David Michael Laub
4645 W. Jerome
Skokie, IL 60076 USA
E-mail: udlaub@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

Position(s) Desired:

• Internal MIS - Web Application Developer
  
• Internal MIS - Programmer Analyst
  
• Internal MIS - Systems Programmer
  
• Multi-Media Development - Multi-Media Developer/Programmer
  
• Product Architecture - Product Architect
  
• Software Development - Internet
  
• Software Development - Software Developer
  

Work History

• Medicus Systems, Evanston,IL
  Company Employee Range: 101-500
  Company Sales Range: $5,000,001-$10,000,000
  provides custome software solutions for the health care industry
  Oct 1995 to Present
  Senior Software Engineer
  Compensation:
  Responsibilities: Design & Develop Software Solution for Health CareSystems
  Comments: * Convert legacy systems from DOS based P System with Btrieve to Windows 95 Delphi and Oracle* Generate general purpose interface engine to load Oracle databases from HL7/ASCII databases* Create pilot Internet Web pages* Enhance UNIX/Motif/Oracle Hospital Patient Management systems
  
  
• Platinum Technology, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, IL
  Company Employee Range: 501-1000
  Company Sales Range: $50,000,001-$250,000,000
  Develop System Software tools and services
  Jan 1995 to Sep 1995
  Senior Software Developer
  Responsibilities: Develop cross platform system software solutions
  Comments: * Ported job scheduling system to run under MS Windows and well as UNIX. Created high level requirements and design documents to gain high level management sign off on the project. Porting includes maximizing code reuse by creating shared libraries, and well as make file conversions. Performed platform dependent code isolation and generalization (e.g. OS level file I/O) to allow maximum portability. Job scheduling system uses Sybase stored procedures to store job definitions and status information. Motif GUI rewritten in Neuron Open Interface to support cross platform deployment.* Evaluate and program wrappers for Message Oriented Middleware environments for distributed processing.* Developed Word Basic macros to communicate withWindows kernel and other DLLs, as well as automate manual document processing tasks.
  Reason for Leaving: Development reorganizations
  
  
• Andersen Consulting, Chicago, IL
  Company Employee Range: 1001+
  Company Sales Range: $250,000,001+
  Provide Consulting and Systems Integration servicesto clients worldwide
  Jan 1993 to Jan 1995
  Senior Information System Engineer
  Responsibilities: Develop software solutions for a wide diversity of clientrequirements
  Comments: Pharmaceutical Retail - Project Leader and SeniorProgrammer/Analyst for re engineering pharmacy operations onto a distributed client/server platform.* Served as project leader and chief designer fordistributed database balancing system.* Designed and programmed database partitioning sort/merge to perform parallel data queries.* Implemented and enhanced printing architecture including bar code construction.* Designed and programmed Tuxedo server programs to access/update distributed Oracle database.* Designed and prototyped SQL/Windows front end client programs.* Designed and implemented test lab for benchmarking PC workstation capabilities.Oil Refinery Design Consultants - Senior Programmer/Analyst for refinery configuration system.* Designed and implemented UNIX Shell and SQL utilities to support system test environment.* Participated in system test prior to final customer acceptance of completed system.Internal Rehosting Initiative - Senior Programmer/Analyst for downsizing OLTP mainframe applications to UNIX, and developing standards for downsizing.* Converted CICS/DB/2 IBM mainframe system to Unikix/Informix Sun client/server configuartion.* Designed and programmed utilities to automate data conversion from DB/2 to Informix.* Benchmarked client/server performance.
  Reason for Leaving: large overtime requirements
  
  
• Enterprise Systems, Inc, Wheeling, IL
  Company Employee Range: 101-500
  Company Sales Range: $10,000,001-$50,000,000
  Generate software solutions for the Health Care Industry
  Nov 1987 to Dec 1992
  Senior Software Consultant
  Responsibilities: Generate software solutionsProvide Internal Training of ProgrammersSet corporate programming standards
  Comments: * Served as project leader and chief designer forpaperless reporting systems.* Converted entire application development environment from MS Pascal to Turbo Pascal, increasing programmer productivity upwards of 20%with minimal retraining. Also created pop-up help system to replace paper based documentation.* Created Report Writer client front end program to interface with Btrieve and Netware SQL engines.* Enhanced and maintained all programming libraries, serving as the foundation for all application development.* Conducted periodic in service training of programming staff in programming techniques and utilities.* Created Turbo Pascal/SQL interface library for XDB.* Enhanced Btrieve environment by adding support for distributed databases.
  Reason for Leaving: Resistance to MS Windows based solutions
  
  
• Medicus Systems, Inc, Evanston, IL
  Company Employee Range: 101-500
  Company Sales Range: $5,000,001-$10,000,000
  Develop Health Care Solutions
  Feb 1986 to Nov 1987
  Senior Software Engineer
  Responsibilities: Software Development
  Comments: * Served as project leader for inventory control system, and sales staff performance system.* Created integrated application development environment using Turbo Pascal and Turbo Toolbox indexed file manager.
  Reason for Leaving: development reorganizations
  
