SUMMARY:

• I enjoy writing and developing software. If you need to develop software and want to be around a happy person, you will be happy working around me.
• The process still jazzes me I like talking about and communicating about the technology and the current design of the system or application that I and/or others are working on.
• I enjoy including others in the discussion around the design and technology that I or others may be working on.
• I want to cut to the quick of why someone thinks that the design is right or wrong. Personally, I love to learn, I think that’s the reason I like software development so much.
• I read once that software was one of the toughest fields to stay abreast of. I believe that, it’s not for everyone.
• I probably should have been a rock star because the other part of it all that I enjoy is seeing people use the finished app or system and appreciate it over where they were or what they were using before.
• So as much as I like development I like to get the job done, even if it’s just a feature.
• Of late I have been enamored with JavaScript frontend type frameworks and APIs.
• My work lately has settled on Angular (2+, not AngularJS or Angular 1.x), I have also worked with AngularJS and Aurelia. I have also studied React and Vue. One thing that I have learned is the value of TypeScript over JavaScript when doing development with these JavaScript frontend APIs.
• If you don’t know how that is possible, ask me to explain in the interview.
• Please look through my career and understand the things I have accomplished even back when.
• In my first computer job, acting as CEO, CTO, Designer Developer. I have written full - fledged commercially available applications (for the environmental testing industry) including full, complicated, math intensive, report intensive, applications.
• Additionally, writing user-manuals and providing support.
• In my third job, I wrote two significant frameworks.
• I wrote a screen and keyboard driver windowing system layer, that was needed because I needed to provide the system I was working on, for DOS and for Unix/Xenix.
• The solution that I built was significantly performant when compared to anything that was available at the time, on both the DOS-PC and the Xenix dumb terminals.
• The second significant framework that I wrote was a full-fledged centralized Database Management System (DBMS) that, was based on a book I read by Al Stevens called “C Database Development”.
• Written to run under Unix/Xenix (before networking was popular) I used shared memory as a communication mechanism.
• There was no concept of centralization or RPC (Remote Procedural Call) mechanism in the Al Stevens book.
• All communication to the centralized DBMS was through RS-232 serial communication.
• In my next position, I developed a Virtual CPU engine and an assembly language and byte code, along with an assembler to compile the assembly language into byte code.
• This was the basis of a portable illustrative authoring system.
• This was long before Java byte code engine or the .Net CLI. Both have used similar schemes as their basis.
• Something that is not on my Resume, at all, is a website that I have built called the Confidential .
• It stands for Confidential, a virtual cargo airline.
• You could call it a game or a hobby site where people could come to and fly a flight simulator as part of an airline. The Virtual Pilot would use my site in conjunction with another network (part of the internet) called Confidential .
• Confidential divides virtual airspace in the exact same way the Aviation Industry does.
• On Confidential you could act as a Virtual Pilot with a flight simulator or as a Virtual Controller with air control simulation software.
• I did this as a hobby and to learn how to develop Web Applications on my own time.
• I was also into aviation simulation. It was way more than a web application it was really an airline real-time tracking system.
• I could write a whole paper on this single app.
• I point to these systems because most were early in my software development career, and most don’t even see them as being significant. These are systems that I’ve written and been a part of, that are ones that I feel great about.
• I didn’t write them yesterday but they show what I am capable of, given the chance.
• They also show the diversity my creative nature. It is this sort of thing that I would like to be part of again.
• I am capable of just about anything given.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages and API's: C#, C++, VB.Net; Frameworks and APIs >Net Core, Entity Framework Core .Net, ASP.Net, ASP.Net/MVC/Web API, Entity Framework 1 - 7, WCF, Web Services, C, VB6, XML, RDF/OWL, WIN32 SDK, UML, COM/DCOM (including ActiveX)

Web Technologies: HTTP, HTML HTML5, CSS, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Typescript, Javascript, Javascript frontend technologies Angular, Aurelia, jQuery; Supporting APIs Redux, WebPack, Gulp, Grunt, RxJs;

Centralized Databases: MS-SQL Server to 2016, MySQL, Sybase, Informix, Oracle, CRUD well understood.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Niagara Falls, NY

Responsibilities:

• As a side job, working on an E-Commerce website and inventory system. Website frontend with Angular 2. Inventory system and other backend components using ASP.NET Core 1.0 WebAPI (REST service).
• Working on Angular 2 in abundance. Have been re-writing as a demonstration exercise and tutorial for other developers in our company our current website. This is providing patterns for myself and others to follow for the soon to come complete re-write of our website (summer months). This will be a full RWD (responsive Web Design). I have also been teaching Angular 2 and TypeScript to the other developers within Cardinal Health and user group meetings.
• Complete re-cladding of the parmed.com website, large amounts of JavaScript with jQuery. On my own time took online classes on node.js and AngularJS, I have started a project in AngularJS. working on N-tiering below mentioned order entry system by applying SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) with WCF.
• Working on the parmed.com web site. This is an ASP.Net Web Forms VB.Net web site.
• Working on their 3-tier order entry system that is used by their sales force. Was mostly responsible for adding features and bug fixes. Along with all the parts that make it work. Interfacing software to the warehouse management system and so-on.
• Most of this system is done with VB.Net and was converted from VB6 (not by me), middle tier added at that point.
• I also worked on various services that were written in C#, data load services that were “Windows Service” type apps, along with A Fix Utility that was written in C# MVC, EF5.
• Source Control is Subversion. Build system was Nant. Fully responsible for full life cycle of the application.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Erie, PA

