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Williston, FL, US

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Enhanced C# OpenWay meter-data collection system, which communicates with smart meters via TCP / IP using standard C12.19 and C12.22 interfaces. Met contractual commitments and avoided liquidated damages.
• Reduced unnecessary meter replacements with meter scan, determining why meters were not reporting reads.
• Improved outage and network management by retrieving and processing meter events and network statistics.
• Wrote jobs managing ZigBee radio and Home Area Network (HAN) devices, which were instrumental in saving utilities capital costs by managing peaks using demand-response programs.
• Created log parser, reducing troubleshooting time by merging logs and extracting messages by job / meter.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Designed critical components, developed core modules, reviewed designs, performed code reviews, and mentored less-experienced developers. Created top-ranked Meter Data Management (MDM) system.
• Modeled complex application domain by designing and implementing core classes in C# that retrieved data from table-driven hierarchy, managing temporal collections and enumerating critical changes.
• Wrote C# convenience methods, hiding complexity of navigating temporal data, ensuring proper usage by other developers.
• Provided critical infrastructure by designing and implementing task-processing system.
• Reduced development time by writing export program generator that read record definitions from CSV files, created using Excel, and produced C# code that retrieved data from database and exported to flat files.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Extended utility billing system using PowerBuilder, allowing utilities to model complex tariffs.