TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ASP.NET, C#.NET, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages (ASP), Cryptography, Microsoft Access and Office automation, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java script, jQuery, Knockout, Bootstrap, Ajax, Web Services, EDI, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS Server, LLBL Gen

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Owner, President, Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing support and development for a leading provider of insurance solutions for expatriates and international organizations. This organization of­fers worldwide car, property, life and health, and specialty and high - risk insurance to clients in more than 170 countries. The applications were built using ASP, ASP.NET C#, SQL Server and Access databases.
• Provided support and development of an existing online Credit Card application with a back-end management application. This site was developed by another company but and many issues such as high number of database deadlocks and security problems. I was brought in to fix the entire system while providing support for current operations. Today this system runs pretty smooth and 70% of its credit card applicants are boarded without any user intervention from the bank.
• The site received in excess of 100 application per day. This site was built with ASP.NET C# and SQL server as the database. This site integrates with Confidential via web services for applicant verification and Confidential questions. Trial deposits are created and exported in Nacha EDI file format.
• Provided technical support and development for an online game trading website as well as support of several supporting applications written in ASP.NET C# and Windows Forms applications. The supporting databases for the application are Microsoft SQL Server. This company was a major supplier of used and refurbished games, movies and game systems to Walmart, Kmart, Best Buy and GameStop.
• Customization and implementation of an off the shelf Ecommerce package for a division of the Genetic Resources Core Facility of the Confidential University School of Medicine. This site handles hundreds of users with more than 150,000 products from 16 of the leading life science companies. This site was written with ASP.NET C# and SQL server as the database.
• Design and development of a web based EDI claims management and data warehousing application. This ASP.NET application with a set of 13 Microsoft SQL server 2005 databases processes validates and stores X12N 837I, 837P and 837D claim files and stores the data in a searchable data warehouse. Integration with a repricing and OCR system also captures and stores repricing information as well as the original Tiff image of paper claims. Reporting was added using Microsoft Reporting engine. Claim information can be exported in both 837, and NSF formats as well as in a tabular format in PDF and Excel. Original claim files are stored in an encrypted state using AES encryption. This application was designed to sit between a clearinghouse and a claims adjudication and payment system and act as a central repository for claims data as well as all supporting documentation.
• Design and development of .NET web services for Sylvan Educate to facilitate user account management and authentication for multiple applications in multiple domains. With this web service, owners can remotely add, edit and delete user accounts in the corporation Active Directory and ASP.NET websites using ASP.Net roles to provide users access and permissions to corporate applications located on different networks.
• Design and development of and EDI interface, database and reporting service for EDI purchase ordering between a large medial service and equipment supplier and the manufacturer. The service pulls purchase order data from a web service and translates the XML output into the X12 850 EDI standard data files as well as stores the data into a database for purchase order tracking. The service also accepts Purchase Order Acknowledgment (EDI 855) and Invoice (EDI 810) data for order acknowledgment and payment purposes. This service was developed with ASP.Net and Microsoft SQL server.
• Redesign and development of a Healthcare claims repricing system. This asp.net web based application was originally written in an earlier version of .NET but suffered from many performance problems and application errors. My responsibility was to stabilize the current application and boost performance. I was then responsible for designing and developing the replacement system while adding additional new features. The new site was developed using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET, C# and SQL server as the database. The data access layer was generated using an O/R mapper and the reports developed using Crystal Reports. This new system tracks all database changes into history tables for auditing purposes.
• Development of a complete billing and scheduling system for a Psychologist practice in Baltimore. This system was developed to handle different billing and invoicing requirements for several different clients of the practice.
• This system is also web based and accessible from remote locations by office staff and therapist. History tracking in the database records every change made in the system by any user providing instant access to history data at any time. Scheduling allows therapists to add, edit and delete appointments while providing complete patient history right from the schedule. The billing and scheduling system was built using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET, C#, Microsoft SLQ server and Crystal Reports.Application framework development package used for full-service registration, sales lead management and online event service solutions. This application written in C# ASP.NET using Microsoft IIS as the web server and Microsoft SQL server for the database. My responsibilities for this system are to design and integrate new site functionality into the base framework while also supporting several programmers developing customer web sites.

Confidential, Glen Burnie, MD

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• This system has been in use for several years. The EDI system was developed by a contracting company that is now out of business.
• Unfortunately, the system was left in an incomplete state and without current or complete source code.
• My primary responsibly included merging several different running versions of and EDI claims management system into a single version for disaster recovery purposes and then taking an unfinished second release of this system and filling in the missing code as well as debugging the existing code.
• The end result was an EDI system that Hopkins could now fully support and enhance now that they have a single version and the source code.
• This application was developed in Visual Basic 6.0 com components, ASP and relied heavily on XML, XSLT for the page output.
• This application used databases form Microsoft (SQL Server) and IBM (DB2 AS400). Claims mapping was done using Sybase EC maps.

