SUMMARY:

• 25+ years of experience designing and developing client, server and mobile applications and components.
• Recent platform development focusing on Responsive Web Design (RWD) using JavaScript / Typescript along with frameworks such as Angular JS, Ionic Mobile Framework, and Bootstrap against backend systems such as Node JS and ASP.NET Web API.
• Prior history with Windows development APIs, beginning with original C API, and continuing with MFC, ATL, Windows Forms, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Designed and developed applications and utilities for the .NET 3.x/4.x platform, beginning with active participation in the early “Avalon” (WPF/XAML) beta program
• Language experience includes C/C++, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python
• Strong sense of appropriate GUI styles and adherence to standard application UI practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Houston, TX

Consultant / Developer

• Designed and developed new Change Management System using Angular JS 2.x on the client side and ASP.NET MVC Web API on the backend, tied to a SQL Server instance.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Consultant / Senior Developer

• Development of internal social media platform based on SharePoint 2013 and implemented using CSOM, JSOM, and REST APIs. System was designed with responsive UI considerations in mind using the Zurb - Foundation framework.
• Preliminary design of architecture for future systems using Angular JS V2 and Ionic Mobile V2 Frameworks.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Software Developer Contract Work

• Several short-term contract projects using a variety of frameworks and technologies, including C#/WPF, JavaScript/TypeScript Angular/Bootstrap responsive web apps, and Xamarin Forms cross-platform mobile framework (C#/XAML). Back-end systems were either SQL Server/SQL Server Express.
• Involved with solutions from design stage to prototyping, development, and publishing of applications via platform App Stores.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Senior Software Developer

• Design and development of WPF desktop application system designed to schedule and track field jobs and resources. Software was also designed to perform resource utilization analysis. Internal user base exceeded 1,500 users.
• Designed and developed complementary software for internal use on mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7+, and Blackberry. Frameworks evolved from a native solution to a cross-platform responsive design solution.
• Back-end systems for all of these projects consisted of a combination of SharePoint and SQL Server setups.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Senior Software Developer

• Design and development of WPF application intended to replace core product service line. Heavy use of ADO.NET Entity Framework and Team Foundation Server.
• Prototyped forthcoming Silverlight project.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Senior Software Developer

• Design and early development of WPF application intended to replace legacy application suite written in Java and C++. Application was designed to provide workflows and sharing of reservoir data across R & D applications.
• Design and development of a cross-platform library designed to reduce development time for - and increase acceptance of - an industry standard used for the exchange of reservoir data models (“Rescue”). Library bindings included .NET/CLR, Java, and Python. Development (C++), testing, and debugging of proprietary dynamic reservoir modeling software running on Windows and Linux systems.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Senior Software Developer

• Designed and created a prototype system for the company’s application suite using beta version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system.
• Implemented proprietary client-server communications protocol as a C++ library with bindings for .NET/CLR, Python, and Java on Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Developed Microsoft Windows Explorer namespace extension to access remote online storage.
• Designed and began implementing a web-based sharing and collaboration architecture to tie together various online services offered to the public.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Consultant / Software Developer / Owner

• Acted as consultant and full-time developer for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Department of Behavioral Sciences. A Windows CE-based system for PDAs was created to track the smoking habits of, and offer smoking cessation help to, participants in several large studies.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Senior Software Developer

• Designed and developed drug efficacy applications for several hospitals throughout the country on behalf of major pharmaceutical companies, including Confidential and Confidential . Implemented systems included administration and analysis on desktop PCs and data recording by hospital staff on tablet PCs.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Consultant / Software Developer / Owner

• Developed original SpinButton control for Microsoft that shipped with early versions of Visual Basic.
• Acted as outside contractor to develop in-house pharmaceutical applications for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center on behalf of major pharmaceutical companies.

Confidential,Houston, TX

Contractor / Software Developer

• Worked as contract software developer for Confidential Research, developing proprietary reservoir-modeling applications for Windows.