Executive Summary
I am a mature individual working in the technology industries. With my maturity comes an experience based on being able to get a job done as requested and specified, and on time. In addition, I have been running my own consulting/contracting business in the Bay Area since 1993, which means that I am very self-motivated to get a job done in a way that makes my clients look good. Your success is my success.
Background
I started my career developing and managing large software products, including compilers, new programming language enhancements, single-pass highly optimized code generation for pipelined, parallel, and RISC processors, new hardware architectures that provided improved user/compiler environments, network architectures and protocols, and network development systems (a total of 12 years).
Throughout my career in software development and product marketing I have been involved in the product demand forecasting process, with some real success stories under my belt. In addition, as a contractor/consultant I have built product forecasting tools for companies.
Over the last year I have taken this wealth of development and forecasting knowledge, and designed and implemented a product demand forecasting product/tool. This tool has two significant differentiators. First, it is possible to forecast based on point-of-sale data from a two-step channel, as well as on sales-out data for a one-step channel. And second, it is possible to forecast differently depending upon the phase of the product life cycle for each line item. For example, forecasting the demand for the middle of the product life cycle will use various statistical methodologies based on historical actual data; while forecasting the demand for the end-of-life uses additional methodologies to reduce the demand down to zero; and forecasting the demand at the beginning of the product life cycle uses ways to model how the specific channel establishes initial inventory purchases and ongoing replenishment purchases. In addition, the user interface (UI) was specifically designed around the way analysts need to see and work with the data and the results of the forecast process. You can access my white paper at http://www.kengilbert.net.
Today, my development environment and language of choice is .Net, C#, and Visual Studio; however, because of my upbringing in the industry I can program in virtually any language and in any environment. I have extensive experience in .NET, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, VB6, VBA, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS Excel, ADO, ODBC, SQL, and T-SQL. In addition, I have built VC++ DLLs using WIN32 calls. All of my programs and tools have carefully crafted user interfaces (UIs) tailored to the requirements of my target users. I also have a strong background in project management, program management, and product management, which serves me well I being able to take a broader view of the tasks at hand.
In addition to short term hourly contracts, i have worked longer term exclusive and non-exclusive project at Centigram/ADC for over 2 years, NetFRAME for over 1.5 years, Keeco for over 1 year, Sunquest for over 1 year, and Hewlett-Packard and others for multiple 3 to 6 month projects.
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