Patrick A. O'Connell
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505-***-**** cell
Email: ******@*****.***
Most Recent Position: Senior Programmer Analyst
Summary:
Experience in scientific, medical, business, and engineering software
development. Application testing, including software testing, use with
several operating systems (XP, Vista, Unix, AIX), and installation testing.
Have worked in team design, development, and testing processes.
Positions as a Programmer/Analyst, Software Engineer, Chemical Engineer.
Engineering and Scientific systems analysis, requirements, software
development, systems reliability, Software Quality Assurance (SQA),
chemical and environmental engineering.
Flexibility in planning and accomplishing software goals. Have lead teams
to develop software, either as an individual or as part of a team working
to develop a product.
Education:
MS in Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Classes included software engineering, mathematical modeling, user
interface design, artificial intelligence, distributed systems and system
security, reliability mathematics, and modern computer architecture.
Currently enrolling in a short course in Linux.
BS degree in Chemical Engineering, 1967-1971 Purdue University. Emphasis in
mathematical modeling and thermodynamics.
Computer Development and Database Management:
Oracle query design and applications with embedded Oracle queries,Oracle
Applications, TOAD. Recent experience in Unix, AIX, and VMS. Fortran 95,
Visual BASIC, Microsoft Access, Excel, Microsoft C, HTML, Javascript, SQL
Server, Ingres database design and maintenance, HTML, CSS, ASP, UNIX C and
C++.
Professional Affiliations/Certifications:
Engineer in Training, Indiana, # M71080
Experience
Programmer/Analyst, 8/2008
Apex Systems, Edina, MN, a software development contractor to Qwest
Communications.
Made custom changes to a telephone billing system written in Microsoft
Office (Access, Word, and Excel). This application was used by Qwest
Communications to track phone billing for the Republican and Democratic
Conventions of that year.
Software Engineer, 10/2007 to 5/2008
Team US, contracting to Siemens Electronics
I designed, developed and tested new engineering code for Siemens Spectrum
real time electrical network control projects written in Oracle, C C++,
Fortran and other languages under Windows and UNIX. I developed changes to
the model that provided new features to train the operators that track
electrical power network problems.
Database Analyst, 6/2007 to 10/2007
NetGain Corporation, Carlsbad NM
Database design, programming, testing, and installation of Access software
used to track the progress of low level radioactive waste hauling vehicles
to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad NM. Tracking of waste
hauling vehicles as needed.
Technical Consultant, 03/2007-5/2007
Amba Solutions, Albuquerque NM
Managed the configuration of an Oracle Applications module for Sandia Labs,
including debugging, testing, and documentation of problems with the
module.
Software Engineer 3/2006-6/2006
TEK Systems, contracting to Genzyme Genetics, Santa Fe NM
Database support for the medical testing process. Development of Oracle
PL/SQL queries, Visual Basic code analysis, and software tracking projects
as required by Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA legal requirements.
Senior Programmer Analyst 2001-2005
Bechtel SAIC, Las Vegas, NV
Systems analysis, development and testing of user interfaces and code for
business and engineering projects written in Visual Basic, Lotus Notes,
Javascript/HTML, Ingres, SQL, C and other programming languages, for
Windows and VMS platforms certified under CMM Level 2.
Software Engineer 1991-2001
Intera, Albuquerque NM.
Designed and tested user interfaces and modeling code for a variety of
engineering and hydrology software projects written in Visual Basic and
Fortran.
Software Engineer 1985-1991
Martin Marietta Data Systems, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
DoD Secret clearance
Reports: C. K. Carniglia, K. N. Schrader, P. A. O'Connell, and S. R.
Tuenge, "Refractive index determination using an orthogonalized dispersion
equation," Appl. Opt. 28, 2902-
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-28-14-2902
Co-author, WinR User's Reference Manual, SNL, 1997.
Co-author, RAMP User's Reference Manual, SETEC 91-031, SNL, 1993.