Resume

Kevin Armstrong

99 South Second
Suite A239 [email protected]
Memphis, TN 38103 901.428.5767
Objective

Over twelve years of experience in application and web development. Extensive background in gathering project requirements and resolving and analyzing issues surrounding project development. Developed excellent communication, leadership, and motivational skills leading and mentoring other developers. I am seeking a challenging position that will allow me to utilize my creativity and versatility in skills

Experience

Senior Software Developer
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
September 2000 – Present

  • Responsible for the development of applications to support the clinical research of the hospital.
  • Primary developer for the hospital Clinical Repository implementation and team developer in various clinical trials application development efforts.
  • Developed a web-based means for reporting clinical data stored in a SQL Server based data warehouse.
  • Developed windows-based applications to support the hospital’s clinical data repository to include an application to manage Meta Data and an application to control various levels of user access to web reports.
  • Responsible for development of Flash web interfaces which includes Flash Remoting and a working knowledge of Macromedia Flex.

Application/Web Developer
xSolutions, Memphis, TN
October 1996 – Present

  • Responsible for developing websites and custom applications for various companies and organizations.
  • Designed several custom applications for companies that consisted of accounting, scheduling, and inventory.
  • Also responsible for designing and creating web pages, designing graphics and logos, and creating web applications using DHTML, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT and PHP.

Software Developer/PC Administrator
Bodine, Collierville, TN
September 1996 – September 2000

  • Responsible for the development of applications for various departments using Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, and SQL Server.
  • Developed leads tracking application to support company sales, invoice accountability application to support accounting, and a time management application to support the human resources department in tracking and managing employee time usage.
  • Other duties included managing and configuring computers for use on the network, and administering network and email servers.

Programmer
GTE Telecom, Waltham, MA
June 1996 – September 1996

  • Responsible for writing code to be used as the structure for a communications protocol between two computer systems.
  • Developed code used for text parsing and device drivers.
  • Debugged and restructured applications that were written in Microsoft Access and re-coded them using Visual Basic.

System Software Support/Programmer
GTE Mobilnet, Atlanta, GA
January 1996 – June 1996

  • Responsible for maintaining various user documents and files on a PC-based network and creating various help documents, diagrams and tables to facilitate the use and maintenance of equipment used in departmental projects.
  • Also developed GUI’s in Visual Basic and wrote code in C to read data from serial ports, extract data from files and perform other small functions within large-scale projects.

System Administrator/Programmer
GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA
May 1995 – September 1995

  • Wrote utility scripts and assisted in the management of user accounts.
  • Responsible for supporting a network of UNIX-based Sun workstations, updating system software, troubleshooting system and software failures.

Research Assistant/Programmer
GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
May 1994 – September 1994

  • Responsible for writing applications for small devices and researching the behavior of these devices under various conditions.
  • Wrote a series of programs to monitor battery performance under field conditions and determine/predict failures based upon temperature, voltage, and current variations, and writing windows based data analysis applications using Visual Basic.
Education

Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science/Mathematics
Rust College, Holly Springs, MS
January 1993 – June 1996

Additional Information

US Army veteran with 4 years experience as a helicopter repairer. Also trained in Personnel Management and Leadership Development.

References

Rebecca Garcia
Phone: 901.210.3009
Type: Personal

Milan Micci
Phone: 901.314.1958
Type: Professional

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