Current Employment: Transportation Industry
VB.NET software engineer responsible for development of container tracking
system. The system allows dispatchers to trace containers being imported,
or exported, into and out of the country and provides shipping routes for
containers such that time, and cost, is minimal.
This position is in Eatontown, NJ and I have been with the company for one year.
Previous Employment: Healthcare Industry
VB.NET/ASP.NET software engineer for a publicly traded healthcare provider
serving special needs patients in NJ and SD as well as providing
disease management services to other insurance companies and
performing government funded studies. I was the project
leader responsible for the implementation of the patient care/patient
tracking/patient analysis systems. I was hired as a staff
programmer to simply code to the directions given to me and within a
few short months, I was promoted to project lead after demonstrating
my ability to quickly understand business concepts and needs.
I was called upon several times to give non-technical presentations of
our system to medical doctors and investors as I have the ability to quickly
understand the needs and questions of those individuals and levy them with the
needs and goals of my employer. It was my
experience in this industry that has lead me to believe that managed care, be
it by the government or a private agency, simply does not work, people
need to take responsibility for their own health starting at an early
age. The need for healthcare, and thus the rising costs of healthcare,
have a direct, symbiotic relationship with the lack of responsibility
Americans have for their own health. Only you and your medical doctor
know what is best for you and no one, the government or insurance companies,
should, or could, provide better healthcare to you than your own, private
doctor.
Previous Employment: Energy Marketing Industry
VB6/VB.NET software engineer for an energy
marketer, ie. a third party natural gas and electricity supplier, in
the deregulated public utilities industry. The company provided service to
most all of NJ and much of NY along with some service in other states
such as Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. I was the lead
developer for the customer billing and enrollment systems and again,
it was my job to convert business needs as described by non-technical
personnel into software. In this position, I interacted directly with
management to determine the needs of each department, as well as direct
interaction with the energy giants, such as ConEd, Keyspan, PSEG, NJNG, etc. I
also represented the company from a technical perspective at several BPU
meetings. It was at these board meetings that I witnessed the incompetence
of some state employees and the wasteful spending on rules and regulations
that are otherwise obvious or already agreed upon between private and public
corporations.