Technical Skills

Programming Languages C .Net Java VB/VB.NET JavaScript/JQuery Microsoft MVC RAZOR C/C COM/MIDL XML XSL MATLAB PHP SQL HTML ASP ASP .Net

IDEs Visual Studio Eclipse NetBeans IntelliJ

Frameworks/Libraries/SDKs Bootstrap AnguarJS Web Api/REST Windows Communication Foundation WCF MSMQ JMS XFire JAXWS Unity Framework Spring Framework/Spring.NET Ninject Microsoft Test Framework NUnit JUnit Entity Framework Hibernate/nHibernate

Platforms Windows 8 Windows 7 Vista XP 2000 Sun/Solaris UNIX Linux Mac-OS Windows Server 2000 Windows Server 2003/2008

Servers Microsoft IIS JBoss AS Apache Web Server Apache Tomcat SQL Server 7/2000/2005/2008 MS Project Server MS Team Foundation Server MongoDB MySql

Professional Experience

Confidential

President/Senior Consultant

IT Management Consultant/Enterprise Architect

Provided IT Management and Enterprise Architecture consulting to educational travel company comprised of 13 divisions specializing in a range of products to provide field trips and study abroad programs to students from primary to post-secondary education levels.

Project Highlights

• Designed flexible enterprise scale Service Oriented Architecture SOA to support various divisions applying Zachman Framework principles to ensure alignment with the business needs of all divisions
• Implemented lean agile process for software development teams lacking the necessary IT Process maturity to use traditional agile processes such as Scrum or Kanban
• Mentored developers and architects learning to use the Microsoft .NET platform with no prior experience through one-on-one interaction as well as weekly lessons teaching concepts such as contract driven design test driven design reliable messaging and basic service oriented architecture principles
• Implemented release and change management processes and governance using Jenkins CI for automated builds and change management approval
• Introduced regular configuration management and version control activities to a team with little to no experience using source control platforms as part of daily activities and release branching using Subversion as a source control platform. Previous experience was limited to usage of SourceSafe to store production code.
• Implemented group management platform facilitating the combining of travel groups into a single fulfillment group in order to provide a reference architecture for SOA initiative using Microsoft Web Api AngularJS and Bootstrap UI framework

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant/Enterprise Architect

Provided on site software development support for Carmax s various corporate development teams

Project Highlights

• Defined enterprise core domain processes and implementation strategy for Enterprise Architecture initiative while driving adoption by example in the architect role for centralized scheduling finance and tax and fee initiatives.
• Taught group and one-on-one training sessions for Carmax employees covering Service Oriented Architecture SOA Object Oriented Design Aspect Oriented Programming AOP Test Driven Design Microsoft .NET programming MVC3 JQuery AJAX WCF
• Principle Software Engineer for Carmax.com architecture project to integrate content and transactional databases and move from 2-tier architecture to N-Tier Service Oriented Architecture MS WCF NHibernate Sql Server 2008 NUnit Rhino Mocks
• Principle Software Engineer for central administration website providing back end control operations for Carmax.com MS MVC3 MS WCF NHibernate Sql Server 2008 jQuery NUnit Rhino Mocks
• Senior Software Engineer for large development effort to build and release CarMax EasyShop v.1.0 beta an online assisted selling website allowing customers the ability to submit finance applications complete state paperwork create appointments and select extended warranty options in order to streamline the car purchase process MS MVC2 MS WCF NHibernate SQL Server 2008 jQuery NUnit Rhino Mocks

Key Accomplishments

Successfully retrained several employees some with only PowerBuilder experience in Microsoft.NET technology

Moved the Carmax enterprise web platform to 100 Service Oriented Architecture the success of which led to overall enterprise architecture initiative to centralize all store based systems

Broke new ground for future enterprise application initiatives through Carmax.com and centralized scheduling SOA efforts

Confidential

Sr. Software Consultant

Provided software consulting services to help launch dot com startup providing online food sales from local producers to consumers as an online food co-op

Confidential

Principle Software Engineer Product Development Team

Served as Senior Software Engineer for the SNL Interactive Product Development team. Provided expertise in web development software architecture and design mentored junior and mid level developers.

Project Highlights

• Implemented new officer and director product as to provide in-depth coverage of corporate personnel in a manner similar to existing social network sites using degree of separation concepts to determine professional connections C .NET ASP.NET JQuery SQL Server CSS SoftArtisans ExcelWriter
• Built several new products for Capital Markets group to provide data for New Media clients including Broadcast Industry Benchmarks and Cable Subscriber data C .NET ASP.NET SQL Server JQuery .NET Web Parts CSS SoftArtisans ExcelWriter
• Participated in an ambitious localization/globalization effort to enable international date and number formats throughout the entire SNL Interactive platform as well as currency conversion based on spot rate capital market data C .NET ASP.NET .NET Globalization SQL Server SoftArtisans ExcelWriter
• Transitioned to new Community Banker service to build pages serving small banks and credit unions providing an interactive customizable format for smaller clients C .NET ASP.NET JQuery Yahoo YUI SQL Server

Key Accomplishments

• Gave SNL Financial the ability to provide a greater level of detail regarding corporate personnel than any other competing financial news site Bloomberg Capital IQ etc including compensation data news work history professional connections board memberships education contact information and graphical comparison of compensation vs. industry median
• Saved a failing Community Banker project that had previously suffered from lack of development experience and tremendous cost overruns bringing the product into production in just six weeks.

Confidential

Software Architect/Technical Lead Account Maintenance Small Enhancements Team

Served as interim technical lead and software architect for the small enhancements team. Analyzed requirements and formulated technical designs for an ambitious release schedule to accommodate small enhancements for the Managed Account Setup and Termination MAST program in order to provide improved user experience and portability between account maintenance applications. Managed developers and reported project progress to Managers.

