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Consultancy offering software architecture, engineering, and development as well as general IT support as needed.Major Projects:Maintaining and expanding a legacy health logistics software tool written with ASP.Net WebForms.• Performing static analysis on the code base to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations as well as stricter client specifications.• Managing and monitoring the Azure-based production and test infrastructures.• Preparing the project for a complete redesign using new technology such as ASP.Net Core and Angular 4.

Responsibilities:• Maintaining legacy in-house line of business applications using ASP.Net Webforms/MVC, WPF, C#, and XAML.• Designing and creating web-based applications for line-of-business using ASP.Net Core, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, and Angular 4.• Designing and creating Android-based mobile applications using Xamarin.• Maintaining, adapting, and expanding applications to meet the needs of a growing business.• Extensive use of T-SQL for procedures, triggers, and general database queries in Microsoft SQL Server.• Independent study, research, and growth related to existing and emerging technologies.• Existing responsibilities include Office 365, Azure, and some user and server management.Key Accomplishments:• Suggested, planned, outlined, and lead a migration from our in-house Exchange 2010 environment to Office 365 for easier management.• Designed and created an in-house Android-based application for employee time and location tracking currently in use as our primary time tracking tool for the entire company nationwide.• Created several web-based solutions for use with the time tracking application including a breadcrumbs-style tracking system and a time monitoring and editing tool.• Redesigned our in-house CSR solution from ASP.Net Webforms to ASP.Net Core and Angular involving an entirely new architecture and design approach.• As part of a redesign of our primary, proprietary, Windows-based line of business software for the web, wrote a comprehensive, maintainable security trimming/aggregation solution for database queries using reflection and programmatic LINQ expressions.

Responsibilities:• Implementing and maintaining an Exchange environment.• Implementing and maintaining the server architecture which included Windows Server 2005 and eventually 2008 and 2012 editions. • Implementing and maintaining a Citrix environment including both migrations of physical servers to and newly created virtual machines.• Managing site-to-site VPN configurations which was, at the time, facilitated via SonicWall hardware.• Writing and implementing security policies in regards to user access and object auditing procedures.• Managing phone and computer related hardware and software assets.• Extensive use of and training for Microsoft Office products.• Scripting for mundane tasks such as network printer and software installation.Key Accomplishments:• A successful and timely migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003.• A two-step migration from Exchange 2003 (32-bit) to Exchange 2010 (64-bit) involving a temporary migration to Exchange 2007 (64-bit).• The migration of nearly all physical servers to Citrix XenServer.

Master Of Science, Information Technology Management, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information System Security

Activities and Societies: Honors Society

Associate Of Science (As), Computer Network Systems