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Vera Bauer

Vera Bauer

Ocean City,MD

Summary

Broad exposure to programming/database environments leading to the ability to quickly integrate with and make recommendations to existing software efforts.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

President

Circe Unlimited LLC
11.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: Small business providing database administration, software development, and technology implementation solutions.
  • Programmer and database administrator for the FAA Automated Contract Execution System (ACES).
  • Provide expert analyses of advanced queries including optimizations and reusability for consistency across business processes.
  • Interface design consultant for secure and timely menu, document, and report generation.
  • Innovator for role-based user management including regional fine-tuning requirements.



Database Administrator and Programmer Analyst

Volanno
04.2013 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Small business providing software development, data analytics, and technology implementation solutions
  • Programmer and database administrator for a large data warehouse of flight information including geospatial referencing.
  • Formulation and implementation of overlapping flight track merging algorithm for FAA Safety programs including utilization of an estimated quarter million radar hits per day and flight visualization techniques.
  • Administrative tasks for 8 servers encompassing 5 Oracle databases supporting upwards of 50 users for the FAA Office of Performance Analysis. Duties include backups, updates, tuning, and data analysis studies.
  • Member of the Aviation Systems Performance Metrics team undertaking modernization and redesign of key program modules.
  • Database administrator for the FAA Automated Contract Execution System overseeing numerous servers. Additional efforts include assisting with database construct redesigns and troubleshooting error conditions.
  • Contact: Timur Aliyev – 4436900908

Programmer Analyst

CNA
04.1997 - 04.2013
  • Company Overview: Nonprofit research and analysis organization
  • Project member involved in the production of multi-tiered, web-based tools and programs for use by FAA analysts, database systems, and programmers alike.
  • Programs included processing of 200 million radar hits per day, the processing of maps and extraction service for pilots, the boundary crossing calculation system that is key for a revenue generating program of the FAA, the intranet flight extraction utility which forms the basis of many studies and the track program to visualize flight tracks.
  • Efforts included the generation of a Foreign Overflight Notification System (FONS) in Delphi that was used nationwide at military installations to determine whether foreign flights of specific call signs had entered user-defined airspace of interest.
  • Contact: Brad Ng – 7038242000

Software Engineer

Integrated Management Services, Inc
02.1996 - 04.1997
  • Company Overview: Small technology company providing government software systems
  • Provided artificial intelligence/object-oriented engineering support to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWC/DD).
  • In accordance with Navy doctrine, developed a tool for optimizing the employment of shipboard weapons.
  • Participated in the design of the required system functionality, performed programming and testing tasks, and implemented the prototype system at NSWC/DD.

Production Control Member

BMW Corporation
02.1991 - 02.1996
  • Company Overview: World renowned car manufacturing company
  • Involved in the dissemination of information to and monitoring of the manufacturing facilities.
  • Implemented an artificial intelligence project involving an object-oriented expert system to simulate production conditions in the Munich plant given a current snapshot and possible disturbances of machinery/personnel.
  • Knowledge acquisition and coding for enhancements to models such as the BMW internal factory doctrine.
  • Duties included design, development, and implementation of various system components, including the portion involved with the transfer of work orders from Munich to Spartanburg, SC.

Research Programmer

Institute for Defense Analyses
01.1990 - 02.1991
  • Company Overview: Nonprofit to answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions
  • Provided support for the development of an expert system for law enforcement.
  • Implemented numerous investigative rules in conjunction with judicial experts.
  • Analyzed pre-existing code to make recommendations and modifications to optimize performance of the system for ease of use by law enforcement agents.
  • Generated some graphical user interface components together with the end-users.

Education

Master of Science - Computer and Information Sciences

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
02.1990

Exchange Scholar - Computer Science

Universität Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
05-1987

Bachelor of Arts - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
05.1985

Skills

  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Javascript
  • Python
  • Oracle Spatial Data Option
  • ESRI Spatial Database Engine
  • SQL
  • Cold Fusion
  • AJAX
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Linux
  • Agile

Certification

  • Certified Oracle Database Administrator (2013-12 – Present)
  • Professional Scrum Developer (2019-08 – Present)

Languages

German
Native or Bilingual

Hobbies and Interests

Philanthropy, Reading, Painting, Fitness, Sustainability, Physics, History

Timeline

President

Circe Unlimited LLC
11.2020 - Current

Database Administrator and Programmer Analyst

Volanno
04.2013 - 04.2020

Programmer Analyst

CNA
04.1997 - 04.2013

Software Engineer

Integrated Management Services, Inc
02.1996 - 04.1997

Production Control Member

BMW Corporation
02.1991 - 02.1996

Research Programmer

Institute for Defense Analyses
01.1990 - 02.1991

Master of Science - Computer and Information Sciences

University of Massachusetts

Exchange Scholar - Computer Science

Universität Stuttgart

Bachelor of Arts - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

University of Colorado