Socratis Tornaritis Resume

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL Instructor 9/90 – Present
 Develop and teach course in Java
 Review VB textbooks for Prentice Hall, Course Technology
 Nominated twice for Excellence in Teaching Award
 Attend conferences/workshops in ASP.NET, VB.NET, Windows XP
 Attend training seminars in Visual Basic, Access
 Teach courses in C++, Visual Basic .NET, Java, Computer architecture and MS Office
 Coordinate and supervise team of teaching assistants
 Aid in the selection process of course textbooks
 Develop proficiency/placement exams for introductory course sequence
 Provide faculty support in Web/System administration
 Design/Maintain Department web site
 Assist in the development/restructuring of Department courses
 Co-teach Interdisciplinary course with Art Department
 Participate in school of Engineering open house
 Co-lead and present at school of Engineering Upward Bound program
 Teach HTML/FrontPage to high school math teachers

The Marketing VP Independent Contractor 5/06-Present
 Web Application Development using ASP.NET 2.0, C#, VB.NET
 Develop software solution to interface with ADP and corporate data on IBM AS/400
 Develop software solution to allow data retrieval and population of PDF template forms
 Develop software solution for scanning barcodes using PDA as part of inventory system
 Provide fixes/enhancements to existing components of primary web application
 Research current technology trends and assimilate in primary web application

Intertech, Chesterfield, MO Independent Contractor 9/00
 Provided 3-day in-house training in C++, to multiple teams of C programmers

Immigration Project, Granite City, IL Independent Contractor 9/98 – 4/00
 Redesigned dBase application using MS Access

Basler Electric, Highland, IL Independent Contractor 5/98 - 8/98
 Provided in-house training in C++, to a diverse group of programmers and
engineers

Milliman and Robertson, St. Louis, MO Independent Contractor 6/93 - 9/97
 Provided training/consulting on PC technical/marketing matters to group of
actuaries

McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, MO Independent Contractor 11/93 - 2/94
 Database Development on Macintosh platform using 4th Dimension

Campbell Design Group, St. Louis, MO Computer Systems Manager 6/91 - 8/91
 Installed LAN using Novell Netware 2.2 and 3.11
 Oversaw and carried out all hardware and software purchases
 Installed and maintained all hardware and software applications
 Maintained hardware/software inventory system
 Established in-house error logging procedures
 Designed dBASE III+ interface to Intergraph's Microstation
 Provided daily hardware/software support
 Coordinated off-site backup storage procedure


Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL Application Software Support Analyst 11/87 - 12/89
 Carried out software certification for mapping applications
 Offered continuous application support to customer base
 Supplied customers with customized software solutions
 Created and distributed customized shell scripts to co-workers
 Designed and implemented development of a new training course
 Provided on-site and in-house training of mapping applications
 Speaker in team presentation at company annual conference

Strong knowledge of Microsoft applications and technologies, 21 years of teaching experience

Certifications: MOUS 2000 MI
OS: Windows, Unix
Languages: C++, C#, VB, VB.Net, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL
Technologies: ASP, ASP.NET, ADO, ADO.NET, HTTP
Databases: SQL Server, Access
Applications: MS Office suite, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio.NET

Greek, English

Master of Science in Computer Science
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 12/95

Master of Science in Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 5/86

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1/85

21 years teaching in IT (Computer Programming, Office Applications)

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