Christopher Tacke
CHRISTOPHER TACKÉ
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HRISTOPHER TACKÉ, MCSD
Address: 34 East 7th Street, Frederick, MD 21701
Phone: (301) 228-3684
E-mail: ctacke@innovativedss.net
Education
Keller Graduate School of Management
Master of Project Management (MPM), June 1998
Emphasizing in information systems technology.
University of Montana
Bachelor of Arts, Geology, May 1996
Experience
Innovative Decision Support Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Founder, President, November 1999 – present
Founded software development company. Released to open market off-the-shelf software package as well as site and customer specific consulting services.
QueTel Corp., Herndon, VA
Software Developer, April 1999 – present
Writing Visual Basic 6 enterprise and professional applications and Active-X components with DCOM, MTS, SQL Server 7, etc. Cradle to grave experience in software development life cycle.
Vibra-Tech Engineers, Inc., Frederick, MD
Area Manager, May 1998 – April 1999
Brought largest money-losing office (exceeding $100,000 per year loss) in national corporation to break-even in 12 months. Created and implemented new marketing new business strategies. Introduced new operational standards and sought new market entries. Wrote software application that is currently used company wide.
Vibra-Tech Engineers, Inc., Glen Ellyn, IL
Geologic Field Technician, June 1996 – May 1998.
Performed seismic monitoring for geophysical petroleum exploration projects, blasting, pile driving, caisson drilling and other construction. Performed data analysis with custom written software.
U.S. Army, Wildflecken, Germany
HAWK Missile Launcher Crewman, June 1989 - December 1991
Helped Maintain readiness of a HAWK anti-aircraft missile battery along the German border. Honorably discharged.
Projects
Designed and wrote VibRegress 1.0 and 2.0. Custom enterprise application that allows entry of quarry and mine blasting information. Provides statistical analysis of data, charts and graphs of state and federal compliance levels and does modeling and prediction from known data.
Designed and wrote Quarry Toolkit 2000. Desktop application that provides the user ability to estimate blast vibration levels, calculate distances based on GPS data, calculate stockpile mass and volume, estimate fragmentation and track blasting costs.
Designed and wrote custom enterprise application for a medical manufacturer that tracks the production of blood oxygenators. The application ensures that all time requirements between stages are met, plus interfaces with production equipment through multiple Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). All data is stored in a SQL Server 7 database.
Designed and wrote a custom enterprise application for a national computer service company that tracks RMAs and work performed on all machines.
On a development team for a custom enterprise application for a large metropolitan police department that tracks and maintains all evidence in the police evidence room.
On a development team developing a off the shelf professional application that will allow police evidence rooms to track and maintain all evidence.
Skills
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. Emphasis on Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL Server.
Expert knowledge of Visual Basic and its use of DCOM, MTS, ADO and Active-X.
Member number:5272
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