Drwelch Michael J. Welch

2945 Hampton Ave
Hemet, CA 92545, USA
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Contract Ruby / RoR Programmer
On or Off Site

SUMMARY I am a retired CEO/CIO/Project Manager, a past part-time college professor, and Doctor of Business Administration. I also hold an interim secondary teaching credential.

TARGET JOB Target Job Title: Ruby Contract Programmer
Desired Job Type: Fixed Bid on Specification
Desired Status: Contract Only
Site Locations: On/Off Site in the USA and Canada, including Québec

EXPERIENCE Inland Cash Register, SKAN Enterprises Inc. 7/1997 - 1/2009
(retired)
San Bernardino, CA
CIO
At ICR, I successfully developed a new line of software products to enhance the company's sales of Electronic Cash Register (ECR) systems. These products are component based, and operate on Windows PCs. Because of this software, the company was able to become the exclusive dealer of Sharp ECR systems for Compass Group, Mrs Fields Cookies, and other big name companies in the food service business.

NeTel Educational Systems 5/1996 - 7/1997 Clairemont, CA
Chief Technical Officer
As CTO, I directed the conversion of the early versions of the School Net series of software to Macintosh computers. Because of this Macintosh conversion, the company was better able to aquire business with school districts who are primarily Macintosh based, increasing sales by over 200%.

Hemet EKGInterpretation Medical Group, Inc. 11/1995 - 5/1996 Hemet, CA
Adjunct Chief Information Officer
As CIO, I managed the conversion of WANG-VS software to a PC client/server based software using MYSQL and Visual Basic. The new software was needed to allow the company to move into the 21st century, and resulted in a 20% savings in labor costs.

Unihealth 6/1995 - 11/1995 Burbank, CA
Senior Systems/Analyst/Business Consultant
Before I finished training, my position was eliminated through downsizing.

Money Mailer, Inc. 5/1994 - 6/1995 Garden Grove, CA
Chief Technical Officer
I was responsible to build a programming team to develop a franchisee application program to reduce labor costs at the franchisees' offices. The project was successful and saved about 50% of the cost to the franchisee of preparing and managing the submission of orders to the corporate office. The original program was named AdVantage.

The Limhi Corporation and Medi-sec, Inc. 4/1980 - 5/1994 Hemet, CA
CEO/CTO
As CEO, I operated Limhi for 14 years, and took it from a small sole proprietorship to a medium sized corporation specialized in medical billing and software development. The software was sold to, and used in, a total of five large data centers in the US, one of which was Medi-sec, Inc. where I was also named CTO.

Compudent Management Systems, Inc. 2/1978 - 4/1980 Hemet, CA
VP/CTO
I was responsible for managing a software development team to build some of the first in-office dental and medical accounts receivable systems on the market. The project completed, but the company broke up as a result of disputes between the major stockholders.

HYCOM
A subsidiary of SHARP of Japan
4/1971 - 2/1978 Irvine, CA
Consultant serving as CTO/Programmer
I was responsible for the development of micro circuit development software. The project was completed, and Hycom used the software to develop the first first high-speed adaptive learning modems on the market, producing a large return for the parent company, Sharp of Japan. At the same time, I provided consulting services to Rockwell International, Hughes Microelectronics, and other smaller companies.

Rockwell International 2/1961 - 4/1971 Anaheim, CA
Senior Engineering Programmer and Engineering Computing Representative
I was responsible for programming and maintaining an array of programs which formed part of the set of applications that formed the backbone of Rockwell's microchip development capability.

EDUCATION 1/1994 Century University Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration
 
8/1991 Century University Master of Business Administration
 
5/1988 University of Redlands Bachelor's in Business Administration
 
6/1980 Mt San Jacinto
Community College
Associate of Science in Business Administration
 
2/1972 Cerritos
Community College
Associate in Arts in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
 
6/2004 California State University Teaching Certification
  I completed all classes for a Secondary Subjects Teaching Credential, but never took employment as a teacher. Thus, I have an "interim" credential, not a "clear" credential.

LANGUAGES Language Skill Level Last Used Years Spoken
English Expert Currently used Native
Spanish Expert Currently used 36 years
French Intermediate Currently used 12 years

COMPUTER SKILLS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience
C, C++ Expert Currently used 24 years
Visual Basic Expert No longer use 12 years
Powerpoint Intermediate Rarely use 6 years
Microsoft Office Intermediate Currently used 12 years
Java (Sun) Intermediate Currently used 3 year
Dreamweaver Advanced Currently used 4 years
RoR-MySQL Intermediate Currently used 2 years
PHP-MySQL Intermediate Recently used 3 years