REVISION DATE:

-FEB-**

NAME: Michelle Dombrowski

ADDRESS:

**** ** ******** ** ****: PORTLAND STATE: OR ZIP: 97212 PHONE: 503-***-**** EMAIL: abptv6@r.postjobfree.com US Citizen

RESUME:

EXPERIENCE

Consultant

Portland, Oregon 2/2001Present

X Various (extended) travel which included Europe under which recently returned.

X US Forest Service Pacific NW Research Center Volunteer Forest Inventory and

Analysis; Use of Laser and Husky; calculate and enter tree height, age,

diameter, transect calculations, and aerial photography interpretation.

X Consultant services which include web page advice, design, and

development. Process improvement of business projects and process.

Everest Consultants

(Tranxition Inc.) Beaverton, Oregon 6/200001/2001Project Manager/Senior Software Engineer

X Project and Team Manager for the Internet group which involved setting

and implementing documentation standards according to IEEE format, Setting up

templates for the SDLC and QA documentation with detailed explanations for each

section within the documents, Writing detailed project plans which included

Executive and Project member sign-off, Creating in-depth and general project

schedules utilizing MS Project and other documentum, Risk analysis, Allocating

resources and tasks, Keeping the schedule up-to-date on a daily basis, Progress

monitoring, Setting up relationships and facilitating meetings with potential

clients such as Intel and MS Solution Providers, Negotiating contracts and fees

according to budget, technical, and business needs, Interviewing potential

consultants, PR (public relations) person for the team to be the communicator

from tech talk to English with Marketing, QA, Operations, and Executives.

X Business Analyst - analyzed MRD (requirements), Wrote and reviewed

Engineering Requirements, Functional Specifications, Design Specifications and

models, Production Modules, product justification documents, and gave chalk

talks regarding various technologies.

X QA Life Cycle - defect cycling, defect review, high risk/low risk,

priority, defer, test plan review, defect software to log and manage defects,

QA lab where each QA Engineer was equipped with 8 workstations.

X Engineered (at a higher level) and managed a dynamically configurable n-

tier web construction kit reducing development time for many tasks from months

to days or hours. The kit configured personalized web page forms and database

entries using Self Describing Data Objects. These were created on the fly

from user requests and incorporated XML, XSLT, SOAP, n-tier Visual Basic

source, generated SQL, XHTML, ASP, VB Script, and JavaScript. It dynamically

connected business rules to Microsoft Exchange 2000 through CDO, E-Commerce

servers, SQL Server 2000, Commerce Server and other COM+ components on Windows

2000 (Active Directory). It provided scalable and user configurable E-commerce

solutions in Internet-development-time periods. Wrote and deployed web-based

internal tech support application in a manner of days using our rapid

development technology. Windows 2000 security set up user groups, accounts,

and security levels for each, and IIS Administration.

X SQL Server DBA successfully migrated database from old

database/server to new server utilizing DTS. While still in production, any

changes made to old database were carried over utilizing Replication.

Experimented with Snapshot, Transactional (queued, scheduled, and

transactional). Set up user accounts and security levels. Some Oracle

research.

X Reason for leaving - Company ran out of venture capital.

Gaia Inc

. Portland, Oregon 10/19995/2000Intranet Project Lead/Software Engineer

X Project Management, Analysis, Design (UML), Coding, Code reviews,

Documentation (SDLC), and interviewing potential candidates for open positions.

X Implementation and engineering of retail and web commerce client

registry applications, including browser-based interfaces for database queries

and updates, middle-tier, and web administration for clients, such as, Estee

Lauder and Tommy Hilfiger (Branding). Web/system administrator (security

IIS 5.0, Windows 2000, Active Directory) of Gaia Intranet - complete Systems

Development Life Cycle.

X Working knowledge of Microsoft technologies, including XSL, IIS 5.0,

ASP, HTML, COM, Visual InterDev, Visual Basic, VBScript, Active Directory,

Visual SourceSafe, SQL Server, and Windows 2000. In addition, exposure to

Windows CE, n-tier/business object architectures, XML, DHTML, MTS, JavaScript,

and Windows 2000 Administrative tools.

X Interviewing potential candidates for open positions.

X Reason for leaving - Company ran out of venture capital funds.

Stockamp & Associates, Inc

. Lake Oswego, Oregon 11/1998 - 8/1999Project Lead/Software Engineer

X Project Lead for Professional Billing Environment software

implementation for physicians at the University of California, Davis for a team

of ~ 15 individuals. Involved in complete Software Development Life Cycle

process which included defining and utilizing specifications, analysis, use

cases, design (UML), user-interface design, data modeling, development, code

reviews, complete project scheduling and test scheduling; Progress Reporting

daily and weekly status reported to me, Facilitator of project meetings,

Setting up templates for the SDLC and QA documentation with detailed

explanations for each section within the documents, Implementation of the

product created with Visual Basic and MS Access with a SQL Server 7.0 database

at the client site.

X SQL Server DBA DTS, stress testing, high transaction capacity to

handle one million transactions per day; Responsible for Tools and Technology

Assessment for Development group, Implementing standards for Software

Development and QA process; Y2K remediation and testing which included complete

documentation of procedures and policies, Creating product builds for release

to specific client sites, Administration of Visual SourceSafe, Existing product

maintenance and bug fixes, Creation of Reports with MS Access and Visual Basic,

Creation of three-tier application in Visual Basic which utilized ADO, COM, and

Data Designer - Data Environment and Data Reporting.

