SUMMARY:

Experienced Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience designing complex solutions using various architectures and technologies. Additionally, experience as a Technical Manager, Team Leader, Systems Engineer and Software Developer in a variety of industries, both as an employee and as a consultant.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban/Lean) and Waterfall methodologies
• Requirements Gathering (User Interviews)
• Team Leadership and Scrum Master roles
• Design using UML
• Team Management and mentorship, including subcontractors
• Project time and cost estimation
• Interfacing with internal and external stakeholders and senior management
• Analyzing and integrating emerging technologies as appropriate for the project
• Object Oriented Design
• 10+ years of C#/.NET Framework (2.0 - 4.5)
• 10+ years of C/C++ (Microsoft Visual C++)
• 8 years of SQL for development purposes
• 5 years of Microsoft Visual Basic/ VB.NET
• 2 years of ASP/HTML/JavaScript
• 9 years with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• 6 years with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• 3 years with Entity Framework (EF)
• 5 years with Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
• 9 years with MVVM
• 5 years with Microsoft Prism
• 2 years with MVC
• 4 years with Java
• 2 years with EJBs

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Developer and Team Lead

Confidential, Davie, FL

Responsibilities:

• Originally employed as a contract C#/WPF developer tasked with Confidential and maintenance of a hardware control application used in conjunction specialized communications hardware.
• Work included performance tuning of a complex WPF application, communications with the custom hardware and enhancements of application functionality.
• Became a technical lead, responsible for managing and coordinating the technical efforts across multiple projects.
• After an internal reorganization and rapid growth, transitioned to a full time employee and team lead.
• Additional responsibilities included managing the day to day activities for a team of 8 people, leading daily team scrum meetings, resource and task assignments and reporting progress to upper management.
• Also provided the point of contact for the team for all internal and external customers, as well as other groups within the organization and external partners.

Technologies Used: C#, .NET Framework 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Microsoft Prism, MEF, Agile Methodologies (Scrum), Telerik UI components, PostgreSQL, NoSQL technologies, JSON, XML

Contract WPF/C# Developer

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Responsibilities:

• Worked as part of multinational team to develop an integrated suite of applications to assist in planning and optimization maritime voyages, specifically targeted at trans-oceanic voyages.
• The application is designed to be deployed as a client/server application in a variety of environments including on board the vessel and within a centralized planning office.
• Specific areas of development involve improving the performance of the Windows/WPF client application.
• Additionally, additional functionality has been developed using WPF, WCF and Entity Framework. The team operates in an Agile manner, using the Scrum principles.

Technologies Used: C#, .NET Framework 4.5, WPF, MVVM, MEF, Agile Methodologies (Scrum), Entity Framework, Telerik UI components, SQL Server, Microsoft Prism

Technical Manager for Software Services and Principal Investigator

Confidential, Pueblo, CO

Responsibilities:

• Redesign and redevelopment of existing high accuracy scientific software, moving from a procedural code base to an object oriented language - C#. In addition, multiple integration paths have been identified and implemented.
• The aim of the project is to secure the future of the software, improve the user experience and improve user productivity by reducing the chance of user error. This project is ongoing.

Technologies Used: C#, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF, MVVM, MEF, Microsoft Prism, SQL Server, JSON, Agile (Scrum/KanBan/Lean), Entity Framework, Helix Toolkit (3D Visualization library), DevExpress UI components

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• High accuracy scientific model developed to precisely simulate the operational behavior of a wide range of passenger trains.
• The model forms the core of a large scale Monte Carlo analysis to determine the factors that affect braking performance, in an effort to improve passenger train safety. The expectation is to run multiple simulation groups, each consisting of upwards of 100,000 individual simulations.
• To accomplish this, the system was designed to take advantage of the distributed capabilities of cluster and cloud computing
• Led the team that analyzed software development practices, leading to the formation of a formal software development team
• Promoted to Technical Manager responsible for: oversight of various web and desktop development teams, code reviews, mentorship and day to day management of a team of 122 developers, including remote workers and contractors
• Supporting internal and external users of existing software products
• Presenting technical information to internal and external parties including users, management and customers

Consultant and Owner

Confidential, Woodland Park, CO

Responsibilities:

• Distributed application designed and implemented to provide in depth analysis of components and systems associated with Positive Train Control ( Confidential ) systems, as mandated by the Confidential .
• The various applications are used in a mixture of lab and field environments, and exercise any component or system. The data generated is stored for later analysis using Microsoft SQL Server.

Technologies Used: C#, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF, WinForms, SQL Server, WCF, .NET Remoting

Confidential, Pueblo, CO

Responsibilities:

• Distributed application designed and implemented to improve the safety of testing operations for a railroad test train by removing all personnel for the train and implement fully autonomous operations.
• The system included the integration of multiple railroad sensing systems and other Common Off the Shelf (COTS) components.

Technologies Used: Visual C++, COM/DCOM, TCP/IP, WiFi Communications, Real time processing, multi-threading, RS-485 Communications