Curriculuum Vitae
Alicia Carla Simpson
Enterprise Communications Specialist
Primary Expertise in: Analysis & Design.
I have considerable experience in interacting with persons at all levels of
an organization. I have learned to communicate with all levels in a manner
that produces trust, enables a close working relationship, and produces
quality two-way communication. This is essential in learning the needs and
wants of users to create a product that will meet these needs. I have always
felt that my primary responsibility is to develop good lines of
communications to do my job correctly.
Experience:
Primary responsibilities involved Enterprise Communication.
Interface with clients' management and users to determine needs and wants.
Design a prototype user-interface and establish a design document. Work with
clients' management and users to refine the user-interface and the design
documents until there is a meeting of the minds as to what is needed and
wanted.
Using the design document and the user-interface, as team lead, I would
assign each member of the team to develop a class or module and coordinate
the teams efforts and integrate the results into the user interface.
Work with quality assurance to develop a test script and test and debug the
application.
Develop user documentation and training materials. Coordinate with management
to establish training schedules so key users and management will be familiar
with the software when released by quality assurance.
Responsible for evaluating new technology Currently working with VB
.NET, ASP .NET and SQL Server 2000.
Also: Consulting on computer system design, recommending hardware/software
for enterprise systems and installing enterprise resource reporting and
planning systems
I have the following language and platform experience:
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Windows NT/2000/XP>
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15 Years
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Unix/Linux
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10 Years
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C and C++
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17 Years
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Visual Basic
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8 Years
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SQL (ANSI, Transact, P/L)
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5 Years
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HTML
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8 Years
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XML/XSL
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3 Year
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ASP
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1 Year
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COM/COM+
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2 Years
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.NET
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1 Year
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VBScript
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3 Years
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PHP
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2 Year
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Javascript
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3 Year
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Developed and taught courses in spreadsheet design, word processing, database
development, and report creation and development. Also developed and taught
courses for most of the applications I designed and coded, as well as,
applications designed and coded by others.
Developed courseware for Lotus 123, dBase, the 'C' programming language, and
the Microsoft Office Suite.
As a substitute teacher I taught the following subjects:
English, Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, General Science, and Computer
Science.
Swansea School System, Swansea MA, Case High School and Case Junior
High
Fall River School System, Fall River MA, Durfee High School
Westport School System, Westport, MA, Westport Junior High School
As a college instructor I taught courses in computer applications-database,
spreadsheet, and word processing and courses in computer programming-`C' and
the dBase scripting language.
Bristol Community College
Reviewed enterprise data needs and developed a database schema to implement
those needs. Develop data mining techniques for cross-departmental reporting.
Integrate existing clients into enterprise wide database. Develop new clients
when it is not economical to integrate existing clients.
Performed analysis & design for a network management system. The
application would poll multiple digital cellular telephone repeaters (this
device `repeated' signals where the structure would otherwise seriously
reduce signal strength).
The primary portion of the application was written in `C'. This was a
multi-threaded application that kept track of the repeater's status. I
designed this application, coded the main routines and produce a code
outline. A second `C' programmer coded about half the application under my
supervision and training (I had to train the programmer in database
applications and multi-threaded issues). One major function was to enable the
system to send text messages to pagers and cellular telephones when a problem
is encountered.
A secondary part was a maintenance program coded in Visual Basic version 6.0.
This program displayed the results of the polling (an embedded database was
used to store and retrieve values) and allowed the user to make modifications
to the parameters of each repeater. I worked with a Technical Writer to
develop the documentation.
Provided systems/development support for Restaurant Point of Sale system,
which uses Sybase as a back end. Support involved writing applications in
Visual Basic, DOS and the Windows NT command processor scripting language,
Windows scripting, SQL, and a proprietary scripting language built into a DOS
application-ReMACS. Other duties required analyzing application log files to
determine the causes of problems. To assist in this I wrote an application in
Visual Basic to partially automate the analysis of log files. I also wrote a
3 part application designed to keep track of version data on custom stored
procedures across 600+ Restaurants. ActiveX Data Objects (ADO 2.1) and other
ActiveX controls, also ODBC and SQL.