X QA Life Cycle Initial QA Lead, defect cycling, defect review, high

risk/low risk, priority, defer, test plan review, administration and

utilization and of PVCS Tracker defect software to log and manage defects.

X Interviewing potential candidates for open positions.

X Reason for leaving - Limited potential for career growth.

First DataBank, The Hearst Corporation

Portland, Oregon 4/1997 - 12/1998Project Manager, Software Engineer, Software QA Engineer

X Project Management of several projects, member of Software Development

Process Committee, Writing new product proposals, Communicating with customers,

development, knowledge-based engineers, QA, marketing, physicians, and

pharmacists regarding various project related issues; Product Release

Management QA, From the ground up, driving and implementing standards for

Software Development and QA process all of which included complete

documentation, Analysis, Version control standards; Writing, reviewing, and

editing of technical manuals to be sent to clients; QA lab maintenance, Monthly

SOA (Software Association of Oregon), QA and Development SIG meetings,

Interviewing potential candidates on a regular basis, Supervision and hiring of

Interns and less experienced staff, Performance reviews.

X Creating and maintaining company intranet for R&D; Utilizing and

administering, defect tracking software, SQA, to log and manage defects

(queries, reporting, etc.); Developing user-interface software and test

harnesses in Visual Basic (some C++) for medical API and Pharmaceutical

software, including ActiveX, COM, and web development, functionality

(positive/negative), thread safety, critical path, error, stress testing, Year

2000 compliance, in multi-platform operating systems which included Windows NT,

Windows 95/98, and UNIX.X Interviewing potential candidates on a regular

basis, Supervision and hiring of Interns and less experienced staff,

Performance reviews.

X Reason for leaving - Companyrelocated R&D operations to Indiana (was

offered to stay on as an employee).

Dow Chemical

(Contractor) Midland, Michigan 9/1996 - 3/1997

Software Developer

X Visual Basic development for controlling mainframe emulation software

to measure mainframe application response times and availability for end-user

measurements for a global environment (specifically Germany, France, Japan, and

Australia).

X Communicating with international sites/employees during the development

process, Verifying software with program code, Code reviews, Software QA,

Modeling, and complete documentation on a global project team.

X Reason for leaving - Project ended and relocated to Oregon for a new

job opportunity.

Dow Corning CorporationDepartments

: Environmental Services Regulatory Division,

Employee Assessment and Training

Midland, Michigan 12/1992 -

6/1996

Technical Intern

(avg. 30hrs/week)

X Created company-wide employee training tracking system in VBA for

corporate headquarters for compliance with OSHA included interviewing

employees, capturing all tasks, tools, skills needed, and training required for

each job in accordance with OSHA regulations, ISO 9001 - Records retention and

compliance, back-up administrator, and training on subject manner.

X Project coordination and management on large teams, Project budgeting,

Training of employees - each new employee underwent a rigorous 9 week training

process in compliance with OSHA and corporate standards, Emergency Response

training and coordination, HAZMAT training, Disaster Recovery, Manifest

Administrator for Environmental Services Regulatory Division, Regulatory

compliance which included hazardous waste tracking, Air Quality reporting,

Communication with the DEQ, EPA, and waste disposal companies on a weekly

basis, and General safety inspections.

X Designing custom computer applications in Microsoft Access and Visual

Basic for Excel, General programming in SQL and Xedit within a VMS environment,

and Purchasing of computer equipment.

X Supervision and hiring of Interns and Contract employees.

X Reason for leaving - Employment limit of four years.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan

BS,

Earth and Resource Science

Major: Resource Planning

GPA: 3.14/4.0

Great Lakes College

Major: Computer Programming, Information Technology

GPA: 3.74/4.0

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Key Skills: Windows 2000 Professional and Server, MS Project, Several years

of Project and Lead experience, Software Development Process and Life Cycle

(SDLC), Setting and implementing standards for Software Development and QA

process, Corporate training, Technical generalist, ISO, OSHA, Global

communication, Analytical, Ability to multitask, Assertive, and Experience in

small and large global organizations.

X IIS 5.0, MS Administrative Tools, SQL Server 2000 (replication), MS

SDK, Visual Basic 6.0, MS InterDev, ASP, HTML, XML, Visual SourceSafe, PVCS,

and exposure to MS Commerce Server, Active Directory Services, MSMQ, GIS,

ARC/Info, Oracle, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Java, and C++.

TRAINING AND HONORS

Professional Training: SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic 6.0 (three courses),

Crystal Reports, C++, Java, Microsoft .NET Conference, VBITS 99, Pacific

Northwest Software Quality Conference, Gave demonstration for Visual Basic

Object Oriented class regarding the Data Designer and ADO.

Honors: University of Michigan Scholastic Achievement Awards, Nominated for

Student of the Term, Dow Corning Employee Recognition Awards, and IEEE Computer

Society member.

SUMMARY Enjoy the technology aspect of the industry, thrive on people

interaction, making a difference, diversity, a global environment, researching

technologies, analysis, making decisions based on research and learning the

technologies, setting direction, leading and pulling the team(s) together,

setting schedules, implementing and driving processes (Software Development,

QA, etc.), being a mentor, working with other teams and outside clients, being

a liaison between engineering and marketing, sales, management, etc, and also

being involved, hands-on.

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