Randy Childers
603 North Highland Avenue, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
rchilders@appliedcomputer.biz
(479) 251-7263

Professional Experience

Procter & Gamble
Software Development 		Fayetteville, AR
September 2000 - Present
Designed and implemented an automated data retrieval system (EARL), which by a conservative estimate will save the Fayetteville, AR facility over 33 man-weeks/year.  EARL is being used by all of the P&G Wal-Mart team facilities in 10 countries.
Intellimark
Software Development

 		Fayetteville, AR
March 2000 - Present
Applied Trial Sciences
Software Development 		Little Rock, AR
January 2001 - April 2002
Developed and implemented commercial juror selection software (JuryPro) which uses demographic information to predict the threat of a juror for a given trial.
Portland Gin Company
Software Development 		Portland, AR
July 2000 - October 2000
Designed and implemented a custom work-ticket tracking and reporting system.
Technetics Corporation
Software Development 		Little Rock, AR
October 1999 - July 2000
Responsible for the maintenance and further development of the Powerlab system's Inventory module.
CMIS, Incorporated
Software Development 		Fayetteville, AR
February 1999 - October 1999
Oversaw the conversion of existing datasets for new installations of the CMIS Voter Information System.
Industrial Strength Software, LLC
Software Development 		Monticello, AR
June 1998 - February 1999
Designed and implemented an add-on for Easy Power (power system engineering software for large electrical systems) which added asset-tracking, maintenance-scheduling and scenario-based analysis. It was purchased by the Electrical & Instrumentation Department at the Georgia Pacific, Crossett mill.

Worked on a team to design an IT infrastructure for a large wood-chipping company which included real-time monitoring of all the distributed facilities (via PLC's installed on the machines and communicating via the internet), purchasing, inventory, maintenance scheduling, interactive reporting and tie-in to existing accounting system.
Seon Technologies, Inc.
Software Research & Development 		Crossett, AR
May 1997 - June 1998
Worked on a team to design and implement a maintenance tracking and scheduling program which was purchased by Georgia Pacific, #1 Mill, Crossett, Arkansas. Aspects of the system included a database, external field units programmed in C, and serial communications.
CMIS, Incorporated
Software Development 		Fayetteville, AR
November 1996 - May 1997
Responsibilities included database design, interface development and miscellaneous programming research.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Software Research & Development 		Los Alamos, NM
August 1995 - August 1996
Developed 3D/multimedia demonstration for Project Alice, a technique for extracting three-dimensional structural information from a single photograph. Presented this at the Supercomputing 95 conference in San Diego, California.

Developed VB interface for Project Alice to construct detailed, accurate meshes of actors/actresses from a series of consecutive movie stills.

Development Languages and Tools

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, 5.0, 6.0.  6 years extensive experience with tasks including writing DLL’s, analytical scientific software, maintenance scheduling software, inventory tracking software, interfacing with barcode scanners, and as a front end for MS Access and MS SQL Server 6.5.

Microsoft Access 97, 2000.  5 years experience designing and implementing databases, writing SQL, generating reports, and writing supportive VBA code.

C/C++.  3 years experience.

Crystal Reports.  2 years experience writing dynamic reports configured from a VB application and fed by an Access 97 database, including some non-standard reports involving barcodes.

Videosoft’s VSOCX.  2 years experience.

Sherridan’s ActiveTreeView.  2 years experience.

Farpoint’s ListPro.  1.5 years experience.

Data Dynamics ActiveReports 1.0, 1.1.  1.5 years experience.

Sherridan’s WinAPI Oblets.  1 year experience, used primarily for subclassing forms in VB.

Greenleaf’s CommX.  (ActiveX Serial Communications Control)  1 year experience.

QuickBasic.  1 year experience.


References
Personal and professional references gladly provided upon request.