FRANK "RICKY" FREDERICK FAULSTICH, IV

Contact Info

email: Resume@StichSys.com

Microsoft Mobile Solutions Partner

Objectives

Any and all phases of the software development lifecycle, including both shrink-wrapped and internal corporate projects.

Professional Experience

Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
(formerly Vencor, Inc.)

Louisville, KY
Aug ‘96 – present

Senior Programmer/Analyst

§     Software architect for enterprise projects, technology lead, and coder of n-tier client/server enterprise applications utilizing web clients, web server scripting, compiled native server code, transaction processing, message queuing, relational databases, and SAP R/3 integration technologies for 450+ long-term healthcare facilities

§     Daily development environment includes Visual Studio.NET (mainly C#), XML/XSLT, WinXP/NT4/2K/9x, SQL Server 6.5/7/2000, VB6, VC++6 (including MFC and NT services), VID6 (w/ASP), ActiveX/COM servers, DCOM, MTS, and MSMQ.

§     Daily administration tasks of NT Servers, SQL Servers, and developer tools

StichSys, Inc.
Louisville, KY
Aug ’00 – present

Owner, President, CEO, lead developer (only employee)

§     Personal corporation created to take care of the myriad of side weekend/weeknight consulting projects.  Use all technologies listed above and more.  Develop solutions for standalone, enterprise, and mobile uses on the Microsoft Windows, .NET, and CE platforms.

USA Netlink, L.L.C.
Baton Rouge, LA
Aug ’95 – Aug ‘96

Software Developer – Lead Client Developer

§     Sole person responsible for designing, programming, and testing an end user client install package for an internet service provider

§     Completely designed interface and engine using Visual Basic and C++ to install and configure third party applications to access USA NetLink’s services and the internet

Symantec Corporation
Baton Rouge, LA
Mar ‘93 – Aug ‘95

Systems Quality Assurance Analyst –Norton Group

§     Improved quality of software in shrink wrapped products that are targeted toward consumer end users

§     Reported bugs using a software tracking system and worked directly with programmers and beta participants

§     Responsible for quality sign-off in Norton Enterprise Backup, Fastback Plus DOS and Fastback Plus OS/2

§     Lead QA Analyst for Fastback OS/2: required development of test plan; dividing tasks among other analysts; automating tasks through programming and scripts; supervision of task completion

Education

Microsoft Certification
Louisville, KY
 
April 14, 2000

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer   (MCSD)

§      Scored over 85% on all Microsoft exams required for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) curriculum.

§  Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures  (855/1000), Designing and Implementing Web Solutions with Microsoft® Visual InterDev 6.0  (846/1000), Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0  (900/1000), Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0  (916/1000)

Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
1989 – 1995

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

§     Major: Computer Engineering – Minor: Computer Science – IEEE Member

§     Board of Supervisors’ Full Academic Scholarship

§     Kirschner Award for Superior Academic Achievement


Additional Skills / Product Experience

Languages / Development Tools

§      Microsoft Visual Studio (95, 97, v6, .NET)

§      Microsoft Visual Basic (v3, v4, v5, v6, .NET)

§      Microsoft Visual InterDev (v1, v6, .NET), Active Server Pages (v3 & .NET)

§      Microsoft Visual C++ (v5, v6, .NET)

§      Microsoft Visual C# (.NET)

§      Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (v1)

§      Microsoft Compact Framework (.NET)

§      Microsoft SQL Server (v6.5, v7, 2000 including SQLS for XML Web Release 1)

§      Java (Symantec Visual Café Pro (v1.x))

§      VBScript and ECMAScript (JavaScript/Jscript v3)

§      HTML v3, v4 

§      DHTML (W3C DOM, Microsoft Internet Explorer extended DOM)

§      XML (v1, v2) including XSLT, XDR, and XPath (some XSD)

§      DataDynamics ActiveReports (v1,v2)

§      InstallShield scripting language

§      Microsoft FrontPage (v1.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP (including SharePoint Team Services)

§      Microsoft Visual Installer (v1, v1.2, v2)

§      Microsoft Transaction Server (v1, v2, COM+)

§      Microsoft Message Queue Server (v1, COM+)

§      Microsoft Internet Information Server (v3, v4, v5)

§      Adobe GoLive (v4)

Development Tools

§      Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (v5, v6, v6.5)

§      NuMega DevPartner Studio (v6.x)

§      NuMega BoundsChecker (v6.x)

§      NuMega CodeReview (v6.x)

§      NuMega FailSafe (v6.x)

§      NuMega SmartCheck (v6.x)

§      NuMega TrueCoverage (v6.x)

§      NuMega TrueTime (v6.x)

§      Rational Rose Enterprise Edition (2000)

§      PVCS Tracker

Advanced Programming Interfaces (APIs) / Software Development Kits (SDKs)

§      Microsoft Win32 family (Win32d, Win32s, Win32 95/NT, .NET CLR)

§      Microsoft Messaging API (MAPI v1, v2)

§      Microsoft Telephony API (TAPI v2, v3)

§      Microsoft Data Access Components SDK (MDAC v1, v2, v2.5, v2.6)

§      Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit (v3.5, v4, 2000)

§      Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation SDK (WMI v1)

§      Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK v4, v5)

§      Microsoft Office automation SDK (97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Visual Studio Add-In API (both tool and COM-based.)

§      Xaudio MP3 player SDK


Operating Systems

§      Microsoft Windows client OS (v3.1, 95, 98, 2000 Professional, XP Professional)

§      Microsoft Windows Server OS (v3.51, v4, 2000)

§      DOS (v3.3, v5, v6)

§      NetWare (v3.1x)

§      Linux (Mandrake 6,7,8)

Office Applications

§      Microsoft Office Professional (95, 97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Word (v2/DOS, 95, 97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Excel (95, 97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft PowerPoint (95, 97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Access (95, 97, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Outlook (95, 97, 98, 2000, XP)

§      Microsoft Project (2000, 2002)

§      Lotus Notes (v4)

§      Lotus 1-2-3 (v3)

§      PKWare PKZip, WinZip (v7, v8), WinRAR, RAR (for DOS)

Digital Image Editing / Audio Image Editing

§      Adobe Photoshop (v5, v6, v7)

§      Adobe ImageReady (v1, v2)

§      Adobe Illustrator (v7, v8)

§      Adobe Premiere (v5.1, v6)

§      Adobe PageMaker (v6.5)

§      Adobe Streamline (v4)

§      Kai’s Power Tools (v6)

§      Kinnetix 3D Studio MAX (R2, R3, R4)

§      MetaCreations Bryce 3D (v3.1)

§      Microsoft streaming technologies (ASFs/ASXs, Windows Media servers and encoders, etc.)

§      Sonic Foundry Sound Forge (v4.5)

§      Sonic Foundry ACiD (v2)

§      Sonic Foundry Vegas Pro (v1)

§      Sibellius (v1.1)

§      Cakewalk Pro Audio (v8, v9)

§      Cakewalk SONAR (v1)