SUMMARY:

Highly skilled application developer with a wealth of experience acquired in ten - plus years of application development using a number of different programming languages, relational database management systems (RDBMS) and other tools

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem - solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts, languages and tools
• Ability to communicate with individuals and groups across all levels of an organization
• Capable in all phases of application development: design, development, testing and implementation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Visual Studio 2010 and 2012
• .Net C# and .Net VB
• .Net ASP and Code-Behind
• Classic ASP and Dynamic HTML
• Java Script, VB Script, CSS
• HTTP Request & Response
• Java, Eclipse, JDBC
• J++ (Microsoft’s version of Java)
• Visual Basic v1.0 - v6.0
• PowerBuilder
• Gupta Team Developer
• Unix AIX C and Telnet
• MS SQL Server 2005, 2008
• T-SQL with cursors
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Access v1.0-v2003
• MySQL
• Gupta SQLBase
• XML, SOAP, DOM
• RESTful Service Calls
• Regular Expressions (RegEx)
• Web & Windows Services
• Win Comm Foundation ( Confidential )
• Required Field Validators
• Active Directory (AD)
• SQL Server Notification Services
• AJAX
• C# Custom Controls
• Visual Studio Report Designer
• Master Pages
• Agile Scrum and Iterations
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Source Safe, Subversion
• Adobe Output Designer
• WIN 3.1 - Windows 7
• Windows API
• Crystal Reports
• Confidential
• Application Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Web Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Large, complex web-based Trust maintenance application
• Normalized database
• Developed new functionality and pages and extended existing functionality
• Developed change notification and e-mail Windows service utilizing business classes
• Net C# code-behind, ASP, SQL Server stored procedures, reporting and notification services
• The Trust Department business owner, not my manager, decided that my services were too expensive and ended the contract. My manager has offered to provide a reference.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Web Application Maintenance

Responsibilities:

• Three insurance companies, three web-sites: Medico, ARIS and ARIC
• Additional Administration web-site
• Net C# with ASP Code-Behind, heavy DataGridView work including Excel and PDF exports
• CSS, Web Services, Windows Communication Foundation ( Confidential )
• Active Directory (AD), AJAX, LINQ data-sources and syntax, IIS Manager
• American Enterprise decided to end all four consultants’ contracts at year-end. My manager has offered to provide a reference.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Insurance Letters Intranet Web Application
• Developed to insurance commission requirements of 45 states
• Over 300 letter templates, 1500 users, 40,000 letters printed each month
• Initially member of four person team, sole team member within three months
• Maintenance of dynamic data-input web pages
• Classic ASP, dynamic HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, MS SQL Server and Adobe Output Designer
• Extensive monthly change management
• Code moves and database updates thru IT, ST, PT and Production environments
• Full understanding of WIN web-site functionality required
• Documentation of WIN processes and procedures - Visio, Word, Excel
• Work-Flow Application
• Version update of third-party application requiring
• Java, Eclipse, Oracle SQL Developer, stored procedures, JDBC, properties files, Apache Logger
• REST calls - lock, unlock, insert, update, delete using DOM and XML / SOAP payload files
• Understanding of AWD relational database design and implementation required
• Re-writes of batch processing database updates
• Project design documentation - Visio, Word, Excel
• Interaction with project manager, lead tech, test team and other team members
• Knowledge of AWD application functionality required
• The WIN application was re-written using more current technology and my position was eliminated.

Application Developer

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Ostensibly a support position
• Seven months .Net C# and MS SQL Server
• Batch processing updates of trading platforms with financial data
• Email Bug Tracking Application - Net C#, SQL Server, XML and XSD schema, and Outlook Exchange Web Services (EWS)
• Enhanced several small Windows service applications that generated application performance data using .Net C#, SQL Server and Event Logs
• Worked with SSRS and stored procedures to report on database information for a decommissioned trading platform application

Confidential, Urbandale, IA

Responsibilities:

• Single-developer for large consumer electronics distributor
• Internet and Intranet application development
• Gather user requirements; design, develop, implement, test, document and support tasks
• Object-oriented programming, 3-tier architecture, business objects modeled on real-world entities

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Intranet application development
• Application tracks DirecTV contributions, DSI payments, Dealer accounts receivable
• .Net VB and .Net ASP Code-Behind
• SQL Server database, stored procedure design and development, ad hoc queries

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• New client-server application development
• Excel spreadsheet with fifty-six columns and over 1,200 product SKUs
• .Net C#, Excel com objects and Excel XML
• SQL Server database and stored procedure design and development, ad hoc queries

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Internet application development and maintenance
• .Net VB, .Net ASP, flex grid
• SQL Server database, stored procedure development, ad hoc queries
• Adobe PDF files

Confidential, Marshalltown, IA

Responsibilities:

• Valve configuration and pricing application maintenance
• Written in VB 6.0 against an object-oriented database
• Six-member development team working with lead, DBAs, business analysts and modelers
• Researched issues, coded and tested solutions
• Documented issues and solutions using Visio, Paint and Word
• Very structured development environment - quality of code heavily emphasized over quantity
• Extensive testing required
• Investigation of 3rd-party AI rules-based expert system database using .Net C# and SQL Server