RESUME

Mark Brown

**** *. ****** ****

Boise, Idaho 83704

208-***-****

adtgmf@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Employment as a senior engineer, software engineer, programmer, technician or manager in a computing, technical or related field, commensurate with my experience and abilities.

Skills and Qualifications

Applications Engineer (Hardware/Software and Programming)

I discuss with the customer his process control requirements, then make a plan and design using his input and my expertise, building a prototype solution employing needed sensors, testing the you-know-what out of it, installing the hardware in the industrial setting, programming a software interface, making sure it meets the specs and satisfies the customer.

Often, I gather a team to advise me and offer feedback on my practices and to serve as quality control.

I create customer relationships, often starting with a cold call. I keep the customer informed and satisfied through a close association.

Customer service is key to the success of the project.

I design, code and implement apps in C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, HTML/CSS, 6502/68000 assembly language and I supply programming code for various PLCs and ASICs. I use my experience with Fortran and COBOL once in a while also!

I program OS control applications in C++ for Linux, OpenBSD and UNIX and I use scripts to make a flawless turn-key system. Again, customers are happy campers.

I believe that Agile Software team concepts and Scrum meetups with buddy check-ins are a huge help in delivering quality, effective software to the customer. A cohesive, goal driven team makes the process go smoothly.

I make custom networked process control systems to the customer’s specs and I prototype, build, and test them. I often draft PCB designs. I then create the layout, and test and prototype hardware solutions to complete the order. I even mill and drill the PC boards myself.

To tie it all together and to permit the customer to set parameters, levels and watch points, I design a custom website, both front and back end, and implement them using Java web services/resources and also Linux C++ OS programming as needed.

I supervise employees and their technical work in addition to inventory control and warehouse management duties.

Education, 1970 to 1982

Marymount Military Academy, Tacoma, Washington, September 1970 to May 1974. GPA 3.60.

Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon. August 1974 to January 1978. GPA 3.65, 92th percentile.

University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. January 1978 to May 1982. Majored in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science). Accumulated GPA 3.55, 90th percentile.

Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho. Summer sessions 1981 and 1982. Focus on Mathematics and Economics. GPA 4.0.

Certifications

SCRUM Team Leader Workshop Diploma, SoftTrends, January 2022.

AGILE Software and Team Concepts Certificate, CertiSoft, December 2021.

Microsoft A++ Certificate, CertiSoft, January 2016.

Dreamweaver Web Designer Certificate, CertiSoft, August 2016.

C and C++ Programming Courses, Bjorn Stroustroup, April 2016.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certificate, CertiSoft, December 2015.

Java 6 Programming Certification, Oracle University, February 2015. Continuing education in this field.

Journeyman’s (electrician) card current, member IBEW local 291.

Military Service, 1982 to 2003

US Marine Corps (active duty), August 1982 to December 1991. Reserved status December 1991 to January 2003.

Badge of Military Merit awarded, December 1985.

Honorably discharged from active duty as a Captain (O-3), December 1991. Retired from the Marine Corps Reserve, January 2003.

Civilian Employment

Current Employment, April 2020 to present, 2 years and 6 months

KimCo Design & Manufacture, Boise, Idaho. Senior Hardware/Software Technician.

I, as the senior team member, design, prototype, assemble, test and repair electronic circuit boards, hardware interconnect modules and help create the associated software. I employ strict quality control testing and I monitor the job before deployment to the customer.

I directly supervise 12 employees and have inventory control, warehouse and shipping management, quality assurance oversight. I am currently employed at KimCo.

Past Employment, December 1991 to April 2020, 28 years and 4 months

Applied Process Controls, Boise, Idaho. Senior Applications Engineer.

Programmer, and sales duties. Warehouse management. Inventory management.

I was involved in all areas of the business from sales and customer contact to programming and installing process controls.

My hardware and software experience included prototyping for internet/network data acquisition and industrial process control in all aspects.

I programmed many different controllers and microprocessors in several languages. I used focused web resources/services to deploy apps and employed PLC and microprocessor based embedded systems for sensor polling and data fault logging.

From 1994 onwards, I continually prodded the business into utilizing the internet and the web to deliver solutions to

customers and to maximize our company’s social exposure. My hew and cry only increased with the advent of the smartphone.

In March 2020, the owner of Applied Process Controls decided to close the business. He is currently communing with the flora and fauna of the forests in western Washington State.

Past Employment, summer jobs during college

Summer 1978, 1979 and 1980. Commerce Bank, Kansas City, Missouri. Computer operator.

I ran a Burroughs mainframe computer system controlling a 50-bin check sorting and processing machine. I had duties attending to the disk storage packs, line printer and tape drives as well as the computer itself.

Summer 1981 and 1982. This job was a paid internship. Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.

I was the computer resource officer at the college's research library in charge of maintenance and operation of a Digital PDP-11 minicomputer distributed system running P/OS and Unix as operating systems. I used UNIX and an early version of the C programming language, pre-ANSI C, extensively.

Societies

Academic: The Classical Society, 1981

The American Mathematical Association, 1982

Professional: IEEE, 1982

Member IBEW local 291, 2020

Personal and professional reference contact information, work product and source code samples are available upon request.

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