Jeffery Scott Brooks 877-273-3877
scottb@a7dev.com 2515 Halifax Court Middletown, OH  45044

Objective
While it is hard to condense 25+ years of work experience into a couple of pages, my goal is to provide some insight into the type of work I have performed. If you feel some of my experiences may be of assistance to your company, please give me a call.

Languages
Microsoft C#, ASP.NET, Win32 Apps and Web Apps, 1 1/2 year
SQL Server 2000 (SQL and Transact-SQL), 5+ years
Visual Basic, version 3-6, 12+ years
Active Server Pages (ASP), VBScript, JavaScript, 8+years
Foxpro, version 1-3 (DOS and Windows), too long
xBase (DBXL, CA Clipper, dBASE III+)
Visual Basic for Applications (automating Access, Word, Excel, and Outlook)
Business Basic, 2 yr. Utility programs supporting MAS90 Accounting Software
I have also had the "pleasure" of programming in QuickBasic, Mars Basic, IRL, WScript, and C.
Although not technically languages, I am experienced with XML, CSS, HTML

Experience

A7Dev - Middletown OH, Aug 05 - Present
Owner, Project Lead, Computer Programmer
  1. Kettering Seminars Web Scheduler Conversion (ASP.NET/C#) - This project involved converting an incomplete ASP application that had lingered for nearly two years.  By moving it to .NET/C#, I was able to complete the project.
  2. GoPromo WebBuilder Conversion (ASP.NET/C#, SQL Server 2000) - Upgrading this site to SQL2K (from Access) solved a major scalability problem.  Converting the code to C# provided a much richer and dynamic user interface.
  3. BradyWare Data Conversion, import, and folder maintenance programs (Visual Basic 6)
  4. Postal Zip code WebService (C#) - As a working demo for a customer, I built a web service that returns zip code, city, and state information.
  5. Yoder Industries .NET Remoting/serial interface to scale - The serial port portion of this app was done in C# 2.0.  It runs on a computer in the shipping area.  The computer from the data center uses .NET Remoting (1.1) to connect to the shipping computer and request the current weight from the scale.
  6. Network Administration - Responsible for every step of purchasing, building loading, and maintaining computers.  Maintain more than 150 sites in IIS (wrote program to automate new domains).  Maintain DNS servers (wrote another program to script adding new domains). Responsible for ISA Firewall, keeping computers patched, backed up, etc...
  7. Screen Scraping Application - C# windows application that gets the source of a web page every 15 seconds, and uses RegEx to parse the desired portions into a database.
United Telemanagement Corp. - Dayton OH, May 03 - Aug 05
Director Software Support & Development
  1. Hospital Software Installation and Upgrade - During this two year period, we installed and maintained our application in more than 20 hospitals. Most hospitals required a trip to install a server at the location, and another trip when the hospital went live on the system.
  2. Telelink Verison 3.0 - I was one of three architects and the principle developer of the Next Generation software that runs the majority of their business.  Another developer and I had developed the original application in Foxpro DOS more than 8 years earlier. We moved the application into Active Server Pages, SQL Server 2K, and Visual Basic.
  3. Maintenance Programming - Modified existing programs to provide additional functionality as business needs changed. I was the person primarily responsible for debugging and enhancing the applications developed by WBSolution.
WBSolution, Inc. - Dayton OH, Mar 99, May 03
Co-Owner, Project Lead, Computer Programmer
  1. GoPromo Website -
  2. WBSolution Intranet -
  3. Location Monitor - Visual Basic 6/ASP Web site providing information from our servers located in hospitals around the country.
  4. Marathon Specialty Products (Rocketport 16-port serial) - This application interfaces to a bank of 12+ serial printers and based on the part scanned, sends the correct label(s) to the correct printer(s)
  5. Health Level Seven Interface (HL7) -
  6. Develop Telephony Application - Describe Telephony application.
  7. Interface, Siemens HiPath Telephone Switch (Serial) -
  8. Interface, NEC NEAX 2400/2400 Telephone Switch (Serial, API)
  9. Interface, Alcatel Telephone Switch (Dialogic)
  10. Interface, Nortel Option 81 Telephone Switch (Dialogic)
  11. Interface, SL100 Telephone Switch (IP)
  12. Interface, Lucent/Definity Telephone Switch (Dialogic)
  13. eBay API Application -
Sidney MicroSystems - Sidney OH, May 96 - Mar 99
System Analyst
  1. Developed CORE - Developed a "Compoment Oriented Reusable Environment" system in Visual Basic that allows transparent communications between various shop floor terminals (Intermec, Computerwise, and a few others).  This system handled the basic communications plumbing with the devices.  This allowed the other developers to focus on the specific business requirements.
  2. Hartzell Fan - Wrote the pricing module of a sales order application.  This application was written in Visual Basic 4-16 so that it could run on Windows 3.1 (Many of the sales reps had older computers)
  3. Handheld Serial Transfer - Wrote the PC side (in Visual Basic) that transfers information to and from an Intermec Janus handheld.
  4. Wally Byam Caravan Club - Converted the membership system from dBase III+ to Foxpro for Windows (version 2.6)
  5. Access DB/Excel Automation - Wrote a Visual Basic app that allows the user to enter equipment downtime information into an Access database.  Also wrote Visual Basic for Applications code in Excel to pull the data from the Access database.
  6. Sales Order System - Converted to a multi-user MDI based Visual Basic Application using Microsoft SQL Server as the database engine.
  7. Goodyear - Developed a Visual Basic touch screen application used on a shop floor that allows operators to easily select the next job to start and view information about the current job.
Barcode Management Systems - Dayton OH, Oct 94 - May 96
System Analyst
  1. Summit Polymers, Kalamazoo MI - Developed a Visual Basic Multidrop application that communicates with shop floor terminals to provide lot traceability for passenger airbag covers.
  2. Formerly Zeneca AG Products, North Little Rock AK - Wrote major portions of an application to print and apply barcode labels to jugs, boxes, and pallets.  Also developed a status screen that displayed real time production data.
  3. Navistar, Springfield OH - Developed a client server ODBC (Watcom SQL) VB interface between an Intermec Janus 2020 scanner used for quality assurance.
  4. AAP, St. Marys OH - Completed an application used for shop floor data collection system that uses ComputerWise terminals and Vertex Bridgenet software.  Used Foxpro for reporting.
  5. Team Building - Implemented version control software (Sourcesafe), and trained staff on how to use it. Instituted coding standards and created a library of reusable components.
Experience prior to 1992 ...

Education
Miami-Jacobs College, Dayton OH, Jan 1987 - June 1989
Associate Degree in Marketing Management.

Personal
  1. Books - Some of the books I have read recently, and some of the classics.
  2. Hannah's site - One of those major life changing moments is when you get a call from your wife informing you that your 18 year old daughter is being flown by CareFlight to Miami Valley Hospital.  There were so many people wanting to know Hannah's status that I developed this site while she was still in a coma.  It was good medicine for me, and it helped a bunch of people all over the country follow her progress.
  3. Family Pictures

References

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