LEAD PROGRAMMER

Whitman-Hart

311 S. Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60606

Whitman-Hart discovered me entirely by accident when they attended a training session with my previous employer, Allen Interactions. Their staff took my Authorware programming class and the day after they finished, the company offered me the job as Lead Programmer. And I got to work on the top floor of this beautiful building, next door to the Sears Tower. I spent my time there mostly designing and coding training simulators.

PROJECTS:

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN: After a deal to merge with Bank One, a decision was made to create a brand new transaction management system that the employees of both banks would have to learn from scratch. My company was contracted to develop a training simulator that mimicked the new system in every way. As Lead Programmer, my job was to work with the bank to design all the screens and code the back end to make the simulator look and feel like the real thing. I led the team that did the instructional design for the system, to test users on what they’d learned from the training simulator.

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN: Walgreens corporate office decided to design a new system of inventory management that would help track how much what which products went where, and to help them track costs and prevent inventory losses. As Lead Programmer, it was my job to generate all the screens, and code the back end of the simulator. Then I helped to design then training portion of the simulator to test user proficiency with the new system before taking the system live.