Experience

Aerojet Rocketdyne

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr.Software Engineer

  • Apr 2011 - Present



DLI Financial

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2010

  Developed income tax preparation interface software used for Federal and State tax calculations. This included developing a standalone tool used by tax developers to build a tax return XML schema, to map C# calculation code to elements in the schema, and to view current validation errors and IRS Efile mapping information; adding features to a calculation API and calculation engine used in tax return processing; creating tax return forms using WPF/XAML; and developing tax calculation code. Development environment: Windows 7, Windows Vista; Visual Studio 2008 and 2010; Visual Studio Team System; Sequel Server 2008; Visual C#, XML/XSD, WPF, XAML, MV-VM Design Pattern, LINQ; Agile development process using Version One. Show less



TaxMate LLC

• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • May 2009 - Mar 2010

  Developed income tax preparation interface software used for Federal and State tax calculations. This included developing a standalone tool used by tax developers to build a tax return XML schema, to map C# calculation code to elements in the schema, and to view current validation errors and IRS Efile mapping information; adding features to a calculation API and calculation engine used in tax return processing; creating tax return forms using WPF/XAML; and developing tax calculation code. Development environment: Windows 7, Windows Vista; Visual Studio 2008 and 2010; Visual Studio Team System; Sequel Server 2008; Visual C#, XML/XSD, WPF, XAML, MV-VM Design Pattern, LINQ; Agile development process using Version One. Show less



Orrtax Software Solutions

• Senior Software Engineer

  • 2004 - 2008

  Developed new features and maintained software for an income tax preparation package and related utilities. This included software used for on-line loan applications, loan check printing, office reports, and interfacing with banking partners. This also involved working with multiple groups inside and outside the company to deliver an annual tax product compliant with the IRS and banking partners. Development environment: Pentium based PCs; Windows XP-Pro, Windows Vista; Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio 2005; Sequel Server 2000 and 2005; Visual C/C++, WinForms, SQL, T-SQL, MS COM Interface; Visual Source Safe, Surround, PVCS Tracker, Test Track Pro; SharePoint. Show less



Quinton Inc.(now Cardiac Science)

• Senior Software Engineer

  • 1996 - 2004

  Developed, documented, and maintained software for multiple firmware/software upgrades to a cardiac catheterization monitoring system. This included implementing serial interfaces to acquire vital signs data from medical devices, modifying existing software to interface with a Visual Basic GUI via COM objects, and implementing a Visual Basic GUI for Oximetry data entry. In addition, this included being a software project engineer on a vital signs product, and being an engineering consultant for the Technical Service department. Development environment: Intel 486 and Pentium based PCs; Windows N/T, Windows XP, MS-DOS; Watcom C, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, Microsoft COM interface; Codebase, Vermont Views, Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, PVCS Tracker. Show less



Custom Technical Software

• Software Engineer

  • 1990 - 1993

  Created a custom report software package and a database export feature for a cardiac catheterization monitoring system. Designed a simple language for specifying custom reports and developed software to generate those reports. Developed and tested software that implemented the export feature. Development environment: IBM PC/AT; MS-DOS; Microsoft C; DBC (DBase Library), Greenleaf DataWindows, MetaWindows graphics package. Created a custom report software package and a database export feature for a cardiac catheterization monitoring system. Designed a simple language for specifying custom reports and developed software to generate those reports. Developed and tested software that implemented the export feature. Development environment: IBM PC/AT; MS-DOS; Microsoft C; DBC (DBase Library), Greenleaf DataWindows, MetaWindows graphics package.



Quinton Inc.

• Software Engineer

  • 1986 - 1990

  Software Project Engineer for a PC-based cardiac catheterization monitoring system. This position involved interacting with marketing personnel and customers to define product requirements, creating and reviewing functional specifications and software design documents, coordinating the activities of several software engineers to integrate a complete software package, system testing the completed software package, installing and beta testing the product at customer sites, and interacting with customers to obtain feedback. Developed software for a graphics/data-entry/database application and a PC-to-PC serial data transfer function. Development environment: IBM PC/AT; Novell Network, MS-DOS; Lattice C, Intel Assembly language; DBC, MetaWindows graphics package, Greenleaf Communications package. Show less



Nokia Bell Labs

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member of Technical Staff

  • 1973 - 1985

  Designed, developed, documented, and maintained software for various parts of a real-time operating system, including device drivers for a hard disk drive and a serial communication device. Enhanced and maintained a database protection and restoral utility. Maintained software for a real-time database-intensive telephone company application. System tested a UNIX based real-time application used to maintain telecommunications equipment. Chaired product delivery planning committees, tested hardware and software for customer acceptance, and diagnosed problems found at delivery time. Development environments: VAX and PDP/11 platforms; UNIX and VMS operating systems; C, PL/I, BASIC, and VMS Macro assembly languages. Show less