Developed n-tier database application to act as a portal for access to text
messaging facility for pagers and cellular telephones. Development was done
in Visual Basic 5.0 using Windows Sockets (VB Winsock control), Smithware
Btreive Controls and Btreive 6.15. The application was multi-threaded and
used CGI on Windows NT Server 4.0 and IIS. Smithware ActiveX Controls
for Btrieve and Winsock ActiveX controls.
Data was pulled from multiple locations using multiple protocols. It was then
parsed and stored before being packaged and transmitted as text to pagers and
cellular telephones.
Worked with a development team to rewrite a DOS application used to provide
automated control of a Concrete Plant to a Windows 2000 environment. I
designed both the database schema and the primary user interface. Developed
specifications for data access (using SQL Server, the Microsoft Database
Engine and XML/XSL), internationalization and localization and coding
practices and standards.
Coded stored procedures and triggers to make maximum use of the RDBMS to
off-load processing. This is an N-Tier application, the Primary application
allowing monitoring and setting of parameters for the production of concrete.
The relational datab management system, which was accessed via an ActiveX out
of process server and ADO across an ODBC interface, served to store
application data. Finally, the Batch Control System was an application
written in `C' and embedded in the physical hardware that controlled the
plant.
The application was coded to be Web-enabled, using XML and XSL, to allow
control from remote locations or to use one server on the Internet to
implement a portal for accessing multiple plants.
Performed analysis & design for a port of several track measurement
applications, written in Watcom `C', from MS-DOS running on a VME Bus to
Windows NT 4.0, using Visual C++ 6.0, also running on a VME Bus. Assisted in
stabilizing existing code preparatory to the port.
The applications received track data (from a 3rd party application),
aggregated, displayed, stored, and processed the data to insure that the
tracks met all applicable safety standards.
Assisted the team writing the Visual Basic version of DMS's GasPro product.
The original product was written in FoxPro. The update is being written
in Visual Basic 6.0 using an Oracle back end. My assignment involved
developing forms and writing business logic to perform rate calculations and
display and enter gas volume adjustments. Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle, SQL, and
Windows NT Server, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO2.0) and ODBC
Responsible for developing programs in Visual Basic 5.0 and C++ for Flight
Information Display System on a variety of platforms, including Novell 4.1
and Windows NT 4.0. I developed installation scripts for Windows NT. I
developed programs in C++ to access the Windows Registry, Install and remove
NT Services, and set security attributes in Windows NT. I developed
multi-threaded applications using different kernel objects (mutexes,
semaphores, and critical sections) to synchronize various threads.
Other responsibilities: providing technical support for the systems
developed, preparing documentation, and developing demonstrations for
marketing efforts.
Visual Basic 5.0, Visual C++ 1.51 and 5.0, and Wise Installation System
Developed a Business Tracking System in Visual FoxPro.
Upgraded existing cost model from dBase IV to FoxPro for DOS, designed
/redesigned reports. Assisted team in developing `Idea' tracking system in
FoxPro for DOS. Wrote several utilities for managing a distributed data base,
developed system to incorporate individual database parts into a single
database maintained at the MIS center. Wrote cost distribution and reporting
system related to the main tracking system. Wrote several file management and
printer control utilities in `C'.
Applications development under Unix in 'C'. I developed utilities to; perform
lookups in data files, convert data retrieved from a System 38 to a format
usable by store systems, and shell scripts to operate them. I developed a
store to cc:Mail import/export facility to allow store managers to
communicate with the corporate staff via e-mail.
Wrote three ActiveX controls and a CGI Script to transfer data from a website
to a PC. Unix Server, Windows 95. Visual Basic Control Creation Edition,
Visual Basic for Applications.
Performed all page layout for a 40+ page magazine and a 4+ page newsletter.
Interfaced with printer to insure that the printer obtained all
materials in a timely manner. Worked with writers to design articles for
maximum flexibility in layout and article length. Also developed some
of the content.
Worked with Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Photoshop, as well as, Microsoft's
Office.
Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA.
Associate of Science, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration Accounting
Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Psychology
27 Credits in Education and 36 credits in Engineering
Military Accounting School, Ft Ben Harrison, Indianapolis
Bachelor of Science, Governmental Accounting
