Design Development

Bruce Parrello, Ph.D.

abqbcj@r.postjobfree.com

U.S. Citizen located in Schaumburg, IL.

A proven problem-solver with 35 years of experience.

A fast learner proficient in over a dozen programming languages.

Comfortable with large and small projects in large and small companies.

Desired Compensation: $75/hr contractor; $130,000/yr employee.

OBJECTIVE

My recent experience has been in Smartphone (Android), Microsoft Access, and Web development (PHP, Perl, JavaScript). I also have extensive experience in database design. Even on projects where no formal database tool is used, a structured Entity-Relationship model using my techniques can help clarify countless development issues. I am not a visionary who will tell you what the world will be like in ten years, but if you know what you want done, I'm the guy to figure out how to do it.

SKILL SUMMARY

Skill

Last Used

Experience

BAL

14 years ago

11 years

C++/C#

4 years ago

13 years

COBOL

15 years ago

6 years

COM

5 years ago

9 years

Delphi

6 years ago

4 years

Java

Current

3 years

JavaScript

Current

9 years

JCL (IBM OS)

15 years ago

11 years

Microsoft Access

Current

13 years

Microsoft Word

Current

14 years

MySQL

Current

7 years

Shockwave Flash

Current

8 years

SQL Server

5 years ago

9 years

HTML

Current

12 years

Visual Studio .NET

3 years ago

4 years

PHP/Perl

Current

7 years

Visual Basic

Current

12 years

XML

Current

6 years

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

banking, finance, manufacturing, publishing, accounting, public relations, insurance, bio-informatics, software development

Experience

2/2003 – present: Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, IL

Senior Developer: Participated in the design, database design, and development of a system for analyzing and formalizing up the identification of genome features (including individual genes, pathogenicity islands, and annotations). Developed a configurable database management language based on XML. Developed a code generation tool for database queries. Assisted in the development of a server system for processing remote database queries. Participated in the design and development of an database for integrating genomic information from multiple laboratories.

11/2003 – 6/2004: Terra Firma Technologies, Chicago, IL

Senior Developer (part time): Designed an developed an archiving and information management product using Windows.NET.

8/1994 - 2/2003: Real World Technology, Mt. Prospect, IL

Senior Programmer/Analyst: Designed and developed the core services component and primary user application of a client/server manufacturing execution system. The core services component was a COM server written in C++ that communicated with the database using ODBC. The primary user application was a Visual Basic COM client with embedded VBA. The database used was SQL server. (NOTE: In 2002 RWT was acquired by Divine, inc. and I continued to work there as a Divine employee.)

8/1991 - 2/1994: Vertigo Development Corporation. Boston, MA

Consultant: Participated in the design and development of an interactive book engine designed for topics in money management and finance. I was the primary designer for the project; in addition I developed the underlying data storage engine and the internal spreadsheet engine. Development was in C++ for Windows.

1/1984 - 8/1991: Artificial Intelligence Associates, Boston, MA

Consultant: Developed the engine for what would become the Lotus 1-2-3 Solver. The Solver included both symbolic and numerical components. In other words, the engine not only crunched numbers, but also parsed and manipulated algebraic equations. The work was performed in C for OS/2, Windows, and DOS.

5/1979 - 12/1983: Software Architects, Chicago, IL

Consultant: Worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies in application database design and design and development of systems programs for IBM mainframes. Worked with MVS, DOS/VSE, and SVS. Used IMS and CICS. Programmed in PL/I, COBOL, and BAL. Developed applications in trust accounting, computer usage tracking, and data collection, among others.

1/1979 - 5/1979 Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL

Instructor: Taught Data Structures at the undergraduate level and Data Base Design at the graduate level.

1/1978 - 12/1978 CNA Insurance, Chicago, IL

Senior Programmer: Assisted in the development of a system to manage CNA's tape and disk files. My primary responsibility involved customizing the MVS JCL converter. The work was performed in BAL.

ReferencesPhil Spokas, Real World Technology, 630-***-****, abqbcj@r.postjobfree.com Ross Overbeek, Fellowship for Integration of Genomes, 630-***-****

Degrees1989 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL1977 M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL1975 B.S. in Math and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

PapersDatabase design: A practical design methodology for the implementation of IMS databases, using the entity-relationship model (with Ewing L. Lusk and Ross A. Overbeek), May 1980, Proceedings of the 1980 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of dataThe design of entity-relationship models for general ledger systems (with Ross Overbeek and Ewing L. Lusk), April 1985, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 1 Issue 2 Job-Shop Scheduling Using Automated Reasoning: A Case Study of the Car-Sequencing Problem (with Waldo Kabat and Larry Wos), 1986, Journal of Automated Reasoning, Volume 2 Issue 1 Car wars: The (almost) birth of an expert system, January 1988, AI Expert, Volume 3 Issue 1 The Theory and Practice of DataPerfect, WordPerfect Publishing, 1988

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