SUMMARY:

• I'm a passionate, fanatic, software designer and creator. I solve users’ problems by creating software solutions using innovation in the small.
• My expertise is in understanding users' problems and translating these challenges into beautiful solutions that make people happy and at the end, makes their lives a little easier.
• These problems are really opportunities to empower users and eliminate the drudgery. I'm against the status quo.
• I live against the status quo because, in my opinion, creative and innovative solutions are not created following a linear approach but come, in part, from broad experiences in one’s life and an innovative mind.
• I’m blessed to have over 24 years of professional software development experience in eight industries including real estate, travel & leisure (cruise industry), retail, medical, automotive, banking, legal, and airline. Because of these vast experiences across so many industries, it allows me to see problems as opportunities and come up with ideas that are not the norm in many cases.
• 24 years of professional software development
• 10 years commercial software
• 12 years in - house (IT Departments)
• 11 years as Software Architect
• 25 years as programmer (never stopped programming, never will)
• 10 years of communication with C-Level Executives
• 10 years of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• 19 years of multi-tier architectures
• 19 years of Object Oriented Design (OOD)
• 12 years of Design Patterns (recognizing when and how to use them)
• 9 years of Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Many years of Agile, TDD, SCRUM, Cowboy, etc.

TECHNICAL AREAS:

• 7 years in Cloud-Based Computing (since AWS S3 beta release in 2006)
• Amazon AWS (S3, EC2, SMS, SQS, CloudFront, SimpleDB, NoSQL, etc.)
• Some Microsoft Azure and Google App Services
• 12 years with Microsoft .Net and C# (since version 1.0 in 2001)
• 5 years with Objective-C and Cocoa (iPhone, iPad and iOS since 2008).
• 18 years with Delphi (Delphi 1.0 to latest Delphi XE5)
• Many years of ASP.NET, Web API, WCF, WPF, Winforms, desktop, web, etc.
• 12 years of leadership in roles as chief architect, project manager, team lead, owner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Architect

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• I redesigned two systems at Confidential that were originally created 17 and 12 years ago. Both system were never designed to be used on a global scale and suffered severe usability and performance issues especially when the user base is now around the globe.
• I created new architectures for both systems using a layered architecture approach and the latest cloud technology including Amazon’s AWS EC2, SMS, SQS, .Net C# 4.5 with a message based backend (SMS, SQS) for high-volume processing.
• For the front-end, I used Delphi XE4 for native compiled user interfaces and for the best user experience.
• The communication between the UI and the backend was done via a REST based communications layer using .Net Web API and JSON to transports lightweight data objects.
• I used some techniques such as distributed memory caching (memcached) to increase performance and reduce network latency.
• Both systems are using a cloud-based .Net backend. EIM is using Microsoft Word 2007 as the primary UI.
• I created a MS Word 2007 plugin using Delphi XE4 to call the REST based web service from within MS Word. Since engineers needed to see the aircraft maintenance manuals during the creation process of the PDF documents, I chose MS Word as the primary UI which the users loved and are already comfortable using.
• Because of my new designs, several older systems were no longer needed and can now be retired reducing obsolete license costs.

Technical: .Net 4.5, C# 4.5, Delphi XE4, Amazon AWS EC2, S3, SQS, SMS, CouchBase NoSQL, Memcached, Enterprise Architect, GUI, IIS, ASP.Net Web API 4, JSON, REST, SQL Server, db4o Object Database, MS Word 2007 etc.

Solution Architect

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• I designed a new, graphical test system named Firmware Studio to automate all hardware tests on the medical cytometers.
• Users for Firmware Studio are QA, Developers, Managers, etc. across the company so the user interface had to be very easy to use in order to create complex test scenarios.
• I used a WPF Winform application as the graphical user interface (GUI) and Microsoft s Workflow Foundation (WF) as the core of the test logic. WF is the same workflow engine that is used by Microsoft s Enterprise class BizTalk Server product. I used WCF to communicate to the cytometer s firmware via SOAP based web service calls.
• I exposed the workflow engine graphical designer in the UI so that the users can simply drag & drop cytometer commands and create complex test scenarios very easily. These workflows are then saved so that the tests can be repeated many times over. These workflows can also be shared between QA and developers for further analysis.
• No scripting or programming is required by the user. The tool offers the user to create variables within different scopes of the workflow executions.
• I designed Firmware Studio so that it will be able to communicate to other medical devices with completely different types of communications, device commands, etc., if need be.
• I also worked on the design & development of the existing Flow Cytometer Software
• FACSuite to run medical flow cytometers to enable drug discovery and medical research and diagnoses.
• I created a layered persistence mechanism for FACSuite. I also helped in improving the Backup & Restore Tool.

Technical: WPF, MVVM, MVP, C# 3.5, C# 4.5, Visual Studio 2012, GUI, WF, Web Services, SOAP

Solution Architect

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• I re-architected the existing criminal case management system CIBERLaw using a layered architecture.
• Since the system was already in production, I used a bottom up approach and separated parts of the system using interfaces and then moved on to replace the older parts with newer technology and proven design patterns .
• The existing system was being worked on for over seven years. It had no decoupled layers in the architecture and suffered from performance and usability issues.
• I also improved the development processes at the Law & Justice division of Confidential .
• I created a Build & Release Process Management Plan for US and offshore teams.
• I worked with District Attorneys in gathering specific requirements and needs at the individual county levels.

Technical: ASP.NET, C# 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server

Owner

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• I was designing and developing a property management software package for the residential and commercial real estate industry.
• The target market was the US real estate industry for small and medium sized companies.

Technical: .Net 4.0, WPF, WCF, C#, Objective C, Cocoa, AWS Cloud Computing, SaaS, Delphi 2010

Solution Architect

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned and developed a new automated testing system for human specimens such as blood, urine, saliva etc.
• This system was designed to output approximately 1.2 Million tests per day in medical Confidential environments.
• It was designed to be a multi-tired, high-transaction, high availability system.
• I worked with the consulting team and in-house employees to assist with hardware and software determinations.
• Assisted with the current disaster recovery plans and made recommendations for improvements.

Technical: .Net 3.5, WPF, WCF, C#, Winforms, ASP.Net, db4o, MS SQL Server 2005, IBM DB 2, TDD, OOP/OOD

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated client’s current SharePoint infrastructure and helped designing inception phase to upgrade current large SharePoint system to MOSS 2007.
• As Software Architect, helped design security solutions and integration with existing systems and network infrastructure.
• I redesigned the existing .Net core system called Insight.
• This was the initial discovery phase of the inception with Confidential .
• The existing system had become very difficult to maintain.
• The primary focus of this new design was maintainability and high performance with full integration to active directory for all 4,000 sites within the US.
• I created disaster recovery analysis and plans. SharePoint 2007 and MOSS 2007 technology was analyzed but was not the best solution for the client.

Technical: .Net 3.5, WPF, WCF, C#, ASP.Net, MS SQL Server 2005, OOP/OOD

Software Architect

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• I designed and developed a medical billing system for 12 local hospitals in the Charlotte area that included over 80 Radiologists and several thousand patients including X-Ray images and confidential patient information.
• Other duties were the review of the existing architecture as well as the current development practices and methodologies.

Technical: .Net 2.0, Web Services, C#, Winforms, Images Scanning, Document Management, MS SQL Server 2005

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