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Resumé - Steve Shier
 
Strengths
Ability to understand business issues and help resolve them using technical solutions
Ability to manage project implementations
Ability to design and code complex technical projects
 
Skills
Spent more than 10 years writing software in a wide variety of languages on platforms from embedded microprocessor systems to mainframes and everything in between.
Designed and wrote database driven web software for the last 5 years.
Web expertise includes system architecture, enterprise application integration, electronic commerce, database design and administration, XML, transactions, user interface design, back office software, Internet protocols, and search engines.
Programming Languages: C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Java, JSP, ASP, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, PHP, Perl, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, Cold Fusion, C, Assemblers (older models of Intel, Motorola, Data General, Zilog), Fortran
Software: .NET, COM+, MTS, COM, EJB, Java Servlets, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EJB Server, MS Commerce Server, MS Index Server, MS Site Server, Inex Commerce Court, Cybercash, Verisign, Sun Forte, Visual Café, MS Front Page, Visual Interdev, Dreamweaver, IIS, Some Apache
Internet Protocols: Sockets, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SSL, DNS
Database Software: MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, ADO.NET, ADO, JDBC, DAO
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (all versions), Linux, Some Solaris, OS9, MS-DOS
 
Professional History  
 
Senior Consultant Kubera Consulting (Fairfield, Iowa)
Responsible for architecture and development of technical projects
 
Chief Technology Officer, Global Online, Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa)
Lead architect and developer at Global Online, a portal comprising a number of complex web sites (including http://www.globalonlinetelecom.com, http://www.golindia.com and http://www.globalonline.com) accessible through over 4,000 domain names.
Built private labeled customer service system allowing partners to log in with limited priviledges over the Internet to a central customer service system.
Built TCP/IP packet switch middleware to integrate telephony application running on Unix with commercial client application on Windows platforms.
 
CEO, Third Millennium Software (Fairfield, Iowa)
Designed and lead the development of an 80,000 product online computer store. Store integrated product availability from major computer suppliers such as Ingram Micro and TechData.
Designed and lead development of four inter-related financial services sites with fund performance ratings and dynamic charting (http://www.cta-index.com).
Primary developer of a search engine and other key features of a large auction site owned by consortium of major newspapers including the Los Angeles times through a sub-contract with Applied Management Systems.
 
Director of New Product Development, PackageNet, Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa)
Lead the development of a package return demonstration system for PackageNet's advisors that included senior executives from Microsoft, Netscape and AOL. The system integrated tracking data from FedEx, UPS and USPS directly into PackageNet pages using HTTP protocol.
Developed system to integrate PackageNet web site with Microsoft Plaza web site.
Division president of PostNet Express, a PackageNet subsidiary comprising 3 company owned and 9 franchise package shipping stores generating $1 million annual revenue.
Built system to integrate geographic, demographic and purchasing data into marketing analysis software.
Developed complex spreadsheet model containing 250,000 cells to optimize the annual setting of over 3,000 shipping rates for 4,000 consumer shipping outlets in major supermarkets nationwide such as Kroger, Albertson's, etc.
Developed highly accurate financial forecasting system
 
Associate, Calvert Social Venture Partners (Bethesda, MD)
Worked on all aspects of equity investments including review, due diligence, investment transactions and monitoring for this venture capital firm based in the Washington, D.C. area.
 
Various Software Positions (Washington, DC)
Developed software for a variety of complex mission critical applications including ground station and flight software for a Naval Research Laboratories (U.S. Navy) weather satellite.
Developed switching system software in assembler for MCI Communications.
Created hardware/software integration for SCSI and other low level drivers. Wrote one of the first Macintosh drivers for WORM discs.
Extensive Fortran coding on IBM, Amdahl and CDC mainframes.
 
Education
Program Course
MBA Program
University of Texas,Austin, TX
Completed courses included Finance, Accounting, Management Science, and Marketing.
Masters in Physics
McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario
Specialized in experimental Solid State Physics and lasers. Masters thesis titled "Far Infrared Cyclotron Resonance in Graphite".
Bachelors in Physics
McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Honors degree in theoretical physics.
 
  Kubera Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1057 Fairfield IA 52556 Tel: 641-472-2384 Fax: 641-472-6725 info@kuberaconsulting.com