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Charles Albrecht                                           2532 Kansas Way
charlesa@pobox.com                                  Sacramento, California
303.378.2287                                                    95827-1017


SKILLS


  Management of version control systems
  Build and Release Engineering
  Database design, programming and administration
  System and server analysis and administration


CLIENTS AND EMPLOYERS


Pearson School Systems                     Apple Computer
EG&G Rocky Flats                           Department of Energy       
National Center for Atmospheric Research   Redgate Communications Corporation
AOL Productions South                      Public Service Company     
English Language Institute                 Relevant Technologies      
Horizons Multicultural Communications      NASA Langley Research Center
Deep Sky Technologies                      NCI Information Systems    
TekSystems                                 Qwest Dex                  
Analysts International Corporation         Simpson Housing Property Management
Wilkinson & Co.                            Leadership Design Group    
National Technology Transfer               Digital Retirement Solutions

EDUCATION


Master of Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
  Major:   Telecommunications (Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program)
  Capstone Final Project: Building Trust into Electronic Commerce - An 
           Evaluation of SSL and SET

Bachelor of Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  Majors:  Mathematics
           Physics - Concentration: Astronomy


SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE


OS:        UNIX (Solaris, HP/UX, Irix, AIX, SunOS, Mac OS X et al.), Linux,
           Windows Server
RDBMS:     SQL (Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, mySQL), 4th Dimension
Language:  Java, Perl, C, C++, ant
SCM:       Perforce, Subversion, CVS
Tools:     Jira, Confluence, Greenhoper, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible


WORK EXPERIENCE - CURRENT


RELEASE ENGINEERING MANAGER	                               11/2007 - present
Pearson, School Systems group 
Rancho Cordova, California

  Managed the Release and Configuration Management Team, distributed
  over multiple locations. Instituted policies and toolsets in support
  of iterative agile development using Scrum. Focused SCM procedures
  around a stable mainline model for branching, integrations and merges.
  Standardized build and release notifications around collaborative
  toolsets. Managed the queueing and scheduling of manual builds for
  6-10 parallel projects on average. Documented existing and proposed
  procedures for application lifecycle management contexts. 


SENIOR RELEASE ENGINEER                                     6/2006 - 10/2007
Pearson, School Systems group 
Folsom, California 

  Managed version control systems for distributed groups of development
  teams for PowerSchool and SMS. Managed the build systems and performed
  coherent iterative builds for testing and customer qualification.
  Implemented Bamboo continuous integration server for rapid
  identification of unit test failures. Developed deployment systems to
  provide improved district and state-focused customizations.
  Implemented updated installer framework using InstallAnywhere.
  Assisted in the technical implementation of migrations from Bugzilla
  to Jira and from CVS to Perforce. Mentored junior developers in best
  practices related to software engineering and product development
  cycles.


SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER                                    7/2003 -  5/2006
Apple Computer, PowerSchool Division
Folsom, California

  Designed, implemented and delivered enhancements, primarily to the
  scheduling and attendance components of the PowerSchool Student
  Information System through participation in cross-functional groups.
  Designed and implemented real-time walk-in scheduling component for
  the PowerSchool SIS. Provided support for version control system
  management. Developed management tools to support the build processes
  and systems. Mentored junior developers in best practices related to
  software engineering and product development cycles.


WORK EXPERIENCE - PRIOR


CONSULTANT - PROGRAMMER ANALYST                             5/1999 -  7/2003
Denver, Colorado

  Provide clients with consultation on specific network and database 
  issues. Design and deliver solutions based on pertinent industry 
  standards. 

* (V-Hold Systems, Boulder, Colorado - ongoing)
  Provided systems maintenance and support for unix-based web development 
  e-commerce servers.
* (Digital Retirement Solutions, Longmont, Colorado - five months)
  Specified and developed code libraries for delivering financial account 
  information from the corporate website.
* (Dr. Rene Oubre, DC, P.C., Littleton, Colorado — four months) 
  Provided systems maintenance and support for medical office network. 
* (Wilkinson & Co., Seattle, Washington — ongoing) 
  Maintained DNS, email and web hosting services. Provided technical 
  support for connectivity issues. 
* (Dr. Brian Hall, PhD, Granger, Indiana — two months) 
  Rendered scientific visualizations of Lie group representations for 
  publication in a Mathematical Physics textbook. 
* (National Technology Transfer, Englewood, Colorado - one month)
  Implemented a number of complex reports as part of a substantial upgrade 
  of a mission-critical legacy application.
* (Simpson Housing Property Management, Denver, Colorado - three months)
  Designed and developed a flexible database reporting solution to 
  extract data from an existing accounting database package, aggregate 
  it according to business rules and present it to a reporting tool 
  for presentation on the web.
* (Leadership Design Group, Parker, Colorado - ongoing)
  Provided small system support for all areas of office automation and 
  internet connectivity.
* (Qwest Dex, Englewood, Colorado - three years)
  Designed and programmed several modules to improve and refine a
  pre-existing mission-critical database used by the Recycling group for
  all aspects of recycling efforts within a 14-state region. Worked with
  entities outside the group to define and implement interfaces to
  external data sources to enable processing payments, receiving
  invoices and synchronizing the corporate website. Developed offline
  processing strategies to leverage the strengths of off the shelf
  software packages.


