QUALIFICATION SUMMARY:

• Tom Kaiser has over 15 years of software development experience that includes development of commercial and non - commercial products as well as four years as a Program Manager on the Confidential team that designed and built the Confidential .Net Framework.
• He had a significant role in the design, implementation, testing and documentation of ADO.Net, the Base Class Library, the Framework's networking library and Crystal Reports within the .Net environment.
• Tom has spoken at numerous Confidential events including TechEd, PDC and MGS/MTB. Prior to joining Foster Townsend consulting (now Secure Data Inc.) as Director of Engineering, Tom was Vice President of Development and Chief
• Architect for a company that produces commercial software for the public safety and law enforcement industries.
• Tom is an Architect who has strong analysis, design, and development skills as demonstrated through successful project experience.
• Tom's project experience includes design and development of traditional client/server, multi-tiered, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), service oriented (SOA) and web-based applications using a variety of technologies. These technologies include WPF, Silverlight 2.0, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, VC++, Delphi and VB 3 - 6. Tom has also worked with a variety of databases including Confidential SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase.

SKILLS:

Data Modeling Object Oriented Analysis and Design SDLC and Agile methodologies Rational / Select OMT Team Foundation Server, MSF, MSF - Agile Visual Basic / Visual Basic .Net / Visual C# .Net   Visual Studio / Visual Studio .Net Visual Studio Team System Commerce Server 2007 Windows Architecture   XML, HTTP, TCP/IP and UDP SOAP, Web Service Standards, WCF WPF, Silverlight 1.0/2.0 IIS 5, 6 and 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director of Engineering/Lead Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing architectural and implementation guidance to a team of four developers on the conversion of a production order entry system built in PowerBuilder 6.5 to a SOA based application using WPF and the Confidential .Net framework 3.5.
• Responsibilities included guiding the adoption, implementation and customization of Visual Studio Team System 2008.

Technologies: WPF, WCF, VS 2008, SQL Server 2005, PowerBuilder 6.5/11.1 and .Net 3.5

Architect

Confidential

• Provided architectural and implementation guidance on the creation of a custom application that enables internal and external users to efficiently create movie schedules for an automated movie player.

Technologies: Silverlight 2.0, WCF, SQL Server 2005,VS 2008 and .Net 3.5

Architect

Confidential

• Provided architectural, strategy, and implementation guidance on developing a medium size, commercial commerce site to Commerce Server 2007.
• This implementation supports integration with company’s CRM (SalesLogix) and accounting (MAS500) systems through a custom SOA based integration layer.

Technologies: 64bit SQL Server 2005, 64 bit Commerce Server, VS 2005 and .Net 2.0 and Web Services,

Architect

Confidential

• Provide architectural and implementation guidance on the creation of a custom set of tools for a call center with 120 concurrent sales staff and 20 customer support staff. Application was designed around a service oriented model using WCF.

Technologies: Windows Forms, WCF, VS 2008 and .Net 3.0, SQL Server 2005.

VP of Development and Chief Architect 

Confidential

• Was responsible for the architecture and delivery of the Public Safety Series Enterprise Edition Application, ITI’s primary commercial application.
• Enterprise Edition modules utilize Confidential .NET technology along with Confidential SQL Server 2000, and are all fully mobile aware.
•  The entire product line employs leading edge technology including AES encryption, XML, and is compliant with the Global Justice XML (GJXML) initiative. The solution has been developed using C# and VB .Net as a Windows Forms application.
• Responsibilities included guiding the adoption, implementation and customization of Confidential MSF-Agile and Visual Studio Team System within the ITI environment.

Confidential  

• Provide architectural and implementation guidance on the move of a large, commercial web application from ASP to ASP .Net 1.1.

Senior Architect

Confidential

• Architected and managed the implementation of an application that integrated a SalesLogix CRM application, MAS 90 accounting system and an ACH/Credit Card processing system.
• The application was built in VB .Net around a Spoke and hub Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model.

