Engineering Software Developer

Thomas Bassel

Phone: 919-***-**** *************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

A challenging contract where I can exercise my software engineering skills

PROFILE

Ten years of software engineering, development, support, and troubleshooting experience

Developed and supported more than 20 apps for iOS and Android

Developed monitoring and alerting software at IBM and Data General

Added features to existing codebases and repairing defective code

Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis for hardware and software problems

Experienced in writing technical specifications and explaining features

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Languages: Objective C, C/C++, Swift, Java, Python, SQL, HTML, Korn shell scripting

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, Sybase ASE, and Access

IDEs: Xcode, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Android Studio, VIM

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2011 – Present Independent Software Developer (DBA Portable Databases), Raleigh, NC

Designed and developed the Garden Tracker apps for the iPhone and iPad. Garden Tracker is one of the most popular gardening apps on the App Store and was featured in the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

Designed and developed the Antibiograms and Antimicrobial Guide apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. These apps were sponsored by prominent experts in microbiology.

September 2006 – October 2011 Credit-Suisse, RTP, NC

Led multiple releases of the Market Data Server, which was written in C++.

Organized code reviews and delivered code drops to the QA and production environments.

Enhanced and fixed the Event Driven Messaging server written in Java using WebLogic.

Analyzed and enhanced the Reference Data System’s perl, korn shell, and Java programs.

Designed and implemented scripts to purge obsolete pricing data from the database and to restore it if necessary.

Analyzed performance of user and application queries in order to upgrade the database.

Designed a SQL capture parser that utilized the Levenshtein algorithm for removing duplicate queries in a file.

Added support for indexes that had constituents with different currencies than the index.

Converted stored procedures to Sybase’s Transact-SQL.

Published tips on how to improve Sybase query performance to the team.

March 2006 – September 2006 Lowes (contract through PeopleSource Inc.) Wilkesboro, NC

Worked a contract at Lowes IT on their Receiving Discrepancies project in Store Systems

Enhanced a C++ application that handled receiving discrepancies

Refactored C code into C++ that tracked the on-hand quantity of items in a store

ACHIEVEMENTS

Hold Patent #6708297 Method and system for monitoring errors on field replaceable units

Certified in MySQL (MySQL.com, ID no. 207196544, public password: 'certified')

Received a publish from the IBM patent committee for the Remote POST Console.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

MSEE Georgia Institute of Technology GPA: 3.5

Bachelor of Engineering Vanderbilt University GPA: 3.76

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