M A R K C O L B A T H

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1 M A R K C O L B A T H OBJECTIVE Senior Software Developer with 20 years of professional software engineering experience, including six US software patents, looking for contract position. Specialize in Visual C++, MFC, Java, COM/DCOM, ASP/VBScript, ADO, PHP/MySQL. Other tools are used when required. Very quick learner and invariably productive quickly after hire. I have a special employment need. In January 2006, we moved to Honduras to run an orphanage. I have Internet acees and am willing to work for as little as $25/hour for longer term projects. Willing to travel to meet with clients if necessary, otherwise work from home office in order to control costs. EXPERIENCE 5/2003 1/2006 Third Millennium Productions, Inc. Fort Worth, TX Industry: Aerospace/Aviation Senior Software Engineer Converting legacy Unix finite element model applications and applets to cross platform GUI using the Fox Toolkit ( and MS Visual C++. Programmed web application using PHP and MySQL to manage users of our online training. Advise fellow programmers on MS- Windows applications development. 6/ Present MPC Solutions Austin, TX Industry: IT- Software Systems & Design Currently building a web based application for employee background checks using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform. Site is rich with Web 2.0, Ajax. Expect first release at end of year Maintain an auction site for a client in the Netherlands. Re-engineering additional, multi-language auction site for same owner. Work began mid-2009 with first release a couple months after. Have earned client's trust for reliable code and very quick turnaround on a live site. In 2009 and 2010, worked for client Syncables using C++, COM and

2 Java to enhance and maintain application to synchronize clients, media and other files across workstations and different platforms. Worked as a contract engineer for several companies in DFW and on either US Coast. All development utilized one or more of: Visual C++, MFC, ASP, VBScript, ADO, SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript, C# and DAO. Following is a list of contractees: Outreach Health Services Developed an Intranet web application to archive quality assurance logs and reports. System built with HTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, ADO and SQL Server. Circle R Broadcast Group (Radio Shack Inc.) Developed software, using Visual C++, MFC and HTTP, to interface with their large file transport system. The interface has an animated popup window and pulls information from a web server via HTTP. Third Millennium Productions Developed a wizard interface to TMPâ s modeling software using Visual C++ and MFC. Calabrese Auto Mall Developed and enhanced existing web sites for this local auto dealer using ASP, HTML, VBScript and JavaScript. Common Sense Pest & Termite Developed a web application to maintain customer list and schedule service. Restoration Church Built Restoration-dfw.org. Has many programmatic aspects including scheduling, automated reminders, dynamic calendars and administrative pages. Developer Support Microsoft Corp (Contract through Volt) Trained to become a part of the professional product support team. Trained using var ious development tools including ASP.Net and VB.Net. 2

3 Practitioners Publishing Company Upgraded Engagement Manager by adding new features. The major focus of this update was to enable clients to save documents to the web and keep in sync with other CPAâ s within their own firm. Also developing a multithreaded tool as a stress test to the storage server. InterActual Developed DVD navigator components for PCFriendly (now called InterActual Player). C++, COM, and ATL were used to develop the navigators. All work was done from my home office via telecommute. InterActual is based in California. PCFriendly is DVD playback software for personal computers, which also gathers demographic and viewing habits of its users. Information is sold and sent to movie production companies via Internet. Developed web site and test scripts for the playback components using ASP, HTML and Javascript. Huntfish.net Developed an online hunting directory. Site is still active and advertising revenues are a nice supplement to my income. I own the site. I originally developed it in ASP/VBScript but I ported it over to PHP to cut costs and consolidate my all of my sites into my web hosting reseller account. CCG Systems Inc. Ported tire tracking software ( for resell with another vendors fleet maintenance software. NetworkTires.com Developed NetworkTires.com an e-commerce B2B web site for the wholesale trade of tires.. 5/1999-5/2000 Ibertech Inc Bedford, TX Industry: Restaurants/Food and Drink Services Senior Software Engineer Used C++, MFC, COM and Win 32 SDK's to upgrade restaurant POS software. Also added two major components for feature requests. Data 3

4 was stored in flat files (dbf's) as well as Relational (SQL Server and Access). Used ODBC for access to relational. 5/1994-5/1996 The Systems Group Dallas, TX Industry: Consulting Services Consultant Worked at client site (Frito-Lay in Plano, TX) to upgrade handheld computer telecommunications software. Used C++ in a DOS environment. Software was used to upload sales and inventory data to the host computer and also to download product information to handheld. 1/1991-5/1994 Tandy Corp. Fort Worth, TX Industry: Electronics Programmer/Analyst Worked in two departments. First worked at Tandy R&D to perform compatibility testing on newly developed computer systems. Used a combination of application software and custom developed software using C and C++. Wrote BIOS tests using C/C++ to test entertainment system. Also designed and wrote a video game to test the entertainment system including VGA graphics, MIDI player/sequencer, and WAV player. Secondly served in Tandy IS to build the Corporate Executive Memo System (basically a one-way system before was available at Radio Shack). Used Borland C++, Gupta SQL Server and CommonBase to develop the front end system. Also wrote back end distribution application and a generic notification engine to inform analysts of data processing events. 1/ /1990 GeoControl Systems Houston, TX Industry: Consulting Services Programmer / Analyst Maintained a real time control system for NASA, Ore-ida Foods and the Army Corps of Engineers. System was developed in FORTRAN for the DEC/VAX platform. EDUCATION PATENTS University of Texas Austin, TX B.A. Computer Science GPA in Major, 3.1 Overall 7,657,646 System and method for communication of streaming data 7,653,737 System and method for communication of streaming data 7,260,610 Convergence events notification system 4

5 6,826,574 Automatic profiler 6,728,776 System and method for communication of streaming data 6,591,314 Video input selection for information handling system S I G U A T E P E Q U E, H O N D U R A S P H O N E E - M A I L C O L B A T H M A R G M A I L. C O M 5