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   &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;I have been developing reporting systems for over nine years.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For
   the last six years I’ve been working as an independent contractor and consultant for
   my own company,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dymetrics.com"&gt;dymetrics, inc.&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&amp;nbsp;which
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   &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;In November of 2005, I joined a consulting company as a full-time
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   &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Although my areas of expertise include data warehousing, OLAP,
   and ASP.Net development, my primary focus at Microsoft has been working with Analysis
   Services 2005.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I have also been helping the new User Interface
   Platform group in Microsoft’s Services IT department implement Panorama as their Business
   Intelligence user interface.&lt;/font&gt;
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   &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Once my assignment is completed at Microsoft, I will most likely
   go back to independent contracting since I prefer working independently as opposed
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