ANDREW S. KATZ

38 Park St. #24B
Florham Park, NJ 07932

home: (973)301-0448
e-mail: AKatz712 @ gmail.com

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• High and low level software design (functionality, UI, internal structure).
• Learning and programming with various tools, languages, and OSes.
• Software maintenance (improving performance, standardizing interfaces, reliability).
• Debugging (problem investigation and resolution).
• Writing specifications and doing peer critiques.

Technical Skills:

C; Windows NT; UNIX; SQL; VB Script; HTML; ORACLE; Sybase; PROGRESS 4GL; Informix 4GL; Forth; FORTRAN; BASIC; HP/RTE OS; Assembler [various].

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Energy For America, Springfield NJ 11/2000 – 2/2001
A professional engineering firm doing facilities management for NJ school districts.

• Learned: Access, Windows 2000, SQL Server, Embarcadero, Visual Interdev, ASP, Proxy Server

A L Systems, Rockaway NJ 3/1999 – 7/1999
DynaShip Product used in distribution warehouses to manifest packages.

• Upgraded and maintained a program that prints shipping labels.

* C, SQL, Sybase, QNX

Software Associates International, Mount Arlington NJ 10/1998 – 2/1999
NUCLEUS Product combined many sales and marketing data sources into one schema.

• Took part in customization and testing of NUCLEUS product for GlaxoWellcome.

* SQL, ORACLE, C, NT, UNIX

Concurrent Technologies, Liberty Corner NJ 1/1998 – 9/1998
Implement production WEB based Sales order systems for AT&T data systems.

• Used metrics data on sales productivity to develop drill down HTML reports.

* ASP(VB script), SQL, SQL Server, HTML, NT

Pipeline Associates, Inc., Parsippany NJ (now part of EFI) 8/1997 – 10/1997
Develops PCL and Postscript language interpreters and drivers.

• Integrated cartridge fonts into the PCL interpreter.

* C / UNIX

Apprise Software, Inc., Florham Park, NJ (R&D location) 3/1996 – 8/1997
Develops Business Accounting and Distribution software for midsize companies.

• Developed the order entry front end user interface introducing the use of V8 smart objects to improve ease of user navigation and adding distribution functionality to the software package.

• Restructured the financial report writer to improve execution by introducing the persistent procedures capability.

* Progress / Windows 95

US Servis, West Orange NJ (formerly Micro Healthsystems) 1988 - 1996
Provides billing management services to physician groups and hospitals.
Developed and deployed a custom system automating hospital nursing productivity.

• Designed a solution to give Infinity-X users access to managed care functionality by using Intranet tools, MS Access, and UNIX shell scripts to link to a 3rd party DOS based software package.

* Informix / C / UNIX ( 9 months )

• Ported and transferred ownership of the medical protocol engine to hospital client. This included strategic changes to a C language program to link with a custom object oriented database library.

* C / GUI / QNX ( 1 year )

• Designed and developed graphical capabilities for the Medtake product. Adapted a flexible coding scheme to firmware limitations and explained it to client services.

• Designed and supported an enhanced tool for client screen customization. Made the screen editor navigation keyboard arrow based to improve the productivity of the in house screens department.
• Designed and developed the Nursing care plan module in Medtake. This included design and coding of runtime UI, record management, network protocol, screen design tool, compiler, and reports.
• Designed and developed an expansion of charting to allow up to 4 windows per record, increasing the maximum number of phrases the user could choose from in writing sentences about patient care.
• Extended the menu structure to implement a capability for screen sequences. This facilitated the design of forms or protocol based data entry.
• Designed and developed software to allow charting as acceptance of previously charted readings.
• Modified the software to ensure data integrity when charting is done after discharge by ADT system.

* Forth / PC level

IITRI, Dover NJ 1987 - 1988
Diversified research organization with emphasis on government contract work.

• Designed a forms based routing system for the US Army, using JAM forms and Sybase database procedures linked together with C language hooks.

* C / Sybase / UNIX

Telesciences, Inc., Fairfield, NJ 1981 - 1987
Built and deployed computer systems which captured and managed Telco information.

• Developed and implemented a highly efficient data re-expansion algorithm. Made use of Host based assembly language to increase data flow.

• Designed and developed internal data set, check pointing and recovery for reliability and reconstruction.
• Adapted software for a variety of output devices, formats, and sources. This included buffering data output to make efficient use of the streaming magnetic tape drive.
• Played key role in software lifecycle: specification writing, component authorship, system testing, problem resolution, version control, working with other departments, guiding junior staff.

* Fortran / C / Assember / HP1000 mini - RTE

Singer Kearfott, Wayne, NJ 1978 - 1981
Developed internal navigation for military aircraft.

• Enhanced, tested, and patched assembly language embedded real time software.

• Maintained a variety of software tools and testing suites used by other engineering groups.

* Fortran / Assembler / IBM JCL

EDUCATION : B.S. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 1978

Visual Basic 6 at County College of Morris Grade: A Completed: 2000
2 Courses in C++ at County College of Morris Grade: A Completed: 2002