Sr. Software Engineer Resume Lubbock, TX, - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Dynamic and innovative technology professional with extensive experience in consulting, system architecture, software development, database administration, project management, operations management, and customer support.
Collaborative team leader with strong technical and communication skills.
Excels at developing cost - effective solutions to business problems; facilitating interactions between technical staff and business users and implementing process and application improvements that enhance productivity and profitability.
Object Oriented Software Development Systems Architecture Business Analysis People & Project Management Database Design and Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lubbock, TX

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Azure Database Auto Scaling processes and power shell scrips to reduce costs during low use periods for 300+ Azure databases.
Designed and developed DMV License Plate Lookup Service for use by external clients as part of the NuPark Backoffice products.
Provide database support for Azure SQL Database performance issues, data recovery, and fail over.
Development work on NuPark’s ASP.NET MVC line of products utilizing VisualStudio, Angular, and Typescript tool sets.

Confidential, Amarillo, TX

IT Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

Improved the Grain Billing and Purchasing process by designing an application to associate grain contracts with specific customers, allocate the purchased grain contract to a customer, and improve profitability by using specific grain contracts instead of FIFO allocations of grain from a pool of grain contracts.
Managed a four-year project to convert our Feedlot operations management software, used at all 10 remote locations, from a VB 5.0 application to a VB.NET application while adding additional application features. Currently rewriting the same operations management software using Web based .NET MVC architecture with a central database to eliminate the replication after our Network Infrastructure upgrades.
Increased operations and software development efficiency by:
Created the company's first application build/release process and moved the build/release process to a VisualStudio Online (TFS) environment.
Improving infrastructure performance for remote locations utilizing MS Azure based servers and databases for applications. Application installs our now done using Click Once deployment from an Azure server.
Converted the Feedyard Operations VB Client/Server application to C# MVC web application with a SQL Server 2014 data store using a secondary SQL Server running in MS Azure Cloud.
Provide SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014 database design and management support. Preparing all SQL instances for update to SQL 2014

Confidential, Borger, TX

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

Cost-effectively resolved an ongoing problem with key plant documents by implementing a document management system (Hummingbird DM - HDMS now OpenText) by acquiring unused corporate licenses for use in the plant. Managed the entire implementation project and trained all plant employees to use the HDMS software. As a result:
The application was designated as the Corporate Best Practices solution for managing plant documents.
Selected to serve on two corporate-level teams reporting to the executive IT leadership at Houston headquarters (Corporate Enterprise .NET Strategy Team and the Corporate Routine Duties Enterprise Software Team).
Improved equipment maintenance record keeping by implementing a 12-monyh, two-site pilot program to assess the feasibility of using portable handheld devices to schedule, perform, and document routine operations and maintenance tasks. The pilot:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Object Oriented Computer Scientist

Responsibilities:

Assigned as Lead Developer for a $2 million, six-month software upgrade for Confidential
The project team included four developers, two business analysts, and three testers.
Upon completion, served as high-level support contact for client.
Member of the Customer Initial Contact Team. Responsible for evaluating a client’s software support and development abilities, as related to the Cybertek product line.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

Experience as Applications Analyst and Web Master for the Confidential.Technician for the Confidential .
Refinery Plant Operations from with experience in Operator Training, Conducting Shutdowns/Startups, and working as the Lead Operator (Stillman) and Operator on the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units.