Christopher M.

## BIO **Committed to Customer Satisfaction** My priority is to deliver the highest quality professional service. I provide solutions on time with 100% customer satisfaction. You can expect close communication, including daily status reports, throughout the project. I also offer free ongoing technical support. **Profile** * Master's Degree in Computer Science (May 2000) * Detail oriented person * Quick learner * Team player * Skilled problem solver * Strong object oriented programming skills **Experience ** **Independent Contractor** July 2009 – Sept. 2009 Community TeckKnowledge Inc. Project: RIDA 211 Call Center client-server aplication. Worked on an 8 week project to salvage an abandoned product, making considerable revisions and adding the remaining features required to meet all of the customers specifications. Functionality included complex, nested queries to an embedded derby database and xsl data transformations to power a multiple instance UI built using Java Swing. Received specifications remotely from the project manager (located in Austin TX) and delivered all functionality above and beyond expectations, on time and with little or no bugs. **Java Developer** Endace USA, Crystal Lake IL 2006 - 2008 Developed and implemented the UI for new features in support of the company’s software products using Java Swing. Maintained and improved existing software and fixed bugs. Key accomplishments: * Created new UI screens for new features. * Improved existing UI screens, improving the layout & usability. * Refactorized existing code improving the quality of the code. * Wrote and performed QA tests on new and existing software. **Freelance Programmer** 2006 Worked as an independent contractor, working out of my home office. Projects included: * Super Extractifier. This application basicly extracts information from a yellow pages website. The user can enter search criteria, the system then connects to the appropriate URL, and displays the categories found. The user can then select categories to further search on, with the results being displayed. The user can save the results to a file. Multi-threaded, Java Swing based. * Java Spider. This project was to update an existing spider to crawl a specific website. * Search Results Extractor – Java. This project consisted of developing code to extract data from certain search engine websites and populate a data structure with the results. * Template Extractor – PHP. This project consisted of two phases. Phase 1 was to develop a PHP script which would extract data from a certain website and put that data into a MySQL database. Phase 2 consisted of developing a front end website in PHP for displaying that data. **Adjunct Instructor** Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon IL 2004 Taught introductory computer course, covering basics of computers, plus software products such as Word, Excel, Access, & PowerPoint. **Software Developer** Datix, Inc., St. Louis MO 2001 - 2002 Maintained existing software, including adding new features to software and fixing existing bugs; developed new software for the real estate industry. Key accomplishments : * Created multi-tier real estate program for Windows. The program allowed the user to enter/update property listings, employee information, use system administration tools, and download data from the MLS. GUI based, written in Java. * Developed web page reports for real estate agents. * Added new functionality to an order entry system for a chocalate company. * Created a program to estimate order amounts of inventory items to bring amounts up to ideal amounts in stock. * Worked with the full software life cycle. * Wrote documentation using UML. **Teaching Assistant** Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 1998 * Taught lab sections of C programming. * Supervised students, graded assignments & exams. ## Area of Expertise **Languages & Tools** * C/C++ * Java * Java Swing * SQL * Borland C++ * gcc (Linux) * NetBeans * JCreator **Databases** * MySQL * JDBC **Web Development** * HTML * JSP * PHP **Platforms** * Windows XP, vista * Linux **Miscellaneous** * GUI Programming * Object oriented programming * UML * Software Development Life Cycle * Database Development * Unix Systems Programming