Jim Cunningham
jim@newsoftworks.com	619.461.3114 619.795.7448

Contract Jobs

2001 - 2003

4GL Solutions, Inc., Irvine, Ca. Software Engineering Contractor

		Developed the Administration Workstation Module for the casino gaming kiosk line. Product allows casino employees to enroll patrons in the casino gaming rewards system. It also allows employees to edit customer information, update a players current status, and print employee cards that are used with the PDA scanners used at the gaming tables for scanning player cards.

		Developed customer interfaces for the casino gaming kiosks. Interfaces would be magnetic and barcode card swipe module, camera interface to get patron's picture on gaming card, and receipt printer module to give patron's coupons for casino specials. Magnetic swipe module allows patrons to swipe either their California Driver License or AAMVA compliant driver license for sign up without having to manually enter all their name and address information.

2001 - 2002

Publicall Telecommunications, Inc., Somerset, NJ Software Engineering Contractor

		Developed company’s kiosk product to supplement their pay-phone business. Product delivered Internet access, Email, games and general information to the customer at the phone booth. Responsible for entire product from software design, development and test to installation.

1995 - 1996

Metropolitan Stevedore Company, Wilmington, CA Programming Contractor

		Responsible for maintaining Metro's Tenth Avenue Cold Storage CargoTrak System (written by a third party programming company). This system controls cargo by having radio controlled Norand Handhelds attached to each forklift. When a forklift driver moves a piece of cargo, they read the barcode with a hand scanner, log its new location on the Norand Handheld, then submit the data back to the cargo server which is connected to a radio receiver/transmitter.

		Rewrote approximately 75 percent of original CargoTrak system because of the large number of system bugs.

		Worked with Metro to convert CargoTrak system database from MS Access to MS SQL Server. Metro has since been selling this system to other customers for their cargo tracking needs.

1994 - 1995

EDP Management, Inc, San Diego, CA and Atlanta, GA Programming Contractor

		Snapshot for Windows - used for processing data collected from Hewlett-Packard line testing devices.

		SCOPS - La Mesa Sports Center administration program. Allowed sports center personnel to input and edit customers into their accounting system. Also set up individual programs for patrons, and allowed employees to input the sites sporting schedules.

		Pyxis Corporation medical dispensing and formatting system. Allowed sales personnel to go to customer sites and show customers how there medical supply cabinets can be custom configured for each customer's specific needs.

		Kern County California Point of Sale Tax Collection System. Allowed Kern County Clerks to accept tax payments from citizens using PC's as the cash register. When payment was received, system printed out a receipt, posted tax payment to county database.

1994 - 1995

Cal-West Data Processing, San Diego, CA Programming Contractor

		UFCW Local 1167 (Retail Clerks Union of Rialto, CA) Health and Welfare tracking system. Allowed union personnel to track certain health and welfare benefits of retired employees that were no longer in the current system. System kept year to date totals and printed checks when needed for certain retirees.