OBJECTIVE:

Software Architect, Team Lead, or Confidential # / ASP.NET MVC 4 / WPF MVVM / Database / Software Engineer designing and developing applications that effectively combine agile methodologies, object oriented techniques, databases, and web delivery to solve real - world problems. The ideal company will strive for product excellence and legendary customer experiences.

SUMMARY:

• 28 years of experience developing many applications in various languages on diverse platforms including 18 years of SQL; 15 years of shipped commercial software and GUI development; 11 years of Microsoft SQL Server; 10 years of Confidential #; 5 years of agile, and 4 years of Continuous Integration (CI) and Oracle. Other expertise includes:
• ADO.NET, DB2, DB2/2, DTS, Fluent NHibernate, LINQ to SQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NHibernate, Red Gate, and Telerik OpenAccess ORM;
• Aion, Active Reports, ASP.NET MVC 4 Razor, ASP.NET Web Forms, Caliburn Micro, Confidential #, ChartFX, CruiseControl.NET, Crystal Reports, CSS, ELMAH, Fluent Assertions, HTML, Infragistics, JavaScript, JSON, LINQ, log4net, Milestone XProtect SDK, NUnit, PL/SQL, ReSharper, SCPI, StructureMap, T-SQL, TeamCity, Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Telerik Reporting, Test Driven Development (TDD), web services (ASMX and WCF), Visual Studio, WPF, XAML, XML, and xUnit.net;
• AIX, HP-UX, MVS/TSO, OS/2, VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, VMware, Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT, and Windows Virtual PC;
• Agile, Assembla, Extreme Programming, JIRA GreenHopper, Microsoft Project, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, and XPlanner;
• GIT, Subversion, Team Foundation Server, TortoiseGIT, and TortoiseSVN;
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) - Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose;
• Case-Based Reasoning, Expert Systems, Neural Networks, and Knowledge Acquisition, Transformation, and Delivery.
• Successes delivering commercial, internal, and academic software spanning eight start-up companies with fewer than 20 employees and three Fortune 500 companies with more than 20,000.
• Excellent communication, organization, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Uniquely able to find creative solutions to difficult problems.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Contract Developer

Responsibilities:

• Leading the .NET R&D team developing Confidential 2.0, a WPF MVVM video monitoring station client.
• Developing proof-of-concept demos and guiding technology selection.

Confidential

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extending the firm's .NET team as a software architect, team lead, Confidential # ASP.NET MVC developer, and sales engineer.
• Providing project estimates, UI designs and wireframes, database designs, and technical support for sales calls.

Confidential

Contract Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led the combined MomentumSI / Confidential team developing SOA services and an ASP.NET MVC 4 Razor website.
• This allowed Confidential to leverage legacy IBM AS/400 iSeries technology.
• Contributed as architect, developer, Scrum Master, created the UI wireframes, and established continuous integration builds -- with automated build testing -- that deployed build and QA websites each time code was checked in.
• Led the combined MomentumSI / Confidential team determining the potential success of SOA adoption.
• Led the MomentumSI team conducting the SOA analysis assessment.

Confidential

Contract Developer

Responsibilities:

• Helped visualize Arrow data with a Confidential # / ASP.NET MVC 2 website.
• Enabled continuous integration builds with automated build testing that pushed out build and QA websites at each check-in.
• Provided scripts to migrate the QA site and database schema changes to Production.
• Helped automate lab testing previously done with custom Python SCPI scripts by developing Confidential # application and action plug-ins. Delivered unit test coverage with each plug-in.

Confidential

Architect / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created Host Great Events to make event management manageable for caterers, restaurants, event planners, and event centers.
• Confidential Leads delivers better leads faster. Confidential Menus makes updating menus easy.
• Confidential Orders takes orders online.
• Confidential Events improves full-service event management.
• Responsible for all aspects of product design and development including technology selection, architecture, database and UI design, client and server side development, product and project management, release management, testing, and support.

Technologies include: ASP.NET, Confidential #, CSS, HTML, Javascript, IIS7, LINQ, LINQ to SQL, the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern, SQL Server 2008, Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Telerik Reporting, TDD, Visual Studio 2008, and XML.

Confidential

Event Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the team designing and developing Confidential # Windows Forms smart-client catering event management software.
• Event Manager leveraged existing customers’ investments while addressing new and unique catering / CRM needs.
• Designed to fit within Compeat’s common desktop look and feel Event Manger took full advantage of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern greatly increasing re-use within Event Manager and across applications. Responsible for customer panel interaction, product features, project schedule, object model, data model, infrastructure, GUI, builds, releases, updates, QA, and the entire architecture.
• Redeveloped Excel / VBA user-defined reporting functions using Confidential # and Visual Studio Tools for Office.
• Greatly increased performance by storing transactional data in a data warehouse.
• Enabled remote data portal and direct SQL connections using the new Core Libraries.
• Responsible for improving speed and security, builds, releases, updates, and QA on Office 2003 and 2007 with Windows XP and Vista.
• Designed and developed core libraries used by automated tests and the applications themselves.
• Introduced agile methodologies and TDD practices with continuous integration at each check-in.

