DLG Software

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Technical Experience

I have 20 years of application development experience. Most of this was in the Pharmaceutical industry developing applications to manage, explore, and report on Phase I-IV clinical trials data. These applications were developed using the SAS System software, primarily base SAS (including heavy use of its macro language) and SAS/AF and SAS/IntrNet. The latter involved significant use of web development tools (DHTML, Javascript, JSPs, etc.). I've also used many other technologies over the years - lots of Unix scripting, a little Java, some PHP, SAS db design - but I most enjoy application development.

Work History

My first ten years of application development experience was as an employee at some of the top pharmaceutical firms (Pfizer, Roche, Cyanamid). I subsequently started my own business, working nearly a decade as an independent consultant. As a consultant I had several of the top Pharmas as clients (Roche, Searle). This included an eight year relationship with Pfizer, the largest Pharma.

As for the SAS world, I had an excellent relationship with SAS Institute - I was one of the first consultants accepted into their Quality Partner program and subsequently became a SAS Alliance Partner. I am also a SAS Certified Professional, and I've presented several invited papers on application development at the annual SAS International users group conferences.

A little personal info...

In my Twenties I backpacked around the world, taking a year to travel through Australia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia - I spent nearly three months in India and Nepal, including three weeks trekking through the Himalayas to reach Mount Everest Base Camp. I've also traveled extensively in Europe, living there for extended periods (was based in Basel, Switzerland for Roche). I have a B.A in International Relations and spent one semester studying in Paris at the Institut des Etudes Americain.

Recent History

I took the last two years off to try my hand at writing fiction, writing two thrillers (which apparently weren't too thrilling, generating many rejection letters but no income, hence my return to the software development world).

Over the past five months I've immersed myself in Adobe Flex, deciding to make a change from SAS development (though I may try to link the two- currently there is very little RIA development in the SAS world). I chose Flex because it is, in my opinion, the best RIA product currently available (though I certainly will look at MS Silverlight once it matures). Also, Flex is just a great environment - excellent Eclipse-based IDE, remarkably few bugs, and it's the first product I've seen that lets a developer create web-based applications that have the features and functionality you expect from a desktop application. All in all, a lot of fun to work with.

I am just now (Fall 2008) beginning my search for interesting work developing applications and/or web-based interfaces. For now I'm limiting my search to New York City jobs, preferably Manahattan, where I've lived for the past decade.

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