  
• Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
  Company Employee Range: 51-100
  Company Sales Range: $0-$1,000,000
  Liberal Arts Educational Institution
  Sep 1982 to Dec 1983
  Assistant Professor of Information Systems
  Responsibilities: Teaching Classes
  Comments: * Taught classes in Database, Pascal, COBOL, and introduction to data processing.* Served on faculty committee to expand the undergraduate curriculum for computer science majors.
  Reason for Leaving: financial necessity
  
  
• Gould Laboratories, Inc, Gould Laboratories, Inc
  Company Employee Range: 101-500
  Company Sales Range: $10,000,001-$50,000,000
  Develop Scientific Software Systems
  Oct 1981 to Sep 1982
  Software Engineer
  Responsibilities: Software Development
  Comments: * Designed a data entry system for use in submarines utilizing a pen based bit tablet.* Maintained a terminal emulation program handlingasynch communications with remote host systems.
  Reason for Leaving: To assume a college level faculty position
  
  
• The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Company Employee Range: 1001+
  Company Sales Range: $50,000,001-$250,000,000
  Leading Financial Institution in Chicago
  Jun 1976 to Sep 1981
  Lead Programmer/Analyst
  Responsibilities: Software Development
  Comments: * Supervised a group of five programmers supporting the bank's funds transfer system.* Participated in the installation of the bank's first 4331 mainframe system.* Participated in the design of an intra-bank communications network.
  Reason for Leaving: Migration to mini & microcomputer based solutions
  
  
• Nixdorf Computer, Inc, Park Ridge, IL
  Company Employee Range: 51-100
  Company Sales Range: $1,000,001-$5,000,000
  Develop Accounting Solutions
  May 1973 to Jun 1976
  Programmer
  Responsibilities: Software Development
  Comments: * Programmed accounting applications, sort utilities, and device drivers for national headquarters.
  Reason for Leaving: corporate reoganization
  
  

Information Technology Skills: (Premier skills are bold.)
Description	Level	Experience	Focus
C++	Expert	5+ years	UNIX (gnu) & Windows (MS, Microsoft) & ANSI C
Delphi	Advanced	5+ years	Also Turbo Pascal
SQL	Expert	5+ years	Oracle, SQLServer, Informix
DOS	Expert	5+ years
Oracle	Expert	2 to 4 years
Btrieve	Expert	5+ years
Oracle	Expert	5+ years
Intel PC Compatibles	Expert	5+ years
WindowsNT	Advanced	2 to 4 years
Windows95	Advanced	1/2 to 2 years
Windows 3.x	Advanced	5+ years
UNIX	Advanced	5+ years	Also HP-UX, SUN OS, Motif
ODBC	Advanced	2 to 4 years
Word	Advanced	5+ years
JAVA	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	Also JavaScript
Assembler	Intermediate	2 to 4 years	not used recently
Perl	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	also CGI/Gateway programming, UNIX shells, awk, sed, tcl/tk
VisualBASIC	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	Also VB for Applications, VBScript
Visual C++	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
BASIC	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	Visual Basic
HTML	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	Also MS FrontPage
Linux	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
AIX	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
DOS/VSE	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	Not used recently
Solaris	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
CASE	Intermediate	Less than 1/2 year
Microsoft MFC	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Microsoft OLE	Intermediate	Less than 1/2 year
PVCS	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
OCXs	Intermediate	Less than 1/2 year
SourceSafe	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Winsock	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Excel	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Paradox	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
PowerPoint	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Access	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Jet (Access)	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Interbase	Intermediate	Less than 1/2 year
Microsoft SQL Server	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
SQLBase	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Sybase	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Financial Services	Intermediate	5+ years
Medical/Dental/Healthcare	Intermediate	5+ years
HP Mini	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years	not used recently
SparcStation	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Intel PC Servers	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
Digital PDP	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
IBM 43xx Series	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
IBM 370 Series	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
IPX/SPX	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
Token Ring	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
TCP/IP	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
APPC	Intermediate	1/2 to 2 years
Ethernet	Intermediate	2 to 4 years
Fortran	Novice	Less than 1/2 year	not used recently
Smalltalk	Novice	Less than 1/2 year	VSE, also TopLink
PL/1	Novice	Less than 1/2 year	not used recently
Watcom	Novice	Less than 1/2 year
POP	Novice	1/2 to 2 years
Zmodem	Novice	Less than 1/2 year
Asymetrix Multimedia Toolkit	Novice	Less than 1/2 year
Macromedia Director	Novice	Less than 1/2 year

Education

• DePaul University, Chicago,IL
  Degree: MS Honors: with Distinction GPA: 3.90
  Major: Computer Science
  Attended part-time Oct 1980 to Jun 1982
  
  
• Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
  Degree: BS Honors: with High Honors GPA: 3.80
  Major: Science
  Attended full time Sep 1969 to May 1973
  
  

Other Information

• Preferred Work Location: Chicago, IL
  • I am not willing to relocate.
• My commute limitation is 45 minutes.
• I am not willing to travel.
• Citizenship: USA

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