BOB SCHAEFER

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Career Summary

Software Engineer with over 20 years experience in software development on Windows, Unix and VMS systems, including embedded real-time systems and Pocket PC devices. Versatile individual with ability to work on large or small projects and interact with both technical staff and users. Is a motivated problem solver that enjoys the challenge of solving the impossible problems.

Expertise and skills:

Application Development

Documentation / User Training

Communication Skills

Comfortable working with very large data sets

Project Management

Organization Skills

Team Management

Data mining for trends and anomalies

Languages and Software

Languages

C, C#, Java, SQL, ASP.NET

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux

Databases

MS-SQL Server 2008-2012

Web Skills

HTML, ASP.NET, WCF

Professional Experience

Aclara, Solon, OH

2005 to present

Leading company in the automatic meter reading and automatic metering infrastructure industry serving the gas, water and electric utility industries.

Principal Software Engineer

Oversee project status and make sure the project is delivered on time and up to company standards.

Develop enhancements to the existing product line and fix bugs.

Develop new features to support new product lines.

Mentor newer employees to make sure they develop to company standards and help them to understand the product.

Manager Software Development

Managed a group of up to 5 developers.

Managed project time-lines and assignments for critical releases to the customer

Insured product was delivered on time and operating correctly

Advised on new features and enhancements.

Managed portions of the largest automatic metering infrastructure project deployed to date in the world, with a final total of approximately 12 million endpoints.

Acted as a technical adviser on a multitude of projects with specialized knowledge of many parts of the overall system architecture.

Senior Software Engineer

Developed enhancements to the existing web interface using a variety of technologies including ASP.NET and MVC methodologies

This included maintenance of existing applications, in addition to development of new applications.

Developed web services to facilitate data transfer between third party applications and the Aclara system.

This used primarily WCF technologies and was written C#.

Maintained applications across the entire software suite including GUI applications, system services, command-line applications, web site and web services.

Projects are maintained in TFS.

Worked with MS SQL Server for database back-end.

Most applications within the project were written in C#.

Aided customer support with troubleshooting and solving problems on customer systems.

Designed and developed new generation of hand-held interface software to configure embedded devices.

Application was written in C# and .NET Compact Framework 1.1.

Communication with device was done over serial link using custom protocols.

Application had to be fault tolerant to be able to recover smoothly from power being turned off in the middle of transfers, protocol errors, and full battery failures.

PROQUEST BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, Richfield, OH

1997 to 2005

Leading $470 million software development, publishing, and services company serving the Automotive, Powersports, Education, and Construction Equipment markets.

Senior Software Engineer

Worked in the Automotive Electronic Parts Catalog division, designing both the retrieval application used in the market and the processing routines used in-house to create the databases for the parts retrieval application.

Developed VIN retrieval system for Toyota cars and trucks, allowing the end-user to quickly access correct part information resulting in increased parts sales.

Database was custom in-house database and retrieval was done using C.

Designed database that the 24+ million VINs could be stored on less than 1 CD.

Created Suzuki Automotive product for world-wide distribution resulting in over 1,000 sales to Suzuki dealerships world-wide.

Back-end database was custom in-house database and retrieval was done using C.

Modified existing retrieval application to handle new data sets.

Developed training program for end-users and implemented training.

Led project to re-design Suzuki processing routines

Wrote the functional specification, including the technical assessment.

Project was re-written to take advantage of Java and to improve process flow.

Developed training program for the end-users.

Created better methods for user entry of needed information.

Written in Java with heavy use of Object-Oriented Methodologies.

Designed to be easily extended to numerous applications, as a client-server application, and to present data to user in a more meaningful way rather than one data row at a time.

Led project development of the Hino Trucks application.

The application was written in C# .net

Maintained project’s schedule, ensuring time line was met as scheduled.

Modified existing application to fit the new navigation methods and additional information in the data set.

Devised methods of increasing functionality to allow better parts selection reducing errors when ordering parts.

Worked on project to port Suzuki World Wide product to C# .net.

Devised improved method of reducing number of parts displayed as users select vehicles.

Involved mining the data for better ways of implementing filters to reduce the data-set.

Created improved VIN retrieval system allowing user easier access to the information.

Back-end database used Transbase with communications to database using ODBC and SQL commands to retrieve information.

DATACORP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, Cleveland, OH

1994 to 1997

Leading provider of solutions and services in customer and employees feedback management industry.

Software Engineer (Contractor)

Developed bridge application enabling old and new reservation system to communicate. Application was developed using VB with ODBC connections to remote databases.

Updated Insurance Quoting systems for Progressive Insurance. Systems were written in C.

LUBRIZOL CORPORATION, Cleveland, OH

1992 to 1994

Leading global producer and marketer of technologically advanced chemicals and specialty materials for the transportation, consumer, and industrial market.

College Co-Op (Contractor)

Maintained real-time data acquisition and control.

Systems were written in Fortran and running on PDP-11 systems.

Ensured test stands did not exceed down-time limits during testing runs.

Co-developed next generation data acquisition and control system.

Back-end, data acquisition portion running on VME system running VAXeln on an embedded VAX system.

Back-end was written in Pascal.

Front-end GUI was written in C, on VAX station using X-windows and Motif.

Displayed real-time values from data-acquisition system on the GUI front end.

Developed strip-corder application for engineers and technicians easier viewing of system functionality over time.

EDUCATION

BS, Computer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 1994

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