Experience

True North Chartering LLC

• United States
• Maritime Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technologist

  • Jun 2009 - Present

  Charles Strand joined TNC in 2009 to develop and maintain proprietary ship broker applications, while overseeing all aspects of technology at the company. Designed and developed the in-house application called ShipBroker. This application aids the brokers in tracking where ships are positioned and be able to use that information to broker deals between ship owners and oil companies. This application is written utilizing C#/.NET, Winforms and PostgreSQL.Developed a RESTful app utilizing Nodejs, Javascript and Postgresql, to access data on website or mobile.Developed a javascript app, utilizing Nodejs to access a port distance service, which is utilized by the RESTful application.



Interdealer Information Technologies

• Senior Programmer

  • May 2008 - Jun 2009

  Served as a Sr. Programmer for a credit derivatives software company on Wall Street, maintaining and developing the trading software for inter-dealer brokers in the CDS market.Designed and developed an interface between the companies application and Excel. This interface updated an Excel spreadsheet with realtime data from the application. Served as a Sr. Programmer for a credit derivatives software company on Wall Street, maintaining and developing the trading software for inter-dealer brokers in the CDS market.Designed and developed an interface between the companies application and Excel. This interface updated an Excel spreadsheet with realtime data from the application.



Direct Media

• Developer

  • May 2002 - May 2008

  Designed and developed internal applications to support List Management and List Brokerage.Designed and developed a web application to search for managed lists. Designed and developed internal applications to support List Management and List Brokerage.Designed and developed a web application to search for managed lists.



D+H U.S. Operation - now part of D+H

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Dec 2001

  Development on Mortgage Servicing Application. Development on Mortgage Servicing Application.



Response Networks

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 1998 - Jan 2001

  Developer on Response Networks, service level agreement (SLA) technology application Developer on Response Networks, service level agreement (SLA) technology application



Data Consultants Corp

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Developer

  • Aug 1994 - Sep 1998