Qualifications Summary

• Over 15 years experience writing software applications across multiple platforms
• Working knowledge of Java and C++
• Produce quality work and meet deadlines

Professional Competence

Languages: Java, C++, VRML 2.0, C, Visual Basic, Ada, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC, Assembly (80x86 series, 68000 series, 6809, and Z-80)

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/95, DOS, UNIX, Macintosh

Hardware: Microprocessor hardware Motorola 68000 series.

Experience

Manager of Software Development. HIE Inc., Columbus, OH. 5/99 - present

Hired and promoted by contracting company. In charge of all Graphical User Interface development using Java with Swing for company's main software product.

Software Engineer. ICC., Columbus, OH. 7/96 - 5/99

Contracted by Cutler-Hammer IDT to write loader for their programmable keyboard in Windows 3.1 and Windows NT. Wrote editor application to visually modify download data. Contracted by Hublink/HIE to write visual interfaces to back end databases.

Electronics Systems Engineer promoted in January 1995. InterBold (Partnership of IBM and Diebold). North Canton, OH. 1/91 - 5/96

Wrote software and firmware for automated teller machines (ATMs). Designed and programmed VGA video device drivers and touch screen software control drivers. Received Quality award for 2nd Quarter 1994. Wrote demo software in Java to demonstrate platform independence.

Member of Engineering Staff promoted in June 1989. GE Aerospace. Morrestown, NJ. 6/88 - 12/90

Responsible for detailed design of software and firmware of a multiprocessor-based computer system for a government submarine project. Designed and implemented software control drivers for 68030-based workstations to use a fiber-optic communications prototype.

Student Engineer. Boeing Commercial Airplane Company. Seattle, WA. 7/87 - 8/87

Developed IBM software to notify engineers of requested airplane changes from customers.

Private Contracts

WorldGate Communications, Inc. - Writing Java games for their Internet TV Over Cable(SM) solution. http://www.wgate.com

Interactive Imaginations, Inc. - Wrote game Klondike for their commercial game web site Riddler. http://www.riddler.com

Books Containing My Work

Pfaffenberger, Bryan, Netscape Navigator 3.0: Surfing the Web and Exploring the Internet (Windows and Macintosh versions), AP Professional 1996.

Tapley, Rebecca, The Offical Gamelan Java Directory, Ziff-Davis Press 1996.

Walsh, Aaron E., Foundations of Java, IDG Books 1996.

Wutka, Mark, Hacking Java: The Java Professional's Resource Kit, Que Books 1996.

Public Samples

1996 - Telnet Client for Java - http://bret.dahlgren.com/telnet

1995, 1996 - Solitaire for Java - http://bret.dahlgren.com/solitaire

Education

Drexel University: Candidate for M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Pennsylvania State University: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E.), 1988.