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Management Developer .Net Project Manager Software

Location:
Minneapolis, MN, 55408
Posted:
October 14, 2010

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Resume:

DAVID A. KAMINSKI

**** ****** *** * *** *, Minneapolis, MN 55408

************@*****.*** . 216-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

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A well-rounded developer and analyst, I have over eight years of experience

in designing, developing and maintaining software systems to increase the

efficiency and performance of organizations and to leverage analytical

solutions. My primary areas of expertise are the Microsoft .NET framework,

C#/C++, and SQL Server, but with the strength of my quantitative

background I am also proficient in the areas of statistical analysis and

machine learning, both writing custom code and using tools such as SAS,

Excel, Octave and R.

Education

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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

(8/03 - 5/06)

Master of Science, Computing and Information Science, May 2006

Thesis: Root-Cause Failure Analysis and Software Defect Severity Metrics

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

(8/97 - 5/02)

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, cum laude, May 2002

Senior Research on Non-Stationary Signal Analysis

Professional Experience

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Soar Biodynamics, Cambridge, MA

(8/02 - 9/10)

Lead Software Engineer and Data Analyst

Research platform design and implementation

Environment: C#, .NET 3.5, LINQ, NUnit, XML-RPC, Amazon EC2, SQL Server,

.NET Remoting

. Led the construction of a modular research application which served as

the platform for the production system as well as experimental

components

. Utilized established OOD principles to achieve a high degree of

reusability and extensibility

. Achieved fault tolerance and scalability in the production back end

through deployment as a web service, dispatching jobs to Amazon EC2

machine instances

. Oversaw deployment of the application's commercial release, performed

maintenance and upgrades over subsequent release cycles

Analysis core design and implementation

Environment: C++/C#, .NET 3.5, LINQ, NUnit, Excel, SQLite, GNU Octave,

Norsys Netica, Visio

. Abstracted probability models from institutional databases using

statistical learning techniques

. Implemented and fine tuned Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to

simulate the biological mechanisms of cancer as well as benign

conditions

. Utilized the MapReduce model for efficient computation of the

multidimensional simulation

. Employed Bayesian-inference pattern recognition techniques to

determine the presence or absence of various conditions

Personalized content and document management system

Environment: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, .NET 2.0, SQL Server Stored Procedures &

Triggers, Visio

. Constructed a database-driven content customization framework relying

on quantitative analysis results to personalize user reports in a

fully automated fashion

. Designed underlying database architecture including normalized tables,

stored procedures, and triggers to enforce consistency of structure

. Implemented web interface within admin section of production website

for defining customization rules and loading content

. Enhanced document management with content-block reuse and change-

tracking features

Prostate cancer decision analysis web application

Environment: ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, C#, SQL Server, .NET Web Services,

IIS 5.0 & 6.0

. Designed and produced custom implementations of user-account

management, content management, search, user forums and private

messaging at a time when off-the-shelf solutions for ASP.NET were

either unavailable or inadequate

. Implemented custom charting library for the display of analysis

results in users' reports

. Designed and fine tuned the underlying database architecture

. Created separate privacy-protection payment service, linked through a

one-time shared-secret authentication scheme

Software development life cycle tasks

Environment: Apache, MySQL, CVS, SVN, Bugzilla, Trac, Perl, Python, Bash

scripting

. Managed a team of 2-4 developers and analysts in prioritization,

estimation, and on-time delivery of projects

. Organized weekly scrum meetings to facilitate progress and to

eliminate obstacles

. Configured and administered all servers and software installations

. Implemented custom linkage between version control and issue tracking

systems

Rhein Center for the Arts, Lakeside, OH

(5/06 - Present)

Software Developer, Analyst, and Project Manager

Online course-scheduling and enrollment system

Environment: ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server, IIS 5.0 & 6.0

. Produced a fully featured course scheduling, enrollment and student

management system to replace a paper-based manual process

. Implemented a randomized, constrained placement algorithm to ensure

fair enrollment as demand overwhelmed available course capacity

. Reduced processing time from hours to seconds, and increased seasonal

throughput by 50%

. Provided ongoing operational support, maintenance and fulfillment of

feature requests over four subsequent years of use

GE Healthcare (GE Medical Systems), Milwaukee, WI

(8/01 - 12/01)

Engineering Intern/Co-op

CT Systems Engineering team member

Environment: DOORS/ERS, Excel, Access, VBA

. Consolidated CT Scanner system requirements to a central database,

documenting the progress of the 12-week internal audit

. Created templates and input procedures for the requirements database

. Provided documentation of standard methods and formats to streamline

future requirements gathering and management processes

GE Healthcare (GE Medical Systems), Milwaukee, WI

(1/00 - 8/00)

Engineering Intern/Co-op

CT Detector Engineering team member

Environment: HP-UX, AutoCAD, Excel, Access, Design of Experiments

. Supervised the reconstruction and upgrade of the CT Detector testing

bay

. Assisted in design and production of printed circuit boards

. Tracked environmental-conditions sensors in multi-million-dollar CT

scanner shipments and provided statistical data summaries to

management

. Optimized experimental design for selecting elastomeric connectors



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