Irene L. Replogle

1994-present: Independent contractor.

• John Deere Health Care, Naperville IL. Software Developer/analyst (Visual C++). Design/implementation of interface for retrieval of lab test results using ASTM/HL7 standards, TAPI and TCP/IP communications. Designed and developed GUI testing tool. Windows NT, MFC.
• Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park IL. Software Developer (Objective C). NeXTSTEP and relational database product (11 foreground applications, 15 background applications) for interfacing laboratory analyzers and patient tracking, test ordering and results viewing applications. Projects included work with patient tracking, test ordering and results viewing foreground applications as well as designing and coding an object-oriented background application to communicate with a laboratory analyzer (RS-232 interface, ASTM formatted data). Application was localized (5 languages) and used distributed objects.
• Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park IL. Validation and Verification Engineer. Software testing on NeXTSTEP and relational database product (11 foreground applications, 15 background applications). Testing included use of SQL for product testing and Oracle based test management tool. Wrote DOS-based tool for in-lab testing of product.
• Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park IL. System Requirements Engineer; Lotus Notes macro and Word Basic macro development.

1991-1993: Principal Engineer, Applied Utility Systems, Inc., Santa Ana, CA. Coordinated computer applications and systems for entire engineering and support staff.

• Designed customized computer network linking existing network with new 24 station network.
• Provided technical support for all software and computer hardware. Extensive experience, including macros and programming, for the following MS-DOS and Windows applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Lotus 123 and Symphony, Paradox, Q&A, graphics (Freelance, Harvard and Stanford). Evaluated and recommended new software and hardware.

1986-1991: Performance Engineer, Luz Engineering Corporation, Boron, CA. Provided computing and engineering support for the operations and maintenance of eight solar thermal/gas-fired power plants.

• Installed and maintained 10-station Lantastic network.
• Automated direct downloading of power plant performance data from remote site.
• Decoded power plant data stored in a proprietary format and wrote program to translate encrypted files into ASCII data files.
• Wrote spreadsheet application for data entry, data linking and generation of multiple reports.
• Provided technical support for software and computer hardware.

EDUCATION:

B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, 1986
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

TRAINING:

NeXT Developer training, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using the Booch Method, Software estimation (Wideband Delphi method), Software inspection, Software development process (SEI Capability Maturity Model, ISO 9000)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Java, HTML/Netscape; NeXTSTEP, Unix, MS-DOS/Windows, Windows NT; programming skills in Objective C, C++, C, Pascal and QuickBasic; SQL; experience with VMS and Macintosh systems; network administrator.

SPECIAL EXPERTISE:

Excellent written and oral communication skills. Foreign languages: French and German.

Contact Information:

P.O. Box 3205
Lisle, IL 60532
Telephone: (630)241-7944
irene@alumni.caltech.edu