SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced and progressively successful professional with proven track record in strategic planning, process design, development and deployment of innovative business applications and web based solutions; with strong technical qualifications with an accomplished career of more than 13 years; extremely versatile and can work in any discipline within the field, with specialization in Applications Development, Database Administration/Design and Virtualization

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET/C#)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 2012
• LAMP Development (PHP/MySQL)
• Windows Server 2000-2012
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Team Leading and Mentoring
• User Interface Development, UI (XHTML/CSS)

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Application Development
• Project Planning and Management
• System Design and Implementation
• Microsoft SQL/MySQL Database Administration
• Website Design and Development
• Windows Server Management (IIS/SQL/SourceSafe/Team Foundation Server)
• Desktop/Network Support
• Multimedia Development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ASP.NET, VB/C#
• HTML
• XHTML
• CSS
• JavaScript jQuery
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Flash
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• PHP
• ColdFusion
• Windows Server (IIS)
• Hyper-V
• VMWare
• Linux (Apache)
• Visual SourceSafe
• Microsoft Team Foundation
• Intermediate Level Cisco CLI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Far Hills, NJ

IT Director

Responsibilities:

• Manage a 7 person team including Developers, QA, Help Desk and Graphic Designers
• Saved company hundreds of thousands of dollars by converting 40 physical server environment into a 5 physical server environment hosting 40 VMs using Microsoft Hyper-V
• Cut yearly IT costs by $113,000 by replacing IT related services with newer, better and more efficient options
• In charge of moving company to a new office, moving 50 users and all servers and other equipment over the course of a weekend
• Moved all of the companies co-located equipment to new co-location while reducing physical foot print and energy costs
• Integral in expanding the IT department to more than 3 times its size to support the rapid growth that the company has experienced over the past year.
• As the interim IT Director for a period of six months (in 2009), I kept the department from losing direction and helped the company make progress in improving their technical infrastructure as a result I was promoted as the replacement
• Hired and introduced the company for the first time to an on-staff Graphic Designer and a Quality Assurance Engineer, changing the face of the department and increasing what the IT department could produce.

Manager of Business Applications, Senior Lead Applications Developer, IT Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Converted Enterprise level web based system from Classic ASP to ASP.NET, which increased application performance and employee productivity
• Introduced source code control where the company previously had none. Implemented Microsoft SourceSafe which was later converted to Team Foundation Server, in turn cutting out hours of time developers have spent fixing overwrites and code synchronization
• Developed an SDLC and standard operating procedures dealing with coding, application, database and graphic design standard conventions, by doing so, the company’s development team has been able to complete more projects ahead of schedule
• Instituted a true multi-staged development/staging/production environment in place of direct modification of applications in production, virtually limiting errors on production across all applications and websites
• Built proper SQL Backup schedules including 1 hour differentials and log file backup and truncation, limiting possibility of lost data.
• Introduced SQL Server Failover mirroring to a non-redundant environment, increasing the system uptime guarantee to 99.98%
• Developed best practice maintenance plans for 3 SQL servers and 15 different databases, in turn increasing performance of the system’s databases two-fold
• Along with being the Lead Developer and Systems Architect, acted as the SQL Database administrator and also acted as graphic designer and desktop support technician/network engineer until said positions were brought on.
• Spearheaded the upgrading of a single server hosted set of solutions and application to be hosted across 10 web servers using load balancing and 3 SQL servers in the backend.
• Initiated the redesign of all of the company’s websites and applications to be given a much needed face lift and in most cases was the primary designer of the new identities.
• In charge of designing and developing co-branded websites and applications for high profile clients and customers
• Re-engineered two e-commerce systems that were antiquated and responsible for losing the company hundreds of thousands in revenue, said losses were eliminated because of these projects
• Converted applications and websites to Web 2.0 and table less CSS design in order to standardize across all browsers and platforms, limiting the loss of web based customers due to incompatibilities with their system.
• Maintained, enhanced or developed 4 business applications, 2 e-commerce websites, 2 informational websites and 20 client co-branded websites
• Designed multiple magazine ads that were displayed in various national sports federations magazines around the world, such as USA Gymnastics and USA Volleyball
• Optimized all public facing sites for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which has helped in hundreds of thousands of more customers reaching our websites

Web Graphic Designer, Web Developer, Senior Web Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed solutions for Discover Card, Rutgers, BurrellesLuce, Konica Minolta, Degussa, amongst others
• Took part in building and maintaining a homegrown Content Management System that was used by Rutgers, BasicFun, Employers Association of New Jersey, Ohaus and Discover Card
• Developed Flash based presentation to be played in kiosks at stores where Konica Minolta cameras were sold
• Created Flash based presentation for Degussa to use at trade shows at their booth
• Worked with a video production company to bring a green screen video to life and Flash based environment to be presented on the web for BurrellesLuce.
• Converted multiple sites to table less design for cross browser compatibility
• Maintained over 30 databases for more than 20 clients
• Worked closely with a partner marketing company to bring their print ideas to life on the web and beyond
• Converted multiple projects from Classic ASP to PHP or ASP.NET
• Converted a number of projects from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL as the company began to go in the Open Source direction in order to cut costs
• Part of a two employee team that built a complete campaign tracking and lead generation tool that could be integrated into any website with ease and is completely platform independent.
• Applied Search Engine Optimization techniques for a number of clients and in most cases was able to provide top ten results within weeks.

Web Designer, Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked primarily with Classic ASP to create and maintain the company’s corporate website
• Developed and maintained the sister companies’ websites and marketing presence
• Added functionality on the corporate extranet that allowed sales staff and customers to pull information off the website that was hosted on the company’s internal network. This allowed for up to the second updated documents. As they were saved to the network share, they were available to the extranet.
• Developed the company’s internal intranet site
• Aided the graphic design department in creating tradeshow posters, tradeshow materials and magazine ads
• Helped develop Flash presentations for tradeshow usage and sales pitches
• Responsible for bringing an older company into the digital age