Experience

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  State of Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Division

  • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

  • Environmental Protection Specialist

    • Oct 2010 - Present
    • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

    Inspect water treatment facilities for health and regulatory compliance. Developed the software tools, utilizing VBA and Excel Add-In, used by State of Colorado regulatory inspectors to perform Sanitary Surveys of drinking water treatment facilities and Compliance Enforcement Inspections of domestic and industrial waste water treatment plants. These tools improve accuracy of data, increases productivity, and massively reduce overhead. Licensed water treatment, wastewater treatment, collections systems, distribution systems operator.

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  City of Montrose

  • Montrose, CO

  • Public Improvements Inspector

    • Jan 2005 - Oct 2010
    • Montrose, CO

    Inspect, verify, and approve improvements or additions to the infrastructure made by contractors or city personnel prior to acceptance by the City of Montrose. Resource for construction code verification by contractors and public. Utilize Caselle for reporting purposes for management and process improvements. Utilize and improve T2 Technologies G2 Automated Meter Reading software integrating with Metron-Farnier water meters. Re-work, improve efficiency and effectiveness of automated meter reading system including re-mapping of meter reading routes (utilizing ESRI ArcGIS), testing and replacing meter radio hardware. Maintain and improve water distribution system and sanitary and storm sewer systems using jet-rodder and construction equipment. MS4 permit enforcement and maintenance.

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  Evergreen Metropolitan District

  • Evergreen, CO

  • Collection and Distribution Operator

    • Mar 2004 - Jan 2005
    • Evergreen, CO

    Maintain water distribution and sanitary sewer system. Assist with water and wastewater treatment plant operations. Perform computer maintenance and upgrades for company computers. Perform ESRI mapping system enhancements and maintenance with data gathering utilizing Trimble GPS equipment.

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  SchlumbergerSema

  • Greenwood Village, CO

  • Senior Instructor / Software QA / Test Engineer / Consultant / Software Engineer

    • May 2000 - Oct 2003
    • Greenwood Village, CO

    Develop, implement, and deliver customized training materials and solutions for utility companies throughout the United States, Canada, and Brazil that are utilizing Graphical Information System packages developed using GE Network Smallworld and ESRI GIS solutions and TASNET Substation Automation. Custom training materials and support for Substation Automation for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. SAP support and training materials for Schlumberger N.A. On-site qualification and verification of production hardware and environment for utility companies implementing GIS solutions. Developer for customer GIS utility network code for projects using Smallworld Magik, a 4th generation language.

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  Convergent Group

  • Greenwood Village, CO

  • Senior Instructor / Software QA / Test Engineer / Consultant / Software Engineer

    • Mar 1999 - May 2000
    • Greenwood Village, CO

    Develop and deliver courseware for Smallworld Geographic Information System and ESRI. Develop corporate, divisional, and departmental training plans for external customers. Pre-production and production system consultant. Software development and maintenance. Engineering and sector expertise support for programming staff. Support for system, network, and database administration staff. Software QA testing from a developer's point of view; user interface development from end-user perspective. All tasks were able to be performed on-site at customer's office in addition to in-office work. Developer for customer GIS utility network code for projects using Smallworld Magik, a 4th generation language.

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  Inform Worldwide, Inc.

  • Greenwood Village, CO

  • Senior Instructor / Consultant / Software Engineer

    • Mar 1997 - Mar 1999
    • Greenwood Village, CO

    Deliver courseware for Smallworld Geographic Information System. Develop and present training to utility company employees ranging from software developer to database administrator to project manager to executive management. Pre-production and production system consultant. Software development and maintenance utilizing Smallworld Magik, a 4th generation language. Engineering and sector expertise support for programming staff. Support for system, network, and database administration staff. Software QA testing from a developer's point of view; end-user QA testing. System, network, and database administration of corporate computer system.

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  ISSC (IBM Global Services)

  • Denver, CO

  • Sr. Programmer / Analyst

    • Jan 1995 - Mar 1997
    • Denver, CO

    Development and implementation team member for transition from IBM Distribution Facility Information System (IBM mainframe-based) to GE Network Solutions Smallworld GIS (HP-UX client server-based) Project for Public Service Co of Colo (Xcel Energy) . Requirements, user interface, database administration, system administration. Developer for customer GIS utility network code for projects using Smallworld Magik, a 4th generation language. Database and system administrator utilizing HP-UX operating system.

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  Public Service Company of Colorado

  • Denver, CO

  • Sr. Programmer / Analyst

    • Jan 1988 - Jan 1995
    • Denver, CO

    Fast Action Support Team programmer for IBM Distribution Facilities Information System (DFIS) mainframe-based GIS. Development and implementation team member for transition to GE Network Solutions Smallworld GIS Project. Requirements, user interface, database administration, system administration. Experience in GPG (Graphics Programming Language), COBOL. CICS.

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  Nevada Power Company

  • Las Vegas, NV

  • Programmer

    • Mar 1986 - Jan 1988
    • Las Vegas, NV

    Maintenance and development programmer for Material Management Information Systems, Customer Information Systems, Human Resources Information System, Shareholder Information System. Worked with legacy languages on IBM 43XX mainframe. Coded in COBOL, CICS.