Education
1997-2003 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science

2003-2004 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Master of Arts Degree in Computer Science with emphasis on Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Skills
Administration and Management:
Technology Project Management with focus on Agile Project Management.
Constructing and Managing highly functional and efficient IT teams.
Business Process Analysis.
Computer Systems Analysis.

Computer Networking:
Unix server administration (Linux, Solaris, and BSD) including High Availability, clustered environments, web servers, database servers, mail servers, and application servers (J2EE, Coldfusion, ...etc).
Windows server administration (All major versions of Windows), IIS, SQL Server, Active Directory, Coldfusion.

Computer Programming Skills:
Java (J2EE, EJB 3.0, Swing), C, C++ , C#, .Net, Coldfusion, Web 2.0 (Prototype, YUI, Dojo, ...etc), AJAX, XHTML, Javascript, PHP, Unix/Linux Shell (Bash, Sh, ...etc.), Perl, OpenGL.

Database Skills:
SQL data model design and normalization.
Implementation and administration of Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL database systems.

Work Experience
1998-1999 — Gateway — North Sioux City, SD
Technical Support Professional
In the time I worked for Gateway I consistently exceeded all expectations, was named employee of the month for my team three times, and employee of the month for the entire tech floor twice.

1999-2000 — Gateway — North Sioux City, SD
Senior Technical Support Professional

2000-2002 — Gateway — North Sioux City, SD
Elite Technical Support Professional
In March 2000 I was transferred to the Elite Corporate Support team where I provided support for large corporations such as Devry and HBO.
The majority of my time at Gateway was spent working directly with clients to help them solve technical issues with their Gateway Portables. I have supported every major Windows operating system from Dos 6.22 to Windows XP.

2002-2003 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Software Engineer for Church Information System Project (J2EE, JDBC, Swing, MySQL)
Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java Swing were the technologies chosen for this project.
This project started as an in class exercise for the Software Engineering class at USD. After the conclusion of this project I worked with one other individual to complete the software.

2002-2004 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Graduate Assistant for NSF Bioinformatics grant (J2EE, JDBC, JSP, MySQL, Oracle)
I was responsible for the design and development of generalized database connection and query tools.
These tools were integrated into several different projects. Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java Database Connectivity were the technologies chosen for this project.

2003-2004 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Lead Architect/Project Manager for Sioux Valley Regional Health Services Information System Project (J2EE, JDBC, JSP, MySQL)
Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java Server Pages were the technologies chosen for this project.
First project developed by Smart Software Solutions, Inc.

2004-2005 — University of South Dakota — Vermillion, SD
Master's Thesis. `Federated QTool: Database Querying Simplified`. (J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Swing, MySQL, Oracle)
Link to Thesis : http://www.usd.edu/csci/research/index.cfm#msmart
Focused on the creation of read only database federations that could be easily queried using SQL.
A prototype federated query tool was created that allowed a user to query multiple data sources using a single query and retrieve the results in a single, merged result set.

2004-Present — Smart Software Solutions, Inc — Pierre, SD
President and Director of Research
I am responsible for directing all research and development activities at Smart Software Solutions. The company now employs twenty software engineers. I handle all management and administration tasks. The company has completed dozens of software projects utilizing almost every major technology platform in use today.