SUMMARY:

• With 15+ years of Information Technology and industrial, retail, and financial business experience primarily in .net & asp environments. Highly proficient in the use of vb3 - 6, vb.net,asp,asp.net,vba all versions. A proven expert in all facets of programming in Visual Basic and C# as he was a professor at a local college for the duration of one summer/fall term teaching Visual Basic 6 to a class of 22 students. (all of which had no prior programming experience). Not just another coder David Rizzo brings with him a trustworthy spirit and has gained confidence from all His employers and either works independently or under the direct supervision of the owner/CEO. This has given him great understanding of how businesses work and has benefited his employers in all scenarios.
• Sr. Programmer Analyst doing requirements gathering, analysis, design, development implementation and testing of various Web, Client/Server & database applications. Providing web integration solutions using Microsoft Distributed Component architecture, Web Technologies & Relational database design, by developing robust, code reusable & high-performance world-ready apps, using Rapid Application Development (RAD) Methodology in developing applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java Script, VB Script, Flash, Action Script VB3-6, VB.net Original, Vb.net 2005,2008, ASP 1-3,ASP.NET,VBA, C#,CSS, HTML, XLST, XHTML,DHTML,XML,XAML

Operating Systems: Windows 98,2000,7,8,10, ME, XP, Some Linux

Databases: MS Access 2000-02, MySQL, SQL 2000/2002/2005/2008/2012, AS400 DB2

Tools: Adobe Creative Cloud, MSDN, MSDE PC software Photoshop, Illustrator, Macromedia Flash & Dreamweaver, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Front Page), Visual Studio Versions 5-Current,ADO & ADO.net. .Net framework versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

.Net 2003/.Net 2005/.Net 2008/.Net 2012/.Net 2015 Developer

• Prototype new application modules to bring effective solutions to business needs, coded procedures & business processes. Design Database Model & Components, Work with user QA teams.
• Designing the application architecture & relational database tables, ER diagram, developing functional spec, technical specification documents, user manual, and program flow before development.
• Design/Develop/Deploy Windows Apps with VB.NET, Web Apps with ASP.NET using C#/VB employing multi-tier design with web front-end, middle-tier components & database objects.
• Worked extensively with windows/user/custom/validation controls, ADO.NET Sql data access, handle session/view state, tracing, error handling, asynchronous calls, caching, configuring web, shared assemblies, and deployment.
• Design & Development of Intranet Web Apps using ASP, Visual InterDev, DHTML, JavaScript, Remote Scripting.

Confidential

Developer

• Used the Master Pages to create a common base master file that provides a consistent layout for multiple pages in the application. Extensively used the .NET 2.0 feature of creating the Collection of objects through the “yield return” keyword.
• Extensively used the object oriented programming. Cascading Style sheets (CSS) were used for maintaining the unique look and feel of the User Interface.
• Analyze & Translate functional business requirements into technical design specs. Design application components, add new features and translate into technical solutions. Enforce coding standards & design to handle changing business needs. Testing software designs and solutions, including debugging, tracing & troubleshooting.

Confidential

.Net 2003/.Net 2005 Developer

• Used Code-Behind for separating the UI and business logic.
• Created the Web Forms.
• Created a Custom Control to integrate with the main application.
• Extensively used the Datasets, SqlDataAdaptor, SqlDataReader, SqlConnection and the SqlCommand Objects of ADO.NET.
• Data was bound to DataGrid and various other ASP.NET Server Control.
• Extensively used the Validation Controls and Custom Validator control to validate the ASP.NET Controls on the web form.
• Created the XML Web Services, which will interact with the database internally.
• Windows Service that keeps on polling to the DB2 Database on Mainframe through Shadow Direct.
• Exception Handling is done by using various Try-Catch-Finalize blocks.
• Cascading Style sheets (CSS) were used for maintaining the unique look and feel of the User Interface.
• For client side scripts JavaScript was used.
• Database used is MS-Sql Server 2000. Created stored procedures for code optimization.
• Code was optimized using various optimization techniques at every step of the development.

Confidential

Webmaster

• Developed all the logic for running a business online. I am the original and only designer of this website.
• Integrated with GoEmerchant and PayPal as our payment processors
• Develop VB & VB.net backend applications to support BigDaddy.com
• EDI is used quite often as a method of order transmission from major players.
• Introduced the company to Visual Basic.net as the programming standard, began using it since the day it came out through MSDN when it was considered Visual Studio Version 7.
• Developed the entire database that Confidential uses to warehouse the data for the website. Using XML (Serialization) files and MySQL (MySQL has proven stable, cost effective and reliable in this scenario).
• Converted third party C# routines and programs to Visual Basic so we could leverage the systems they gave us.
• Consistently worked under strict deadlines and kept them all.