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See
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Robert E. Gries
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March 2003
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I
have seven years of experience in database programming,
Microsoft Office Automation, system upgrades and conversions, document management systems, Web Design,
Intranets and VBA macro and COM Add-In development Some of the
tools that I use are:
Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise, Microsoft Office XP 2002
Professional
Developer Edition, Crystal Reports 7.0,
HTML, JavaScript, Frontpage,
PC-DOCS, Legal MacPac, Visio, ActiveX,
API, ADO, RDO, Saros EDMS and Wordbasic conversions
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Education
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BA 1975, Senior Thesis Honors
CSF
and
Merrill
Scholarships
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Experience
6/02 - 10/02
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Univ. of Nevada,
Reno, German Dept Reno, NV
Automatic Smart-Tag English-German translation
system for Word XP documents using 20,000 word dictionary.
Adaptable for French, Spanish and Italian translations.
Software: Visual Basic 6.0 Professional, Microsoft Office XP
2002 Developer Edition,
Smart-Tag SDK, Microsoft Word XP
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5/02 - 9/02
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Fluent Traveler
Reno, NV
Database Developer Created
multimedia foreign language translation application
for French, German, Spanish and Italian. Contains 2000 phrases and
a 20,000 word dictionary in each language with audio support.
Eventually,
I add
the capability to translate free form text into synthesized speech.
This current design of mine seems quite idiomatic and natural
compared to other commercial products. See
how it works
by
clicking here
Software: Visual Basic, ADO and MS SQL, Apex True DBGrid 6.0, Apex Olectra
Chart 5.02
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Experience
4/00 - 11/00
contractor
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Teambridge, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Developed Web-Based Groupware
Document Management Software with version
control and threaded dialog for each document section.
Software: Visual Basic, Microsoft Access 2000, Internet
Transfer Control,
HTML Editing Control, Word 2000, Powerpoint 2000
and Apache Server
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Experience
2/00 - 4/00
contractor,
(RHIC)
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Bank of Amercia
San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Access Reports System - developed a
Microsoft Access data- structuring and reporting system to manage
the server financial database of Bank of America's main
international account customers daily balances.
(see
also my Letter of Introduction)
Software:
Microsoft Access 2000/97, SQL
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10/98 - 12/99
contractor
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Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Palo Alto, CA
Microsoft Office Automation - developed Microsoft Word
Wizards to produce all company contracts. I participated
in defining business rules to build technical designs for generation of legal contracts.
Hypertext help is provided for all data fields via the Office
Assistant and Microsoft Agent speech synthesis control (see
also my Letter of Introduction)
Software:
Microsoft Word 97, SQL, Microsoft Agent 2.0 ActiveX speech synthesis control
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7/99 - 2/00
contractor
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Wells Fargo Bank Trust & Estate
Division San
Francisco, CA
Microsoft Office Document Automation - developed a
Visual Basic Client Sales Presentation system tightly integrated with Excel and Powerpoint to automatically assemble
sales presentation documents. The interface is extensively database driven for ease of maintenance, and includes a convenient drag and drop "tree"
with which users can customize their presentations (see
also my Letter of Introduction)
Software:
Microsoft Word 97, SQL
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5/99
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GMAC Commercial Mortgage
San Francisco, CA
Crystal Reports 7.0 - Designed reports for new SQL Server database project including Loan Ticklers and complex reports involving sub-reports based on custom database queries.
Software:
Crystal Reports 7.0, Microsoft Access 97, Excel
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11/98 - 12/98
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3Com Corporation
Santa
Clara, CA
Microsoft Excel VBA Developer -
translated existing Lotus 1-2-3 macros for
engineering analysis to Excel VBA 5.0 code standards.
Defined technical design standards for analysis of
engineering data. Created user dialogs, easy list
selections, added editable menus for all macro
functions and provided hypertext help via the Office
Assistant.
Software:
Microsoft Excel 97, Excel Object Model,
Lotus 1-2-3 '97, Windows NT Workstation
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1/97 - 9/98 |
Graham & James LLP
San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Solutions and Database
Programmer - using Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise
Edition, Word, Excel and Access VBA as well as
WordBasic. Created SQL-Server and OLE based
distributed multimedia user solutions. Upgraded firm
from Word 7.0 to Word 8.0 VBA with The Legal MacPac
and PC-DOCS document management system. Created four firm wide
Visual
Basic and Access database
applications including SQL Server support for address book information.
Software:
Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition, VS Reports,
TrueGrid Pro,
Microsoft Office 97, PC-DOCS 3.7 (Docs
Open), Windows 95/NT
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8/96 - 12/96
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Elexsys International, Inc.
San Jose, CA
Database Developer created a
Visual Basic, Access and Excel business information system
to collect sales forecasting data from the field.
Data is combined into corporate reports in MS Access. Sales Reps can also view their monthly data in a familiar Excel spreadsheet format.
This improves the original worksheet data processing scheme by
eliminating error-prone performance links.
Designed an Access reports interface, and
custom reports including a crosstab report with dynamic
columns that is formatted completely in Access Basic
Software:
Visual Basic 4.0, TrueGrid Pro, Access,
Word 6.0, Excel 5, Windows 95 and RoboHelp 2.6
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11/95 - 7/96
contractor |
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Oakland, CA
Microsoft Access Programmer
created three turn-key database applications with
custom reports and charts: a Healthcare
benefits database, a scanned document database, and
an Access reports front end for the Saros? Electronic
Document Management System (EDMS).
I developed, a Natural
Language query interface, a full security system with login
based on the Microsoft TechNet? specification and a Windows help file
in Robohelp.
The Industrial Relations scanned
document database included OLE hooks to MS Word. I
then wrote elaborate Wordbasic macros to
automatically format approximately 2000 scanned
documents for the EDMS and permit executive tracking
of document origin and summary information in my
database.
Software:
Access 2.0, SQL, ADT, API, ODBC, Word 6.0, Excel 5.0
and RoboHelp 2.6
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9/96 - 12/96
contractor
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Heller Erhman White & McAuliffe, LLP
San Francisco, CA
Wordbasic Macro Developer
Created a custom document management system based on
the PC DOCs legal document management API.
Debugged and polished existing code
base and added new features. Redesigned corporate
logo and added desktop publishing values.
Created a Visual Basic Internet
address book application. Attorneys can directly
access client web addresses and e-mail links using
Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control on a VB form.
Software:
Word 6.0, Internet Explorer 3.0, Visual Basic 4.0 32-bit API
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9/95 - 10/95
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
San Francisco, CA
Excel Macro Developer
created Visual Basic for Applications macros in Excel
to generate 500+ charts from pivot table data.
Automation steps met the client's need for complex
charts within the project deadline and improving
overall accuracy.
Software:
Excel 5.0 and Word 6.0
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1/95 - 6/95
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Wells Fargo Bank
San
Francisco, CA
Excel Macro Developer
created worksheet pricing model containing two data
entry "Wizards" and context-sensitive
Windows help.
Converted 1500+ Lotus and Supercalc
worksheets to Excel 5.0 format and translated macros
to Visual Basic for Applications. Automatically
formatted most workbooks using my own VBA procedures.
Designed an Excel worksheet
template Wizard.
Software:
Excel 5.0, Word 6.0 and RoboHelp 2.6
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3/94 - 5/94
contractor |
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
San Francisco, CA
Designed a WordBasic Wizard to
automatically create reports about power generating
facilities for Federal agencies.
Software:
Word 2.0 and 6.0 and RoboHelp 2.0
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Publications
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- Speed-reading application for Microsoft Word
- Hungarian-English Dictionary with Fuzzy-Search ...coming
soon!
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