Leon Richard Blackburn, Jr.
rblackburn@mindspring.com
Employment
| 1996 - Present |
Quintiles Laboratories Smryna, Georgia Software Engineer II |
| 1995 - 1996 |
Automated Design
Systems Roswell, Georgia Used Visual BASIC, Delphi, and Access applications in development and maintenance of Microsoft OLE database spreadsheet and reporting tool for Microsoft Word and Excel data. Also generated WEB pages using HTML and JAVAscript. Used InstallShield to develop installation including OCX and DLL file registration under Microsoft Windows versions 3.11 and 95. |
| 1990 - 1995 |
SemWare Corporation Marietta, Georgia Tech Support Team Leader: duties include fielding customer calls, problem resolution, writing macros, and ensuring accuracy of responses by other technical support members before they go to the customer (BBS, email), writing macros, writing code as needed (C, ASM) verification of bug reports, identification of minimal steps for reproducing bugs, and forwarding bugs to programmers for debugging; BBS SYSOP: Linux Administration (Internet Server, FTP, and WWW ), PCBoard BBS, CompuServe forum; ensure technical accuracy of user documentation (printed, online). |
| 1987 - 1990 |
Progressive Lighting Marietta, Georgia Hired as delivery driver, pulled and verified accuracy of orders, loaded and delivered to customer sites. Promoted to supervisor of Receiving and Inventory involving unloading and verification of shipments received, stocking, inventory control and forwarding timely ordering information to the buyer. |
| 1985 - 1987 |
Georgia Marble Marble Hill, Georgia Mine surveyor duties included running theodolite and level instruments for underground and land surveying, reducing survey data to Cartesian coordinates for plotting data on mine maps. Ensured accuracy of headings for proper pillar alignment; coordinated locations for blasters and drillers. |
Education
Kennesaw State College
Marietta, Georgia
Pursuing a B.S. Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems. Relevant courses completed include: Visual BASIC, Assembly, PASCAL, and C programming languages.