
Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area
(Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — Present (15 years 11 months)
Provides custom software design and development services specializing in the finance and marine industries.
In 1994 Kord Information Systems contracted with Computer Consultants to support/maintain/troubleshoot and add features to their Marina Management application known as The Marina Program v3.
In 2002 Kord Information Systems contracted with Computer Consultants to create the next generation of their Marina Management application known as The Marina Program v4. TMP v4 was released in beta in mid-2004, general release was end of 2004. TMP v4 was a complete re-write using a 32 bit client server architecture.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 10 months)
In 2005 The Marina Program was acquired by Watch Captain, LLC from Computer Consultants. Having created the current version of The Marina Program Watch Captain hired me in 2006 to get support and development of TMP back on track.
I more than doubled the # of satisfied support plan customers, while adding needed updates and enhancements that were required during the transition period of 2005 - 2006.
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 5 months)
Responsible for the company's Retail distributed (intranet based) applications. This included both the management of existing applications created by 3rd party vendors and the design, and development of intranet based applications.
Was responsible for the support, documentation and user training for these applications.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Senior Developer for the J4 Toolset a product that allowed Business Analysts to create feature rich web based applications.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1998 — April 2001 (3 years 1 month)
Key developer for Alerio's online payroll application that used an Application Service Provider model to allow small to medium sized businesses and sign up online and handle their company's payroll. This application was also sold through VAR's who were able to use their own company's branding on this application.
(Public Company; EPIC; Computer Software industry)
December 1994 — April 1998 (3 years 5 months)
Sr. Software Engineer, key developer of the Tools and Technology used for this well known accounting software developer. Using Visual Basic 4/5 and Pervasive SQL (Btrieve) I was responsible for the design, development and maintenance of any code relating to the core components of their flagship Windows accounting product for small to medium-sized businesses
(Privately Held; Real Estate industry)
April 1994 — March 1995 (1 year )
Led a team of 4 developers, using Visual Basic 3 and Microsoft Access to create an internally used point of sale system for Loan Officers within a medium sized mortgage company. The system was designed to work on a laptop and allowed Loan Officer's to give clients quotes from their own living rooms, including printing out a Truth-In-Lending disclosure
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 1984 — April 1994 (10 years 1 month)
As Senior Software Engineer, using Quick Basic, and Btrieve, co-developed a DOS based vertical market software package entitled, "The LoanProcessor" sold to over 3,000 lending institutions. The LoanProcessor performed all of the necessary calculations to produce the loan documentation (i.e. Truth-In-Lending disclosure, HUD-1,-2, etc) along with providing Borrower tracking capabilities.
As Programmer Supervisor, was responsible for 8 Developers and the country-wide rollout of the LoanProcessor package.
(Public Company; BEC; Biotechnology industry)
February 1979 — April 1984 (5 years 3 months)
Timesharing Applications Programmer created internally used applications using Basic+2 on the DEC 2060 for the various departments within the organization
technology, jogging (Completed L.A. Marathon (2), Silicon Valley Marathon, Maui Marathon (2), Indianapolis-mini Marathon (2)), photography, cooking
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