Leon Richard Blackburn, Jr.
rblackburn@mindspring.com

Employment

1996 - Present Quintiles Laboratories

Smryna, Georgia

Software Engineer II
Using VGL, PowerBuilder, C#, and PL/SQL to develope and maintain system software on an OpenVMS system using Oracle 8.0 under Unix as our database server and Windows XP as the client software.

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.