SUMMARY

• Senior .NET Developer with over ten years of software development experience in Microsoft technologies, including enterprise e - commerce applications and COTS product implementations, with team leadership and mentoring experience.Expert in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proven ability to grasp and transform complex business requirements into quality software, ensuring on-time delivery of applications. Experienced in non-Microsoft technologies including jQuery, ElasticSearch, Lucene amongst others.
• A highly motivated individual who is always learning, able to work to tight deadlines, and who can communicate effectively with technical peers as well as business users. Someone who encourages learning and the sharing of ideas and is always open to new ways of working.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Technologies: Classic ASP, ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 and HTML.

Markup Languages: HTML and XML.

Programming Languages: VB.NET and C#.

Scripting Languages: VBScript and Javascript (with jQuery).

Database Technologies: Oracle, SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, MS Access 2003, FoxPro, MySQL.

Search: Lucene, Elastic Search, FAST, Coveo, Google Mini, Google Site Search, Solr.

Third party controls: Infragistics Web Controls, Anthem AJAX controls and TelerikRadcontrols.

Diagramming Applications: Microsoft Visio.

COTS products: Sitecore, Plateau, Intacct, Community Server, Talend, ExactTarget, SalesForce, ABCPDF Component, Disqus, Brightcove

Email Marketing: ExactTarget, MadMimi, Eloqua.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Developer

Technologies: .NET 4.5, .NET MVC 5, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server 2012, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, jQuery, CSS, Sitecore, Solr, Brightcove

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in the RFP and vendor selection process.
• Working in a team of six developers, as a Senior Developer, to migrate the public facing website in .NET 4.5.
• Working with the vendor and the internal client to come up with concrete requirements.
• Working with the Sitecore vendor to help with the architecture, development and deployment of the website.
• Helping develop the website according to agreed upon requirements.
• Working through user training, deployments and post-deployment support for the client.
• Training the development team on Sitecore concepts and getting them up to speed with the latest and greatest in Sitecore.
• Working on documentation to help the development team setup, learn and reference setup, development and troubleshooting in Sitecore.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Technologies: .NET 4.5, .NET MVC 5, Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server 2012, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, jQuery, CSS, Sitecore, LuceneFederal Reserve of Richmond

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a team of four developers, as a Solution Architect, to migrate the public facing website in .NET 4.5.
• Developed a data access layer, business objects and re-usable components for the new website with potential utilization in the intranet website.
• ImplementedLucene as the search solution for faster querying ofdata.
• Migrated data from old XML based data records to Sitecore data items.
• Mentored the development team, which was new to .NET.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

Technologies: .NET 3.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visio, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, jQuery, CSS, Sitecore, Lucene, FAST Search, Sharepoint 2010.

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of three developers to gather requirements, develop, test and launch the new website.
• Worked with Marketing to gatherrequirements for site redesigns and migration to .NET.
• Worked with theSharepoint team to integrate the taxonomy on the public website with the internal system.
• Implemented Lucenesearch for heavy queries and caching for slow page load issues.
• Supervised and delegated work to third-party consultants.
• Worked with the networking team to setup a QA environment that resembled production. This included automating builds and load balancing in QA to mimic production.
• Worked in conjunction with the networking team, on a regular basis, to perform load testing on QA and production before completing deployments
• Worked on FAST search optimization and indexing troubleshooting.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

Technologies: .NET 3.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visio, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, jQuery, CSS, Sitecore, Lucene, FAST Search, Sharepoint 2010, ExactTarget, ElasticSearch, Solr, SalesForce, ABCPDF Component.

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of four developers in the development, Quality Assurance (QA) testing, project plan updates, and deployment toproduction.
• Setup build server, virtual machines for developers, QA environment for testers and production servers.
• Worked with the networking team to implement a load balancer to optimize load on servers during peak traffic.
• Implemented Sitecore as the CMS for Breitbart to allow for editors and contributors to create, edit and publish articles.
• Integrated Disqusas the commenting engine for the website.
• Integrated MadMimi as the Email marketing system for the company.
• Implemented Google Site Search as the search provider for the website in Sitecore.
• Implemented Luceneand ElasticSearchfor heavy queries such as the author pages.
• Implemented PollDaddy as the polling solution.
• Assisted the front-end web developer to implement an AJAX based canvas component for the website. It allows website editors to create and structure stories in a newspaper style layout.
• Implemented an advertisement engine for the website which integrated third-party ad providers
• Integrated curation of newswires (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc) articles.
• Created a custom interface on top of Sitecore for free-lance and paid contributors to submit articles without having to be trained and given access to Sitecore.
• Trained and provided support to client personnel on an on-going basis.

Confidential

Software Developer

Technologies: .NET 3.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visio, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, jQuery, CSS, Sitecore, Lucene, Talend, Oracle, Community Server, Google Mini, Google Site Search, Eloqua

Responsibilities:

• Familiarized, gathered requirements,developed and tested ETL scripts usingTalend to transfer data from LMS tool in Oracle to custom client portal database in SQL.
• Evaluated, trained, gathered requirements, developed, tested and deployed Sitecore CMS for the public, intranet and regional websites.
• Implemented Google Mini as the search solution for the public and intranet website.
• Worked on a custom shopping cart for the public website.
• Implemented single sign on using Active Directory for the intranet website.
• Developed regional website for various countries with ESI offices.
• Developed client portals for big clients. Special emphasis was laid on developing a framework that could be quickly leveraged in the future for additional portals.
• Took over responsibility of optimizing and maintaining website for the sister company - Huthwaite. This included overseeing work performed by contractors.
• Evaluated and implemented Community Server to provide blogs, forums and wikis for users of the public website.
• Implemented SSO using Active Directory for Community Server.
• Worked with Marketing department and Eloqua consultants to implement Eloqua as the email marketing system of choice. This included developing gated forms and integration with SalesForce.

Confidential

Applications Developer

Technologies: .NET 1.1, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visio, Java Script, T-SQL, C#, CSS, Sitecore,TelerikRadControls.

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a team of three developers to design, develop, test and deploy a B2B, public website and franchising websitefor franchisees and large customers.
• Implemented ASPDotNetStoreFront for the e-commerce section of the public website.
• Implemented a role-based authorization and authentication system for the B2B website to differentiate between administrators, customers and franchisees.
• Implemented Haversine formula to calculate the closest franchisees to a given customer in all sites.
• Implemented Verisign for credit card processing of orders on the public website.
• Migrated an older version of franchising fees application, written in classic ASP, to .NET 1.1. Worked with the data analyst to come up with logic to create stored procedures to calculate fees based on individual terms of service for each franchisee.
• Created windows applications for sales department to locate potential opportunities using StrikeIron and MapQuest web services.
• Interned to migrate franchising and real estate websites to .NET 1.1, including writing an application to