tools.
Hands-on support, maintenance or enhancement of existing applications
Played a major role in creating numerous database driven software
applications by which scientist can manage experimental data.
U.S. Army Armament Research Development & Engineering 1984 -
Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 1997
Mechanocal Engineer GS-0830-12
Responsible for the design, modeling and testing of various weapon systems.
Education, Professional Development and Training
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
13 years participation in courses given by Oracle, Learning Tree
International, Microsoft (etc.) at intervals of at least twice per year
Highlights of Relevant Qualifications
Fortran, Unix, C and C++ (1984 - 1997)
Used and wrote code in the above languages to facilitate Weapons design,
modeling, simulation and testing work.
Unix/Linux(~1997)
Was hired as System Admin of Synaptic Pharmaceuticals' first main frame
unix computer, a Dec Alpha 4100 running True64 Unix.
Wrote Unix shell scripts using VI as my editor to help mange Bioinformatics
data.
Also maintained a software product on this machine called 'SeqLab'
Perl (~1998)
Began using Perl as a Unix shell script replacement because of its richer
syntax for manipulating textual data.
Began to use Perl to parse data into Oracle database tables
Oracle Databases(~1997)
Helped to install and maintain the companies first Oracle Databases.
Took many Oracle training classes to help in this effort. Learn SQL/PLSQL
SQL/PLSQL(~2000)
Use SQL/PLSQL, Perl, DBI/DBD, CGI and HTML to create companies first data
driven web pages and forms.
It was after this time that I began to use various other front end
technologies
VB
Wrote a in-house application called Sequence Analysis Work Shop (SAWS) to
help manage biological sequence data.
Wrote first iteration of a in-house application called BioMatts to help
manage biological material data.
ASP.Net - Wrote Web applications
To browse gene data.
For viewing chemical structures
For managing projects and privileged member groups
Also wrote numerous .Net Web Services to facilitate SOAP messaging.
XML,XSLT,HTML and Java Script
To present Oracle database data to multiple audiences.
Crystal reports
Create many web based crystal reports to produce graphs and charts of
interest to scientist
Java
Wrote a purely java database querying tool called DBQuery
Later turned this app into a Java applet.
Other languages and Software technologies used in the last 4 years
Vb.Net
Wrote windows services to integrate the output from various types of
equipment with our existing data warehouse.
Activity Base
Product written by company called IDBS. It's purpose is the help scientist
store experimental data.
It was my job to maintain the backend database and to write helper Oracle
procedures to integrate the software with our existing data warehouse.
Most recent work
Ruby on Rails (2008-present)
Played key role in developing a in house application called LSP (Life
Sciences Project) . A Ruby on Rails application using ExtJS web
components.