Austin Provider

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated prototype development of a Confidential # Windows Forms smart-client medical chart review application.
• The prototype allowed APS to secure HotPursuit funding and customers allowing the company to grow revenue, profitability, and headcount.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the team designing and developing Confidential # Windows Forms smart-client enterprise risk management software.
• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance was streamlined and simplifying, saving time and money, replacing stand-alone Word and Excel documents with a common repository.
• This allowed companies to leverage valuable organization-wide stores of documents, policies, processes, risks, controls, and other information.
• Responsible for the object model, data model, infrastructure, GUI, builds, releases, updates, and the entire architecture.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered eScan Reports 36 times faster after four major architectural revisions to the reporting code, process, generation method, and data. These changes leveraged prior work allowing eScan to add customers with minimal increases in hardware and staff.
• Designed and developed a lightweight Issue tracking and reporting system.
• Senior team member responsible for the overall application architecture, data model, common cross platform data layer APIs, and other common libraries.
• Developed Application Information APIs to log application health, messages, and heartbeat.
• Participated in the design and development of eView, an ASP.NET tool enabling rapid information deployment without additional ASP.NET code. eView reduced the number of custom web reporting applications greatly simplifying QA and support. eView results stood alone and could be used to quickly prototype SQL Server Reporting Services solutions.
• Developed the Internal Financial Class (IFC) assignment process allowing complex client data to be classified and re-classified when it changed instead of each time it was retrieved.
• Responsible for client and project management, recruiting and interviewing, also led the development team.

Confidential

Contract Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a flexible chart generation and web-based reporting system used by internal and external customers.
• Generation leveraged Confidential #, ChartFX, Web Services, and XML using Oracle and SQL Server data warehouses.
• Responsible for all aspects of the application architecture, development, QA, documentation, and delivery.
• Designed the application architecture and led development of intelligent decision support systems.
• Responsible for cross platform database compatibility, the data model, development, builds, QA, documentation, backups, beta testing, product releases, training, and support.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of the team developing Confidential 's software development kit. Extended Rational Rose with a custom add-in to provide knowledge development support so that domain experts could extend the Confidential application environment without AI training and without involving a knowledge engineer.
• Led the knowledge engineering team in the development of revolutionary, intelligent e-business management software. Developed the knowledge acquisition, transformation, and delivery methodology, architecture, infrastructure, and verification tools.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the team developing innovative stock trading software. Defined the application's architecture, developed most core class libraries, established coding standards, designing the UI, interviewed candidates, mentored team members, set objectives, assigned projects, implemented build creation and delivery procedures, and assisted with QA.
• Also participated in fund-raising discussions and vendor selection.

Confidential

Architect / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential of three patents representing contributions to Colossus 5.00: Canada # 2414587, US # 7430515, and US # 7398219.
• Helped develop the first browser version of Colossus.
• Senior team member. Developed half of the core class libraries delivering common code, externalizing formulas, providing injury search and combination validation, and supporting report generation. Designed a cross-platform initialization file to consistently represent run-time parameters on mainframe, PC, Unix, and web platforms. Delivered seamless run-time database selection between Access, DB2, and Oracle. Verified the client/server version in the Platinum Redwood Labs. Performed the first build-to-build benchmarking. Supported the project as the Oracle DBA.
• Delivered the first Unix version of Colossus and the second relational database version.
• Created the first client/server version of Colossus using Aion, DCE, and Platinum RuleServer.
• Delivered the first relational database version of Colossus.
• Integration consultant installing and customizing Colossus at customer sites.

Confidential

Computer Help Desk Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Enabled the Help Desk with case-based reasoning.
• Used an expert system to assist in product toxicological evaluations while responding to European Community hazardous chemical labeling regulations.
• Evaluated the benefit of neural networks.
• Combined multiple host environments, delivered problem resolutions, logged problems, and maintained support contact information.
• Developed an application facilitating executive-level review of employee performance, training, and job history to identify candidates for inter-group promotion, transfer, and professional development.
• Delivered technical training that logged each user's training history.
• Primary support for the medical center’s applications.
• Primary support for file creation, security access control, and reporting.
• Supported repositories of chemical hazard, inventory, regulatory, safety, storage, and transportation information.