• Using TC2000 I developed several technical analysis strategies to improve swing trading profitability in stock trading, with the goal of a one percent profit per day.
• Analysis, design and development of a personal accounting system using Excel, macros and VBA.
• Analysis, design and development of an Excel modeling tool for cash flow of a startup business using macros and VBA.
• Database application development of a dynamic scheduling algorithm for use in a job shop where scheduling involves mating manpower and machines in a specific sequence, using ORACLE, SQL *Plus and PL/SQL stored procedures developing use cases, process and data models and generating data to prove the model
• Data mining applicatin development using relational and dimensional(star) modeling, mining at levels ranging from SKU to various departments. Using Oracle, SQL *Plus and PL/SQL, developing stored procedures to optimize matching SKUs and track higher level dimensions.
• Data modeling and development of several desktop databases using Access as baselines for project bidding
• Market research, concept and prototype development of a remotely controlled consumer product employing the stage-gate process. Design tools included Corel Draw and TurboCAD.
• Concept and product development and marketing research of a mechanical hand tool utilizing the stage-gate process, surveys and focus groups. Design tools included Corel Draw and TurboCAD.
• Requirements gathering, data modeling and design for a pension planning database driven web application employing Visio, Rational Rose, SQL Server, UML and XML. I designed a process, a concept of operation and web forms for web users to log in to the company website, update their company data in the online database and generate planning schedules using a proprietary Excel spreadsheet.

Sprint PCS (Wireless Telecomm) Overland Park KS 6/00-12/00 Contract Business Analyst
As a member of a requirements team, gathering requirements and data modeling for the data warehouse department of IT, building data marts for internal organizations. The specific tasks included meeting with end users and IT managers to develop data warehouse reporting requirements, data mapping, writing of requirements documents using Excel, Word, and VISIO, and discussions with developers and data systems personnel to determine schedules and design feasibility, and obtaining user signoffs. Systems involved were UNIX servers, ORACLE, SQL *Plus, NT Network, and Windows 95 PCs.

Summit Information Systems (Financial) Corvallis OR 2000 Contract Programmer/Analyst
I was a member of a team debugging and making enhancements to all aspects of a 3 tier financial software package for loan origination and teller functions for credit unions using Visual Basic.

Varco-Pruden (Manufacturing) Memphis TN 1998-99 Contract Programmer
Conversion of a Unix/Oracle/SQL Forms based production control system to Windows NT/Oracle/Visual Basic. I designed & modified 50 programs using Sheridan and Apex add-ins with RDOs and ODBC, converting SQL queries and designing GUIs to maintain a consistent look and feel across all programs, while using SQL *Plus to create and maintain test data.

Software Innovators Inc. (Consulting) Little Rock AR 1998 Contract Project Coordinator
Tracking the progress of 10 programmers performing Y2K remediation on 500 programs for a health insurance company. Using MS Project consolidating projects & exporting data to Excel for graphics generation in reports to client

Marasys Inc. (Consulting) Coeur d'Alene ID 1/97-3/98 Product Developer
As Product Developer, I gathered requirements from potential end users, and using Visual Basic and Access I developed a prototype scheduling package for non-profit organizations gathering requirements from use cases, performing OO design (DFD, ERD), GUI design, process and data modeling with Erwin(IDEF0, IDEF1).

Semitool Inc.(Semiconductor Equipment) Kalispell MT 1995-1996 Software Engineer
Responsible for the development and worldwide installation and maintenance of software for the company's products at major semiconductor companies, reducing their costs. Responsibilities included systems integration, integration testing and stress testing of furnace software with client-server systems and products. Position involved extensive travel to customer sites, working with other customers and other vendors.

Marasys Inc. (Software) Los Gatos CA, Coeur d'Alene ID 1990-95 Product Manager
I founded the company to develop and publish Colorcube, an OLAP data visualization tool using color to highlight data, useful to quickly analyze data. As Founder and Product Manager I performed the following functions:

United Technologies (Aerospace) San Jose CA 1988-1989 Contract DBA
Developing and maintaining networked relational databases using Revelation and Advanced Revelation (SQL) for the QA department. Designing and developing a workflow management system using Advanced Revelation, re-engineering the process model and data modeling for the redesigned database while installing and maintaining Novell Netware.