PHILIP KARRAS [C] (301) 471-2596 3305 Hampton Court [H] (301) 829-3260 Mt. Airy, MD 21771 [E] philp_karras@yahoo.com PROFILE: Dynamic web software engineer with creative problem-solving abilities. Extensive experience in device and software testing, applications and embedded programming, database and web development. Complete life-cycle experience in government and for-profit environments. Rapidly climbs the learning curve for new systems. Thinks outside the box to quickly solve problems. SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS: * Patent holder: #4,464,054 Colorimeter Instrument with Fiber Optic Ring Illuminator. * Technical editor: Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours, 3rd ed., by Michael Moncur. * Technical writer for several radio & electronics magazines. CERTIFICATES: Security+, 04/30/2014 Certified Scrum Master, 10/07/2014 DoD Secret Clearance LANGUAGE AND TOOLS: MS Windows UNIX * LINUX * HTML * DHTML * JavaScript * PHP * AJAX * Perl * CSS * JavaScript * Java * DB_File * MySQL * VB .NET * C# .NET * ASP.NET * Visual Studio * MS SQL MICROPROCESSOR EXPERIENCE: Motorola 68xx, Intel xxx86, Paradigm emulator/debugger, NEC Vr4310 Microchip PIC16C843. IT, SOFTWARE, AND WEB EXPERIENCE * Designed and developed applications in both PHP and C#.NET to collect data and store it in a form that Excel could use. These applications also allowed complete editing/updating of problem records in the data file. * Created the database and tables for a MS SQL membership database. * Develop web presence for client companies * Designed a Perl on-line database supported by D/HTML as well as a JavaScript shopping cart. The addition of the shopping cart has more than doubled on-line sales in less than a month. * Wrote application programs and user interfaces in HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, C#.NET, and VB.NET (Visual Studio). * Developed complete database search and database maintenance applications in Perl, DB_File, and PHP using MySQL and ADODB. * Designed and implemented numerous HTML forms with response scripts in PHP, Perl, and C#.NET. * Debugged and fixed programs in everything from assembly languages through the newer Web languages. * Solved customer web site performance problems with custom Java utilities. PHILIP KARRAS [H] (301) 829-3260 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING * Designed drilling-control software with serial and parallel hardware interfaces. The software insured a repeatable manufacturing process, saving time and money * Converted a paper-nomogram (equations, interrelated graphs, and written instructions) on copper-pipe water pitting propensity to an application program. * Developed data conversion programs. * Developed programs, including databases, using BASIC, VB.NET, C, C++, C#.NET, SQL (MySQL, MS, and ORACLE), B-trieve and db_Vista. * Developed a Perl DB_File database for a customer web site and enhanced the web site with DHTML and JavaScript. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT / MANAGEMENT * Managed the development of a family of water flow measurement instruments, progressing from prototype debug and firmware integration through the transition to manufacturing. This product family became a profitable best seller. * Managed a multi-program, multi-year project developing software to address corrosion problems for the electric power industry. This five-year project was completed within budget * Designed and managed the NACE-NIST Corrosion Data Center's software coding standards and code-library system. LASER OPTICS CONSULTANT * Built and aligned a high-power IR laser for sample destruction tests. * Developed control software for precision laser timing and sample positioning. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY * Future Technologies, Inc. MS SQL, C#, C#.NET/ASP.NET 2009 - 2014 * MJO Services. LLC MS SQL Databases & VB/C#.NET 2008 - 2009 * Business First Networks IT, Software & Web Consultant 2003 - 2008 * Syntek Systems Corp Embedded Software Engineering 1999 - 2003 * Innovative Solutions Group Applications Programmer 1998 - 1999 * SFA Inc. Medical Imaging Physicist 1997 - 1998 * Marsh-McBirney Inc Embedded Software Engineer 1995 - 1997 * NIST, Molecular Physics Laser Optics & Software Consultant 1995 - 1995 EDUCATION * B.S. Physics, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania * M.A. Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California * Continuing Education - 44 continuing education credits in engineering * Self Learniing of PHP, AJAX, Perl, JavaScript, CSS, Visual Studio, VB & C#.NET programming Download the Doc version