Project Highlights

• Designed and managed development for Portfolio Switch functionality in Managed Account platform ASP.NET C .NET Oracle XML Visio
• Designed employee productivity report capability for account maintenance brokerage employees to track productivity benchmarks as per processed transacations C .NET ASP.NET Oracle
• Designed program defaults scheme to pull default account parameter values from the New Account Opening NAO platform C .NET ASP.NET Oracle SOAP

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer Ticketstoday Ticketing Suite

Brought new life and energy to a software development team that had previously relied heavily on software consultants and a revolving door of software engineers with limited experience to help transform a niche ticketing system into an industry changing highly customizable ticketing portal serving high-profile musicians athletes and venues. Served as senior software engineer on numerous projects to rapidly expand business opportunities cut overhead costs and improve productivity of support staff. Provided critical production support to meet a constantly growing roster of clients while providing flexible solutions to support a wide range of requirements. Provided technical mentoring to junior software engineers to expand capabilities and domain expertise.

Project Highlights

• Built Social Network integration process to automatically post new merchandise items to artists Facebook wall C Facebook API RSS XML
• Designed and implemented new ticketing event management tool allowing easier creation of events for ticket on-sales ASP.NET C XML AJAX.NET JAVA Eclipse Spring Framework Hibernate SQL Server 2005
• Implemented new version of online ticket ordering website adding new features such as cross-event marketing per-client customization and expanded reporting capabilities. ASP.NET VB.NET AJAX.NET XML SQL Server 2005
• Implemented performance-caching for ticketing website VB.NET SQL Server 2005
• Implemented globalization capabilities in ticketing system supporting multiple currencies multiple time zones and foreign character sets VB.NET C SQL Server 2005
• Engineered and implemented role-based security and authentication protocol for box office software C JAVA Spring Framework SQL Server 2005
• Re-engineered reporting capabilities for seamless navigation and generation of revenue and audit reports C JAVA XML Jasper Reports iReport

Key Accomplishments

• Immeasurably improved client staff productivity and reduced overhead costs for creating event on sales
• Provided a greatly improved user experience within the ticketing web site
• Created new marketing opportunities for related events and promotions to loyal customers
• Created the capability to expand business to international clients
• Provided necessary security features to help pave the way for distribution contracts with outside vendors

Confidential

Software Architect Software Engineer Technical Lead Client Liaison

Served as an all-purpose go-to guy for a wide range of government software contracts R D efforts and internal projects within multiple areas of expertise. Wore many hats as necessary to fulfill software contracts sometimes acting as the software project lead software architect software developer requirements lead and software process engineer simultaneously in order to deliver high quality software products often given limited resources tight budgets and critical deadlines. Provided a high level of customer satisfaction often meeting face-to-face with customers in order to refine requirements demonstrate project progress and obtain critical feedback. Taught entry level software classes to environmental scientists to assist in developing cutting-edge scientific applications for environmental risk and environmental fate studies.

Project Highlights

• Provided on-site software support at NGIC for the dissemination of intelligence reports and fact sheets PHP C XML XSL JAVA C
• Reverse Engineered IEUBKwin lead risk assessment software for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to comply with CMMI level 2 lifecycle C Visio
• Completed initial release of IEUBKwin software from defaulted contractor and provided continuous service releases C
• Maintained hotline support and issue tracking website and database for IEUBKwin user community ASP SQL Server 2000 MS Access Windows SharePoint Services XML CAML
• Designed and implemented corporate lead tracking system for marketing opportunity lists bid and proposal B P workflow marketing reports and secured funding and budgeting Gantt charts ASP.NET C Windows SharePoint Services Crystal Reports SQL Server 2000
• Performed maintenance tasks for new releases of TEPRO editor for RADAR signal analysis C Language XVT
• Implemented TEPRO Quality Check test editor for user-defined technical quality assurance rules C Language XVT
• Authored software architecture and design document for Technical Quality Check plug-in to interface with editor software for Next Generation EWIRdb NGE for RADAR intelligence
• Designed and maintained probabilistic risk assessment software applications for various chemicals including pesticides and Radon C MATLAB VB XML XSL JavaScript
• Designed and maintained explosives and chemical precursors fact sheets database and user interface C XML XSL MS Access
• Designed Full-Text Search Algorithm for Explosives Database for XML integration with other conceptual applications MS Access XML
• Taught classes on database design methodologies software architecture and design and web based applications to environmental chemists and biologists ASP.NET C SQL Server 2005

Key Accomplishments

• Two-time Star Award recipient in recognition of employee dedication
• Triggered a five-year multi-million dollar contract to perform software support at NGIC based on quality software development and intuitiveness
• Assisted in the successful identification and bidding of defense contracts of up to 500 million by significantly improving the bid and proposal workflow through the implementation of software allowing for easier identification of viable contract opportunities
• Completely re-developed joint EPA/US Customs explosives database UI and data layer from scratch in two weeks time in order to achieve customer satisfaction after a demonstration of the initial design received a less than favorable response
• Project manager received an invitation to provide a demonstration to senior EPA officers of explosives database after receiving extremely positive reviews on re-design
• Received CMMI level III certification for requirements gathering

Confidential

Intern/Summer Hire

Assisted AFRL personnel and contractors in computer forensics and Defensive Information Warfare DIW by developing conceptual applications for information hiding and retrieval with steganography. Provided information system vulnerability assessment and exploitation expertise in order to identify possible weaknesses in defense networks. Received invaluable experience in information system security data storage and retrieval techniques and binary operations for use in information warfare.