CAREER SUMMARY:

• Senior application and database developer with 15 years of .NET and SQL Server experience and over twenty years of I.T. experience.
• Passionate about making technology work for business.
• Expert at understanding business needs and working closely with stakeholders in highly visible roles to deliver first class solutions and customer service.
• Serve as technical lead to guide business and technical teams throughout development life cycle.
• Utilization of object - oriented methodologies, service oriented architecture, reusable code, n-tier design, XML, reflection, LINQ, multi-threading, ORM.
• Demonstrated mastery of database design, TSQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, common table expressions, and data quality.
• Expert at understanding and solving problems.
• Proactively identify areas where improvements can be realized.
• Demonstrated success in fast-paced environments and high-pressure situations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Intelligence .NET Developer

• Develop business intelligence solutions using C#, WinForms, ASP.NET, MVC, SSIS, SSRS, and SQL.
• Provide leadership and expertise in software development, database design, and business subject matter.
• Advise business, enhance requirements, and raise expectations to realize success over business challenges.
• Work closely with leadership, analysts, line of business subject matter experts, and technical teams.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills to support existing applications and processes with little or no documentation.
• Conduct application and SQL code reviews.
• Modeling of application and reporting databases.
• Advise report developers in Business Objects universe and report design.
• Implementation of solutions that improved business processes by 97%.
• Design and development of alternate SOR survey MVC application.
• Integration with SEA and Silverpop Engage web services.
• Designed robust, lightweight database auditing system to track changes in data.
• Promoted the use of TFS for SQL Server databases and SSIS packages.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer/Solutions Architect/Data Architect

• Senior consultant providing application, reporting, and process solutions in an Agile development environment.
• Successful redesign and rewrite of application using object-oriented methodologies, multi-threading, and replacement of third-party controls, resulting in improved stability, performance, and functionality throughout the application and database and elimination of data accuracy, productivity, and user acceptance issues.
• Responsible for implementation, release management, branching, merging, code integration, granting database access and approving data updates and schema changes.
• Implementation of database management system utilizing revision control system SVN.
• Successful completion of normalization and migration of one of the enterprise's largest databases.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

• Support and development of enterprise ASP.NET application.
• Advise ownership on technical initiatives and infrastructure.
• Support of customer facing retail website.
• Oversee migration to cloud based web hosting.

Confidential

Vice President Information Technology

• Managed and participated in the development of desktop, Internet, and intranet products using .NET, SQL Server, web services, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, SQL Server, and SSRS.
• Successful implementation of mission critical systems for the collection and delivery of real-time data.
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with internal customers and external clients that promoted teamwork throughout the organization and improved the company's ability to attract and retain customers.
• Directed, mentored, collaborated with, and challenged employees to promote skills growth and increase potential, resulting in more effective employees, allowing the organization to achieve more with existing resources.
• Presided as steward over the corporate databases, monitoring database activity and performance, and making recommendations or improvements as necessary, such as code changes, design changes, version upgrades, and hardware upgrades.
• Responsible for engineering all technical objectives, including technical infrastructure, software, databases, servers, and networks.
• Responded to many requests and situations in a fast-paced, 24x7 environment that required me to think and react quickly.
• Increased productivity throughout the organization by addressing inefficiencies and deficiencies.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst/Project Manager

• Achieved unprecedented levels of quality and quantity of enhancements to POS and supporting systems.
• Met with all business units to develop requirements, provide status reports, and define implementation strategy; delegated tasks and coordinated with technical and non-technical staff.
• Conducted meetings attended by executives, managers, and representatives from all departments, who came with varied agendas and priorities; successfully utilized negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

• Participated in all phases of the software development life-cycle of an application suite used by the transportation and amusement industries.
• Provided written specifications of work to be performed with time estimates.
• Reviewed and integrated work performed by other developers.
• Built strong client relationships and provided customer service.
• Interfaced to hardware devices such as thermal printers and credit card processing machines.
• Adhered to strict coding and documentation guidelines.
• Serial and network communications.