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Rosedale Software Consulting Part I – R ésumé 1954 – 1996 Education & Employment

Rosedale Software Consulting Part I – R ésumé 1954 – 1996 Education & Employment. A one-man independent software consulting entity registered in the State of Maryland. James P. Rosenkrans, IV 709 Magnolia Avenue Frederick, Maryland 21701-8507 http://www.rosedalesoftware.com. Objectives.

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Rosedale Software Consulting Part I – R ésumé 1954 – 1996 Education & Employment

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  1. Rosedale Software ConsultingPart I – Résumé 1954 – 1996Education & Employment A one-man independent software consulting entity registered in the State of Maryland

  2. James P. Rosenkrans, IV709 Magnolia AvenueFrederick, Maryland 21701-8507http://www.rosedalesoftware.com

  3. Objectives • Greater Washington Metro Area • Telecommuting with occasional site visits • Short & intermediate term tasking • Small system development, programming, training • Microsoft Office, Adobe & more

  4. Limitations • Care giver for daughter with cancer • Must remain available 24/7 for monitoring • Infrequent but unpredictable trips to ER and other medical facilities • Minimal impact on telecommuting, client visits, and short local visits to client site • Extremely tight deadlines not an option

  5. Qualifications • Programming • Mathematics • Teaching • Clearable for Top Secret Codeword

  6. Typical Hardware Systems • Mainframes: IBM 740, 790, 360/370 • Minicomputers: DEC PDP-11, VAX • PC: 8088 through Pentium

  7. IBM, DEC PDP-11, VAX/VMS DOS (1.1 through 6.22) WINDOWS (3.11, 95, 2000 Pro, XP Pro) Microsoft Office Professional 97 - 2003 Textual databases (BRS, ZyIndex) Relational databases (ACCESS, dBASE, PARADOX, ORACLE, Fox Pro) Batch/Scripting languages (REXX) FORTRAN (II, IV, 77) PASCAL C (but not C++) PL/1 Visual BASIC Assembly (IBM 360,DEC PDP-11, PC) Typical Software Systems

  8. Professional ExperienceRosedale Software Consulting1996 - Present • 1996 – Present: Founded Rosedale Software Consulting sole proprietorship • 1996 – Retired October 2 after 30+ years with the Central Intelligence Agency

  9. Professional ExperienceCentral Intelligence Agency1994 - 1996 • Senior instructor for Microsoft WORD, EXCEL, Lotus Notes • Developed courses for these because there were none • Small systems developer • FOIA mass data retrieval system for a Gulf War Syndrome task force.

  10. Professional ExperienceCentral Intelligence Agency1990 - 1993 • Data base administrator for multiple large textual database system • Recovered corrupted dBASE III & BRS databases • Systems development with dBASE IV

  11. Professional ExperienceCentral Intelligence Agency1977 - 1990 • Senior software instructor, small systems developer, system manager and troubleshooter for a major, highly classified overseas project. • Provided software support for several complex analytical programs using covariance analysis and Kalman filtering.

  12. Frederick Community CollegeNon-work Related1982 - 1984 • Taught Calculus I, II, III and Algebra I and II evenings at Frederick Community College, 7392 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD 21701. • Discontinued because of overseas assignment for CIA

  13. Professional ExperienceCentral Intelligence Agency1972 - 1977 • Counterintelligence staff officer responsible for tracking terrorists. Initiated a database project to assist in this activity • Overseas duty in the Far East • Assigned to language and culture studies of the Far East.

  14. Professional ExperienceCentral Intelligence Agency1966 - 1977 • Developed two databases as a technical staff officer • Far East area reports officer, desk officer, and operations officer trainee • Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative • EOD 3 January 1966

  15. Professional ExperienceInstitute of Molecular BiophysicsFlorida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida1963 - 1965 • Post Doctoral research in Quantum Statistical Mechanics. • Wrote FORTRAN II programs for IBM 709 mainframe. • Published papers on Van der Waals forces in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

  16. Education • 1984 - M.S. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (Honors, 4.0 GPA) • 1982 - M.S. Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University • 1963 - Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • 1958 - B.Chem.Engr, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  17. Awards Received • 1993: Exceptional Performance Award for conceiving, implementing, and delivering a system for declassifying large quantities of classified information rapidly in support of the UN War Crimes Tribunal. • 1992: Exceptional Performance Award for restoring and cleaning up a corrupted database. • 1988: Certificate for Sustained Superior Performance for over 700 days of cumulative service at a remote and hazardous duty overseas collection site (“400 day club.”)

  18. Professional Societies • Association for Computing Machinery (1983 – present) • Mathematical Association of America (1982 – 1996)

  19. Personal • Divorced, three grown children. • Folk music singer, guitarist, bass player and songwriter. • Served on the Board of Directors of the Folk Club of Reston-Herndon. • Founding member and Treasurer of the now defunct Frederick Folk Club. • Good health. • Member of MENSA.

  20. The End Personal note: This PowerPoint presentation covers my career through retirement. Since retirement I have done some consulting work off and on, mostly to help out friends. I have maintained my skills mainly through projects of personal interest. Computers are fun! The companion to this PowerPoint presentation describes some of these projects and provides a look at the capabilities that I have in my basement. Jim Rosenkrans, 25 January 2007

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