Confidential, Columbia MD

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team development of an Inventory management system for the Health Care Industry with over 600 patient care centers nationwide.
• This client server application collects inventory from client sites and transfers the XML formatted inventory to a central application server. The application server uses a multi user, multi document interface manager application used for tracking client sites inventory progress, loading, pricing, catalog maintenance and financial reporting. Technologies used in this application include Microsoft SQL server, C#.NET, ADO.NET Access, XML, AES encryption and Crystal Reports. The design required auditing acceptance by PricewaterhouseCoopers and maintenance features that meet security and accountability compliance for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
• Development of a multi user, multi document client server application used for Vendor, Participant, Subscriber and Dependent health benefits management, billing and reporting. This application provides for rate, age, salary, enrollment, termination and benefit option changes including retro adjustment capabilities for each item.
• This application supports product line types such as 1,2,3,4 and 5 tier Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD/STD Disability, EAP and three Life product types.
• Reporting is integrated with Excel and financial data is integrated with Great Plains for invoicing and accounting. Technologies used in this application include Microsoft SQL server, OO Visual Basic 6 development, Excel Automation and Access integration.
• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) client server application used for encryption and decryption of sensitive and private information for the banking industry. Using Rijndael, the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) symmetric encryption algorithm, sensitive client account information can be collected from a secure web server and then encrypted and sent to the banking headquarters where clients can decrypt the information and respond to customer needs in a timely fashion. The site was developed using Microsoft IIS server and components developed from ASP, HTML, JavaScript and JAVA 2 for encryption.
• The client application was developed using JAVA with Swing in a traditional client server fashion so that the application could be used on several different platforms used at the customer site including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
• Team development of hosted automotive Insurance applications used to integrate and streamline workflow for several online insurance companies. Using XML integration technologies across the web, insurance agents can easily choose additional coverages supplied from different insurance organizations to create a single policy in real time allowing for reduced telephone and paper traffic. Technologies used for this type of application included Microsoft SQL and IIS Server, Active Server Pages, COM components, JavaScript, HTML, and Adobe PDF.

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Customized software applications and services using Microsoft's Visual Basic, Win32 API, ActiveX, ADO, COM and DCOM objects. Thin client Web based multi tier client server applications using Internet Information Server 4.0, Active Server Pages, Visual Basic 6 and Access.
• Develop utilities to manipulate Novell’s NDS tree with Novell’s ActiveX components and Microsoft’s SAM database through the NetAPI with Visual Basic for migration of over 1500 user accounts.
• Developed a migration utility to automatically capture, delete and add new printer connections for client computers to migrate from Novell print servers to Windows NT print servers. I used Visual Basic and the Windows Scripting Host Object Model.
• Developed a program that will automatically download the latest virus definitions from McAfee and install them on over 1500 client computers as well as several NT and Novell servers using Visual Basic, Novell’s ActiveX controls and Microsoft’s API to control services.
• Developed a web-monitoring tool using Visual Basic that monitors the accessibility of approximately 20 websites as well as the HTTP gateway on the firewall. This tool provides instant on-screen notification as well as automatically emailing web developers of outages utilizing MAPI.
• Developed a tool using Visual Basic 6.0, Winsock, ADO, and Access to keeping track of what computer(s) a user is logged onto, the IP address of that computer, all mapped drives that computer is using, the printers installed on that computer to distribute administrative messages to or run remote commands for administrative purposes.
• Installation, testing and using Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) Version 1.2, 2.0 for two customers both with over 2000 clients.
• Installation, administration and development for SQL 6.5, 7.0 and IIS 4.0 servers.
• Administrative support for 70+ servers mixed NT4.0 Novell 4.11, 5.0
• Engineer desktop automation routine to improve image quality for 20,000 + jpeg images for a night vision simulator written in Visual Basic as well a debug several runtime issues.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, troubleshoot and administrative support of over fifty Windows NT 4.0 Local and Wide area network sites throughout the East Coast on the nation’s largest NT 4.0 network.
• Manage installation teams from multiple companies for site installations, upgrades and testing.
• Automation programming for workstation installation, configuration and testing of 20+ applications using Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual Test resulting in a reduction is testing cost by as much as 90%.
• Developed interactive GUI applications to help train IT staff in the proper configuration of various hardware devices using Visual Basic 5.0.
• Developed interactive training programs designed to instruct clients on NT administrative tasks unique to the customer’s LAN configuration using Visual Basic 5.0.
• Developed workstation rebuild diskette that formats, partitions and rebuilds an NT 4.0 workstation with a single keystroke.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Service Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide service and installation of Confidential products.
• Ethernet 10 Base2, 10 Base T and RF Networks, P.C’s, Point of Sale Systems, Laser Printers, Modems, etc.
• Research and engineer improvements for common equipment failure components to improve equipment reliability and reduce maintenance cost.
• Provide technical training for new service representatives.
• Lead and dispatch service calls to local technicians in the Washington Metro Area