Joseph Heimiller — owner, Aspire Software LLC

Available for software consulting work in the Denver and Boulder metropolitan area.

Call 720-936-7334 or e-mail joe@musicmasterworks.com for more information.

Golden, Colorado

Specialized expertise

Object-oriented programming and design
Database systems
C++ and C#
Windows applications programming

Other languages and technologies

SQL, Microsoft Access, MySQL, Visual Basic, and some C#, Java, Perl and PHP.

Experience

Aspire Software — independent software development

January 2001 – present

Developed several shareware titles including the “Music MasterWorks” music composing program, the “In-Tune Multi-Instrument Tuner” and “Calendar Constructer” (musicmasterworks.com). Music MasterWorks includes a highly accurate voice-to-note algorithm that I developed. A version of Music MasterWorks is sold through retail channels by Topics Entertainment.

Programmer/analyst — Krauter Laboratory, University of Colorado

July 2004 – December 2005

Designed and implemented a genotype database in Microsoft Access with a MySQL server back-end: a generic system storing patient, sample and genotype data for genetics studies, producing input files for Merlin, a genetic linkage and association analysis package. Also programmed a protein sorting program in Perl using RepeatMasker and FASTA. For other clients at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics I performed microarray and other statistical analysis in the R environment.

Contract programmer — National Automotive Dealer Co-op

July 2003 – September 2003, January 2006 – February 2006

Programmed a Microsoft Access database system to run the daily operations of this insurance business.

Programmer/analyst — Evergreen Research

March 1997 – January 2001

Programmed several major sub-systems of the Aastrom Replicell® System, which grows adult stem cells for use in various therapies. Also worked on the Gen-Probe TIGRIS® System, an automated nucleic acid disease testing device, programming the database — a reusable object-oriented interface used by other team members — and sections of the user interface.

Programmer/analyst — Galileo International

August 1995 – August 1996

Developed the client side of ‘TravelServer’, a corporate airline reservation system. The system involved asynchronous communications to a local server as well as to the airline reservation host, with complex logic restricting and channeling requests for air, car and hotel reservations for business travelers.

Programmer/analyst — Colorado Department of Labor & Employment

March 1995 – June 1995

Responsible for finding and fixing problems in a state-wide boiler inspection database system.

Programmer/analyst — Western Stone & Metal

May 1994 – February 1995

Developed a generic data conversion system in C++ that accommodated a variety of complex conversions.

Contract programmer — Express File, Electronic Tax Filing, Ann Arbor, MI

November 1991 – March 1994

Responsible for writing multi-user database programs key to Express File’s day-to-day operations: tracking and recording tax returns, I.R.S. transmission and acknowledgment updating, and data entry checking. Also generated billing statements and reports that were automatically faxed to customers nation-wide.

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder. GPA 3.7.

References available on request.