Brian Bird

Background

About Brian Bird

Software Development Over twenty years of experience designing, writing, updating, and maintaining C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript and VB applications for Windows, mobile, and Web Platforms. Project Management Managed hardware development projects (TriQuint Semiconductor), software development projects (freelance and Creative CyberSolutions), and relief and development projects (Central Asia). Teaching Diverse experience teaching in university and college classrooms, online courses, and employee training. Taught subjects including linguistics, community development, computer programming, and Bible. Linguistics Conducted fieldwork, wrote grammar sketches of East-Iranian languages (Pashto and Yaghnobi). Read, write, and speak the Farsi and Tajik languages, and have studied Biblical Greek and Spanish. Taught university courses in linguistics. Specialties.NET application development with VB and C# Web development with HTML, JavaScript, and ASP.NET Android Application Development (with Java and with C#/Xamarin) C++ and STL application development C programming under Unix, DOS, VMS, and Windows MFC, Win32 API; Multithreaded programming Database design using Alpha V, MS Access, Crystal Reports, Cornerstone, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server T-SQL Programming Requirements modeling, Use cases, UML diagramming Hardware/software system design