ROBERT BALLARD

526 Decatur Avenue, Peekskill, New York 10566

(914) 737 5684
bobbyb@bestweb.net

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER AND PROGRAMMER

- Business Application Management
- Technology Excellence
- System and Program Management
- Project Leadership
- Problem Resolution
- Technical Support
Highly competitive and results-driven IT executive offering more than 10 years o
f comprehensive experience in developing quality business applications for clien
t server, project leaderships, and operations of complex applications and system
s. Top performer with outstanding interpersonal, communication, and management s
kills; proven background in networking, Internet / Intranet environments for Win
dows 95 through Vista operating systems, imaging, and writing code for real-time
devices.
- Highly adept at utilizing innovative technologies; demonstrated team lea
dership in managing information systems projects while contributing to technolog
y development and revenue-producing activities
- Stay abreast with the latest technologies toward career progression and
professional excellence
- Featured columnist and hardware/software reviewer for a national publica
tion
- Developed a strategic add-on program to Radio Shack’s DeskMate software; eff
iciently defined deficiency of DeskMate; managed all aspects of Software Develop
ment Life Cycle (SDLC) and created the entire ad campaign (appearing in national
computer magazine) for the product.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Quality Welding Services, Inc., Charlotte, NC
WEB MASTER/SITE DESIGNER 2008-Present
- Perform extensive designing of pages, retouching, cropping, and exportin
g of photos for the web using Adobe Photoshop and setup photo gallery using Adob
e Spry (AJAX) tools
- Produce and create meta tags to increase hits into the site through sear
ch engines
EFT Network, Inc., Hawthorne, NY
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2002-2009
- Held responsible for financial services of the company that offer ACH, C
heck21, NSF, BOC, ARC, IRD, centralized returns, and remote deposit capture usin
g check scanners, including fax machines
- Created UI and programmed transport software for both standard check sca
nning and coupon/check scanning using VB6, vendor APIs, XML, Xceed ZIP and Xceed
Encryption for different scanner models
- Expanded browser distributions (CAB files) using VB6 PDW or InstallShiel
d to install and run inside the Internet Explorer browser while logged into the
company’s web site
- Supported the improvement of MICR parse library in C/Win32 and converted
to VB6 ActiveX
- Programmed and installed company’s Car/Lar (Courtesy Amount Recognition/Lega
l Amount Recognition) server, using Mitek tools for handwriting recognition and
reading dollar amounts on check images
- Enhanced TCP/IP telnet server to accept telnet requests from DLL, which
was developed for web farm in organizing each request from web customers; manage
d around 500,000 requests monthly
- Developed Windows Services using VB.Net for several internal Windows 200
0 and 2003 servers, assisted Internet/Intranet web pages using VS 2005/2008 and
a range of technologies from Remote Scripting for IIS to ASP to Jscript and VB.N
et to Generic Handlers (.ashx files) in ASP.Net
- Provided assistance to various multiline fax servers, inbound and outbou
nd, capable of handling up to 64 phone lines per server; established VB6 and Fax
Man control; maintained and replaced internal and external software problems, in
cluding distributed client application and single line dial-up server built usin
g VB6, SaxCOM, ADO, and other controls
- Created server suite of applications using VB.Net and C# to process fax
pages containing up to three check images per page that were cropped and read us
ing OCR for MICR and sent to Car/Lar server Check21/IRD/ARC/ACH systems
MCI Worldcom, Rye Brook, NY
SENIOR SYSTEM ANALYST AND VISUAL BASIC CONSULTANT 1998-2002
- Functioned as system analyst and Visual Basic consultant for a major lon
g-distance telecommunications company, provided User Interface (UI) design 32-bi
t development and support, including architecture and code, installation, distri
bution, version control, and client-side SQL stored procedures
Bell Atlantic, White Plains, NY
SENIOR VISUAL BASIC CONSULTANT 1997-1998
- Provided IT management direction to major “baby-Bell†telecommunications company
, this involved 32-bit development, support, and conversion for internal and ext
ernal software for telecommunication network engineers, including Lucent and oth
er major telecommunication vendors, using tools that include Visual Basic 5.0 En
terprise Edition, True Grid Pro 5.0, Spyworks, Sheridan Designer controls, Cresc
ent's PDQComm, Crystal Reports, and Visual Source Safe

EARLIER CAREER
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
SENIOR VISUAL BASIC CONSULTANT 1996-1997
Merck-Medco, Montvale, NJ
LEAD CONSULTANT 1993-1996
Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., New York, NY
POSITION 1992-1993

EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN COMMUNICATIONS AND THEATRE
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Languages/IDE ~ VB.Net, Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL 6.5-2005, VB 1.
0-6.0, JavaScript, HTML, dHTML, CSS, XML, VBScript, Perl, C#, ASM
Technologies ~ ASP, ASP.Net, ADO/DAO, .Net Framework, AJAX, IIS, Remote
Scripting, ActiveX, OCX, CGI
Tools ~ Pegasus ImagXpress, Mitek QuickStrokes, Symantec Ghost,
DCC API’s, Silver Bullet Ranger, UniSoft OCR, Visual SourceSafe, AllMyPapers, IPWork
s, Microsoft Install, InstallShield, ActiveReports, FaxMan, SaxComm, SpreadOCX,
#Grid, Spyworks, Spread 3.0, Crystal Reports