OBJECTIVE
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My primary objective is to provide
every person I meet or work for with a new standard
to measure others' achievements by.
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EXPERIENCE
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2000-Present |
Nazarene Headquarters |
Kansas City, MO
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Visual Basic Consultant (Sept '00 thru Present)
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Fixed and debugged a VB program
that utilizes ESRI mapping technology with the purpose
of helping seekers find a church in a specific area of
the U.S. by clicking on an interactive map. Also brought
the server running this program online
(http://map.nazarene.org) from
scratch after a freak hard drive failure.
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Was able to take the web project
further than initially hoped by developing subroutines
to draw graphs based on demographic data and implement
them with the web page. This helped decrease the need
for someone to run reports per user request since the
data was now available on a dynamic web site.
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Took an existing web site and combined it
with a database of missionary information thereby making
it more efficient and dynamic. This site is still under
construction.
(http://mpo.nazarene.org
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Designed and set loose a process for extracting
data from Raiser's Edge, performing a filter using Access,
and running a Mail Merge on specified records. Other jobs
involving Access and Raiser's Edge are still pending.
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1997-2000 |
Dakotah Direct II/LLC |
Spokane, WA
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Data Programmer/Analyst II (Sept '99 thru Jul '00)
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Handled multiple clients and provided
daily statistical information in a timely and a
consistently correct manner.
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Constantly updated database software to
improve speed, reliability, readability, and functionality.
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Assisted coworkers in troubleshooting their
programs and sought to help them improve their projects.
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Before leaving the company developed a small
and flexible Access program written in VBA and SQL to initiate
an ODBC connection and pull data directly from Centrevue CMS
as its reports were inefficient for Dakotah's needs.
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Command Center Team Leader (Apr '99 thru Aug '99)
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Guided and directed a team of eight people
fairly and efficiently to complete assigned tasks quickly.
Delegated tasks and automated new processes.
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Played a key role in developing call forecasting
software by combining my supervisor's call traffic knowledge
and my programming abilities. These programs went through many
phases and were constantly under improvent for a tremendous
degree of accuracy.
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Resolved network plights in my department, set
up new employees on the PCs, and worked closely with the IT
department to troubleshoot problems that invariable arose.
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Worked on several various projects for other
groups in the company including CSA accountability and grading
as well as sales tracking and graphing per individual.
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Command Center Team Member (Apr '98 thru Mar '99)
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Helped in developing and setting up this new
department by challenging, sharing ideas and becoming
knowledgeable in several MS Office applications.
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Developed processes to track and grade, by
performance, upwards of 1200 people in multiple facilities
on a daily and weekly basis.
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During free time (ha) wrote QuickBASIC and
Visual Basic code to automate several monotonous data import
and export tasks.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Everything I know about computers I learned
on my own through self-determination and experimentation. I
also taught myself how to play the guitar and the piano.
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In sixth grade I won the school spelling bee. While
in seventh grade (and on up) I was in a specialized district program
(C.O.D.E.) earning the top 1 percentile of my class to gain entrance.
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In grade school I wrote a quick program to
draw pictures and convert them to FRED (now obsolete Framework
language) for better printer functionality. Nazarene Headquarters
saw how this could be useful to them and bought it from me. A few
years later they also purchased an upgraded version of the same with
scaling, rotational, and textual abilities.
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SKILLS
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Computer programming. Lots of it. I am exceedingly
proficient with programming and debugging in VBA and VB (3 years),
QuickBASIC (10 years), and BASICA (16 years). I can read and debug
C++ and do some minor programming in it but vastly prefer Basic.
If a need should arise I can also write BATch programs in DOS.
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On the internet side of things I have a fantastic
understanding of HTML (1 year) and web site/page development. Though
I can and have used some HTML development software my favorite tool so
far is Notepad (the text editor). I have also done some very minor
JavaScript work but that's only because I have not yet had much need.
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Microsoft products seem to get along very well with me.
I have experience with DOS (16 years), Windows 3.11 (8 years), Windows
95/98 (5 years), and Windows NT 4.0 (2 years). I know Excel and Access
nearly inside and out (3 years) and have used various other programs
here and there.
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