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Member Profile:
POSITIONS:
September 2005-Present            DPRA, Incorporated, Knoxville, TN
October 2003-September 2005      Housecall Medical Resources, Inc., Knoxville, TN
September 1987 - August 2003      PC Engineering, Inc., Knoxville, TN

EXPERIENCE:
Since joining DPRA Incorporated, Mr. Kimzey participated in the following projects:

" CEPTER Prototype  Converted JFAST v. 8.1 into a TRANSMOD Demo for The Australian Defence Force.
" JFAST Enhancements including:
o      Revision to the Preferred Ports Editor to allow users to apply sequence changes across multiple Origin 
                     SPOD pairs.
o      Participant in the development of a Staging Area Editor and Port Enablers.
o      Developed an MFC based COM wrapper around the ENet library for use in the MOIP Project.
o      Developed the Sealift Capacity Estimator

" JMAT
" Distributed Simulation Network
o      Technical Lead for the DPRA, Inc. DSN Project

Prior to joining DPRA Incorporated, Mr. Kimzey participated in the following projects:

Housecall Medical Resources, Inc., Manager  Software Development, Knoxville, TN
" Managed two developers and supported four clinical/financial applications for this home health and hospice
  organization of 2,000 employees.
" Participated in the development and support of consolidated operational, financial and clinical reports that pull data from separate WebCARE, CareCompass and HHAMIS databases.
" Created several tools to better manage the department including a project tracking report and metrics related to project estimating, meeting deadlines and product quality.

PC Engineering, Inc., Chief Operations Officer, Knoxville, TN
" Lead developer for improvit Process Control Software Products.  improvit is a statistical process control application for Microsoft Windows.
" Principal Developer and Support for US EPA GRIT/STAT Software.  GRITS/STAT is a publicly available database system for tracking and analyzing Groundwater data.  GRITS/STAT stands for GRoundwater Information Tracking System with STATistical Analysis.
" Developed software used in the 37th Annual Tennessee Quality Conference Workshop.

OTHER SKILLS:

Mr. Kimzey is proficient in the following programming languages, tools and libraries:

Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Basic.net
Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C#
Microsoft Visual FoxPro
Microsoft Visual J++
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0-2008
FORTRAN
CA-Clipper
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Microsoft Windows API
Borland Object Windows Library (OWL)
Microsoft Foundation Classes  (MFC)
Sequiter CodeBase
Visual Numerics IMSL
Liveware Publishing Arpeggio and R&R Report Writer
Business Objects Crystal Reports
Rockwell Arena Simulation Software
Skills / Accomplishments:
1984 - 1987      The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
            B. S., Electrical Engineering
1982 - 1984      Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN
            A. S., Computer Science
July 2008
Arena Simulation Software
Course Instructor: Gail Kenney
Subject: Developing Discrete Event Simulations with Arena Software.
      
March 1998
Understanding Industrial Experimentation
Course Instructor: Dr. Donald J. Wheeler
Subject: Applied statistics for engineers that need to carry out effective programs of industrial experimentation that yield results that can be easily communicated to others.

August 1994
Advanced Topics in Statistical Control
Course Instructor: Dr. Donald J. Wheeler
Subject: Advanced uses of statistical control charts for process improvement.

March 1992
Principle Centered Leadership
Course Instructor: A. B. Coleman
Subject: Training course based on Dr. Steven Coveys : Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

AWARDS:
1984 Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Computer Science, Motlow State Community College

PUBLICATIONS:
Kimzey, Doug. 1996. Primer on GRITS/STAT 5.0 Remediation, Winter 1996, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Employment Background:
Company:
DPRA, Inc.
Occupation / Title:
Developer
Division:
Logistics
Experience:
1-4 years
Company Size:
30-50
Education:
School Name:
The University of Tennessee
Education Level:
Bachelor
Years in Industry:
20-29 years
Hobbies / Interests
 
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