Thomas Arndt résumé

Thomas Arndt

phone: (six five one) four five zero–four seven nine zero
(voice mail after eight rings)
e-mail: thomasarndt (at) thomasarndt (period) net
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasarndt7

analytical software developer with experience in analysis, design, coding, integration and documentation of technical applications

problem-solving
logical analysis

organization
technical writing

experienced with entire software development life cycle
very detail-oriented
skilled at communication

Germanic-American Institute —Saint Paul, MN 2018—present

library volunteer

maintain library organization
maintain inventory of holdings
screen donations

Avalon Hill Reliability, Experience and Ability Information Service —Kenosha, WI 2017—present

rating technician volunteer

assist with assessing game players skill levels based on performance
create and maintain spreadsheet tools to automate the rating process

American Phytopathological Society —Eagan, MN (part-time contractor) 2010

Web Software Engineer

assisted with website update to a new framework at www.apsnet.org—for example:

added illustrations to the illustrated glossary
inserted text into the pages for division meeting archives
created HTML pages for introductory and advanced lessons
created HTML pages for back issues of on-line periodicals MPMI, Phytopathology, and Plant Disease and verified that all of the printed articles were available on-line

assembled topical articles for inclusion in excerpt CDs for sale

Cancer Benefit Fund (part-time contractor)—Saint Paul, MN 2009–2010

Web Software Engineer

performed website maintenance via a content management system (Tweak CMS) for a volunteer cancer-research fund-raising group at www.cancerbenefitfund.org (no longer on-line)
consolidated cascading style sheets into a single CSS for all pages
removed unnecessary markup and unused files

Braun Intertec —Bloomington, MN (contractor) 2006–2007

Web Software Engineer

Employee Certifications—designed, developed, coded, and integrated a replacement for a single-PC application to track employees' job-skill certifications for reporting to potential clients (C#.NET)
Applicant Tracking—designed, developed, coded, and integrated a set of web pages to receive job applications from internal and external applicants, and to allow HR personnel to view the data received and generate reports (C#.NET)

Datacard Group —Minnetonka, MN 2000–2003

Software Analyst

Datacard 9000—received, analyzed, solved, and documented program trouble reports from customers regarding their use of the Datacard 9000 card printer (C++)

Lockheed Martin —Eagan, MN 1983–2000 (formerly Loral, Unisys, Sperry)

Applications Software Engineer (1999–2000)

Common ARTS Radar Gateway—developed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated a new chassis to provide a redundant pathway for radar data (C)
Common ARTS Mosaic—solved and wrote up solutions for numerous system trouble reports; helped new employees become familiar with the Automated Radar Terminal System (C)
ARTS Color Display Baseline test—used video equipment to test system response time to radar inputs and various keyboard entries, giving the FAA actual measurements of the performance characteristics of a new type of fully digital display

Principal Engineer (1997–1999)

Short Term Conflict Alert (for Deutsche Flugsicherung)—designed and coded software to translate radar input to feed a piggyback system to provide an additional function (Conflict Alert) for German air traffic control—this software needed no integration; it worked the first time in (C)

Senior Software Engineer (1992–1997)

ARTS III Remote Display Buffer Memory Study—re-worked interfaces to improve the efficiency of data transfer to memory buffers serving off-site displays (Ultra-30 assembly language)
Common ARTS—designed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated software to receive and standardize radar data for a replacement system for ARTS II and ARTS III sites nationwide; led a team of five (C)

Software Engineer (1990–1992)

ARTS III Interim Support Program—designed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated software updates to allow for greater traffic loads at ARTS III sites (Ultra-30)

Associate Software Engineer (1988–1990)

ARTS IIIE New York TRACON—designed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated software for New York TRACON (Ultra-30)

Associate Programmer (1985–1988)

ARTS IIIA Conflict Alert On-line Certification-designed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated software for display presentation of airport-location information for conflict-alert databases. This was a single-person project. (Ultra-30)

Technical Trainee Programmer (1983–1985)

EARTS Mosaic—designed, coded, unit-tested, and integrated software for display presentation of weather data from multiple radars (Ultra-30)
MATCALS—coded, unit-tested, and integrated software for handling of touch-screen input for the Marines All-weather Traffic Control And Landing System (CMS-2)

Dakota County Technical College: Database Systems (Spring 2012)
Inver Hills Community College: Visual Basic 2010 (Spring 2012)
Metro State University: Web Design & Implementation (2009)
Inver Hills Community College: Object-oriented Analysis & Design I & II (2008–2009)
Inver Hills Community College: Introduction to Java, Advanced Java (2004)
Science Museum of Minnesota: HTML (2004), SQL (2005)
University of Minnesota—Institute of Technology: Bachelor of Computer Science (1985)

Java, C#.NET, HTML, Javascript, SQL

Visual Studio 2010, Rational Rose 2002, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access

Achievement Award for outstanding performance for assuming the technical lead on the Performance Monitor project and completing it (1991)