## BIO
**Employment History**
**Sioux Valley Hospital** - Sioux Falls, SD May 2003 to Present
*Webmaster/Web Manager*
* <u>Responsible for supervision of web developers and graphics designers</u>
* <u>Planning and development of corporate internet and intranet sites</u>
* <u>Development and design of web applications</u>
**BANKFIRST** – Sioux Falls, SD June 1999 to May 2003
*Web/Database Developer/System Architect – Internet Development*
* <u>Responsible for system planning/design from inception to implementation</u>
* <u>Experienced in Project Management developing in-house systems/architectures</u>
* <u>Involved in the planning and development of the Minnesota Vikings official website ([login to view URL])</u>
* <u>Lead Developer and Architect of corporate credit card website ([login to view URL]) and corporate banking website ([login to view URL]); currently undergoing complete rework</u>
* <u>Member of development team for several websites including American Rivers ([login to view URL]) and Badlanders ([login to view URL])</u>
* <u>Maintain, plan and develop corporate Intranet sites involving automation of current company procedures</u>
* <u>Involved in conversion of all internal and external sites from IIS/SQL platform to Java/Oracle platform</u>
**Web/Database Developer – Contractor** – Sioux Falls, SD June 1999 – Present
* <u>Creating and designing back end administration and content management systems</u>
* <u>Coordinating database design and architecture</u>
* <u>Migrate website to ASP technology</u>
* <u>Installed and modified classified ad software</u>
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**Midland National Life Insurance Company** – Sioux Falls, SD September 1996 to June 1999
*Web/Database Developer & Analyst – Applications Technology*
* <u>Sole Database and Web Application Developer at Midland. Projects include: ground-up structure and design of Midland’s “Agent Extranet†and consumer Internet sites ([login to view URL]); web site security and authentication; planning and development of Midland’s first corporate Intranet; conversion of web apps to a multi-tier implementation</u>
* <u>Involved in strategic planning and analysis of Midland IT systems</u>
* <u>Responsible for research and development of applications and development tools for 500 MNL employees</u>
* <u>Developed and supported client/server application for MNL Variable Marketing Department to assist in recruiting and call center activities. Provided management reporting facilities for Midland corporate officers.</u>
* <u>Key role in software installation and support of Midland’s Corporate Development Network including Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95, IIS 4.0, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), as well as a number of desktop applications</u>
* <u>Performed project management activities for Midland’s “Year 2000 Projectâ€</u>
* <u>Enabled web access to legacy data residing on IBM OS390 system</u>
* <u>Excellent written and verbal skills: written several articles for publications directed toward national field force.</u>
* <u>Published in June 1999 edition of Insurance & Technology magazine</u>
## Area of Expertise
**Technical Experience**
* **Languages:** Visual Basic, ASP, VB Script, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML/XSL, XHTML, T-SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, JCL, Perl, REXX
* **Databases:** Access 9x/2000, SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 9I, MySQL
* **Applications/IDEs:** Visual Interdev 6.0, Dreamweaver Ultradev, FrontPage 9x/2000, Visual Studio 6.0 & .NET Beta, Oracle Designer & Developer/2000, FLASH 5, PhotoShop 5.0, ColdFusion 4.0, Adobe Acrobat 4.0, ClearCase, ClearQuest
* **Servers:** Internet Information Server 4.0/5.0, Personal Web Server, Apache, MS Transaction Server, BEA Weblogic
* **Operating Systems:** Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 9x, Windows 3.x, DOS, Unix, LINUX
* **Protocols:** TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SOAP, Telnet, SMTP
* **Technologies:** ActiveX, ADO, OLE DB, ODBC, SSL, COM/DCOM, DHTML
* **Conferences/Training:** FlashForward 2000, DevelopMentor Intro to Java
