Rein DeBock

Location: Mckinney, Texas

Languages: English



I love writing which is fun, humorous, well-researched, and informative. I hold myself to high standards -- if I don't like what I write, neither will anyone else. My day job is software development, where I've worked on everything from mainframe enterprise software to video games to database design and web development. I'm a huge (pro) football...
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Expertise

Music

Musician with a degree in music composition and experience playing in bands ranging from blues to metal, punk, folk, jazz, and the avant-garde. I've been playing guitar for almost 30 years and teaching guitar for 4. I also play keyboard and drums. I am well-versed in Sonar and ProTools digital recording packages.

Web-Development

In my day job, I'm a software developer with 11 years experience. I've worked on everything from mainframe enterprise software to video games to database design and web development. I was also a sales engineer for 3 years, working directly with prospective customers in pre- and post-sales roles, with responsibilities running the gamut from sales through support, development, business analysis, requirements writing, and technical documentation.

Mathematics

My day job is software development, a heavily mathematical field in which I've been employed for 14 years. My hobby is poker, with strategy rooted heavily in math. I also moonlight as a math tutor for high school and college students in subjects including algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, probability, statistics, and game theory.

Work

Senior Developer

Research Now
Plano
April 1, 2010 -
Developed application which pulls a sample of online panel participants from a pool of over 9 million members, based on various demographic criteria. Front end is written in Adobe Flex 4, with server-side code written in Java and data persisted to an Oracle database.

Senior Developer

Caris Diagnostics
Irving
November 1, 2008 - April 1, 2010
Senior Developer on MS1 application, a workflow application which tracks diagnostic medical tests from their ordering at a client doctor’s office through the internal laboratory workflow to diagnosis, billing, and delivery of results. Work performed on all tiers using Java 6, JSP, JSTL/EL, Spring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, EJB 3, JPA, MySQL, Apache DS, Spring Web Services, and Glassfish.

Software Developer

Hometracker
Addison
September 1, 2006 - October 1, 2008
Work in all tiers of J2EE environment with Java 5 (transitioning to 6), Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, JSTL, JDBC, JBoss, Tomcat, HTML/JavaScript/CSS/AJAX, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and XML/XSLT.  SQL Server 2005 and MySQL on back end.

Education

Graduate School

DePaul University
1997

College

DePaul University
1995