Theodore Ward
7730 South 28^th West Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74132
Voice: (918) 446-8540 Fax: (419) 781-6886
TheodoreWard@Yahoo.com

• PERSONAL

I am an excellent, experienced programmer with a strong belief that code should be efficient, robust, well documented and arranged in readable form. Also, and perhaps most important, I believe a body of code should be as simple as the above criteria allow.
I incorporated myself in 1999 as AstroComma Incorporated to facilitate consulting and contracting. I have copyrighted two applications under AstroComma.
I work very well with others and appreciate opportunities for collaboration. I can speak conversational Spanish.

• EDUCATION

Advanced C++ Programming University of Colorado at Boulder. Spring 1995.
BS Computer Science Oklahoma State University. Completed December 1992.
Electronic Theory US Navy Electronic Technical Training. April 1987 - May 1988.

• COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY STRENGTHS

C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, VBScript, Java, JavaScript, DHTML, HTML, Java Server Pages, Enterprise Java Beans, Active Server Pages, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, BEA Weblogic Application Server, ODBC, JDBC, SQL, Regular Expressions, Objected Oriented design, Software architecture.

• OTHER COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Oracle database, Sybase, Intel 80x86 Assembler, VAX Assembler, Ada, Pascal, Microsoft IIS, Macintosh, Cross Platform Development, CORBA, Device Driver development (DOS, NT), Unix, Linux, Java Swing, Java Applets, Microsoft Foundation Classes, ActiveX., Perl.

• WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Java Developer : Transzap Inc. February 1999 – Present.

Design and develop backend software for an extensive web application. Oildex software enables oil and gas companies to exchange confidential and proprietary information. Implementing this project has required integrating the following technologies: Java programming language, Weblogic Application Server, Oracle Database, SQL, Java Server Pages, Enterprise Java Beans, JDBC, XML, XSLT, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Regular Expressions, and Castor objects.

Contract Programmer : IHS Inc., Vyvx Inc., CFS Inc., AstroComma Inc. March 1997 – February 1999.
Debugged and maintained web-commerce project involving IIS and Active Server Pages with Java, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, SQL Server and CORBA to retrieve data from backend Oracle databases.
Designed and developed software in Visual Basic, C++ and Java. The software over this period has been implemented on Macintosh, Windows, Windows/NT and UNIX platforms.
Designed and developed two applications for my own corporation AstroComma, including a generic data conversion engine and interface.

Programmer/Project lead : Avis/Wizcom Inc. August 1996 - March 1997.
Planned and implemented new functionality to existing worldwide rental car reservation software. Ultimately responsible for scheduling, implementation and testing. Duties included using Microsoft project to create project plans, planning and conducting user meetings to gather requirements and implement all code simultaneously on the Apple Macintosh, Unix and Windows environments.

Programmer : GeoGraphix Inc. November 1993 - August 1996.
Developed new petroleum reservoir assessment/forecasting product as part of a three man team using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++ for the Windows 16 bit environment. Project was on time and successful. Implemented security/tracking software for company-wide product suites using MSVC and VB as part of Architecture group. Involved with design, and solely responsible for implementation of a prototype object oriented, generic and extensible ASCII-to-database import engine. Also wrote the user interface to facilitate drag-and-drop ASCII to database mapping. This project was initially written in VB and integrated VB's object and OLE automation capabilities. Later re-wrote the import code as a component control in MSVC making extensive use of the Microsoft Foundation Classes and OLE 2.0 automation for the Windows 32-bit platform. I also completed a C++/MFC implementation of the user interface.

Programmer: Time Management Software Incorporated, March 1993 - November 1993.
Wrote video device drivers in assembler and C. Also wrote example code and demo programs for commercial video compression and manipulation programmers libraries.