Don Bodnar

Fairfield, IA (USA)
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Founder/Owner/Principal

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Location: Fairfield
Industry: Software
Year Founded: 2008
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Description: I am the main developer for this company. My background includes 27 years in software development. My resume follows: CV Don Bodnar [<a href="(URL removed)">send me a message</a>] (URL removed) Career Objective To provide dynamic technical expertise to organizations striving to achieve rapid growth and unparalleled success through the development and application of software technologies. To work with and lead a group of dynamic thinkers who are highly motivated to build advanced software based products on budget, on time. Experience Overview * 20+ years involvement in software development. * 5 years experience managing software professionals. * 3 years working with and building eLearning systems such as LMS, CMS and SMS. * 7 years experience in customer communication and relationship development. * 5 years experience recruiting and building technical teams including programmers, testers, instructional designers and graphics illustrators. * Extensive experience in business development through business ownership and entrepreneurial activities. Major Achievements * Built a complete e-Learning product line during my tenure at IMED Link over 4+ years. This product included a Learning Management System (LMS), Content Management System (CMS) and Student User Interface (UI). Each of these systems was built using C#, (URL removed) and SQL2000. My responsibilities included Joint Application Design (JAD), modeling with UML and finally implementing and testing the systems. I was the manager for a group of seven developers whom I interviewed and hired. I also built the ten member Q/A group, led two system analysts and managed the content development team comprised of three graphics designers and two instructional designers. * Another interesting project completed at IMED Link was a PowerPoint 'ingestion' system which read data from PowerPoint slides using an API and stored that information in SQL for later manipulation by the CMS. * Developed a Health Care portal at IMED Link that included a sophisticated search engine that retrieved abstract information from the National Library of Medicine. Daily news feeds from Reuters were also processed into XML automatically and reformatted using XSLT for display within the portal. There were separate sub-areas of the site that were made available based on the user's profile. * Designed and created (URL removed) at IMED Link. This site was used to recruit nurses for our e-Learning system. * At Microsoft I built a system that allowed the Windows Update Group to verify that CAB files hosted on three remotely located server clusters served up the most recent version of each product made available on Windows Update. This was accomplished by placing an ASP page and several DLLs on a separate machine in each of the clusters. Then, a file list to process was regularly transmitted to this ASP page. Once the file list was processed using checksums, a failure list was transmitted back to the reporting machine within Microsoft. Servers containing the outdated CAB files were then pulled from the cluster until they could be updated. * Created (URL removed) . All work was completed using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop. Code was written in PHP with a MySQL backend. * Design built and tested (URL removed) . This site is based on the lifelong artist work of my father Bill. The site is created using PHP and MySQL. All code is original, including the shopping cart. All of the catalog pages are database driven. Used Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop extensively. * Built employee administration intranet application to manage sales payout, bonuses and incentives. Also controls access via active directory interface. Used COM+ and impersonation within (URL removed) to allow appropriate authorization. * Developed a real-time data replication system that moved data from an internal SQL2000 platform to an external ORACLE 9i platform. A complex data transformation and translation algorithm was derived and documented using UML and the final system was built using (URL removed), T-SQL stored procedures and triggers on the SQL2000 server. This was my most recent project for VOLT which concluded in November 2004. Technical Skill Highlights ** 3 years (URL removed) experience - C#, (URL removed), (URL removed) ** 3 years Java, JSP, TOMCAT, APACHE ** 3 years ASP development ** 4 years SQL 2000 ** 3 years SQL 97 ** 1 year Oracle 9 ** 5 years as technical team leader ** 4 years consulting with Educators in Academic Environment ** Have extensive experience with SQL stored procedures and triggers. Work Experience Summary 7/2007 -- Present Pearson Software Engineer ** Creating web applications in support of the usability group. ** Building a system status monitoring application that contains an administrative and public component. ** Working with other developers and usability experts in architecting next generation web based systems. ** Using PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Access, JSP and Java . 5/2005 - 7/2007 Bodnar Publishing. Web Development (Owner of business) ** Creating ecommerce application for fine art sale and presentation. ** Vendor login will support resale of fine art cards to retailer. ** Developing an in depth customer resource management system. ** Acquired all imagery, edited into useable formats and prepared for reproduction. ** Using PHP, MySQL to implement the site. 11/2004 - 4/2005 Dataline Inc. Software Developer (Financial Alternatives Inc.) ** Building (URL removed) applications using (URL removed), (URL removed), SQL 2000 and ORACLE. ** Record validation includes use of active directory to assure proper user names. ** Application is for employee administration at Financial Alternatives Inc. 4/1999 - 11/2004 IMED Link, Inc. Bethesda, MD Senior Software Engineer ** Designed (URL removed) architecture for all product areas, including third generation Learning Management, Content Management and User Interface Systems. ** Wrote (URL removed), C# and SQL stored procedures to build each application. ** Assured that all software was standards conformant. ** Analyzed, wrote and tested each iteration of all products. These products included e-Commerce and e-Learning applications. 1998-4/1999 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA Software Engineer ** Designed and implemented the mirror site validator tool (MSV) for the Windows98 update site. ** Work was done in ASP / SQL6.5 and COM. The effort required extensive understanding of related web technology. ** The application provided a means to ensure that bits being published on all servers (30 in total) in three remote clusters were current. The MSV system provided eyes into each machine. ** Real-time reporting was available to allow removal of servers with dated bits (CAB files). Nearly perfect content quality assurance was guaranteed by this application. 1995-1998 Jaytec Development Corporation Arlington, VA Owner and Software Engineer ** Developed client-server applications for grass roots database management. ** Clients included pharmaceutical, insurance, and healthcare companies. ** Designed and implemented systems in FoxPro and Visual Basic. September 1992 - April 1995 Software Engineer, Human Brain Research Inc., Potomac MD Designed and implemented software for man-machine interface including real-time control of robotics devices using EEGs. Tested X-windows based implementation of "Truth-Detector", a real-time polygraph system using brain-wave analysis. Worked in Assembler and 'C++' to implement the Unified Field Experiment for Dr. Lawrence Farwell. Languages used: Borland Turbo 'C/C++', 8085 Assembler, Graphics packages for DOS. Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows and DOS January 1990 - September 1992 Music Instruction, Arlington Virginia ********** Composer and Instructor Composed a collection of Classical Piano works and sold professionally. Taught piano from my home. September 1986 - December 1989 Software Engineer, Microdynamics, Silver Spring MD Developed Space Flight Software for the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) for the Naval Research Laboratory. Used 'C' and Assembler. September 1982 - August 1986 Senior Software Engineer, VA TECH, ESM Department Managed the ESM Computer Services Department which included several Data General Minicomputers, Apollo Unix Workstations, Sun Workstations, and several TCP/IP based networks all configured with a variety of UNIX systems. Supervised technical personnel and graduate students. Integrated variety of UNIX based systems into numerous different laboratories. Those included materials testing, vibrations, fluids, and wind tunnels. August 1980 - August 1982 Software Engineer, Adaptronics Inc, McLean VA Designed and implemented software in 'C', Fortran, and Assembler for the ALN-4060 Ultrasonic Flaw Discriminator. Education Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA ** Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Interests Music composition, cooking, gardening and carpentry.
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