Ted R.

Experience

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  U. S. Navy

  Aug 1979 - Jan 1986

  Electrician's Mate First Class, Submarine Service

  Electrician's Mate, USS Daniel Webster, SSBN-626, Blue CrewNPTU Ballston Spa, NYNaval Nuclear Power School, Orlando FL class 8005, 1980Electrician's Mate A School, Great Lakes Training Center, Illinois

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  Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

  Mar 1986 - Jan 1989

  EDP Systems Analyst III

  "The computer guy" for the Division of Food & Drugs in Jamaica Plain. Installed, configured, spec'ed machines, pulled cables, trained staff on basic word processing, spreadsheet, database work. Built database applications starting with dual-floppy IBM XTs. Brought in networking, Postscript printing, desktop publishing, remote access, etc.

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  New Hampshire Insurance

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1993

  Programmer

  Developed small and large systems in the midst of the PC Revolution. PCs, DOS, IBM PS/2 50Zs, token-ring, mainframe connections. In FoxPro, of course.

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  Transactions Unlimited

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1993

  Director of Application Development

  Directed Application Development: established coding standards, reviews, brown bag seminars. Technical resource and coach.

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  Blackstone Data Systems

  Jun 1995 - Nov 2000

  Director of Application Development

  Custom software development for Boston-area firms using Microsoft technologies: SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, IIS

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  USDataCenters

  Oct 2000 - Aug 2001

  Director of Application Development, BugCentral.com division

  Brought in to manage development and technical issues as division expanded from one to seven. As a small and profitable arm of a larger, VC-fueled organization, moved development base from ISAM to client-server, introduced source code control, development pipelines, staging systems, issue tracking, agile planning.

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  Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

  Jul 2001 - now

  Owner

  Independent consultant developing, maintaining and rescuing database-centric web sites using Linux, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQL, PHP, Free and Open Source Software. Visual FoxPro Veteran. Principals only.

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  Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (GNHLUG)

  Dec 2006 - Dec 2009

  Fearless Leader (2006-2009)

  Herder of cats, pusher at one end of a string, the man in charge of organizing a group which celebrates individuality, informal networking and the power of choice.

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  EventSalon, LLC

  Feb 2007 - Feb 2009

  Consultant/Software Architect

  Search engine for events near you, curated event posting and guided search queries. Validated posters to ensure legitimate posts. Designed and implemented database schema, framework for persistence, query engine. Worked with other developers on UI design, ad rotation engine, templating engines, 3rd party integrations.