Frederick Volking  121 Knoll Wood Dr. - Lexington, SC 29072 Home: (803)808-0933 * FAX: (803)080-0943 Email: fvolking@ecms.net

See my Skill Synopsis

Mar'00 to Present

ECMS
Columbia, SC

Senior Engineer - Heavy emphasis on Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 for collaborative solutions.

ASP, WebDAV, Visual Basic 6.0, Windows 2000.

Oct'99 to Jan'00

Prudential Securities (formerly Volpe, Brown, Whellan & Co.)
San Francisco, CA

Programmer/Analyst (Contractor W2) - CoNexus was a lead tracking system with a built-in work queue. It was designed in-house and architected for use by Investment Bankers. With over 40 screens and 100+ SQL stored procedures, Phase I of the system was developed at record breaking speeds by myself and two other contract programmers. The project was unexpectedly terminated when Prudential Securities purchased the company and laid off 75+ employees.

Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 7.0,  Windows NT.

Nov'98 to Oct'99 (12 months)

General Electric - Capital Division
San Rafael, CA

Programmer/Analyst (Contractor W2)  - "Calypso" is a new project to automate Claims processing for the entire Long Term Care product line. This is a moderately large project estimated for 7 to 10 programmers for one+ year. When I joined the team, as one of the three senior programmers, no code had been written. I am participating in all start-up, planning, life cycle, and development stages. Extensive analysis and data architecture has already been done. I am acting as mentor to several junior programmers. The application is being written in a logical three tier architecture using VB 6.0 to Microsoft SQL 7.0 and employing one DCOM server using exclusively ADO. Heavy object orientation.

My primary duty will be to design, code, and test the central calculation engine used to analyze claim payments and verify validity of claims based on rather complex date, dollar, and eligibility parameters. Engine is being built with extreme robustness as a primary goal thus mandating pursit of meta-rules logic stored in the RDBMS as the primary method of addressing business and calculation rules.

Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise, MS SQL Server 7.0,  ErWin, Visual Modeler (Rational Rose), Windows '95 and Windows NT.

Jun'98 to Oct'98

Staywell, Division of Times/Mirror
1800 Grundy Lane - San Bruno, CA 94066

Project Leader (FTE) - Primary project management of multiple simultaneous projects dealing with the assimilation of finance, accounting, and inventory systems of newly acquired profit centers in St.Paul and Boston. No hands-on. Purely a Project Management position.

Apr'97 to Jun'98 (15 months)

Visa
800 Metro Center Blvd.- Foster City, CA 94404

Project Lead (FTE) - Management of 6 to 11 staff working on multiple projects. FTE & Contractor mix. Minimal hands-on but substantial mentoring of programming staff. Considerable involvement with strategic planning and adoption of new technologies such as OOAD, Internet, two and three tier architectures, and database replication. Managed the analysis, design, development, and deployment of projects using VB3, VB4, VB5, SQL Server 4.2 & 6.5, MS Access 2.5 & 7.0. Exposure to IIS (Internet Information Server), ASP (Active Server Pages) and Praxis OmniReplicator through three prototype proof of concept projects. Team’s primary focus for new development is OOAD, VB5, Java and SQL Server 6.5 working in CMM (ISO 9000) environment but team’s responsibility also includes maintenance of 17 legacy applications written in VB3, VB4, MS Access, SQL Server 4.2. Heavily involved in transport, synchronization, and replication of data from/to mainframe DB2 and SQL Server using MDI Gateway. Application deployment and support to six international regions; US, Canada, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, MiddleEast/Africa, Europe.

Visual Basic 3,4, & 5, MS SQL Server, MS Access, Rational Rose, Active Server Pages, Internet Information Server, Praxis OmniReplicator, MDI Gateway, SNA Server, Pentiums, Windows '95 and Windows NT.

Jul’97 to Jan’98 

Volking Software
Web Site Developer (7 months part time Contract 1099) - Visual Interdev (Visual Studio), HTML, ASP, VBScript.
Some exposure to JavaScript, CGI, Unix, Perl..

Jul'96 to Apr'97 (9 months)

Amdahl Corporation 
Palo Alto, CA

Programmer/Analyst  (Contractor W2) - Data is received from clients outside the corporation via Email and Email attachments. Using Visual Basic 4.0, I designed, coded, and implemented an automated MAPI, MSWord, MSExcel, OLE translation and parsing mechanism to import/export into/from MS SQL Server and MS Access databases.

Visual Basic 4 (32 bit), MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS MAPI, OLE MS Word, OLE MS Excel, Crescent Quick-Pak libraries, Pentiums, Windows '95 and Windows NT.

Mar'91 to Dec'96 (5½ years Part Time)

WorldTariff
220 Montgomery Street - Suite 432 - San Francisco, CA 94104-3410

Web Developer - (Contractor 1099) - Developed an MS Access to HTML generator which preprocessed database requests into static HTML pages. Generator was run once per week to create approximately 22,000 static HTML pages. (This contract was performed evening & week-ends.)

HTML, Visual Basic 4.0, MS Access'95.

Project Manager - (Contractor 1099) - Currently involved in conversion project. 60 megs of Word Perfect files to be converted, parsed, and imported to MS-Access Database. Project centered around conversion of Word Perfect documents to RTF using MSWord Word Basic, MSWord OLE embedding, and intensive RTF document parsing. Team includes 3 programmers, 1 technical writer and an Administrative Assistant (This contract was performed evening & week-ends.)

