FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• Leadership Leading a team of local and remote Sr. and Jr. Developers, QA and support staff.
• Mentoring Ensure the best technologies are used for the project not just because someone likes it or it's from a certain vendor. Working with Jr. and Sr. developers to improve their skills and use of design patterns, SDLC and other technologies.
• Design Architecture TOGAF 9.1 knowledgeable. Created architectural diagrams of applications and infrastructure environments using Visio.CreatedPowerPoint presentations for upper management which provided technical and architectural designs for projects
• Technology Leadership Evaluates new technologies to better integrate them with new and existing systems. Promotes new technologies to the team to improve development and QA time.
• Problem Solving Solves technical issues from peers and management. Ability to solve problems across the enterprise whether software, hardware or personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems -Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2, XP/Windows 7,HP-UX, MVS
• Languages - C , ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, JAVA, C , C, Cobol, IBM assembler
• IDE's - Visual Studio all versions , Net Beans IDE 6.0.1, Eclipse Java EE for Web Developers.
• Databases - SQL Server all versions , DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Access, SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5, stored procedures, triggers, and schema creation, logical data modeling.

Other Technologies Ping Identity versions 5-7, knowledge of OAuth 2 and how it relates to Web servers, Browsers and Mobile applications, FIM Federated Identity Management , WS-FED, WS-TRUST, SAML 1.1, 2.0, OGNL expressions, Team Foundation Server TFS , WIF Windows Identity Foundation , Web services, IIS, SOA, VISIO, Excel, Word, Access and Photoshop and VMWare ESX, and F5 Load Balancing. Worked with many 3rd party library API's.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Technology and Delivery

• Manager for a team of developers and technical support staff at MedAssets. Responsibilities include using technology to enhance, maintain and support our financial and cloud based systems using .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Visual Studio.
• Architected, designed and implemented at the Enterprise level the Ping Identity FIM product Ping Federate. Allowing users to log into an internal portal and utilize SSO access for our cloud based systems.Ping Federate was configured in a clustered server scenario in the DMZ and usable internally and externally. Configured, installed and updated the Ping Federate servers as updates became available for the production and the lower environments.
• Supporting the corporate ERP system, Supply Chain Management, and our Group Purchasing Organization GPO software. The systems that are supported include Microsoft Dynamics SL, Ariba, Concur, PeopleTrak, AtTask, Empower and internal .NET applications. The support team handles internal and external user support using Salesforce and JIRA for issue and defect tracking.

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Team Lead/Project Architect

• Architected, designed and implemented at the Enterprise level the Ping Identity FIM productPing Federate. This FIM solution was first used in the online web enrollment system. This allowed external companies web sites to integrate in a seamless fashion with Aflac's web enrollment site. We used the Ping .NET and Java integration kit. SAML 2.0 was used for passing demographic information using chained federation. Ping Federate was configured in a clustered server scenario in the DMZ and usable internally and externally. SSL and SSL Certificates public keys were exchanged for authentication within Ping during setup. Prototyped WS-TRUST using a security token service. Configured, installed and updated the Ping Federate servers as updates became available for the production and the lower environments.
• Support 17,000 field force agents with a Windows Client, Web and Mobile phone tablet rate quoting tool and web based enrollment system. This also involves working with agents and their management to implement suggestions they made for enhancements to these systems.
• Perform duties as an SME subject matter expert , project architect, and team lead on several large corporate projects.
• Architected, designed and implemented a complete rewrite of the SmartQuote system with MVC3, JavaScript and MobiOne. Responsible for support and maintenance of Aflac's distributed Quoting tool called SmartQuote and the Aflac Web Enrollment System. SmartQuote runs as a thick client, web and Mobile application.

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Sr. Software Engineer

• Helped develop a commercial application called Foglight Transaction Recorder FTR will allow the user to record events as they use a web site. They can then play those actions back and get a set of measurements for the user to determine the performance of their web site on a continuous basis.
• Enhanced Benchmark Factory by improving the current scripting model, and providing wizards for ease of use for any user wanting to run scripts.

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Software Engineer/Consultant

Worked on a client application using Visual C 6.0 and SQL Server that maintained all the information about product offerings for the remotes sales representatives in the company.

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Software Engineering Manager/Consultant

• Responsible for implementing a business application that handles all aspects of POS business activity.
• Implement network, website, network business application and consultation software.

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Sr. Software Engineer/GUI team lead

• Programming team lead for two other Java GUI programmers and also responsible for coding and mentoring. Part of multi-team effort to develop a peer to peer external RAID storage management product called SMPro using the Java JDK 1.3, Swing and AWT . It will support Active-Active failover and failback.
• Software Products Group / Project length: 04/1996 10/2001
• Lead GUI application developer for version 5.0 of DirectCD utilizing Visual C . An application that allows writing of UDF data on CD's. This allows a user to do drag/drop to a CD using windows explorer.

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Sr. Software Engineer/Consultant

Primary responsibility was to develop Client/Server GUI applications and reusable business routines for MCI as a lead programming consultant. This was done using Visual C 2.2 and a business graphics toolkit for graphing. This application was a large scale data warehousing application that was distributed nationally to the MCI branches. Helped set up and configure SQL Server 6.0 for the data warehouse application.Developed stored procedures and triggers that were heavily used as part of the development and database replication process.

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Sr. Software Engineer/External Consultant

Primary responsibilities were to develop Client/Server applications using Arthur Andersen's FOUNDATION product on the GTE Mobile cellular/Virtuoso II.

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Software Engineer

Primary responsibilities were to develop and enhance a Sybase and DB2 source code generation knowledgebase developed on OS/2 and Windows 3.1. Tools used were IBM CSET and Visual C and SEL proprietary C like language . Major accomplishment while at Kaseworks was to assist in creating a high quality code generation product which was released and produced revenue.

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Senior Systems Programmer

Primary responsibility was to maintain, install and support five production and five test CICS systems with over seventeen hundred connected terminals.

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Systems Programmer

Primary responsibilities were to maintain CICS, application support, and PC Coordinator.

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Programmer/Analyst

Primary responsibility was to develop CICS on-line applications using VSAM, and SQL/DS as the access methods.

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Mainframe Operator.

Responsibility was to execute production jobs for daily processing of bank information.

SUMMARY:

• Over 30 years' experience in the IT field. Extensive experience with leadership, mentoring, and problem solving at the technical or business level. Comprehensive experience in applications development using C ,and theASP.NET framework.
• Implemented Ping Federate in a production environment at the last two employers. A fully functional and robust performing FIM environment used for multiple applications throughout the enterprise.
• Strong experience in OOD OOP, Client, Web, Mobile Phone Development which includes multi-tier Client/Server applications.
• Strong experience in Relational database Systems like MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Access and SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5. Normalization, indexing, triggers and transactional stored procedures.
• Expertise with programming advanced algorithms, data management caching, familiarity with Microsoft's Azure Cloud computing offerings, and Internet Security.
• In-depth experience with IIS, host headers, multiple server operating systems and working with VM's using a VMware ESXi environment.