Background

I am a former senior-level software engineer, who is looking to return to the workforce, after recovering from some serious health issues. Because I no longer qualify as a senior level engineer, I am to seeking work in other fields where my MS Office / VBA skills can have a major impact on the productivity of my future employer.

I posses superior knowledge of the entire MS Office Suite including the COM interfaces it exposes. I can retrieve old data from MS Word and MS Excel documents and integrate them into a 3NF relational database, such as: MS Access or SQL Server; I can build front-end applications for querying, editing, adding, and removing data; and generate reports for summarizing this information. Furthermore, I can create cross-browser compliant websites that adhere to the HTML 4.01/Strict and CCS 2.01 specifications. Finally, I can provide basic networking and hardware trouble-shooting, should those skills be required.

Given this background, I feel that I can play a vital role for the right company while performing the normal day-to-day duties associated with the following areas: Accounting / Customer Service / Administrative Support. I hope you find my resume compelling, and thank you for your consideration

Employment History

• Acted as mentor and technical lead for eight member automated testing team.
• Developed Visual Basic applications for testing our entire suite of COM interfaces for use with Microsoft’s Transaction and IIS Servers.
• Debugged the most complex and highest priority issues in our automated test library.
• Created COM based tools for special cases that could not be handled by our 3rd Party automation software, using the Win32 API.

• Created highly innovative VB IDE add-in, which enumerated the interfaces within a given type library; captured the function and attribute prototypes; checked for prototype changes between builds; and created a complete framework for testing the component object model within a Visual Basic environment.
• Was acting Database Administrator for our ‘Software Problem Report’ tracking system, which was a custom VB front-end application that used ADO/ODBC to interface with a back-end SQL Server database platform.
• Awarded for being one of Mosaix’ five most valuable employee’s, during this software release cycle.

• Rapidly became the most prolific and proficient member of our testing team, in writing automated test scripts, using QAP 2.0.
• Played significant role in moving our department away from top-down procedural based programs, into object oriented data driven test suites. Thereby, increasing the overall productivity of the entire testing team.

• Produced custom installation scripts for all outgoing orders.
• Put in place order fulfillment procedures that reduced order processing errors to virtually zero.
• Created ‘Customer Configurations’ database to track total number of licenses currently held by each customer, for each product offered in the Viewstar product line.

• Oversaw daily Shipping & Receiving operations. Prioritized daily shipping requirements; pulled checked, and packed orders. Prepared UPS, FedEx, and Common Carrier shipping logs.

• Received and entered all incoming orders into MAI Basic4 computer system.
• Prioritized daily shipping requirements.
• Created Pick Tickets, pulled, checked and packed orders.
• Created invoices and submitted daily sales to our factor for processing.

• Analyzed, classified, and resolved past-due accounts
• Processed cash receipts calculated balances due for accounts payable
• Calculated monthly Sales representative commissions
• Arbitrated customer disputes.

• Created and maintained inventory control database using dBase2.
• Reconciled accounts payable and railroad employee payroll deductions.
• Assisted in sales, delivery and repair of merchandise.

Skills

Visual Basic, VB Script, SQL, HTML, QAP/Visual 4Test
Win XP, NT 4.0, NT 3.51, Win 2000, Win 9.X, WFW 3.11, Win 3.1
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Oracle, Access, ODBC
Microsoft Office Suite (2000), Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, Visio

Education

Computer Learning Center of S.F: Programming Curriculum
Prairie State Community College: Data Processing Curriculum
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
Windows Open System Architecture I & II
Microsoft SQL Server Administration – Version 6.5
NT 3.51 Workstation Administration

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