Patrick C. Cohill

www.cohill.com
pcohill@comcast.net

Professional Employment Experience:

Senior Project Manager, Computer Specialist and Consultant for  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations (FDIC) Washington D.C, Cohill & Associates, and System Source Technical Trainer. 18 years of experienced  as a software developer.  Provide Web development and technical training with Internet and software packages in the Maryland and D.C. area. (1991-present).

Manager for Price Waterhouse, Big 5 Accounting/Consulting firm which is now as of  July 1998, Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand PricewaterhouseCoopers, where system consulting was provided for the Government Services Group., Washington D.C.  Senior consultant at John  Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory  and AAI Corporation - Baltimore and Columbia Maryland, Software Developer, Programmer, Designer, Coder and Testing (1981 - 1991).

Accomplishments:

Internet

World-Wide Web: Created, work on, supported, launched, and/or maintained, web sites for, among others:

• FDIC
• Vertis and Treasure Chest 
• Grace Bible Baptist Church
• Cohill & Associates, P.A. CPAs
• Virginia  Tech Jobs
• Maryland Tech Jobs
• Baltimore Tech Jobs
• GlazerJobs
• Office Manager jobs 
• Accounting Board Jobs
• Purchasing Manager Jobs
• Green Industry Jobs Web Sites
•   Irrigation Jobs Link to IA and
•   Irrigation Jobs Site
•   Landscape Jobs
•   Nursery Jobs
•   Tree Care Jobs
•   Golf Course Employment 
•   Turf Jobs
• Orthodontic Jobs   
• RDH Jobs 
• Keytones
• WillowEnterprises
• Golf Imaging
• Bill's Custom Carpentry
  

Intranet: Created and maintained Intranet sites for:

• FDIC. (including secure web site for field staff nationwide)
• Vertis and Treasure Chest (on-line hypertext database of community service agencies)

Recent Honors:

• International Community Development Achievement award, for successful efforts in creating and maintaining worldwide community development Web sites and e-mail groups, international Community Development Society.
• Best presenter, National Users' Conference.

Training:

Have developed course materials for, and taught:

• HTML
• Web site design
• XML
• Internet use: introduction and advanced use
• Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio,  and ActiveX programming
• Microsoft Access 95, 2000 and XP
• Use of office software, including Windows, and the Microsoft Office Suite
• Telecommunications technology as a tool for community development
• Research survey interview tools & techniques for community evaluation.

Research and Database Management:

• Developed Personnel System that supports over 2,400 users nation wide.
• System provides cost saving of over $1,000,000 per year.
• Visual Basic 5.0 design, programming and testing of the new Time and Attendance Processing System (TAPS) that supports 8000 users nation wide.
• TAPS is a Client/Server N-Tiered Technical Architecture using SQL Server and Microsoft Transactions Server (MTS).
• 2 years  experience with  SQA Suite, RequisitePro, LoadTest and other automated Testing Tools.
• 3 years experience with ERWin and Visual Modeler used for data and object design.
• 5 years of experience with several Document Imaging and  Barcoding COTS tools
• 4 years of experience with SQA and IV&V testing and acceptance of software applications.
• Performed reviews of design, programming and testing support documentation.
• Performed configuration management of software on using PVCS and other CM Tools.
• Programmed graphical user and database interfaces in C, C++, FORTRAN and Ada
• Experience with Netscape, HTML, IIS, Internet Explorer, Internet/Intranet/FDICnet, Exchange, Outlook, technologies programming used to design, develop, and deploy new applications for the several FDIC Projects including the Electronic FOIA and the OES Delegation of Authority Internet/Intranet/FDICnet. Systems Analyst: Develop cost benefit analysis studies and Contracts consulting. 

Professional Organizations:

Maryland Access/Visual Basic Users Group (MVABUG) Developer's Association (charter member): trade association for individuals involved in the development of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic.