| Education | ||
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Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN |
1982-1983 | |
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Indiana University Bloomington, IN |
B.A., Psychology | 1983-1986 |
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Indiana University Bloomington, IN |
Graduate work in Cognitive Psychology |
1987-1989 |
| Summary of Skills | ||
| Over 10 years of web programming, including Cold Fusion (7 years of exposure to every method and use of CF), HTML (10 yrs.), SQL (8 yrs.), Javascript (9 yrs.), CSS (4 yrs.), XML (3 yrs.), LDAP (2 yrs.), VB 6 (3 yr.), Adobe Acrobat (6 yrs.), and Photoshop (5 yrs.). Database experience includes Oracle 8i and 9i (5 years of consistent use and experience), Access, and SQL Server 2000, 2007. Program management experience includes coordinating a federally funded research program (Center for Disease Control) and being responsible for an annual budget of $100,000 which was operated under budget by $30,000 for three years. Supervised a staff of 4 and 2 contracted entities for 4 years. Additional management experience includes chairing a Not-for-Profit Task Force responsible for $50,000 in business development, and past President of a Not-for-Profit Preschool Coop responsible for hiring and managing 2 teachers. Additional experience includes data analysis in private and public settings, wrote two successful federal grants, and over 5 years of supervisory and management experience. Experience with analyzing job priorities and working independently or within a team. Tested and performed quality assurance on every web page, report, query, and project I have created and operated, and tested other developer’s applications for effectiveness, efficiency, and adherence to specifications. Comfortable communicating orally and in writing on all levels with people of varied backgrounds. Published a new theory of vowel perception and production in 2009. | ||
| Professional Experience | ||
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Indiana Gaming Commission 7/06 to present |
South Tower, Suite 1600 115 W. Washington St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 |
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| Sr. Application Programmer: As a State of Indiana employee, I have developed a Visual Basic 6 application that allows the casinos in Indiana to report their purchases electronically. This application utilizes a SQL Server 2000 database, and incorporates several Crystal Reports. Duties also include updating several other VB 6 applications (daily tax and license applications), and currently migrating the Charity Gaming database and application to SQL Server 2007 with a VB interface. Received a week of formal .NET traing in order to maintain the one .NET application at IGC. | ||
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Pinnacle Partners (on location at Bell Industries, BellTech.logix Group) 5/06 to 6/06 |
9515 Delegates Row Indianapolis, IN 46240 |
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| Sr. Cold Fusion (CF) Developer/Analyst: Quickly resolved several minor errors using Cold Fusion MX, correctly analyzed data requests from multiple program managers, and queried and updated tables in the SQL Server 2000 databases. Quality assurance, testing, and my organizational efforts reinforced the infrastructure of multiple applications. | ||
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Pinnacle Partners (on location at Walker Information) 9/04 to 5/06 |
9515 Delegates Row Indianapolis, IN 46240 |
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| Sr. Cold Fusion Developer/Analyst: Contract for 6 months was extended 4 times to solidify the relationship with an international company as a client since there had been limited and difficult progress made the previous 3 years. Edited existing CF code, and developed new applications with CF 5.0 and Javascript on an Oracle 9i database at an enterprise level. Performed daily updates to the production database, and CF development included the use of structures, functions, and custom tags on a daily basis. My program management, testing, quality assurance, and documentation skills helped organize the project. Customer relations were improved by understanding the customer’s needs and wants and then developing it according to the specifications. This helped expand and make the project profitable. The development environment included exposure to .NET development. | ||
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Indotronix International Corporation (on location at Eli Lilly & Co) 8/04 to 9/04 |
556 Weddell Dr. Suite 7 Sunnyvale, CA 94089 |
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| Sr. Cold Fusion Developer/Analyst: On a team of 8 developers, helped create an innovative data and documentation storage application being developed by IBM for Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. The user interface was built with Javascript, and Cold Fusion 4.5 was used to pass the users data in an XML format to the IBM Java application for processing. | ||
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VOLT (on location at Eli Lilly & Co) 2/04 to 6/04 |
30 S. Meridian Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 |
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| Sr. Cold Fusion Developer/Analyst: Contract for 3 months was extended once to develop an additional enhancement to Eli Lilly Procurement Department’s internet application. Tasks included enabling portions of the CF application that were failing, and developing new features that were put into production after testing. This was done using CF 4.5 and Oracle 9i, and all deadlines were met. The extensive documentation was also completed accurately and on time. Incorporated .NET features into the applications tested and developed as needed. | ||
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Prosoft (on location at Inviva) 8/03 to 2/04 |
11605 Hazelwood Road Louisville, KY 40223 |
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| Sr. Cold Fusion Developer/Analyst: Contract for 3 months was extended twice. Work involved online annuities and insurance application development making edits to the existing CF files, and creating new applications with CF, Javascript, and Oracle 9i stored procedures. Also, tested and performed QA to accomplish new business requirements while meeting all project deadlines and completing all tasks through a project development cycle. During a software upgrade, responsibilities included migrating code from CF 5.0 to MX. | ||
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CTG (at Indiana State Department of Health) 3/03-7/03 |
5875 Castle Creek Parkway Suite 208 Indianapolis, IN 46250 |
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| Sr. Analyst/Programmer: Responsibilities involved creating reports and providing technical backup for the enterprise wide time and activity tracking system. CF 4.5 and Javascript were used to create the user interface, while the data was stored in an Oracle 8i database. Furthermore, was able to gain additional experience understanding and manipulating other programmer code to perform enhancements to an existing application. Direct customer assistance and interaction was also involved, as well as troubleshooting software issues (for example, identifying and solving a conflict created by installing a necessary Internet Explorer patch). | ||
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EG&G Services 2/02-2/03 |
Crane Naval Weapons Center Crane, IN 47522 |
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| Programmer/Analyst 2/3: Responsibilities involved adapting an existing CF application to meet the needs of an E-business web services application being developed. In order to acquire and pass the required data for this new application, modifications to the existing CF code were successfully made. After testing, analyzing the code and method, and researching their use of custom tags, my modifications worked seamlessly with the CF application already in production. This work also involved passing user and password information to unrelated program databases for transactions (single sign-on). Prior to this, my responsibilities involved writing the migration plan of several SQL Server 7.0 databases to Oracle 9i (this was the back end database for the CF work described above). The plan was used for migrating 15 SQL Server 7.0 databases that were related and had the same structure (155 tables, 7 stored procedures, 13 views, and 13 triggers). Assisted with the writing and testing of the stored procedures, and the tuning of the Oracle databases to perform as well or better than the SQL Server databases. Initial responsibility with EG&G involved creating an application in CF to query, add, modify, and delete records in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) schema. As the first successful LDAP application at the Crane base, it was used to train other developers and initiated discussions on using LDAP throughout the military network. | ||
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Indiana State Dept. of Health (ISDH) 9/98-2/02 |
2 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 |
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| Systems Analyst: Web master for the Regulatory Services Commission of ISDH maintaining over 20,000 web pages, and responsible for a methodology that led to the development of over 100,000 other web pages throughout ISDH. Was project leader on all interactive web applications, and an automated telephony system Extensive software experience and classroom training in all of the following; CF 4.0 and 4.5, SQL, HTML, Javascript, XML, Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat, Oracle 8i, Access, Excel, Dreamweaver, Paradox, Wordperfect, Harvard Graphics, Word, and GIS. $10,000 annually savings through the creation of a custom help desk tracking system in CF for the Acute Care and Long Term Care Divisions. This became the model for the help desk tracking system for all of ISDH. Debugged and assisted on the code of every ISDH CF application being developed, and wrote the standards and protocols for CF application development at ISDH. With the ISDH DBA, we configured the Enterprise version of CF 4.5 on an NT server, and established connections to multiple servers throughout the ISDH Novell network for applications using Oracle 8i, Access, and Foxpro databases. Testing and QA performed on every project. | ||
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Indiana State Dept. of Health 10/93-9/98 |
2 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 |
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| Health Planner 3: Coordinator and Data Manger - Only state employee who knew and operated the program specific software (Pramtrac) developed by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System research program. ISDH ran the program for 5 years without achieving data to analyze prior to achieving a SAS database for analysis from the CDC all three years I managed the program. This enabled the program to enter the analysis phase, which led to my SAS training to facilitate data analysis. Successfully analyzed and published 6 reports based on this analysis. Testing and QA insured accuracy with this personal and sensitive data. Wrote 2 successful federal grants, several state contracts, and operated the program $30,000 under the annual budget of $100,000 for three consecutive years. Supervisor responsibilities included managing a secretary and 3 contractors. During my last two years as a Health Planner 3, I received HTML training and my work became more focused on web development. | ||
| Research Experience | ||
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Indiana University Bloomington, IN |
Undergraduate and Graduate work |
1985-1990 |
| Four years of speech research and human factors experience as an undergraduate research assistant and cognitive psychology graduate student. Recruited and ran over 3,000 subjects in a variety of acoustic-phonetic experiments, programmed and configured through VAX and PDP computers. Within 2 years, performed over 15,000 acoustic-phonetic segmentations on the raw complex waveforms of words, phrases, and fluent sentences produced in a variety of environments (quiet, noise, stresses, under the influence of alcohol, and the digits produced in G-force conditions up to 6 G's). Performed statistical analysis with BMDP software and conducted acoustic analysis (identified spectral tilt, duration, amplitude, and formant parameters) with ILS software. | ||
| Technical Presentations and Publication | ||
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Stokes, M.A. (2009). The waveform model of vowel perception and production. Boca Raton, FL: Universal-Publishers. Michael A. Stokes (2002), "Talker Identification from Analysis of Raw Complex Waveforms," presented at the 143rd meeting: Acoustical Society of America. Michael A. Stokes (2001), "Male and female vowels identified by visual inspection of raw complex waveforms.," presented at the 141st meeting: Acoustical Society of America.
Michael A. Stokes (1998), "MAS Model of vowel perception," posted
on the internet at: Michael A. Stokes (1996), "Identification of vowels based on visual cues within raw complex waveforms," presented at the 131st meeting: Acoustical Society of America. W. Van Summers, David B. Pisoni, and Michael A. Stokes (1989), "Effects of cognitive workload on speech production," presented at the 117th meeting: Acoustical Society of America. W. Van Summers, David B. Pisoni, Robert H. Bernacki, Robert I. Pedlow, and Michael A. Stokes (1988), "Effects of noise on speech production: Acoustic and Perceptual analysis," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, 917-928. |
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| Community | ||
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President of the Butler Area Coop Preschool - As President from 2005 to 2008, I had the responsibility of hiring the teacher and managing her work. Because of the growth of the school’s enrollment, I will be hiring a second teacher for the 2007 school year. The responsibilities also include a significant amount of documentation for state and federal agencies, running the monthly Coop Board meetings, negotiating the long term contract for space, and manage the general operations of the school. Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association Board member - As a BTNA Board member from 1999 to 2003, responsibilities included being chair of the 40th and Boulevard Task Force and member of the Coordinating Committee. My responsibilities as chair of the Task Force included acquiring and distributing $50,000 of Build Indiana funds. The efforts to revitalize 40th and 42nd and Boulevard involved writing contracts between BTNA, developers, and contractors, and gaining the approval of the BTNA Board for all development work and projects. These efforts have already resulted in the establishment of 6 new businesses at the 2 intersections, and the foundation is laid for more business development and growth in the future. I managed the efforts of the 8 Task Force members which included representatives from Butler University and a Community Development Corporation. In addition to the documentation and the business analysis required, also met and coordinated with State of Indiana and City of Indianapolis government groups and representatives. Board member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Citizenship and Community of Butler University from 2000-2001. Football coach of 10-12 year olds during the 2000 season and coach of 8-9 year olds during the ’98 season (champions) with Indianapolis Tabernacle Presbyterian. Previously coached 11-13 year olds during the ’93, ’94, ’95 seasons for Dad's Club of Municipal Gardens of Indianapolis, IN (champions ’93 and ’95). |
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