Christopher S. Velazquez

 

Visual Development 39350 IH-10 West, Suite 5 Boerne, TX 78006 (830) 249-5631 (office) E-mail:

Home: 101 Walnut Grove Rd. Boerne, TX 78006 (830) 537-3236

 

My Quest:

• Software Development: Desktop, System, Internet
• Location: San Antonio, Texas Hill Country, or telecommute
• Term: Short or Medium term projects (1-12 month).  I will consider permanent employment.

 

My Experience:

I have 11 years of IT experience, spanning software development, web-mastering, database administration, network and hardware maintenance and technical support.  The majority of my experience is with Microsoft Windows, though I do have some Linux experience.

 

My Clients and Employers:

 

eSimulation, Inc., Houston TX (2000-present)

- C#/Visio/MSDE desktop applications for engineering process modeling

- C#/MSDE/OPC service application for industrial data collection

- Excel/MSDE add-in for manipulating process modeling data

- ASP/MSSQL/VB6 web application for processing and reporting process modeling data

- MSSQL database and server administration

- C#/ASP.NET portal for sharing documents and data with customers

- ASP/VBScript development incident reporting website

- VB6 ActiveX component for facilitating data transfer over dial-up connections

 

Watermark Safety, LLC, Boerne, TX (2004-2005)

- C#/XML desktop application for configuration of custom electronic devices

- Custom binary TCP protocol for fast data transport

- C#/ASP.NET web service for data transport

- C# Service application framework for persistent data processing

 

Visual Development, Boerne, TX (ongoing)

- C# Service application for converting HTML e-mail messages to web content (UploadPage)

- Taught web design class covering HTML, CSS and JavaScript

- C#/Perl SpamAssassin integration with mail server

 

Gulf Marine Fabricators, Aransas Pass, TX (2003-2004)

- Delphi application for monitoring barge positioning via serial communication

 

Supernova Resources, Carlsbad, NV (2003)

- PHP/MySQL web application on Linux for human resource company

 

Romanoff Designs, LLC, San Antonio, TX (2003-present)

- C#/ASP.NET/Jet web site with image thumbnailing and uploading

 

Heirloom Tomatoes of Texas, Boerne, TX (2003-present)

- ASP/VBScript/Jet web site featuring PayPal integration, UploadPage technology

 

Boerne Chamber of Commerce, Boerne, TX (2002-2004)

- C#/ASP.NET/Jet web site with business directory and events calendar

- This site hit #1 in Google (search:Boerne) after I took over the project.

 

Open Matrix Technologies, Houston, TX (2000-2004)

- VB6/Jet/Telnet desktop application for manipulating process modeling data

- VB6/ActiveX components for transforming mainframe data

- VB6/ActiveX FTP client and GUI for VMS operating system

 

The SCOOTER Store, New Braunfels, TX (2001)

- ASP/VB6 web application for expediting business processes

 

On-Site Computer Solutions, Austin, TX (2000-2001)

- VB6/MSSQL/MS Project application for synchronizing home construction scheduling

 

SBC Communications, San Antonio, TX (2000)

- Delphi desktop application for determining consumer DSL readiness

 

Tadpole-Cartesia, Inc., San Diego, CA (1999-2000)

- VB6/Jet mobile application for synchronizing field data with Smallworld GIS system

 

Billing Concepts, Inc., San Antonio, TX (1998-1999)

- ASP/VBScript web application for customer accounting and reporting

- Delphi/Crystal Reports/CGI proxy engine to facilitate report downloading

- VB6/Jet desktop application to synchronize customer accounting via FTP

- ASP/VBScript internal web site for technical support

 

Conic Systems, Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland (1998)

- VB6/Jet mobile application framework development (bought out by Tadpole)

 

Kinetic Concepts, Inc., San Antonio, TX (1995-1998)

- VB5/Jet application for documenting and reporting critical respiratory information

- VB5/Jet application for documenting and reporting wound progression

- ASP/VBScript departmental web site

 

My Education:

 

MIT, Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, 1984

Northwestern Univ., Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1991

 

Posted 5/11/2006