Trevor W. Schadt

2352 Eldridge St., Pittsburgh, PA 15217
home phone: (412)422-6415
cell phone: (412)401-0610
e-mail: owaru@myfamily.org
URL: http://www.thekeep.org/~paladin/

Objective:

• A full-time or contract-based software development/programming, customer service, or offive staff position in the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area, where my abilities can be put to optimal use while affording me the opportunity to continue learning and honing my skills.

Employment Experience:

• November 2001 - present: Independent Volunteer Developer
  • For the past two years, I have worked on an independent basis to develop software for the Society for Creative Anachronism, a Middle Ages and Renaissance historical recreation society. Applications developed include a database application to organize heraldic submissions (written in Visual Basic.NET with an XML data file format) and an application to organize monthly meetings and archive the minutes of said meetings.
• July 2002 - August 2002: Sales Consultant, Games Unlimited
  • Duties included solo store management, customer service, making purchase recommendations, overseeing sales transactions, and sales data entry, as well as managing and processing incoming shipping requests for sales products.
• October 2001 - November 2001: Consultant, CompuNet Consulting
  • Duties included software development in Visual Basic for a variety of clients, including the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University, as well as local businesses.
• April 2001 - August 2001: Systems Developer, Great Lakes Behavioral Research Institute
  • Duties included software development and maintenance in Visual FoxPro. Great Lakes Research develops client management software for crisis victim centers (e.g. rape counselors, domestic abuse shelters, and State Attorney General offices). The user interface is written in Visual FoxPro 6, and data storage uses Visual FoxPro database files (.DBF, .DBC) held on the user's local machine or accessed over a LAN.
• November 1997 - February 2001: Systems Developer, Papyrus, Inc.
  • Duties included application development, maintenance, and support in Visual Basic, as well as providing technical support for Papyrus's customer base. Papyrus develops client-server-based document management and workflow software, including version control, document security, and workflow-designed document routing. Responsible for development of Conductor client software, which interacted on a transaction basis with Orchestra server software via TCP/IP communication, and the Workflow Editor, a graphical tool for developing and codifying workflows to be compatible with the Orchestra server.
• February 1996 - January 1997: Web Developer, Center for Electronic Design Automation,
  Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, CMU
  • Duties included translating documents from FrameMaker into HTML, developing an HTML version of publicity documents such as the EDA Research Guide, and writing Perl scripts to maintain these documents and the research to which they pertain.
• July 1995 - August 1997: User Consultant, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, CMU
  • Duties included supervising computer cluster, answering user questions, and maintaining equipment (DECstations, IBM PowerPC's, Macintoshes, Macintosh and Hewlett-Packard Laser Printers, and Plotters).
• June 1995 - July 1995: Web Developer, Distributed Virtual Buinesses, GSIA, CMU
  • Duties included creating HTML Web pages and Visual Basic CGI scripts as prototypes for the Distributed Virtual Businesses class taught by GSIA. The objective was to create a totally web-based interactive ordering system for New Dumpling House, a Chinese delivery restaurant located in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh.
• July 1994 - August 1994: Administrative Assistant, Corporate Software, Inc.
  • Duties included copying, collating, software preparation, inter-office communication, over-the-phone customer interaction, and other administrative duties.

Employment Project Experience:

• April 2001 - August 2001: R/Client, Windows 95/98/NT/ 2000
  • R/Client, written in Visual FoxPro, is a small- to large-scale client management application specifically geared towards crisis victim centers. The software includes user-definable data entry and display methods, as well as extensive, user-customizable reporting capabilities. The data is stored and accessed using Windows Networking.
• June 1998 - February 2001: Papyrus Conductor Client, Windows 95/NT
  • The user interface portion of a client/server document management system, Conductor uses a Windows Explorer-like interface to streamline business document procedures through techiques such as workflows and version control. This application was written in Visual Basic, and used a TCP/IP "socket" interface to interact with the "Orchestra" server (which runs on Windows NT).
• November 1997 - February 2001: Papyrus Workflow Editor
  • A peripheral tool to Papyrus, Inc.'s main software, Conductor, the Workflow Editor is used to design workflow processes which would be used in conjunction with the documents located in the Conductor document management system. The Workflow Editor tool was written in Visual Basic, and used the MetaDraw drawing system OCX developed by Bennet-Tec Systems, Inc., and the AddFlow ActiveX control developed by Lassalle Technologies.