CONSULTANT - PROGRAMMER ANALYST                             1/1997 -  4/1999
Vero Beach, Florida

  Provided clients with consultation on specific network and database 
  issues. Designed and delivered solutions based on pertinent industry 
  standards. 

* (Deep Sky Technologies, Vero Beach, Florida - one month)
  Programmed a user interface module to provide a familiar view 
  of hierarchically complex relationships and manipulation of the 
  objects they represent. Implemented the module within a database 
  under development.
* (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia - seventeen months)
  Designed and programmed several mission-critical databases used by NASA
  LaRC's Internal Operations Group for workflow and budget planning.
  In conjunction with a small group of programmers, interpreted and
  refined project specifications and consulted with management personnel 
  to define and improve the processes by which workflow and budget 
  decisions are made.


PROGRAMMER                                                  8/1995 - 12/1996
AOL Productions South
Vero Beach, Florida

  Designed, programmed and maintained interactive online publishing
  solutions involving large data sets, both on the web and within AOL's
  proprietary Pageman environment. Designed and implemented LAN migration
  to switched ethernet. Implemented secure dialup access. Supervised unix
  systems administration tasks.


COMPUTER SERVICES ENGINEER                                  3/1993 -  8/1995
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
    
  Designed and programmed a relational database environment to track
  work-in-progress for a moderately-sized heterogenous workgroup. Designed
  and supervised the installation of multiple network LANs. Implemented SNMP
  network management. Supervised all network-related AutoCAD development.
  Authored HTML/CGI-perl forms environments as database interfaces.


CONTRACT COMPUTER SPECIALIST                                2/1991 -  3/1993
Aquent (formerly MacTemps)                                  2/1990 -  6/1990
Englewood, Colorado

  Completed a number of short-term assignments involving programming,
  design, word processing and data entry. These include the following:

* (National Center for Atmospheric Research - eighteen months)
  Enhanced the design of several databases. Programmed a relational 
  database to document wiring installations. Edited and designed network 
  documentation using CAD software. Provided software, hardware and 
  network-oriented support.
* (Department of Energy - nine weeks)
  Provided document support to the staff of the Construction & Engineering
  Division.
* (Public Service Company of Colorado - two weeks)
  Redesigned survey response database for ease of use. Recorded survey
  responses in the database.
* (Cablex - eight weeks)
  Designed spreadsheet-based A/P and A/R databases using software
  on site. Redesigned client information mailing list. 
* (EG&G Rocky Flats - five weeks)
  Edited critical documents in a tightly controlled workgroup setting.
  Provided software support for members of the workgroup.
* (Eagle Lithographic - five weeks)
  Programmed a series of spreadsheet macros to automatically generate
  charts from more than 100 sets of weekly sales data.


COMPUTER OPERATOR                                           9/1990 -  1/1991
Horizons Multicultural Communications
Boulder, Colorado

  Maintained the database for the agency. Programmed the framework for a
  new database. Assisted in the publishing and worldwide mailing of a
  quarterly magazine. Supervised eight volunteers.


ENGLISH TEACHER                                             6/1990 -  8/1990
English Language Institute                                  6/1989 -  9/1989
Tokorozawa, Japan

  Instructed national students in conversational English. Organized
  informal events outside the classroom. Planned and taught highly
  structured summer English camps.


HYPERCARD PROGRAMMER                                        6/1988 -  8/1988
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

  Programmed a series of self-paced tutorials in HyperCard to be used in
  the spreadsheets portion of an introductory computer science class.


COMPUTER OPERATOR                                           6/1987 -  5/1989
Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service
Ithaca, New York

  Designed and maintained computer records for the service. Generated
  manuscript data for desktop publication of materials sold internationally.