Senior Architect

Confidential

• Architected and guided the implementation of an application that provides a handheld, wireless environment for the inspection, rental and inventory management of trailers.
• Xpress is a mobile computing solution that speeds up rental transactions and eliminates paperwork from the rental process in all leasing branches.
• The solution was developed using C#, ASP.Net, .Net Compact Framework, DB2, DB2 Everyplace and Informix.
• The development team consisted of three senior developers, six developers, two business analysts, one DBA and one project manager.

Architect

Confidential

• Assisted in the architecture and managed the implementation of an application that is designed to simplify the processing of clinical trial information.
• Ensured the implementation satisfied 21 CFR Part 11. Solution was developed using C#, ASP.Net, SharePoint v2, InfoPath and SQL Server 2000.
• The development team consisted of two business analysts and four developers.

Architect

Confidential

• Architected and managed the implementation and deployment of an application that manages the submission and processing of third party solutions for publication to Confidential ’s office.com web site.
• Solution was developed using C#, ASP.Net, SharePoint v2 and SQL Server 2000.
• The development team consisted of one business analyst, one lead developer and three developers.

Architect

Confidential

• Responsible for the design and implementation of the Hearing Assignment System (HAS), a multi-tiered .Net application.
• HAS is a system that automates the process of identifying, prioritizing and assigning representatives to unemployment hearings located throughout the United States. Solution was developed using C#, ASP.Net and Informix.

Confidential

Program Manager

• As a Program Manager (PM) for the Confidential .Net Framework, Tom was the primary PM responsible for ADO.Net (up to Beta2), managed the Base Class (BCL) Libraries and the Net Class Libraries (NCL). In addition to the feature areas, he owned the relationship between Confidential and Seagate Crystal and had primary responsibility for design and implementation for Crystal Reports in Visual Studio.Net.

Technical Evangelist

Confidential

• As a Technical Evangelist for Confidential, Tom was responsible for providing architectural guidance to mid-market accounting and ERP ISVs. During his time as a Technical Evangelist he was responsible for providing technical and architectural guidance to partners such as Great Plains, Sage, Epicor, PeachTree, Lawson, and Navision.

Confidential

Senior Project Coordinator

• The LSP-G project was Confidential ’s initial effort in moving a 1.2 million line commercial application into the PC world.
• The original version of LSP was an RPG400 application that runs on the IBM AS/400. LSP-G, was based heavily on the Confidential Solution Framework (MSF/SDD). LSP-G applications are design and implemented around a logical, multi-tiered architecture.
• The logical design was divided into three layers: User Services (US), Business Services (BS), and Data Services (DS).
• The US layer was implemented using Visual Basic 4/5 (32 bit) and was directed at the Win95/WinNT platforms.
• The BS layer was built around a series of ActiveX automation servers written in Visual Basic 4/5 and VC++ 4.2/5. Data access was provided through ODBC with a custom OLEDB provider.

Senior Project Coordinator

• IMP was an object-oriented system that manages the scanning, categorization and entry of incoming insurance applications. IMP integrated with the WorkMan workflow product from Reach Software. IMP was written in Visual Basic 4.0 (32 bit).
• Integration with the Reach product was done with an ActiveX automation server written in VC++ 2.0 (16 bit).

Confidential

Architect

• Pathways represents Confidential ’s first venture into the data warehousing world.
• It was designed to provide both reporting and analysis views of Martiz’s financial data. Pathways was an object-oriented, multi-tiered, framework architected to allow easy access to updateable portions of the data warehouse. Additionally,
• Pathways was designed to interface at the API level with Arbor’s Essbase multi-dimensional database. Relational data was stored on a dual Pentium Proliant system running Oracle 7.3.
• Corporate financial data was stored in a custom implementation of Oracle Financials. Pathways was constructed in Visual Basic 4.0 (32 bit) using RDO 1.1.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

• JetIssue was a data entry application designed to provide New York Life’s AARP division with a high speed, easy to use, insurance application processing system. JetIssue provides access to a DB2/400 database through direct access to the ODBC API.
• Additionally, direct access to business logic on the AS/400 is provided through Visual Basic 3.0 wrappers to the LU 6.2 API. This application was implemented using Visual Basic 3.0, ODBC and DB2/400.