Resume: Joel Goldstick: Expert Website Development Columbus, OH ColumbusWebMakers.com

Resume: Joel Goldstick

617 E. 3rd Ave, Columbus, OH 43214

(614)405-9581

Skills Summary

Organizational

Senior Software Developer. Over 20 years of system and application software development on Windows NT, 95, 98, 3.1, DOS using Visual Basic, Access, Outlook, MSOffice VBA, C, C++, PHP, VBScript, JavaScript, SQL, ASP, HTML, CSS and a great variety of other languages and Development tools.
Team leader/mentor, Independent contributor, and group member.
Ability and experience with all aspects of technical project completion – definition, analysis, design, implementation, scheduling, team coordination, mentoring and project leadership.
Keenly interested in listening to and analyzing customer needs to produce highly productive solutions using custom software or integrating off-the-shelf software as appropriate.
· Exceptional understanding of User Interface design issues, teaching applications to new users, and rich experience with direct customer contact

Programming Languages & Technologies

Web skills include CSS, Active Server Pages, PWS, IIS, HTML, XML, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, cookies, Data base access, forms. W3C DOM, DHTML
Visual Basic v3 to v6, VBA including writing ActiveX Controls and DLLs, VBScript, JavaScript. Object Oriented Programming (OOPS), InstallShield, Many OCXs, OLE automation, Collaborative Data Objects (CDO), MAPI, SQL, DAO, ADO, Registry internals, Win API, OOP techniques, source code control (Source Safe)
Knowledge of database design and normalization, MS Access design, SQL Server 6.5, 7.0
Experienced with many Object libraries and ActiveX controls including ADO, CDO, ASP, MAPI, Crystal Reports
Experience building classes, ActiveX Controls and ActiveX DLLs in Visual Basic 5, 6 and VBScript environment. Windows API calls and API wrappers.

Employment History

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Aug 2001 - present

Distance Education Technical Coordinator.

Point person for on-line course development and publication efforts of large textbook publisher. In one year 26 semester-length courses were published for use in community college, vocational and technical schools compared to 4 courses published in the year before I arrived.
Program manager and Project Lead– coordinated, monitored, directed activities of Technical development, sales training, marketing strategy, IT support
LMS administrator – administered WebCT and Blackboard Learning Management development and demo servers.
Web developer – Created web site content, css, format for customer information site, sales training site for program
Software developer – developed Access database application for PIN code management – coordinated PIN code delivery and reporting on Course, School, student, and course basis. Information used to give student access and to report to sales.
WebCT, Blackboard, Customer Service, Website design, Marketing, Editorial Liaison, Managed Development process, VBA Access coding, CSS, HTML, IIS, Testing, PIN Code Management system. Automatic Response Mail program. System administration.

ColumbusWebMakers July 1999 - present

Website Design and Implementation

Design small business web sites using ASP, CityDesk, IIS, Apache, MS Access, and mySQL, PHP. Webmaster.

Sterling Commerce January 2000 – March 2001

E Business Consultant

Designed and implemented several Web based projects including Corporate Education and Training Catalog and Enrollment Web site designed to act as a front end to Geometrix TP2000 E & T Software package which allowed customers to review course offerings, and sign up for classes via the Internet. Responsibilities included project lead, needs analysis, functional design; implementation Technologies used included Active Server Pages, ADO, SQL7, IIS, and HTML. This site continues to work, unaltered since its publication in early 2001 because it updates dynamically as courses are added to the Geometrix SQL database. (http://education.sterlingcommerce.com/Courses/CalendarShell.asp)

Vision Technologies November 1997 – October 1999. Contract Software Company

Position: Senior Software Developer

Worked independently and as team leader on several Visual Basic Data entry and reporting applications at long distance telephone company (QWEST). Technologies: Visual Basic 5, SQL, Access, OOP, and ActiveX, Source Safe

Eclipse Innovations, Inc. March 1997 – November 1997

Senior Software Developer

Designed, implemented parts of Customer Service Applications for small Long distance company. VB, Intranet, MS Access, SQL Server

Software Creations, Inc 1983 –1996.

Position: Proprietor, Software Developer and technology Consultant

Software Design and Consulting Services included contract software design, and small business consulting. Clients included some of the leaders of the first wave of technical innovation in the personal computing era
Digital Equipment (DEC), Data General, Wang, Lotus Development, CVS, Phoenix Technologies, Zoom Telephonics, Microcom, IBM, and others
Small Business: S Stephen A. Goldberg and Company (Tax Accounting Firm), Fit To Print Advertising(Screen Printing Firm)

Typical Services performed:

Provided troubleshooting for network and Tax preparation software problems during pressure packed tax season when 350 client returns were on deadline. Integrated Tax software from Computax and Pencil pushers with Microsoft Word, Excel to automate various reporting and form letter functions.
Specified, and purchased computer hardware and software for small accounting firm (4 to 6 employees) including CD-ROM, modems, printers.
Upgraded computer systems, modems and installed, trained neophyte computer skilled staff in AOL for electronic information exchange
Designed MS Access (VBA) based label making software capable of creating new labels, handling many different bar codes, and a variety of “computer unfriendly” data input sources. System is upgradeable for new input formats and label layouts (presently over 50 different label styles). Wal-Mart, KMart, Warner Lambert, Ames, and many other firms use this software to produce store shelf labels.
Designed custom bar code label printing software in C. Included context sensitive help, menus, keystroke and mouse control.
Designed Communications subsystem, User Interface for Physician’s Office to electronically exchange prescription info with drug stores and for billing and claims purposes. Asynchronous modem and FTP over network communications. Used mhcomm object for modem, Netsoft Router Software for network communications. File Transfer system. Visual Basic. C
Designed, coded PBX fault monitor application using VB, Access, AND PDQComm. Application development for Object Oriented Document Workflow product.
Designed Financial Mutual Funds Yield Calculator for use in stock brokerage using Borland C++.
Enhanced and re-designed Wang LAN Office Electronic Mail system to provide security while allowing backward compatibility with a large installed base. Project employed encryption/decryption algorithms, user interface design

Early and related employment

Before establishing my consulting practice I held positions as a software designer at Microcom, Inc., Norwood, MA, a modem manufacturer, hardware and software engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton NY, an advanced physics research facility, and speech recognition and robotics software designer at Milton Bradley, East Longmeadow, MA. I have taught in the Engineering Department at Western New England College, Springfield, MA and Computer courses at Newberry College, Boston, MA

Education

BEEE received with honors from SUNY at Stony Brook, N. Y. 3.3 GPA (in top 10% of class), 1978
Elected member Tau Beta Pi (1977). (Engineering Honor Society)