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Larry Loesch
806 Independence Drive
Longmont, CO 80501
larry at loesch dot org
303-748-3835

Job Objective

Seeking a challenging software engineering position that affords learning opportunities.  I am interested in learning new languages and technologies and would like to gain experience with numerical analysis.

Qualifications

Work Experience

Senior Software EngineerAlpine Technology Group Longmont, CO Sep 2002 - April 2004
Point of contact for State of Pennsylvania health care project.  Responsible for design/test of new code and scheduling project activities.  Additional responsibilities include tracking work completed for invoicing and defect tracking.  Current project involves tracking all statewide Medicare/Medicaid related complaints in a central tracking system.
Software EngineerPlatts Boulder, Colorado Jan 2000 - July 2002
Involved in all phases of product life cycle from initial requirements gathering to final deployment.  Specific tasks included EJB design/implementation, Swing GUI design/implementation, Linux server setup and administration as well as prototyping and documentation.
Projects:
MarketDat:  Member of the design and implementation team.   Application is a three tier EJB based data mining application. Application designed to query power and fuel consumption data for businesses in order to identify potential markets.
Apollo:  Three tier EJB based data entry system.  Application allows gas and electricity price reporters to provide real time data entry of energy prices for purpose of reselling data.  Designed and implemented portions of the EJB architecture, produced tools to analyze and report on data entered into system.
Base Case Imager:  Web based application to allow access to raw energy usage and production data stored in remote databases.  Application also provided visualization and analysis tools.   Designed and built front-end components that linked into raw Oracle data to allow quick navigation through the data hierarchy.
Software Engineer:   Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp . Boulder, Colorado June 1993 - Jan 2000
Projects:
Battle Field Ordinance Awareness (BOA):  Modification and debugging of BOA front end and RAID interface for real time IR camera system.
Help Desk Call Tracker:  Design and implementation of web based help desk call tracker in Java using JDBC and RMI.   Reporting system written in VBScript using Active Data Objects   (ADO) for MS IIS with Crystal Reports for detailed data analysis.
Web Developer/Admin:  Responsible for the first web server within Ball Corporation.  Duties were to provide proof of concept using very limited resources.  System implemented on 386SX/16 using Linux and NCSA HTTP daemon.  Later duties included chairing the BATC web team to draft server/document standards for the Aerospace division.
Other projects:  Web based company phone book, web based customer service feedback system, stand alone Java based phone number lookup package specialized for Telecom operators.  Experimentation with web search engine written in Java to index Intranet.  Rendering of graphics for internal web pages.
Team Leader University of Colorado, Boulder CO Aug 1998 - May 1999
Senior Project:   Group leader for student senior project.  Project involved designing and implementing a command and control system for a local group of radio astronomers (the Deep Space Exploration Society) using left over cold war era 60 ft parabolic dish antennas.   System used for tracking deep space objects (stars, galaxies) as well as earth orbit (satellites) and high altitude objects (weather balloons).  Responsible for overseeing project scheduling, overall system architecture, and design and implementation of core algorithms used to track celestial and earth/sun orbiting objects.  Also acted as liaison between project sponsor and student group.
Production Supervisor:  Applied Computer Technology Inc.  Fort Collins CO Nov 1991 - Jan 1993