Benjamin Taylor Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

Eight years working with C# .NET as a full stack software engineer. Front-end and middle tiers using ASP.NET/MVC with HTML/CSS and single page applications in AngularJS (both JS and Typescript). Back-end work utilizing SQL Server with more recent experience in Azure (Cosmos DB and Azure Storage). Integrations of varying types including: SOAP Requests, FTP, Web Services and REST. Source Control and continued integration and deployment utilizing GitHub, Team City and Octopus. Inversion of control (for dependency injection) allowing unit testing with mocking (FakeItEasy and NSubstitute). Responsible for overseeing code written by junior team members through code review and side-by-side instruction.

Created website for administration of church operations. Utilized PEAR mail packages in order to forward requests via SMTP. Researched security protocols (SQL injection, spoofing, session hijacking, encryption) for client-server and database interactions and applied these methodologies. Developed content management system (CMS) and table tool (mimic of .NET DataGridView control) from scratch for customized administrative data control capabilities.

The Woodlands, Tx, Us

Developed versions 1.0 (2009) and 2.0 (2010) of VB.NET Windows application for the purpose of configuring phone systems for businesses. Used web services to provision and track consumer licenses and usage. Created Crystal Reports for the management of customer usage and informing on-site agents how to fashion telephone systems. Implemented Excel Interop tool allowing the import of consumer data for easy system setup and auto-attendant configuration.

Centennial, Colorado, Us

Designed and implemented customer ordering system in ASP.NET for various products and services provided. Redesigned database administration tool by moving the desktop application to an on-line .NET platform while working closely with customers for enhancements. Provided assistance to fellow developers in solving programming obstacles. Led software demonstrations to company executives and other impacted parties. Documented compiler and design processes to minimize learning curves for future developers on software produced.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Responsible for identifying tests scenarios and test cases to canvas the needs of users interacting with software systems. Black box (behavioral) testing to identify defects and their severity to stress code fix priorities. Verifying back-end data through use of TOAD to query Oracle databases as an extra means to turn "black box" into a "white box". Communicating with developers to ensure bugs and defects fixed in a timely fashion to meet deadlines. Organizing and preparing end-users for user acceptance testing (UAT) to evaluate whether fully tested software meets the needs of their operations. Trusted to regression test the most complex software systems to make sure newest fixes and releases did not break current systems.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Biology, Computer Science