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.
• 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

Confidential, Pueblo, CO

Responsibilities:

• Redesign and redevelopment of existing high accuracy scientific software, moving from a procedural code base (FORTRAN) 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

Technologies used: C#, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF, Entity Framework, MEF, WCF, UML, Agile/Scrum, SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 HPC, Microsoft Prism

Responsibilities:

• 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 US Federal Railroad Administration ( 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