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Rick Harrison
Programmer/Analyst/Consultant

Skills
Agile Programming, Requirements Definition, Design, Offshore Development Coordination, Project Estimation and Management, Source Code Control, Graphics, Object Oriented Design and Programming (OOD and OOP), Test Driven Development, Software Portability and Conversion, Embedded Systems, Hardware Simulation, Debugging and Support

Applications

Financial/Manufacturing Software:
Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Payroll, General Ledger, Account Reconciliation, Purchase Orders, Order Entry, Inventory Management, Bill of Materials, Goods Reconciliation, Mail List.

Graphics:
GUI, Printer Drivers, Statistical Software (video and hard-copy), Windows, Games.

Text/Language Processing:
Compilers, Interpreters, Text Processing, Text Search, Source Code Reformatters, Word Processor and Typesetter Code Conversion, Program Generators.

Systems/Real Time Programming:
Single and Multi-Processor Embedded Systems, DOS Printer Drivers, DOS Print-Screen Drivers, Diagnostics, DMA, ESCON, Networking, MS Windows, Reverse Engineering, Telecommunications, Telephony.

Environments
Languages:
Assembler (Z80, 6502, 8086), Access, Access Basic, ASP.Net, Awk, Basic, C#, C & C++ (Unix, Microsoft, Lattice, Borland and others), COBOL, Dbase IV, DOS Batch, Fortran, HTML, Informix, Java, JavaScript, Lex, Miva Script, Pascal, Perl, SQL, Tcl/Tk, Unix shell script, Visual Basic, XML, XSLT, Yacc.

Tools:
Visual Studio (6 and .Net), IdeaBlade DevForce, DevExpress, SubVersion & SyncFusion, ScrumWorks, BizTalk, LVM, PVCS, RCS, SCCS, DLLs, DOS and Unix Overlay Linkers, Paradigm LOCATE (relocator), Memory management runtime libraries, Graphics runtime libraries, TestTrack (Bug Tracker), vi, sed, grep. Also various In-Circuit Emulators (ICEs) and debuggers.

Operating Systems/Networks/Protocols,DBMS:
CP/M, HP-UX with LVM, Linux, DOS, Oracle 8i, SMTP, SQL Server VII, 2000 & 2005, TCP/IP, TI DX10, Unix, VAX VMS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP (Home and Pro) &Vista, X-Windows

Hardware:
AMD 29000, Basic Stamp, HP 3000, IIC Bus, IBM PC/XT/386/486, Lego Mindstorm, NEC V55, SSA, Sun, TI 990/20, TI 99/4A, UARTs (various), VAX, Wang VS-100, 6502, Z-80.
Partial List of Job/Contract Experience:

KnowWare, Inc.:
Designing, writing, marketing and supporting an object oriented management statistics product. Originally C++ in DOS, then Windows and .Net (C# & ASP). Jul 1991 to present.
CFAM (GeosGlobal):
Network enabled Stock Market trading system. SQL Server 2005 & Oracle, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, XML & XSLT, C#, IdeaBlade DevForce, DevExpress, SyncFusion & BizTalk Sept 2000 – present.
BGM:
Conversion of CRM from VB6/Access to C#/SQL/CSLA Server Dec 2005 – Feb 2007.
ParAvance
Web development on a site utilizing HTML, Miva, SMTP & databases. Mar 2000 – Jul 2000.
Agilent:
Visual C++ GUI and Embedded project - added Bit Error Rate Test capability and other features to a telecom network analyzer (T1, ATM, OC3, ISDN). Feb 2000 – Aug 2000.
Storage Technology:
Iceberg (StorageTek’s RAID5+ device) SSA conversion. Modifying Iceberg firmware to transform it into a “virtual tape” storage system for mainframes. Also object modeling in Java. C, C++, Perl and Java in Unix, Windows and lab dev environ Aug 1996 – Dec 1999.
TVX, Inc.
Full development cycle of software in C++ for an embedded security system utilizing a NEC V55 processor, a "camera on a chip", UARTs, modems, EEPROM, extended memory, an IIC bus, RS232 bus, RS485 bus, real-time clock chip, etc. Aug 1994 - Oct 1996
CREICO:
Various projects using Microsoft Visual Basic and Access/SQL. Also Mobile home park management software in Informix 4GL/SQL Apr 1994 - Aug 1994
Storage Technology:
"Iceberg" project. Writing optical link driver software for multi-processing, fault tolerant RAID5+ storage device. C in Unix. Tools in C++ and C. Jun 1991 - Feb 1994.
CFAM:
Writing financial software for use in speculative stock market investment. DIBOL, C and Unix script language. Jun 1990 - Jun 1991
Paradygm:
Writing graphics processing and printing software for an embedded system for use in a surgical operating room environment. C and C++ language. Jan 1990 - Jun 1990
Storage Technology:
File server for a robot controlled cart. tape silo. C on IBM 370. Oct 1987 - Mar 1988
Micro DecisionWare:
Remote database search and retrieval system. C on Windows. Jan 1987 - Jun 1987
CFAM:
Real-time multi-tasking comm software in C doing stock market eval. Jun 1987 - Oct 1987
Reference Technology:
Object oriented, text search system in C for the CD-ROM publishing. Jan 1986 - Jun 1987
JC Penny - Security:
Design and programming of crime detection programs in Pascal. Nov 1986 - Dec 1986
I.N.C.O.M.M.:
Invoicing, Accounting and Mailing List system in Informix for IBM PC. Oct 1985 - Jul 1986
Anaheim Publishing Corporation - Marketing Department:
Designing and writing a marketing history and mailing list app for publishing. Oct 83 - Jan 84
Cosmi, Inc.:
Writing graphics video games for TI-99/4A. Basic, Assembler and C. Nov 1984 - Aug 1985
Mini-Computer Business Applications, Inc.:
Designing and writing integrated accounting and manufacturing software designed for portability to Wang, VAX, Unix, Tandy and PC-DOS. January 1979 – Oct 1985.

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