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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Performed a software safety study of a large C++ application to identify good and bad safety practices. Skills: C++, object oriented programming, software safety best practices, multi-threading - Manually examined 65 source code files for software safety and coding best practices.- Produced a 60 page log of the process with questions, comments, and good and bad practices.- Identified several errors not being fully handled. comments not matching code, and magic numbers.- Delivered a report pointing out good practices and suggesting future improvements.

Naperville, Il

Software Engineer, playing a pivotal role in the development lifecycle by architecting robust solutions, proficiently coding applications, and addressing bugs, contributing significantly to the overall success of projects.Skills: C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WPF, multi-threading, .NET, Azure - Compute, Pipelines, Repos - Contributed to a team building REST APIs, by conducting in-depth technology research and providing guidance to help team adopt best practices.- Engineered and maintained the back-end business process of a web service facilitating the processing of medical insurance electronic transactions (X12 - 270s and 276s).- Implementing color themes to improve the aesthetics of our flagship client application.- Enhanced software usability by identifying and fixing many intricate problems in our client software. - Designed and coded an application to manage the execution of SQL scripts for updating customer databases, simplifying the database management process.- Developed an application to interpret and present log file information, enhancing troubleshooting capabilities.- Managed our team’s software security remediation initiative.- Set up a code repository in Azure and moved our existing source code to it from an on-premises repository. - Created and configured servers in Azure for our builds. - Created and maintained our Azure pipelines which built our software.- Frequently assisted other programmers with technical problems. - Managed a team which worked with customers to resolve scalability and performance issues.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Performed a software safety analysis of assembly language source code for a military device. Contributed findings in a report which identified coding errors, race conditions, and potential safety hazards.

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Took over the management of a project to convert Visual Basic software to C#. This software was being converted by a offshore software company. Also debugged and added multithreading functionality to a logging application to improve its performance.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Team member involved in full software development process of client-server applications. These included stock execution, options trading, options valuation, and infrastructure support clients. Wrote reusable GUI and communications components. Utilized C# with .NET, C++ with MFC and ATL, Visual Basic, Sockets, TCP/IP and SQL. The software ran on desktop. Oversaw small teams of consultants on a number of projects.- Increased user productivity and satisfaction by decreasing data loading times by a factor of 10.- Derived an interface specification for a server by analyzing messages sent from and to the server.- Developed a software component to communicate with this same server and extended the above component to communicate with multiple servers at the same time.- Extended the above component to communicate with multiple servers at the same time.- Implemented a European analytics model for options valuation.- Wrote a basic SQL statement parser.

Chicago, Il

Was bought by Goldman Sachs.Team member involved in full software development process of client-server applications. These included stock execution, options trading, options valuation. C with Penright!, Visual Basic, Sockets, and TCP/IP. The software tablet computers. Oversaw small teams of consultants on a number of projects.- Delivered 8 extensive updates of our handheld trading client software on time and bug free.- Frequently resolved disagreements between developers concerning bug resolutions by writing test cases, which clear identified the problem.- Salvaged a critical project, which was behind schedule, by leading a small team of consultants in extending our trading client to handle decimal strikes and prices. This was completed before the industry deadline.- Removed obstacles delaying the release of a trading application by working with another developer to locate and fix bugs in the communications component.

Downers Grove, Illinois, United States

Developed mobile software solutions for our customers. Supported the sales force by accompanying them on sales calls to answer technical questions and assist in gathering information. Designed, coded, tested, and installed software written in C using an event driven GUI API called Penright!

Ms, Bioengineering

Ba, Physics

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society