• Designing and building their automated rating, quoting and application generation system on the Web.
• All .Net 4, MVC 3, C#, JavaScript using jQuery, loaded with AJAX, MS SQL Server back-end.
• My greatest immersion into Agile using TDD and BDD and extreme programming (Pair programming). The BDD that I speak of here is Cucumber through SpecFlow. There were some services that used DB2 database that the company used as its main store.
• Source Control was Git.
• I liked this job very much, the only reason I left is because I didn’t like the amount of travel

Owner/Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo/Lockport, New York

• Work on various websites including E-Commerce webs using .Net MVC 2 then updated to MVC 3. Backed by MS-SQL 2008 with Entity Framework and LINQ under Visual Studio 2010 with .Net 4. Various web services within this project are WCF 4.0. (Contact me for demo of this web site.)
• DHTML web site.
• Work on side projects using WPF. Backed by MS-SQL 2008 with Entity Framework and LINQ.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Tonawanda, New York

• Worked on various aspects of their software infrastructure including maintenance of MS-SQL 2005-2008 databases including writing various SQL scripts and stored procedures. This also included work with SSIS to help with ETL work done for the warehousing mentioned below.
• Worked on their Agent system and their Admin/Customer Reports system. This system required the use and construction of a proper Data warehouse that are built using a star schema using a fact table center with dimension leaves. I was responsible for its design, construction, and the services responsible for getting its data from external systems and nightly transformation services. The technology used for this aspect was WCF (Windows Communication Framework) with LINQ to Entities, to handle the data and, transact-sql.
• Was also completely responsible for the development of their Admin/Customer Reports system. Here the technology that I used was ASP.Net JavaScript/jQuery and WCF.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, New York

• Worked on a specific aspect of the CPS Portal project, was also called COPS. They had found the document management system of Share Point inadequate for their needs, they had decided to build their own document management system. I was able to very quickly put together this application (that had been started) in two days to do the additional import from a .CSV list that had been generated on another system. Database for storage was MS-SQL 2008.
• Worked on web application Health Insurance enrollment system using ASP.NET MVC. Database for storage was MS-SQL 2008 with LINQ to Entities.
• Also used WCF in a small way.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, New York

• Worked on applications for that processed import and export data as specified by Customs Border Protection.
• This was done with a multi-tier framework of in house design.
• The work I did included EDI transaction with CBP along with UI work, Database work. All this work was using C# and the .NET Framework.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, New York

• Redesigned much of the old code to new object oriented, data-driven (removed hard coding) .NET C# ways. This was done so programmers would not have to be involved with maintenance of these programs for mere product changes.
• Taught a company sponsored 14 session (7week) course on C# and .NET.
• Perform maintenance on C++ applications for Facets.
• Did analysis of new technologies (LINQ and a more performant ADO.NET SyBase database provider).

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, New York

• Worked on a HR Benefits package management system that is a web app mostly written in Java though the backend is pure .Net which is the part that I worked on. Called the Benefficiency EDI system. Because this system is an HR management system for management of Healthcare Benefits, the EDI component is a major component of this system. About 25,000 lines of code. All .Net C#. The complete system uses many software programming techniques to do all that it does, such as real client/server, late binding through interfaces, Web servers and services and many others.
• Worked on KBRM with emphasis on RDF/OWL. Wrote a graphic RDF editor. This too was a .NET application and the language used was C#, RDF is a specialization of XML so it was also a form of XML editor.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, East Aurora, New York

• Developed a web site that is pretty much a global directory service though it has a search engine element.
• Using for the most part Active Server Pages (ASP) for Internet aware glue. The system logic is for the most part written in C++ in an ASP COM component. The interesting thing about this project is the way we separated content from presentation using XML/XSL.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Rochester/Buffalo, New York

• Developed a framework for cross-platform application & client/server development.
• Using this framework, built application foundation for a document-processing server as part of the Intellitag project.
• Assisted in developing a Credit Card Processing server for Patentminer and Opentext. This is a specialized web server and used the framework developed
• Early evaluation of Brill Tagger work. A Part of Speech tagger.
• Built COM components from Brill Tagger evaluation port to demonstrate the ease of use of the COM and its ability to componentized NLP business domain services.
• Assisted in the Development of initial Content Model that we are incorporating into the Brill Tagger implementation of the Document Processor for NT.
• Built skeleton applications for various clients and test clients.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, New York

• Developed a set of COM objects and ActiveX controls that encapsulated the functionality of a forms engine with a high degree of front-end logic. This was used to build all the forms of their system but would allow the form to be hosted in a browser and work across the internet.