SUMMARY:

• Experienced Software Engineer and Architect with extensive skills in both programming and UI/UX. Over 15 years of experience in the information technology field.
• I specialize in building or refactoring software and teams from the ground up.
• My core skill set is Angular, Vuejs, SCSS, C#, SQL with many other skills between them.
• In addition, I strive to help companies build a proper team and development structure to allow the software and the company to grow.
• I pride myself on the ability to build relationships within a company to enhance overall productivity.
• Can function independently on multiple projects and possess excellent management and communication skills.

SKILLS:

Angularjs, C#, MVC,.Net 4.*, .Net Core, WebAPI, Autofac, SQL, MongoDB, Azure DevOps, Octopus, Jenkins, JavaScript, jQuery,VueJS, React, Emberjs, Knockoutjs, Underscore, Less, Sass, Git, Mercurial, TFS, Bootstrap, Photoshop, SEO, Azure, AWS, Gathering / Documentation, Scope Creation, proficient in Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Outlook, Server Management (Windows), Windows (all)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps & .NET Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Templatized build and deployment pipelines created the ability to create new applications/pipelines in seconds.
• Developed material and trained multiple teams at organizations on DevOps on multiple platforms such including Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Octopus, and others for on prem and cloud architecture
• Helped bring multiple areas of the organization that were previously siloed together making each part work together.
• Refactored .net code side by side with dev teams to significantly improve overall architecture and dev to production lifecycle speeds.
• Incorporated security and checks throughout the process to enable systems like CheckMarx, BlackDuck, SonarQube and in team approvals to push the code down the pipe from dev to production.
• Results were a true pipeline process that facilitated teams moving into a scrum environment and full team visibility into what and were code was always slashing release time from hours to minutes.

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Full Stack Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Full Stack Engineer on the core team over the main part of the application.
• The application was a medical device system that had a single page front end with a .net C# backend communicating to physical hardware within surgical rooms.
• Implemented multiple major sections of the application from UI to backend including electrode stimming and calculations to assist in spinal surgery.

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Lead Architect/Full Stack Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hired as Full Stack Engineer, brought in to lead migration of Java systems to .NET.
• Promoted to Lead Architect of the company after one month of employment.
• Custom - built complete service architecture of all five global systems, with each system having its own unique micro architecture and system ID to stay remain asynchronous.
• Implemented SCRUM, utilizing JIRA to help manage SCRUM, as well as handling software bugs and defects.
• Developed complete API layer from scratch utilizing C# .NET Core 2.0 over existing data warehouse which acts as core customer data tier, globally.
• Employed KingswaySoft to integrate with SQL Server and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Using SSIS to help migrate data in MySQL database, moving over to SQL Server.
• Created migration jobs to massage the data and transfer over to new SQL Server and into new database schema.
• Managing Git for new .NET infrastructure.
• Built multiple warehouse operation applications in Angular 4 used for managing product quality and inventory.
• Assisted marketing team in UI/UX designed for corporate and sales sites.

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Lead Architect Acting Director

Responsibilities:

• This is purely a contract role where I was hired to lead a small team of 3 including myself, architect, and consult the owners on how to accomplish their goal.
• My roles including everything up to director unfortunately the direction of the project is to build slowly so they won’t be building a true company around the application.
• Built on Angular 4 using Ionic where I developed a process to run the code cleanly in ios, android, web, and desktop using 90% of the same code base.
• The back end is .net web api and sql running in azure completely architected and set up by myself.

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Lead Software Architect/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hired to architect, build, and manage team to build from the ground up a CRM for auto dealerships.
• Project was cancelled everyone was let go.
• Working with VP's on time lines and future requirements.
• Implemented Infrastructure in the front end as a single page application using Angularjs and the back end using C#, Web API, OData, SignalR, SQL. This allowed for a very small easy to update code base. The front end after bundling and minifacation was less than a mb.
• Lead the team and managed deployments including setting up the structure for GIT branches.

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Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Brought on to advance the companies technologies using Angularjs and Emberjs
• Designed, and built a translation framework to manage all translations within the site.
• Lead design for site running on mostly 2g networks so we need to make it small VERY small. No Angular No frameworks not even JQuery.
• Designed a custom framework creating a site that has a templating engine and all the nice features of angular type controllers in pure JavaScript all coming in under 65kb. Everything comes down with the html (go ahead look at the source) eliminating the issue with high latency.
• Kafka management system built using SignalR to have real time updates of Kafka messages displayed.
• Chrome extension that pulls data off current page being viewed and uses Confidential systems to return examples of the systems powerful semantic technology.

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Lead Engineer / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Side project for a few Chiropractic friends of mine. They wanted software that could manage all the aspects of their business and asked me because of my HIPPA experience and at Confidential .
• Used C#, MongoDb, Web Api and knockoutjs
• Includes check in system, scheduling, employee management, SOAP notes, Insurance billing and other parts for managing their business.

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Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built a server management/alert system that integrated data from TeamCity, TFS and data being sent from each application. This system is currently in use the IT monitoring personnel.
• Quickly became a pivotal role in the CRM redesign bringing technologies like Html5, KnockoutJS, .NET MCV and Web API to the company.
• Architected the new solution layout and what technologies will be used in the new CRM. Not a single JS plugin can be used without my approval first.
• Completely redefined the face of Confidential within an amazing team who all worked together to not only set a new standard for web sites but also started buzz within our customers by showing just a tease of what’s coming.
• Concluded that Angularjs would be the more logical framework for the company.
• Angularjs and AMD for the front end and WebAPI/Signalr for talking to the server.
• Worked with the UI/UX designer to create a first ever Confidential themed Bootstrap css using less.

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Contract Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• This company developed the POS system for BestBuy and was redesigning it which included creating a completely web based POS for BestBuy’s satellite.
• An old colleague phoned me as he worked here and they needed someone to come in and help with the web based system. Not a single person there knew how to develop in JavaScript or MVC for that matter.
• Built multiple sections of the system and taught the rest of the team how to work in MVC and Knockoutjs.

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Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on a team of 6 on maintaining and improving flag ship product ScriptCenter.
• Currently developing process for allowing the ScriptCenter units to have constant communication back to our main office. This will allow us to have a global account and instant feedback to our customers via web, mobile and other platforms. I’ve pushed to use SignalR for this.
• Designed and developed structure for proving SMS communications to users when medications are available.
• Created an email template structure that allows for specific branding of emails with no user interaction. Utilized the razor view engine for template manipulation.
• Developed intranet site allowing employees to see up to date information on each.
• Participating member of the company’s IT team meetings that planned developed and executed strategic company objectives.