Barbara Krespan
				     Rockville Md 20850


Computer Programming professional and Scientist with many  years of experience in the design, development, analysis, implementation, and maintenance of computer systems . 
Also a background in science and mathematics
Objectives: Software development, maintenance, support, and/or data analysis.   


Email:  bgindnn@yahoo.com 


 TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Sun Sparc ELC & IPX, IBM PCs (x86), DEC workstations, VAX 11/780, HP 9000, MacIntosh, Data General ECLIPSE S140

Programming Languages: C, C++, DG Assembly, Macro-11, Visual Basic, Java, Bliss, Scripting, DG/L, Fortran, HTML, SQL

Operating Systems: UNIX ( HP-UX, Solaris,Vunix),  VMS, Windows XP/NT/Vista, MS-DOS, AOS

Data Communications and miscellaneous:  Message Switches and Gateways, Client-Server, Transaction Processing, 
Object-Orientation, ASN.1, TCP/IP, X.400, X.500, Protocol Converters, X.25, Async, Bisync, Apache, mySQL, Excel, Matlab 


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Westat, Inc, Helpdesk Support Analyst, Rockville, Md (October 1, 2008 - midMarch, 2009).
* answering calls, assist with excel use, assist with website registrations, laptop support, some troubleshooting. 

McDonnell-Douglas, Senior Engineer, McLean, VA (January 1993- July 1994).
* Member of design, specification,development team for a client-server architecture for a Defense Messaging System  prototype utilizing TCP/IP, X.400 and X.500 (a messaging protocol and a directory information base and lookup protocol). 
 This included an interface to SQL/Ctree database, custom Organization User Agent functionality, a gateway between 2 messaging systems. Assisted in configuration of an X.500 directory agent and database conformant to the DMS schema. Issues are lookup by geography or organization, or directing messages based on organizational roles.
* Programming of text conversion and hashing algorithms.
* Interfaces are  developed with API standards for X.400. Evaluation of COTS X.400 products.  
* Programmed in C on Unix (Sun and Vax).

MCI  Equifax, Consultant Programmer, Silver Spring, MD (September 1992 - January 1993).
* Development of programs for query-based and menu-based extraction of information from remote database systems.  TCP/IP based external calls.
* Programmed in C on HP-UX.

MCI, RCA, Senior Member Programming Staff, Arlington, VA and Piscataway, NJ (April 1983 - May 1992).  
*Senior Member of Analysis, design, and development of 1984-based X.400 Access Unit and Generator Facility, interfacing to a 1988-based MTA (message transfer agent). Also programming of the ACSE and application layers. Object-oriented design and implementation strategy.  
* Development of X.213 interface (an X.25 network layer) for an X.400 Message Handling System.
* Develop and implement a G3 facsimile pad simulator.
* Requirements gathering and writing of system design and detailed design documentation.
* Develop and integrate new device drivers and user-formats into a  proprietary closed-user group store-and-forward message switch (TLX,DDD). Increase routing capacities.
* Design, code and implement customized communications interfaces and systems software on networked front end processor mini and micro computers.
* Create protocol converters to allow conversation between 2780, 3780, 3270 bisync (e-mail systems) and various async devices.
* Develop networked database system.
* Train programmers.  Interact with marketing and customers to provide 
customized software development.
* Programming: 2 years C++; 2-3 years C on Vax/VMS; 1-2 years Macro-11 on VMS;
 3-4 years Data General DGL and assembly. 

Rutgers Medical School
Postdoctoral Research Assistant,  December 1980 - April 1983
*Design and perform neurobiological and neurophysiological experiments.
*Maintain and develop software for real-time data acquisition and control of
neurophysiological experiments. Develop and code statistical analysis programs. Programmed in Fortran and assembly on Data General.

Mt Sinai Medical Center
Dept of Pharmacology, Lab Technician, June 1974-July 1976
*Run gas chromatographic samples, run some binding assays and separations of amino acids,  neuro-transmitters.  Intro to mass spectrographic data. 

EDUCATION

PhD, Neurobiology, CUNY at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1981
BA, (Cum Laude), Biology, Columbia University, New York, 1974

Telecommunicatons, RCA Globcom, 1987
Sysbase Transactions, September 1997
Foundations of Algorithms, Johns Hopkins PTE, September 1998
Differential Equations, June 1999
GPS, GWU Cont Ed, November 1999
Object-Oriented and Concurrent Java, UMUC,  Spring  2001
SAS Programming, SAS Institute, July 2003
Biological Databases and Database Tools,  Sping 2004 
Distributed Objects on the WWW  (Java),  JHU PTE,  Spring 2004
Scientific and Engineering Computing ,  Fall 2005
Oracle Database Concepts,  Spring 2006 ,  Montgomery  College
Bioinformatics II, III,    2006, Montgomery College  



MISCELLANEOUS

Published 8 papers in neuroscience
National Merit Scholar
Associate Member of IEEE, ACM
TS Clearance  1993-1997


Website –  www.somfax.com
      


Salary requested -- $35,000 - 60,000/yr