Robert Palmer

 

San Diego, CA

858-457-2686

Email: robert@rpalmer.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Objective

Director, Software Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

Profile

·    Highly effective developer with demonstrated ability to bring software projects to successful completion

·    Articulate and communicative – able to formulate concepts and convey ideas to management, technical personnel and clients

·    Full-cycle development experience: analysis, design, implementation, integration and deployment

·    100,000 lines of C# program code and 20,000 lines of Oracle PL/SQL procedure code currently in production

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skills

·    C# programming using Visual Studio 2005 and .Net 2.0 framework

·    Design and implementation of feature-rich, event-driven forms

·    Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures for data transformation and retrieval

·    Relational data modeling and management in a client-server architecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Experience

 

 

 

 

 

October 2006

- present

Associate Director, Software Development

 

Promoted for successful achievement of company goals to develop a software product supporting research technology marketed to government and institutional laboratories. Current responsibilities include those of the previous position and additionally:

 

·        Software integration with manufacturing and order fulfillment systems

·        Coordination with software consultants for realization of project goals

·        Documentation and knowledge transfer to in-house developers

 

 

 

 

September 2001

- September 2006

 

Lead programmer developing software marketed to research laboratories for management of experiment data.  Responsible for

 

·        Relational database model and PL/SQL interface

·        ADO.NET data access layer programmed in C#

·        Event-driven forms to model the experiment work flow

·        Data services API for robot controller software

·        XML-based interface with third-party analysis software

·        Deployment scripts for management of client installations

 

 

 

Previously

 

·        Lead developer of a commercial software product marketed to pharmaceutical laboratories for high-throughput laboratory screening.  Responsible for design and implementation of the relational data model, Windows Explorer-style user interface and Visual Basic program code to model laboratory work flow.

 

·        Fifteen years software development and consulting experience.  Developed custom database applications for clients in engineering, finance, and law. Work history and references available.

 

 

Education

MA, French literature, University of Pittsburgh