SUMMARY

• Software professional for Fortune 100 companies in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and financial firms. Experience in all facets of the software development lifecycle. Expertise as lead developer, architect, software designer, project manager, usability expert, and client liaison. Extensive skills in .NET development. Adept at juggling client expectations while balancing technical considerations against project return on investment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Visual Studio.NET Single Sign On, ComponentSpace, ComponentPro, MiniOrange, Centrify MVC, Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Delta Beyond Compare Microsoft SharePoint SMTP
• C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET SSO, SAML 2.0 ASP.NET, ASP, AJAX JQuery, JavaScript, VBScript, Fiddler
• HTML, DHTML, XML, SAML SASS, CSS Telerik, Infragistics, Aspose Visual Basic, VBA
• Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS SSIS, SQL Reporting Tool Oracle, PL/SQL
• Entity Framework, ADO.NET, .NET Linq SQL Navigator, TOAD Microsoft Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Increased performance and added new capabilities to the BDS (Business Development Software) platform used for training programs, portals, leadership development, workshops and engagement programs. The application is completely configurable through its database and can be customized for any customers and/or program.
• Significantly redesigned BDS application which included coverting it’s language from Visual Basic.Net to C#.Net and upgraded SQL Server.
• Designed and developed multi - language and shared content capabilities.
• Grew client base by adding SSO capability using ComponentSpace and ComponentPro software. Tested and supported SSO using a variety of software products including MiniOrange, Centrify, Google, F5, and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Assisted in moving all applications’ source control from Microsoft Visual Source Safe to Microsoft Team Foundation Services.
• Collaborated with the development staff to improve BDS User Interface and Mobile Responsive Design using SASS and CSS.
• Increased sales and administrative productivity by adding new features to the TAP (Track And Print) system that is used by sales staff and administrators to customize and demonstrate the BDS application. TAP is a Visual Basic.NET web application which uses the BDS SQL Server database.
• Ensured BDS reliability by creating BDV (BDS Database Validator), an application which validated data, content, and configuration info for a proper release. The application automatically runs hourly and prior to pushing a new release.
• Part of a team which developed and designed a control panel for users to configure and setup programs with in the BDS platform. This system was developed using C#.Net, MVC, and Entity Framework.
• Decreased help desk calls by implementing a wizard to help users register and login to the BDS application, as well as designed a new feature which allowed users to easily navigate through their workshop sessions.
• Assisted with requirements gathering, and conducted client meetings to suggest application improvements.
• Proactively upgraded applications to improve functionality, while increasing performance after rewriting BDS in order to incorporate object oriented methodology to stream line the existing code.
• Provided high level technical support to customers, administrators, and sales staff on the BDS and TAP systems.
• Created and maintained reports using the SQL Server Reporting Tool.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Increased test question quality and conversion time by reengineering the ICQC (Item Comparison Quality Control), a Visual Basic.NET windows application, and Defect Tracker, a C#.NET web application. These tools are used for comparing and converting test questions from a Microsoft Word based system to an XML based system.
• Increased productivity for standardized test reviewers, formatters, and the assessment development team, after discovering several inefficiencies from legacy code.
• Proactively upgraded applications to improve functionality, while increasing performance after rewriting ICQC to incorporate object oriented methodology, and streamlining the existing code.
• Mentored team on objected oriented principles, and established rigid quality controls.
• Increased user’s learning curve of the applications by making the interface user friendly and meeting industry standards.
• Added communication between Defect Tracker (Web Application) and ICQC (Windows Application) to add user requested functionality, which was previously thought to be unobtainable.
• Implemented version control using SVN.
• Added many enhancements, including support for the new versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
• Assisted with requirements gathering, and conducted client meeting to suggest improvements to the applications.

Confidential

Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from project managers to create and maintain multiple web sites for many different client products, which supported many different countries and languages using Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SharePoint.
• Delegated tasks and supervised developers on multiple projects in a fast driven environment with weekly releases.
• Researched, learned, and implemented many web site facets including analytics, search engine optimization (SEO), Google Maps, third party emailing services and other third party tools.
• Integrated social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc...
• Created and customized TFS automated build scripts.
• Coordinated with all sectors of the business including Account Manager, Project Manager, Creative Group, Search and Media (SEO), Quality Assurance, as well as the clients.
• Built and upgraded existing ETL packages using SQL Server and SSIS.
• Created and maintained reports using the SQL Server Reporting Tool.
• Built databases, stored procedures, security, and other database aspects using both SQL Server and Oracle.
• Optimized and oversaw current procedures for publishing, testing and coding standards.