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Summary

Name: Sara Morgan Grand (formerly Sara Morgan Rea)
Title: Independent Consultant/Author/Speaker
Location: St. Francisville, Louisiana
Expertise: Experienced in short and long term contract jobs, writing opportunities, and speaking.
Experienced Developer and Program Analyst who is a certified MCSD and MCDBA.
Developed and deployed ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, and Intranet applications. Developed
robotic applications and training documentation for Microsoft Robotics Studio.
Named Microsoft MVP for Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.
Experience
Company: Custom Solutions, LLC
Project, Title: Independent Consultant/Author/Speaker
Start – End Dates: 11/2005 to Present
Summary:
Wrote API and Administrative Guide documentation for the Office Communications
Server documentation team.
 Designed and taught a 2-day Introduction course on using simulation with
Microsoft Robotics Studio.
 Developed and deployed a complex Robotics Studio application package named
ClassPack. The software allows CoroWare customers to simulate working with the
company’s mobile robot, named the CoroBot.
 Co-authored a Training Kit for Microsoft Press concerning Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF), 3.5. Also wrote all 200 practice questions for
this Training Kit.
 Authored an article for MSDN magazine titled, “Simulating your world with MSRS”.
 Authored a book for Microsoft Press titled Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio.
 Authored a Technical White Paper for the Microsoft IT Showcase group
concerning the deployment of OCS 2007.
 Authored 40 practice questions for Advanced Learning Systems. The questions
will be used in a simulated exam of the 70-547 Microsoft certification exam.
 Co-authored three books for Microsoft Press involving the following subjects:
Distributed Application Development, Web Application development, Developing
and Optimizing Data Access for SQL Server 2005.
 Written several articles for the online magazine DevX.com concerning Speech
Server and Robotics Studio.
 Spent one week at Microsoft working as a Subject Matter Expert regarding one of
the upcoming Business Intelligence certification exams.
 Developed and deployed an ASP.NET/C# portal application for Ginger Mae
Financial Services (GMFS). The application is used by their external partners to
manage users and locate critical information.
 Developed and deployed and ASP.NET 2005 application for GMFS that will be
used by their Call Center to manage and route leads to salespeople.
 Developed and deployed a website for a small computer consulting company,
Health Data Services (HDS). The website is located at http://www.hds-llc.com.


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Company: PSA
Project, Title: Lead Developer – Senior Applications Architect
Start – End Dates: 03/2002 – 11/2005
Summary:
Developed and deployed, as part of a team, a large enterprise-wide ASP.NET
application used by City legislatures. Specifically responsible for all web services
that are consumed by an external live web application.
 Developed and deployed ASP.NET application for ExxonMobil that is used by their
Computer Management group to keep track of hardware and software.
 Developed and deployed ASP.NET application for East Baton Rouge Board of
Realtors (EBRBR) that is used to access Public Records Data. Long term contract
with EBRBR was secured by PSA because of my employment. Support all
applications for EBRBR.
 Developed and deployed ASP.NET Portal application bundled as part of
LEGISuite solution.
 Developed and deployed complex VB.NET Journal application that is part of the
LEGISuite solution.
 Responsible for the continued development and management of a commercially
available web-based application named Bill Status. The application utilizes Active
Server Pages, ActiveX DLL’s, Active Reports, and an Oracle 8i database.
 Senior developer for LEGISuite commercial web application using Microsoft .NET,
Visual Basic 6.0, XML, XSLT, VBScript, IIS, Active Server Pages (ASP), MSMQ,
Mobile Web, Web Services on Oracle 8i.
 Established development standards for software team.

Company: Network Technology Group
Project, Title: Senior Developer
Start – End Dates: 05/2000 – 03/2002
Summary:
Developed and deployed a series of web based applications to improve workflow
for the Application Service Provider. Applications deployed performed the following
functions: time entry, sales tracking, and contact tracking.
 Developed several ASP-based web pages for customers such as LA Chemical
Association, LA Department of Wholesale drug distributors, BestCare, and BR
Board of Realtors.
 Developed and deployed two NT Services that were used to monitor router traffic
and to monitor web usage. NTG is an Internet Service Provider as well as an ASP,
so they needed to coordinate web usage and router usage with their main billing
package in order to charge Customers accurately.
 Configured SQL 6.5 replication strategy for major law firm.
 Created Access based solution that used VBA to pull data from another DB and
produce Crystal Reports. The data was too complicated to pull using Crystal
Reports alone.
 Developed a Win32 application that was sold to several clients. The application
was used to pull data and documents from Novell’s GroupWise application and
prepare it to be imported into another document management application. During
this process, I helped to uncover an obscure bug with Novell’s API.
 Functioned in the dual role as Developer/Database Administrator. Database
administration skills have improved greatly.
 Completed MCDBA certification within a 3-month period.


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Company: Community Coffee
Project, Title: Programmer/Analyst
Start – End Dates: 1999-2000
Summary:
Developed and deployed their entire Intranet - a dynamically built solution that
once built requires little intervention by the IS department.
 Developed and deployed on their Intranet a 3-tier based Help Desk application.
 Development of applications that interface to their main financial package.
 Developed and deployed VB 6.0 application responsible for monitoring nightly jobs
and notifying appropriate people via paging.
 Developed and deployed application to archive and purge data from their Informix
database using SQL Server’s 7.0 DTS and VB 6.0.
 Completed MCSD certification within a 4-month period.

