PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, East Lansing, MI

Senior Developer

• Member of mid - sized team that refactored VB.NET client application used by the Tennessee State Police for writing citations, creating crash reports, and other functionality used by officers in their patrol cars. Updated ASP.NET MVC web site portal where those tickets were uploaded for reporting and administrative purposes. Wrote LINQ C# migration scripts to transfer and transform data between the legacy database and the updated SQL Server database.
• Lead developer at the State of Michigan to convert an MS Access application used to evaluate school compliance for attendance by veterans to an Angular web application using Web API calls using .NET Core with VS Code.
• Lead developer at Michigan State University’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities (IPF) department. Rewrote Oracle Forms applications into ASP.NET MVC applications to allow easier access to the applications to a broader segment of the user base. The applications included payroll, human resources and administrative functionality (such as resetting passwords). Applications were developed for responsive design using client-side technologies such Bootstrap and jQuery.
• Created AngularJS / MVC dashboard utilities for MSU IPF, used by supervisors to report statistics on support ticket status for the various work crews around campus.
• Developed ASP.NET MVC key management application to track physical keys and the resources they accessed for MSU. System was used across campus as a replacement for disparate systems, such as paper forms and Excel sheets.
• Converted a library donation system written in Visual Basic to ASP.NET MVC for a university in New York. The conversion better allowed the application to be marketed to multiple universities and made the maintenance of the application easier.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Senior Developer

• Developed custom solution for Silverlight-based data visualization software that displays customer buildings and employees on a Bing Maps application, imports risk events from various sources (earthquakes, terrorist attacks, etc.) and generates alerts to notify customers of potential danger to their assets. Application was built using C# and SQL Server based using Visual Studio 2012, with RabbitMQ for message queuing.
• Part of five-person team that developed MVC 4 application for retailer to track incidents of concern to their stores and integrate with the main data visualization application. Application was created in Visual Studio 2013, using MVVM architecture and Razor for presenting the data, and jQuery and Bootstrap for a responsive user experience.
• Architected and developed an Azure-based Web API weather forecasting system to allow users to create areas (such as a counties or states) that they are interested in watching, using a third-party web service to gather forecasting data for those locations, and returning that information to the data visualization system. System written with VS 2013 using C#, SQL Server.
• Created MVC 5 / Razor site to combine our support ticket tracking system application and help documentation into one system. Written in VS 2013, application used authorization membership provider in a SQL Server DB to secure files against unauthorized use.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Systems Designer/Developer-Distributed

• Member of six-person team that fixed bugs and added functionality for an existing Windows Form application, written in C# using Visual Studio 2010 with a SQL Server 2008 database, used by county court systems to track information for criminal and civil cases.
• Developed case and financial reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for Michigan trial courts.
• Part of a team of developers to add functionality / perform bug fixes for an ASP.NET order tracking site connecting dealers with a manufacturing client for fulfillment. The system was written in C# and connected to SQL Server and SAP backend systems.
• Designed and developed .NET / WPF applications with Visual Studio 2010 for use for Michigan Department of Education staff, including: Image retrieval application to display scanned test images across multiple database and encrypted hard drives; Team Foundation Server utility that imported legacy issue tracking data from Excel into TFS using TFS APIs; Image reduction application to convert images to a more space-efficient format and reduce costs for image hosting for millions of images; Web services to communicating between various departmental system.
• Created SSIS packages for translating data between SQL Server tables for the Dept. of Education.
• Created tools to pull heterogeneous log files from several systems to consolidate the information onto one server for ease of analysis.
• Built Windows Workflow Foundation activities to customize the TFS build process, as well modifying MS Deploy scripts to register DLLs on remote system during web site deployment.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Consultant

• Designed and developed applications to increase server performance by offloading processing from the web server to other application servers. These applications including queuing faxes and decrypting images stored in a SQL Server database and were developed in VB.NET.
• Created new web pages and updated existing pages for an ASP intranet for a medical records company. Responsibilities included writing VBScript code and SQL Server stored procedures as well as interacting with the company’s Active Directory database. Position also required development / troubleshooting of Crystal Reports.

Confidential

Consultant

• Developed a .NET 2.0 Windows Form application to process payments to invoices for a medical insurance company. The application was developed in VB.NET and accessed a SQL Server 2005 database. Responsibilities also included writing design documentation and creating reports using SQL Reporting Services.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Systems Architect III

• Systems architect for a State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth web application to allow users from DLEG, the fire marshal’s office, and the insurance industry to report fire loss claims to a centralized location for the tracking of potential arsonists. Application written in ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Oracle 9.x.
• Lead developer on State of Michigan application for the creation and maintenance of Supreme Court docketing information. System was created so that the clerks and commissioners of the State of Michigan Supreme Court could better track the progress of ongoing cases and integrate them with the Court of Appeals database. Three-tiered project used ASP.NET for presentation layer, VB.NET for business logic and data access code, and Oracle 9.x database. System increased the sharing of data between courts and improved efficiency of court employees
• Member of development team responsible for converting Visual Basic 6.0 DLLs into .NET web services utilizing the C# language. Project created so that other State organizations could take advantage of judiciary data and access it via a common delivery method
• Created time tracking application to store employee time and project descriptions to interact with an existing payroll application. ASP.NET application developed with PL/SQL and C# for an Oracle 10.x database platform
• Updated existing application which stored the caseload information from the various county courts into a centralized location. Application used ASP, Oracle 8.x, JavaScript, and VBScript
• Created code and requirements documentation for web application to reimburse all trial courts in the State of Michigan for their juror expenses. Application was created in order to eliminate paperwork sent to the State Court Administrative Office and allow for compliance with new regulations passed by the legislature as well as to store data in one centralized location. Application written in ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Oracle 9.x

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

Senior Consultant

• Member of development team to create web based system to track the career goals and aptitude test scores for students in the state of Michigan. System used an ASP-based front end and a MS SQL back end
• Developed e-commerce site for a small healthcare company to expand the market of their line of self-help audio cassettes and CDs. Based on design team specifications, created site with Visual Interdev using the following technologies: JavaScript, VBScript, MS SQL, and ASP
• Developed solution for a plastics manufacturer that automatically transferred data from a Unix based Progress database to a Windows NT based Access database for more efficient queries of data
• Created file check in / check out system for an online furniture vendor in Brea, CA using Active Server Pages to connect to a Visual SourceSafe database. System was used for clients of the vendor to upload and update images of their products with version control. System was also integrated with an MS SQL database to store additional information that was not stored in VSS
• Performed ongoing maintenance to a UNIX based furniture manufacturers’ web site, such as updating HTML pages and editing JavaScript code
• Created link tracking system for automotive Internet site to better analyze their site traffic. Project used ASP, VBScript, and MS SQL Server

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Systems Administrator / Web Developer

• Administrated six Compaq servers running Windows NT 4 and SQL Server 7 on three continents to provide a global knowledgebase to over 4000 Confidential employees around the world.
• Develop web solutions for a Knowledgebase used across the organization using tools including Active Server Pages on the front end and SQL Server 7.0 databases on the back end. Other technologies used include: HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, ADO, ADSI, and MS Index Server
• Lead contact for the technology team regarding Y2K issues
• Set up Knowledgebase environment, including both an authoring server and two production servers, in support of the banking and telecommunications customers in Australia and New Zealand (5/00) as well as customers in Washington D.C. and Reston, VA.