CAREER SUMMARY:

• 11 years experience developing web and windows applications with Microsoft .Net Technologies from Visual Studio . A pplication Development also includes using SQL Server, and DB2 for the backend.
• 4 years experience as an Airborne Computer Display Maintenance Technician aboard the E - 3B/C model aircraftce.
• Coding, modifying, troubleshooting, and reverse-engineering/flowcharting custom VB.Net windows and web applications, Windows Services, Web Services, console applications, WCF Services, and MVC.
• Experience using Microsoft Visual Studio, VB.Net (primarily, but also C#), SQL Server, DB2, JavaScript/JQuery, Crystal Reports 2008, AJAX, CSS, JSON, and XML.
• Writing reusable classes, interfaces, console applications, web forms, Winforms, and user controls.
• Creating and modifying SQL objects, such as tables/views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
• Also, experience creating SSIS packages and reports (using Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio).
• Experience with Microsoft Office APIs, such as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel, and 3rd Party controls, such as DevExpress and ComponentOne.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Contract Programmer

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• Mainly coding hot-fixes and enhancements for a web application called “Customer Service Workstation”.
• It’s an application used by CSRs who answer phone inquiries from both members and providers.
• Fixes and enhancements include adding JavaScript to perform functions on the client side, versus the server side, tracking down and fixing causes of unhandled exceptions, adding new controls/fields to pages, etc.
• Wrote a new generic tool to use by other programmers to speed up Excel reports creation.
• The tool generates xml based on user input, which defines report layout, and database information like columns and stored procedure name/parameters.
• Another automated application reads the xml and builds the reports.

Software Developer

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• The application is for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to use in tracking applications from day care centers, etc, for free and reduced meals.
• This application uses lots of javascript for mathematical calculations, VB for the code behind, and SQL 2008 R2 for the backend.
• Part of my responsibility was using SSIS packages to migrate data entered into our new system into their existing Oracle system, to keep them synchronized for existing reporting, etc.

Programmer

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• New software development using VB.Net 2010 and 2012, including touchscreen applications, web applications (using CSS and Master Pages), and other windows applications around the hospital, using a SQL backend.
• Also a lot of reverse-engineering of existing applications to determine source of support items from end users.
• Use of MS Office APIs, Adobe API, SQL Reporting Services, Secure FTP API, and Web Services.
• Use of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (both for previously nonexistent documentation, and to help myself with these support issues).
• Standard SQL programming using SQL Server 2008 to create tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, etc. Adding/removing users from groups in Active Directory.
• Using remote control software such as VNC, Dameware, Remote Desktop (of course), and Hyper-V.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Van Buren, AR

Responsibilities:

• New software development using VB.Net 2008, SQL Server 2005 tables, and stored procedures, and ASP.Net 3.5.
• Creating a new standard of development for, and providing materials to COBOL programmers making the transition to .Net development.
• Although the standard never did sell, I do consider it some of my best work of the time.
• The standard involves requiring each application to be compiled as a class library, and to have a main user control that implements common interfaces.
• These applications are then dynamically loaded into a common framework using classes in the System.Reflection namespace.
• Creating flow charts and table diagrams for proof-of-concept during design of applications.
• Meeting with business analysts to determine requirements, and to check quality throughout the development process. Laid off due to economy at the time.

Contract Programmer/Analyst

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• New software development using VB.Net (2005 & 2008), SQL Server 2005 tables and stored procedures, ASP.Net 2.0, and .Net 2.0 Web Services to manage business rules and billing processes for customers.

Software Developer

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• Writing new VB code with Visual Studio 2005, Re-design of the User Interface using multiple user controls and third party controls for a large application to view, add, edit, and delete records for all physicians in Arkansas. Writing stored procedures to perform database operations.
• Also writing management applications to control user and field level security, validation, and custom email and instant messenger controls for communication between management staff.
• Designing Automatic Updater application (where Click-once deployment was an unacceptable method), for the ability to fully customize the way the application is updated.
• This one is reusable for any .Net application.

Systems Integrator/Software Developer

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Duties include setting up archiving systems for clients turning “out-of-the-box” machines into an entire image archive system
• Writing code, troubleshooting & configuring custom programs that use OCR and ICR engines for reading text and barcodes to index documents.
• Customer support by means of going on-site, telephone, PC Anywhere, GoToMyPC, VNC Viewer, and Remote Desktop.
• Writing Documentation for both Confidential Employees and end users.