Visual Basic 4.0 (16 and 32 bit), MS-Access'95, MS-Word Basic 7.0, Word Perfect, Farpoint Spread-VBX, Crescent libraries, Windows 95, Pentiums.

Programmer & Product Designer (Contractor 1099) - Designed and programmed two commercial products. Both products are on-line hyper-text reference works covering import/export tariffs in over 30 countries.

Microsoft PDS (DOS) Basic, DOS and Windows Environments. QP4WIN libraries. Compatible with 8086 through Pentiums, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT.

Feb'94 to Oct'96 (2½ years)

United States Postal Service
San Mateo, Ca

Project Lead & Programmer/Analyst (Contractor W2) - Worked on enhancement to AMS-PC, a system used by 150+ remote Postal Service sites to rearrange, add, and delete US Mail Delivery address points which are downloaded, modified, then back-loaded to a mainframe in a batch transaction update process. Project Lead for 14 months. Management of 4-7 programmers & one technical writer.

Visual Basic 3, MS Access, FlatFiles, Mainframe communications using Rumba & TCP/IP-FTP, Crystal Reports, Crescent Quick-Pak libraries, ElTech ZIP compression libraries, 486 & Pentiums, Windows 3.x and Windows for Workgroups, Novell network.

Sep'87 to Jan'94 (6½ years)

Franklin Mutual Funds
777 Mariners Island Blvd. - San Mateo, CA 94403

Technical Manager (FTE) - Managed the development and implementation of a distributed client/server Mutual Fund financial system encompassing 2.2 million accounts with average daily volumes of 30,000 transactions.

Sybase RDBMS in AIX, Netware & VMS environments. Objectview and Visual Basic 3.0 in Windows. IBM RS/6000, IBM 486, DEC VAX 5520, and Sequent S250-SMP. Crystal Reports, Yourdon & Erwin.

Technical Manager (FTE) - Co-Managed the analysis, design and development of a Corporate Data Warehouse through first build. Helped develop Testing Plans based on Glenford Myers book "The Art of Software Testing" and directed portion of white box unit testing.

Sybase RDBMS in OS/2 environment. Objectview & C in Windows. 486s & RS/6000.

Senior Analyst (FTE) - Directed technical development of Formdex, a CIM (Computer Image Microfiche) database which contained 9+ million document images, resided on a Novell WAN and was accessed by 200+ users in 3 continental U.S. profit centers. (See Jan'92 "BasicPro" magazine for write up)

Btrieve DBMS in Netware environment. Microsoft Professional Development System Basic in DOS. 386s & 486s

Programmer/Analyst (FTE) - Assisted development of several small-to-medium financial applications.

MS C, DEC C, FBase, Microsoft PDS Basic, DOS, Novell, VMS, RMS. IBM-PC and VAX platforms.

May'87 to Sep'87 (½ year)

Franklin Mutual Funds San Mateo, CA

Programmer/Analyst  (Contractor 1099) - Assisted development of past-due-accounts tracking and bank reconciliation system.

FBase (Intellinomics 4GL DBMS) IBM PC, DOS, Microsoft C on a mixed 3COM & Novell LAN

Feb'86 - Oct'87 (1½ years)

Intellinomics Corporation San Francisco, CA

Marketing and Sales (Private Consultant)  - Provided Marketing and Sales guidance.

Feb'86 - Oct'87 (1½ years)

Intuit Corp. Hayward, CA

Marketing Management (Private Consultant) Provided marketing, penetration and product positioning guidance.

Sep'84 - Feb'86 (1½ years)

Borland International Scotts Valley, CA

Director of Marketing and Sales (FTE) - Reported directly to Philippe Kahn and helped him manage the Sales Department and Advertising department. Assisted the introduction of SideKick, Turbo Pascal and several other successful commercial software products.

Jun'81 - Sep'84 (3½ years)

Bellesoft Bellevue, WA

Director of Marketing and Sales (FTE) - Directed the market introduction of 5 commercial software products known nationally as the "Pop-Up" software line (a name I invented).

Senior Programmer (FTE) - Managed 7 programmers and directed the development of 5 commercial products called Pop-Ups.

8087 Assembler and Microsoft C in a DOS environment. IBM PC, XT, and AT.

Aug'80 - Jun'81 (¾ year)

Care Computers Bellevue, WA

Programmer (FTE) - Maintained a Nursing Home billing package. Datapoint Computers. Assisted conversion of entire system from Databus to C.

Invented, perfected and developed the very first commercial TSR software product for the PC. Called Ten-Key, it gave the PC User access to a calculator while running any other program. Although common place today, in 1981 the TSR calculator was revolutionary.

Nov'79 - Aug'80 (¾ year)

American Campgrounds, Inc. Bellevue, WA

Programmer - Maintained an Accounts Receivable and General Ledger system.

Quantel BASIC. Quantel minicomputer.

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Education . . . . .

1999 - Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 CERTIFIED

September 1999 - Passed Microsoft Exam # 70-176

1998 - Lockhead/Martin - Advanced Concepts Center (5 day class)

Course: OOAD using UML (Object Oriented Analysis & Design)

1994 - Corporate Computing

Course: Effective GUI Design

1993 - Sybase, Inc.

Course: Fast Track to Sybase
Course: Relational Database Design
Course: Fundamentals of System & Database Administration
Course: Open Client
Course: Open Server
Course: Performance and Tuning
Course: Advanced System Administration

1973 - Alan Hancock Community College - Santa Maria, California

Business Administration (Unfortunately, Associate degree is incomplete)

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