MARK ANDERSON
520 N Main Street #522 § Heber City, UT 84032 § (801) 420-0572 § mark@mastertrac.com
Skills/Experience:
1984 – Present
§ Development of numerous enterprise web/windows applications-some running multi-million dollar companies
§ 20 yrs SQL/Transact SQL, 30 yrs database design/normalization, MySQL, Topspeed/Clarion, DataFlex, dBase, etc
§ ASP.NET-C#, HTML, CSS, Java Script, AJAX, PHP, Watin, Telerik products, limited web services
§ Network management/computer maintenance, Web & Email hosting, understanding of DNS, off-site backup
§ Image manipulation software, programmatic pdf creation, Crystal Reports, Active Reports
§ Industries: Manufacturing, Insurance, Medical office, hotel management, Pest Control Operations
Work Experience:
Jan. 2011 – Present
Self Employeed
MasterTrac Software, Inc
Programmer, QA
§ Experience using and enhancing hotel management software
§ OCR projects and programmatically extracting data from converted pdf files
§ Created numerous insurance industry website prototypes using html/css/C#/JavaScript, etc.
§ Created multiple Watin based application to auto-populate multiple insurance quoting sites
§ QA tested each phase of the project to insure customer requirements were met
2006 - 2010
MasterTrac Software, Inc
Heber City, Utah
Software Engineer/QA
Web Application Developer
§ Developed a major web application called Pocket Business Tools (pbtoolkit.com) that does A/R, A/P, Bank Accounts,
Time Tracking, and Subscription Billing has both a desktop and lite version that runs on iPhones and other cellular
devices via http
§ QA Tested all modules and deployed to cloud hosting environment
§ Worked on this with three others
§ Designed and implemented the MS SQL fully relation database with 100 plus tables
§ Used ASP.NET, ajax, java, css, etc. to implement an easy to use, yet visually appealing web interface
Oct. 2006 – Dec. 2010
Newspaper Agency Corp.
Heber & Provo, UT District Manager
District Manager
§ Managed 10 to over 30 newspaper carriers
§ Responsible for the delivery of up to 4000 papers per day
§ Managed delivery of seven local and national newspapers delivering approximately 2.5 million total papers
§ Within a year I assembled a team and coached my carriers into the top district in the state of Utah maintaining an
average complaint rate of less than 1/10th of 1% for over two years
§ This was an early morning job to provide money to continue development of Pocket Business Tools
2002 - 2006
MasterTrac Software, Inc
Heber City, Utah
Software Engineer/QA
Web Application Developer
§ Developed a major web app called Delivery Director (mydeliverydirector.com) that manages local rush package delivery
§ Worked with the package delivery vendor for a major title company to spec, design and implement
§ Used MySQL as the database backend—designed the fully relational database
§ Used PHP to create the order entry and dispatcher modules
§ Did the QA Testing to insure successful implementation and happy end-users
§ Hired and managed two independent java developers to implement the driver notification and status modules on
Motorola & BlackBerry handsets
§ Web based order entry module allowed customers to sign up and enter their own orders
Heber City, Utah Programmer/QA
2000 – Present
MasterTrac Software, Inc
Heber City, Utah
Network/Hardware
Hardware/Network Engineer
§ Managed hardware and network installations in 5+ doctors’ offices Heber City including ongoing maintenance
§ Managed the entire Heber City computer infrastructure and network including ongoing maintenance (ended Feb 2012)
§ Spec’d, procured, installed and maintained approximately 100 computers
1984 - 2002
MasterTrac Software, Inc
Heber City, Utah
Network/Hardware
Business Owner/Manager
§ Designed, programmed, QA tested MasterTrac, a manufacturing and inventory management system with a 28+ year life
cycle and three complete ground-up rewrites (rewrite in DOS 1986, rewrite to Windows 1995, rewrite to use MSSQL as
a backend 1998)
§ Ran my own business for twenty-eight+ years.
§ Developed and managed customer relationships
§ Worked with business owners and department heads to verify suitability of software
§ Worked with business owners and department heads to map and design changes for customer specific needs in nearly
fifty enterprise installations of MasterTrac
§ Researched cutting edge products, developed and managed vendor relationships
§ Oversaw the design, procurement, and installation of thirty networks in the greater Phoenix area over a ten year period
§ Pushed hardware and software development envelopes to accomplish tasks that seemed impossible in 1984
o Used DataFlex to write a completely multi-user software package that did field level locking
o Used PC’s on a card in an expansion bus to create a fully functional and affordable pc network
o Implemented barcodes on Job Travelers and scanning hardware to capture job times live from the shop floor
§ Oversaw the design, programming and QA Testing of 10+ software applications—many of which are still in use today
o Piano Tuner
o Win PCO (for pest control operators)
o MasterTrac (manufacturing/Inventory management) including subsequent rewrites for Windows and MS SQL
o myDeliveryDirector (local rush delivery companies)
o Tool Tracker (Intel Corporation’s Phoenix Fab)
o www.PocketBusinessTools.com a competitor to web Quickbooks (accounting, time tracking, subscription billing)
o www.ShinyNickels.com which handles uploading and processing images files to press for scrapbookers
1982 - 1983
Anderson Piano Works
Provo, UT & Mesa,
AZ
Piano Tuner
§ 1982 Started a piano tuning business in Mesa, AZ
§ 1982 Wrote my first software program for piano tuners using dBase
§ 1983 My piano tuning partner was so impressed with the new interface I put on the piano tuners management system
(based on feedback from sales conventions) he decided we should start a software company together
Education:
1981 - 1983
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
Associate of Science,
Piano Technology
§ After my first year of piano tech school I started my own business canvasing small towns in Utah and Idaho and tuned
hundreds of pianos before I graduated
Additional Information:
§ Awards: Eagle Scout - awarded at age 16: Supervised volunteers to clear a firebreak in a CA mountain forest
§ Service: LDS ChurchMission to Tokyo Japan, 1979-1981; Served in the LDS Church in various leadership positions as a
volunteer over the last forty years
§ Interest: Wrote, arranged, and studio recorded numerous pop songs as a youth. Some listened to by Alan Osmond and
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys