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Education
   Bachelor of Science in Mathematics of Computation
   University of Delaware, Newark, DE
   September 1992-December 1995
   Grade Point Averages
       Overall GPA: 3.270
       GPA in Major: 3.006
       History Minor: 3.444
       Economics Minor: 3.389
    Concentration in Computer Science.
    Honors Program, First Year Honors Certificate, Dean's List, First State Constitutional Scholarship, Diamond State Merit Scholarship.

    Salesianum School, Wilmington, DE September 1988 - June 1992
    Graduated 13th out of 254 students
    GPA: 3.91
    National Honor Society

Special Skills
    Familiar with C/C++, SAS, UNIX shell scripting, FORTRAN, MVS JCL, Focus, COBOL, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, VBScript, ASP, HTML, FoxPro, Microsoft Access, Pascal, and C-Scheme.
    Studied German language and culture four years (including high school).

Relevant Experience
    Emeron, Wilmington, DE/Diamond Technologies, New Castle, DE
    August 2000 - present
    Develop websites and desktop/server applications for a wide variety of clients. Technologies used include Microsoft IIS, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic on Windows NT and 2000 servers. Clients were from a wide variety of industries including financial services, retail and corporate services.
    Following merger with Diamond Technologies, assigned to work full-time on-site developing and supporting corporate website and intranet for regional convenience store chain. Also assigned on a short-term basis to other clients to develop intranets and other web-related work.

    Computer Aid, Inc., Wilmington, DE
    December 1997 - August 2000
    Worked on customer support hotline maintaining and upgrading financial system for a Fortune 100 company. Analyzed, updated, and modified JCL, Focus and COBOL programs for Year 2000 compliance. Provided 24-hour coverage for responding to program errors. Converted programs using Focus to a DB2 database.
    Responsible for maintenance and enhancement of two UNIX-based applications written in a mixture of SAS, shell scripts and C for a major credit card bank. Provided 24-hour support for user assistance. Also enhanced systems by adding such features as increased security, volume and flow control, increased logging and tracking and different processing queues. Automated many tasks that were previously manual.

    IIT Research Institute, Annapolis, MD
    January - December 1997
    Maintained and upgraded series of computer applications for the allocation of the electromagnetic spectrum developed in FoxPro. Responsible for migrating program written in FORTRAN from VAX/VMS to a UNIX platform, including adding embedded SQL calls to an Oracle-developed database. Upgraded and maintained application developed on a VAX/VMS network in FORTRAN. Maintained and tested DOS-based database application including updating menus, GUIs, and documentation.

References available upon request