ROD N. BERGREN _______________________________________________________

                                               1317 Bel-Aire Rd.                                       Polk City, Iowa 50226

                                               (515) 975-2018 rod@bergren.net

OBJECTIVE

To obtain challenging work that will benefit others as much as myself.  Work that is not money oriented but customer and goal oriented.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Des Moines Area Community College; Ankeny, Iowa; Supervisor Systems Analyst; September 1996 - Present

Principal Responsibilities

• Managing a team of four developers, oversight of college web site, researching and implementing new, emerging technologies in the industry with Microsoft Software, and BackOffice Technologies

• Application Development in .NET, updating MS SQL Server over WAN and LAN, WWW Server development and programming, creation of reporting modules against Oracle 8i and SQL Server Databases 6.5 – 2000, teaching Java and Visual Basic classes 

Languages and Software Used

• Visual Studio .NET, ASP, ASPX, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, Java, FrontPage, C++, MS Access, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and SQL 

The Principal Financial Group; Group and Pension Sales; Des Moines, Iowa; PC Specialist; October 1994 - January 1997

Principal Responsibilities

• Application Development in Visual Basic 4.0 using TCP/IP, updating MS SQL Server and DB2 over WAN and LAN, MS Access, Excel 5.0 and SAS 6.10

Principal Healthcare of Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; Programmer; January 1993 - October 1994

HMO Iowa, a division of  The Principal Financial Group; Des Moines, Iowa; Regional Information Services Representative; March 1990 - January 1993

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

VBITS, VSLIVE Conference ; 2005, 2000, 1998, 1997; San Francisco, California

Iowa Community College Webmasters Association Conference; 2005; Presenter, Oracle Integration with ASP; Sioux City, Iowa

CNET Conference; 2003, 2001; New Orleans, Louisiana

League for Innovation in Community Colleges; 2003; Presenter, Online Student Orientation; Long Beach, California

Drake University; Des Moines, Iowa; Mathematics and Computer Science Major; January 1989 - May 1990

Southwestern Community College; Creston, Iowa; May 1988 - December 1988

Iowa Western Community College; Clarinda, Iowa; August 1987 - May 1988

References available upon request.