Bruce Wendel

 

 

SITE DESIGN & HOSTING     DATABASE & TECHNICAL INTEGRATION     NETWORK & SECURITY    RESUME    CONTACT

 

 


Current Resume

 

Bruce Wendel
 bwendel@hotmail.com
Cell: 443-622-9619


 

OBJECTIVE:  Distributed Systems, Programming, and Web-Site Design for IT and E-Commerce

 

SUMMARY:  Senior Software Engineer with over 20-years of professional IT experience. Web design, object-oriented programming, database integration, distributed processing, client and server-side design. System integration, computer-networking, system-administration and security.

 

PROGRAMMING:  Java2EE, C++, SQL, CORBA, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Actionscript, Perl, Python
GRAPHICS & ANIMATION:  Flash, ToonBoom, Painter, GIMP, Blender, TrueSpace
OPERATING SYSTEMS:  LINUX, Solaris, BSD, OS-X, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, XP, 2000
WEBAPP SERVERS:  Apache Web Server, SUN Portal Server, Tomcat
DATABASE ADMIN:  MySQL
 

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Self-managed, highly focused, team & goal oriented

  • Decades of work with the most prestigious businesses

  • Over a decade of work on complex mission critical systems

  • Use of new and existing technology to solve highly-unique problems

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Web Site Design - Web-Formations, LLC, MD  October 2005 – Present
Senior Software Engineer - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD  1988 – October 2005
Swales Aerospace (prime contractor) - The Hammers Company Inc. 2004 – 2005
Lockheed Martin (prime contractor) - The Hammers Company Inc. 1997 – 2004
Boeing / McDonnell Douglas (prime contractor) - EER Systems Inc. 1989 – 1997
McDonnell Douglas (prime contractor) - Computer Based Systems Inc. 1988 – 1989
 



WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

  • JAVA-EE applications written for real-time data transactions

  • JAVA applets & servlets with JDBC SQL database access

  • Server-side JAVA for dynamic HTML & JavaScript

  • Construct and maintain WWW sites and pages

  • Design and implementation of Web and Database Servers

  • Business Systems and Network Analysis

 

BUSINESS SYSTEMS SOFTWARE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

  • Complex management & accounting systems in object-oriented languages

  • Detailed multi-level (department, division, sub-division) roll-ups, and very complex reports

  • Data-driven GUI application with stored objects, for rapid prototyping and on-the-fly changes

  • Multi-level/granular security for menu, record, and field level control

  • Pro-Rating expert subsystem saves over 700 Financial Analysts’ man-hours per year

  • Full life-cycle design, documentation, project management, training, and support

 

SYSTEMS & NETWORK ENGINEERING, ADMINISTRATION, AND SECURITY

  • Systems administration, shell script, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, vulnerability scanning

  • Utility scripts and programs for system administration

  • Unix System Administration for 200+ developers and intranet users

  • Installation, configuration, and proactive maintenance:  systems, hardware, security

  • Servers installed, configured, maintained:  X11, POP, Sendmail, FTP, CVS, NFS, SQL databases

  • Installation, troubleshooting, and support of PCs and MACs

 

TECHNICAL PROGRAMMING - Real-Time Software Engineering

  • Ground System Development - Real-time data handling and 3-D graphics from real-time data

  • Updates to C++ system with JAVA to serve remote objects

  • Distributed version of internal database using real-time CORBA

  • Prototyped fast UDP-socket based PDA-wireless telemetry and control

  • Threaded TCP & UDP socket programming

  • Wire-level driver construction

  • IEEE-488 interface programming

  • Real-time 3-D satellite visualization systems

  • Motif GUI for Satellite Operations Language

  • Installation & configuration of servers and networks for Satellite Ground Systems

  • Open and closed-loop simulation controlling GPS satellite constellation



 

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

NASA Certificate of Recognition - Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Software

NASA Certificate of Recognition - Integrated Test and Operations System (ITOS)