Douglas G. Brong

380 Roslyn Place   •   Minneapolis,  MN  55419    •    (612) 866-3508   •   Contact Form

Software Developer / Information Systems Designer / Tech Project Management 

An experienced information systems professional, with a diverse client base in insurance, healthcare, engineering, government, and financial applications.  Project management qualifications combine with a proven ability to develop and implement technical solutions for critical needs.  An excellent communicator between technical and business people, who can translate complex information into easily understood terms.   Strong on customer service.

Unique experience in both the scientific and business programming.   In the scientific/real time environment programs must meet stringent quality and reliability standards.  Have designed systems to meet Navy, Air Force, and Federal Reserve standards.

Expert with relational databases, SQL, stored procedures, .Net, object oriented programming.

Professional Experience

Minneapolis Software   •   Minneapolis, MN                                        1983 – present

Founded Minneapolis Software in 1983.  Designed and developed Preventative Maintenance and Work Order software for large facilities and corporate headquarters.  Sales of the maintenance software package have exceeded  $2,000,000.    Clients include: MetroDome, Xcel Center, American Family Insurance, Federal Reserve Banks, Wells Fargo, and many property management companies.

Other systems designed and produced:

Court Services / Diversion / Tracking                                                        Metro counties

Juvenile Restitution                                                                                Metro counties

Motor Vehicle Tag Issuing/Pricing/Reporting                                             MN Deputy Registrars

Spare parts inventory                                                                              Dow Chemical

Medical manometry for incontinence                                                        U of M Physicians

Life insurance sales tracking, and commission computation                      NJ Life 

Warehouse label printing system with graphics ( large volume)                   GB Electrical

Life insurance comparisons and selection for complex Key Man                 Clark Bartles

and Salary Continuation plans.

US Recordings   •   St Paul,  MN                                                             1984 - 2004

Designed and developed a mortgage and related document filing system.  The application included over 100 data tables.   Key system components were work flow, reliability, and quality check points.  Key software components were document tracking, pricing fees for all 3,500 US counties, exception handling, MICR check writing, bar coding, UPS shipment consolidation, sorting returned documents by client, and accounts receivable.    US Recordings has used this system to record over two million mortgages.   Supervised a small IT department.

Educational Background

B.S. Computer Science / Engineering Mechanics, Penn State, University Park, PA 

A.S. Engineering, Lehigh CCC, 

Unique Scientific /  Department of Defense Experiences

NASA   •   Langley Research Center    •   Hampton, VA

In house programming consultant for wind tunnel testing.

Engineering statics and dynamics calculations.

Real time systems for jet engine testing.

Complier Design.

Raytheon Submarine Signal Division   •   Newport, RI

Team member - design and built one of the first RISC machines for the DoD.

Design and implementation of real time data acquisition systems.

Design and implementation of command and control systems.

Technical Summary

Hardware:

·                           PC’s, IBM and Unisys mainframes.

·                           Intermec bar code readers, many types of application specific serial devices, high volume laser printers, document scanners, Zebra bar code label printers, MICR check printing.

Software:

·                          Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista),  VB.NET 2005,  SQL 2005, ADO, ADO.NET, SMO, Visual Objects, Clipper, FoxPro, PCL6, Report Pro (similar to Crystal Reports), XML, XSD, HTML, CGI. Stored Procedures, Pegasus Imaging, OutLook automation, SMTP, Twain interface, Access, VB6,  MS One Click Deployment, ASP.Net, ISAM, Web Services, Document Imaging.

·                           Fortran, Cobol, and many assembly languages. 

·                           Through background in internal data formats, bits, bytes, hex, octal, ASCII, EBCDIC, hardware floating point, packed decimal, record blocking techniques, encryption.