President, Antidote Computer Services
Greater St. Louis Area
- Current
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- President, Owner at Antidote Computer Services
- Past
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- Development Team Lead at SalesKit Software
- Software Engineer at Cutler/Williams (Comsys)
- Software Engineer at McDonnell Douglas
- Education
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- Bradley University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Paul Swarthout’s Experience
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President, Owner
Antidote Computer Services
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1997 — Present (12 years 8 months)
Antidote Computer Services provides desktop support services, server and server software support services, LAN and WAN network support services, software application development services, website development services, database development services, and web hosting services to businesses in the St Louis metropolitan area. Antidote developed and maintained accounting software, point-of-sale software, order tracking software, customer acquisition software, commercially available software products, and many websites during the 11 years since its creation.
Responsible for all corporate financials, sales, marketing, hiring/firing during 11 years of ownership; Final authority for all corporate deliverables; developed and implemented strategic IT plans for customers; Authored all attorney-approved contracts, proposals, and estimates. Authored an original employee handbook.
Acquired nearly 100 customers; submitted contracts, proposals, or estimates to more than 300 customers and prospective customers
Responsible for assessing and implementing services tailored to each individual customer’s IT needs, for hundreds of customers during the 11 years. Responsible for assigning the right IT professional to each individual customer and maintaining appropriate levels of supervision to guarantee employee productivity and appropriate quality product to the customer.
Provided advice, counsel, education to clients concerning IT issues and trends; provided development and coordination of IT solutions; supported the corporate purchase of one IT company by another IT company;
Negotiated outcomes from third party vendors on the behalf of Antidote’s customers; worked directly with AT&T, NuVox, Dell, OnCenter, RIM, Nextel, and many others on the behalf of Antidote’s customers -
Development Team Lead
SalesKit Software
(Computer Software industry)
October 1995 — April 1998 (2 years 7 months)
Responsible for programming and team lead duties for the Hostware product, and the installation software used to install SalesKit’s products on customers’ computers. Hostware consists of three distinct code modules, Import, Export, and an Import Preprocessor. Programming tasks for HostWare were accomplished using Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52, with Microsoft ODBC 2.1 and ODBC 3.0 accessing Microsoft SQL Server versions 4.21a and 6.5. Programming tasks for the installation software were accomplished using Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 and InstallShield 3.0.
Spearheaded the move to add support for Oracle versions 7.3 and 8.0 to the SalesKit Software product line. Effort began in 11/96 with the installation and configuration of the first Oracle database at SalesKit Software.
Also responsible for performing database administration tasks, including installation, configuration, ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and performance tuning of the Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 RDBMS and the Oracle 7.3 RDBMS, hosted on Windows NT.
Responsible for writing all of the Hostware documentation, including a user manual for the end-user. -
Software Engineer
Cutler/Williams (Comsys)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1990 — October 1995 (5 years 3 months)
for Union Pacific Technologies from 1/95 to 2/95; Worked with Cutler/Williams account managers and UPT personnel to develop a project proposal for Norfolk Southern railroad.
for Busch Entertainment from 5/94 to 1/95; Developed a Revenue Balancing application for the Cash Control personnel at Sea World of California and Busch Gardens, Tampa. Application consisted of 11 subsystems. I was solely responsible for 5 subsystems comprising 51 windows. The development environment was Microsoft Windows 3.1 running on a Compaq 486DX2 50MHz PC, C with ODBC access to Sybase, ProtoGen+, C, Visual Basic 3.0 with db-library access to Sybase.
for Anheuser Busch from 4/93 to 5/94; Developed Time and Expense Reporting system for the Corporate Engineering department.
for UNOCAL from 2/92 to 4/93; Developed a data-driven Oil and Utility Accounting System (OUAS) using the Rapid Application Development methodology. Primarily responsible for 1) providing Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and db-library expertise to the development staff; 2) development of stored procedures, triggers, views, and indices; 3) development of a standard set of stored procedures for database loading and unloading of refinery instrumentation data; 4) analysis of refinery data; 5) data modeling the refineries and their business rules into the database; 6) development of productivity enhancing utilities
for Anheuser Busch from 1/92 to 2/92; Developed an Import utility to import data into the Engineering Service Request system from Microsoft Excel. Application developed using Microsoft Windows 3.0, DDE, ObjectView 1.0 and Microsoft Excel.
for Contel (merged with GTE in 1991) from 8/90 to 1/92; Developed the Outside Plant System, an interactive, multi-user, graphics-based telecommunications network facilities design / mapping and engineering records management system. Application developed in C, and Fortran, using Sybase SQL Server in a VAX / VMS environment. -
Software Engineer
McDonnell Douglas
(Computer Software industry)
January 1983 — August 1990 (7 years 8 months)
as a Programmer / Analyst from 2/90 to 8/90; Member of medium sized development team developing a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool. Application was developed using Ada, PRO*Ada, SQL*Plus, SQL*Report, SQL*Forms, Oracle, and Interleaf on a VAX / VMS system.
as a Programmer / Analyst from 2/87 to 1/90; Developed software tools with Ada to aid software development activities for military aircraft and served as on-site technical advisor for Oracle Version 5.0 and related software on Vax with VMS and IBM PS/2 with PC-DOS 3.3 and Microsoft Windows 3.0 platforms
as a Programmer from 1/83 to 1/87; Maintained software and supported an ATLAS compiler. Developed software tools as necessary to aid software development. Work was performed in Fortran on a Harris H-100 computer running the Vulcan 3.0 operating system. Also used DEC pdp 11/35, pdp 11/44 with Unix versions 6 and 7, Vax 11/785 with VMS, and IBM PC/XT/AT.
Paul Swarthout’s Education
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Bradley University
1978 — 1982
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