ALBERT L HANSELL

Resume - Computers
Resume Construction CAD Engineering

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BASIC: 5 years experience with MicroStation BASIC.
MicroStation BASIC is a clone of Visual BASIC that interfaces with MicroStation's graphics engine. Wrote over 100 example programs to assist users, demonstrate MicroStation BASIC, and resolve technical problems.

COBOL: My 3 years of COBOL experience consisted of programming and teaching. I was teaching systems analysis and database design using both TI 990 and HP 3000 machines.

FORTRAN: 5 years graphics programming, support and debugging on VAX. Identified and resolved programming synchronization problems when VMS went to symetrical multiprocessing. Wrote programs to fix graphics file format problems.

DCL: Wrote many utilities and automatic testing routines. Fixed files and programs using Patch utility.
Was system manager for 3 VAX machines.

February, 2000 - 2003
PROJECT MANAGER
Onstage Media; West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Developed and designed intranet for an international company.
Took, modified and processed photographs into web suitable form
Imported data from existing flat file system and processed data to suit SQL database.
Designed front end of new system to be similar to existing system. This ensured continuity with existing system, facilitated change over and reduced employee retraining.
Tools used were HTML, SQL and Cold Fusion.

April, 1989 - November, 1994
PRODUCT MANAGER; SENIOR ANALYST
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama, USA

Product Manager, computer support/utility product, which consisted of a Fortran interface to the Graphics engine.
Introduced the concept of including example programs in with the product which greatly reduced the support load. Certified product, produced test cases, produced checklists for performance testing, maintained and fixed code.

Senior Analyst (IGDS)
Provided customer support for graphics programming languages DFPI, DFPO and User Command Language.
Provided support for the graphics editing program, EDG, which was used to recover damaged files. Taught users (over the phone) how to use EDG to recover damaged files.
Identified problem areas with the product which allowed developers to make the product more stable.
Produced shell scripts and utility programs.
Produced solution-search database which was implemented and used throughout the department.
Prepared and gave lectures at annual users group meetings for User Commands, EDG and the Fortran programming interface.

1985 - 1987
SENIOR DESIGNER
BAE Automated Systems; Carrollton, Texas, USA
Designed package-handling conveyor system for major overnight letter carrier.
Produced programs to automatically draw conveyor components
Designed a hierarchical engineering database on MicroData Pick system. This included rewriting all trig functions to double their accuracy. Reduced record size from approximately 1500 bytes to less than 80 bytes which avoided having three page faults on each record access.