Curriculum Vitae - Kenneth Ballard

Experience

Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri
Software Engineer	2009 - Present
MediNotes Corporation, West Des Moines, Iowa
Software/Hardware Interface Developer Technical Services Developer Software Engineer	2007 - 2008 2006 - 2007 2005 - 2006
GDH Consulting, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Consultant/Contractor, Wal-Mart Supercenter, Creston, Iowa	2005
Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska
Layout/Contributing Writer, Peru State Times Student Tutor, Academic Resource Center (ARC)	2002 - 2004 2003
Southwestern Community College, Creston, Iowa
Work study for PC Technician	2000 - 2002

Note: MediNotes was acquired by the Eclipsys Corporation in September 2008. Eclipsys was acquired by Unisys/AllScripts in 2010.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Computer and Management Information Systems
Peru State College, Peru, NE

Student Senate - Senator At-Large
Peru State Times - Layout / Staff Writer
Student Tutor, Academic Resource Center - Statistics

Associate of Science - Computer Programming
Southwestern Community College, Creston, IA

Phi Theta Kappa - Beta Eta Nu Chapter member

Articles

"Secure Programming with the OpenSSL API" series:

"Part I - Overview of the API: Creating basic secure and unsecure connections" - published July 2004
"Part II - Secure Handshake: Avoid a main in the middle (MITM) attack" - published May 2005
"Part III - Secure services are necessary: Creating a basic secure server application using OpenSSL" - published September 2006

Note: I did not come up with the series title. Blame my editor on that one.

Software

digestIT 2004 - Simple application for calculating or verifying MD5 and SHA-1 signatures, released December 2003
- Preceded by digestIT 2003, which was released October 2003
- Preceded by MD5 for Win32, which was released August 2002
KCCI SchoolNet 8 Desktop Weather Client - Weather client that downloads and displays information from the KCCI SchoolNet 8 data repository hosted by ISU
HttpClient - Minimalist Java and C++ HTTP communication library, initially released in 2001
HttpMail - Java and C++ library for talking to the Hotmail servers by emulating the HTTPMail protocol used by Outlook Express 5 and later, initially released in 2001

Software that is no longer available:

This is software that I wrote that was once available. You might be able to find information on these projects by looking around online. You can also look on The Internet Archive for "http://www.geocities.com/ballarke", which was my original web site.

Antares Project - upgrade from digestIT 2004 with more features on top of what digestIT 2004 offers
IPLookup - Java library for performing a reverse lookup of an IP address, initially released in 2001
WindowSIL / X-SIL - Socket interface library - initially released in 2001
LinkedList - C++ linked list library - initially released in 2001
SString - C++ string class - initially released in 2001
BinaryString - C++ class to handle binary data similar to a string - initially released in 2001

Contributed to:

KeePass - Software for maintaining passwords
CxImage - Imaging library