Sales Engineer

Résumé

Résumé

Scott Ribe

**********@***********.***

Education

S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology, 1985.

Summary23 years full-time experience as a degreed software engineer.

28 years direct, productive work with customers and end users.

Effective solutions delivered on many platforms using many

languages and tools.

Expertise

C/C++ design and programming, PostgreSQL, Sybase SQL Server, Macintosh

application development, Windows database application development, Visual BASIC DLL development, database

design and implementation, cross-platform database engine

development, full-text indexing and searching, 4th Dimension

programming and extensions development. I also have a section that gives I've done. (Although I've been too busy with work to update this in the past 2 years; so some of my most interesting & exciting work is not yet described here.)

Experience

1990-present Consulting Software Engineer Self-Employed

Implemented software including custom and commercial, full

applications and libraries:

Macintosh Classic OS client in C++, to a Java 2 server via a bridge I designed to provide "natural" access to Java objects and methods from C++ via JNI.

Simple Macintosh bi-plane cineangiogram viewer.

Cross-platform core web server and application server libraries for

web-enabling database applications.

Cross-platform utilities for monitoring thousands of web pages and

FTP directories for new and modified files.

Windows client/server application to manage granting of CME

credits.

Customized Macintosh-based WWW server to provide radio paging

via the Internet.

16-bit Windows DLL database engine with full-text search for

Visual BASIC.

Macintosh application to manage reviews of medical literature,

with full-text search.

Macintosh multi-user application to automate the collection of

reviews of medical literature and their processing into print and

electronic formats.

Macintosh applications for sales planning and forecasting for

the national accounts team of a Fortune 500 company.

Macintosh multi-user application for patient scheduling, and

management of medical transcriptions and patient records.

Macintosh multi-user application to support purchase,

inventory and sale of reclaimed metals.

Macintosh multi-user purchasing application for a university

bookstore.

Macintosh grammar reference desk accessory for a publisher of

college textbooks.

Macintosh application to support personalized mass mailing for

fund raising.

Macintosh application to track experience of ophthalmology

residents and produce accreditation reports.

Macintosh multi-user application for patient tracking in a

small emergency room.

Several developer tools for 4th Dimension, both Macintosh and

32-bit Windows.

1999-2000 Senior Application Engineer MIQS, Inc.

One of a team of 3 senior software developers working on an innovative product in the medical informatics market. Our product's quality and functionality seriously beat competitors with orders of magnitude more staff and funding, but in the end market and management problems prevailed. I had the standard list of responsibilities: fixing old code, designing and implementing new modules, working to develop technology strategy for the future.

1988-1990 System Analyst National Bank of Commerce

Analyzed data processing needs; evaluated available software;

designed, budgeted and installed a small network connecting PCs,

remote printers, and mainframes; developed software including:

multi-threaded spool redirector to provide remote printing services

under OS/2; Macintosh application to track activity of asset-based

credit lines; HyperCard XFCN to implement complete Regulation Z APR

calculations.

1985-1988 Marketing Software Specialist Rise Technology, Inc.

In high-tech startup company creating integrated

imaging/publishing systems, worked closely with customer service,

sales, engineers, prospects and customers. Software projects focused

on communications, networking, data translation, and a small amount

of image processing.

1981-1985 Freelance Programmer &

Retail Sales and Support Various

Retail sales, customer support and training, technical

problem solving. Developed applications for: production of physical

therapy schedules; tracking of pacemaker recipients and income from

heart-lab services; sales tracking for a beverage distributor;

tracking and prediction of gasoline sales and purchases; graphic aid

for the design of precision-fabricated sheet-metal products; data

conversion and communication.

© 1996-2012 Scott Ribe.

© 1996-2012 Scott Ribe.

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