Company: United Companies
Project, Title: Programmer/Analyst
Start – End Dates: 1996-1999
Summary:
Primarily responsible for the development and implementation of 32-bit based
applications.
 Applications created include: front-end for financial system, telephone directory,
two applications designed to track data and produce reports, applications which
transfer data between platforms.
 Developed and deployed an Intranet application that collects budgetary data, and
an Intranet application which collects and posts loan payments for 200+ branches
located throughout the United States.
 Also developed 3-tier application to quickly transfer data to/from SQL using MTS.



Expertise
Capabilities: MCSD, MCDBA certifications
Microsoft MVP, 2007
Writer
Speaker
Consultant
Programmer
Analyst
Applications Architect
Published Author
Applications: Microsoft Robotics Studio
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Captivate
Adobe Flash
Camtasia Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Access
Platforms: OCS 2007 - Speech Server
Oracle 8, 9i, 10
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008


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Languages & Tools: Active Reports
Analysis Server 2005 and 2008
Classic ASP
ASP.NET 2003, 2005, 2008
BITS
Crystal Reports 6.0
JavaScript and Java
IIS
MSMQ
Microsoft Visual C#
Microsoft VBScript
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft Visual InterDev
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
XML
XSLT
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)


Education
Institution Name: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Degree: B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis with an option towards Computer Science, 1993

Certification
Currently hold the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft
Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) Certifications. Have taken and passed
the following:
2002 - Designing Windows applications with VB.NET
2002 - Microsoft SQL 2000 Design
2001 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

2001 - Microsoft Administering SQL Server 7.0
2000 - Microsoft Solutions Architecture
2000 - Microsoft SQL 7.0 Database Implementation
1999 - Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Distributed
1999 - Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Desktop
1998 - Microsoft IIS 3.0

Published Work
1998
 Article in Microsoft's Interactive Developer about Stress Testing Web Sites.
1999
 Articles featured on the MSDN Online Gazette site. Refer to:
 http://www.custsolutions.net/MSDNOnline.asp.Articles titled:
 Three-Tier Development and Visual Studio 6.0
 Maximizing Your Microsoft SQL Server-Connected Web Pages with
ActiveX DLLs
 Setting up a DSN to an Informix Database


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2000
 Articles featured in Enterprise Development Magazine. Refer to:
www.enterprisedev.com. Considered a regular monthly contributor. Articles
titled:
 Data archiving on Demand (February Issue)
 DNA for the Real world (April Issue)
 Visual Database Design (May Issue)
 Emailing In your Organization (June Issue)
 Creating a Dynamic Intranet (July Issue)
2002
 Articles due to be released in MSDN Journal, but never published due to time
constraints: Article concerning use of MetaEdit 2.2 tool in understanding IIS
Metabase and article concerning using IIS web logs.
2003
 Article featured in .NET development using .NET alerts. Refer to:
http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/
2005
 In March 2005 released, “Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data
Mining, Rule-based systems, and Speech Processing”, published by Addison-
Wesley. The book has been very well received by reviewers. To get more
information about the book visit: http://www.custsolutions.net.
 Article featured on Visual Studio Magazine about Data Mining with SQL 2000.
Refer to http://www.custsolutions.net/DataMining.asp.
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “Top Ten Tips for Designing Telephony
Applications”. Refer to http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/29623
2006
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “How to Build Grammars for Speech
Enabled Applications”. Refer to: http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/30284.
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “Make you ASP.NET Applications Talk with
Text-to-Speech”. Refer to: http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/30520.
 In October 2006 released, MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (exam 70-529):
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Distributed Application Development, published by
Microsoft Press. To get more information about the book visit:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735623325/sr=8-
1/qid=1151378424/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1733990-7339836?ie=UTF8.
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “How to Control Your Robot (and Other
Devices) with Your Voice”. Refer to http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/30866/0.
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “An Introduction to Programming Robots
with Microsoft Robotics Studio”. Refer to:
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/32729.
2007
 Article featured on DevX.com titled, “Using Microsoft Robotics Studio to
Program Parallax’s Boe-Bot”. Refer to
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33216.
 In January 2007 released, MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (exam 70-547):
Designing and Developing Web Based Applications, published by Microsoft
Press. To get more information about the book visit:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735623406/sr=1-3/qid=1153779989/ref
=pd_bbs_3/002-3084145-6912042?ie=UTF8&s=books.
 In March 2007 released, MCTIP Self-Paced Training Kit (exam 70-442):
Designing and Optimizing Data Access by using SQL Server 2005, published
by Microsoft Press. To get more information about the book visit:
http://www.amazon.com/MCITP-Self-Paced-Training-Exam-70-
442/dp/073562383X/sr=1-1/qid=1169832574/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0525174-
8538549?ie=UTF8&s=books.



2008

In March 2008 released, Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio by Microsoft

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Press. To get more information about the book, visit

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Microsoft-Robotics-Developer-
Reference/dp/0735624321/ref=sr_1_1/002-4877243-
3748069?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187977851&sr=8-1


MSDN Magazine article concerning simulation in Microsoft Robotics Studio published in
the June 2008 edition.


Article featured in DevX.com titled, “Deliver next-generation SOA apps with Microsoft
Robotics Studio”. Refer to http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/38092.


October 2008, MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-503): Microsoft .NET
Framework 3.5 Windows Communication Foundation.






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