JAMES PRESCOTT

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Resume prepared 2004-September-02

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Leadership, Planning, and Problem-Solving

• Demonstrated effective leadership on ten major projects. They ranged from graphical mainframe configuration management, digital audio research, and real-time signal processing, through geological and engineering applications, to production accounting.
• Estimated, scheduled, and monitored progress on nine major projects. Eight of the nine were on time and on budget, and the ninth required a single reschedule. The largest project involved ten persons and eight effort years.
• Supervisory and assistant manager experience, including hiring.
• Demonstrates calm and competent planning and leadership in hobby activities.

Software Engineering

• Analysed, designed, and programmed extensively on all major projects.
• Designed and programmed dozens of smaller projects ranging from a Lisp interpreter through custom data base applications to seismic routines and encryption modules.
• Wrote documentation for all projects.
• Collaborated with electronics engineers to design and test custom hardware.

Data Base Analysis and Development

• Conducted the data analysis, design, and development for eight major projects and a number of minor projects. Created three proprietary data storage designs.
• Served occasionally as data base administrator.
• Developed a data base guidelines manual for programmers and analysts.

Management Analysis

• Recommended action to management for four existing engineering and production accounting systems.
• Conducted an organisation and data flow analysis of the Production Department of a major oil and gas company.
• Worked on a major proposal for a computer game start-up.
• Completed several small feasibility studies.

Communication Skills

• Excellent oral and written skills, including listening and public speaking.
• Instructed in project estimating and scheduling, data base analysis and design, systems analysis, and programming.

Work History Summary

• 1983 - Present     System and Software Consultant
  • (clients include U of C Sport Medicine, DartCart, Beta Systems Canada, Thorntree Software, Archer Communications, Canterra Energy, Alberta Wheat Pool, and Teknica Resource Development)
• 2000 - 2002     Game Designer / Architect
  • (created a board game; wrote scenario material for a role playing game; was a principal in a potential online computer game start-up venture)
• 1976 - 1982     Union Oil Company