Additional Volunteer Customer Service Experience:

For the past 11 years, I have been involved with two national community service organizations (Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, and the SCA as mentioned above), operating in several customer service capacities, including customer negotiation, cash register operation, and money management duties, as well as teaching others these skills. More information, as well as references supporting my customer interaction skills, can be provided upon request.

Educational Project Experience:

• Fall 1996: Intel's Intelligent Workplace
  • The objective of the Software Engineering class at CMU was for a large (~60 people) group of students to develop a multi-faceted facilities management utility, written in Java, for Intel's Intelligent Workplace, currently under construction on CMU campus.
  • OWL was awarded second place in the 1997 CORBA/IIOP competition organized by the Object Management Group.
• Spring 1996: Final Exam Scheduler
  • One of the projects in the Introduction to Computer Aided Circuit Design class at CMU was to use simulated annealing techniques to design a final exam scheduler in C.
• Fall 1995: Yalnix
  • In the Operating Systems class at CMU, students worked in teams of 2 to develop Yalnix, a basic variety of Unix written in C. Over the course of the semester, students developed a input/output tty driver, a basic interrupt-handler kernel, and a basic file system.

Education:

• Bachelor's of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science
  • Received May 1997
  • Quality Point Average: 3.38
• High School Diploma from Montgomery Blair High School Math/Science/Computer Science Magnet Program
  • Received June 1993
  • Received Maryland Certificate of Merit
  • Cumulative Grade Point Average: 3.55 (unweighted), 4.2 (weighted)

Skills:

• Programming/Scripting Languages:
  • Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, Visual FoxPro 6.0, C, C++, Perl, SQL, CommonLisp
• Programming Environments/Utilities:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft FoxPro, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Microsoft Help Workshop, Allegro CommonLisp, Think C, Borland C++ 3.1, Emacs, ObjectCenter, UNIX, X11/Motif
• Word Processing/Text Editing Environments:
  • Microsoft Word, ClarisWorks, GNU Emacs, VI, WordPerfect
  • Typing Proficiency: 75 WPM
• Operating System Environments:
  • Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000, MacOS, MS-DOS 6.2, UNIX (SunOS, Ultrix, Linux, AIX, HP_UX)
• Databases:
  • Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Microsoft SQL Server

Affiliations:

• Life Member, Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (Co-ed Community Service Fraternity)
  • Initiated Kappa Chapter (Carnegie Mellon University), April '94
  • Served as Fellowship Rush Chair, Spring '95 semester
  • Served as Membership Vice President, Jan '95 - Mar '95
  • Served as Service Rush Chair, Fall '95 and Spring '96 semesters
  • Served as Pledgemaster, Fall '96 semester
  • Served as Recording Secretary, Spring '97 semester
  • Served as Section 62 Staff, May '97 - May '99
    • Served as Sectional Vice Chair for Allegheny County
    • Served as Sectional Respresentative to Lambda Omega chapter, California U. of PA
    • Served as Sectional Representative to Alpha Delta Omega chapter, St. Vincent College
• Member in Good Standing, Society for Creative Anachronism (Historical Research/Re-enactment)
  • Positions/Offices Formerly Held:
    • Liaison to Carnegie Mellon University, May '96 - May '97
    • Deputy Castellan of the Colleges of Cour D'Or, Sept '96 - May '97
    • Castellan of same, May '97 - May '00
    • Dancemaster of the Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands, Apr '01 - Oct '02
  • Positions/Offices Currently Held:
    • Herald of the Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands, Jan '01 - present
    • Deputy Herald of the Kingdom of Æthelmearc for Coordination of Heraldic Consultation, Feb '02 - present
  • Awards Received:
    • Received Silver Comet (Arts & Sciences Award), March '97
    • Received Award of Arms (Society Appreciation Award), August '97
    • Received Order of the Keystone (Service Award), October '99
    • Received Gold Comet (Service Award), August '01
    • Received Order of the Millrind (Service Award), August '02
    • Received Order of the Sycamore (Arts & Sciences Award), October '03

References available upon request