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Franklin, Tn, Us

Franklin, Tn

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Franklin, Tennessee

Hired to lead one million+ dollar migration project of flagship product, Censitrac, to technologies including but not limited to ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, AngularJS, and TypeScript while also maintaining backwards compatibility with legacy version and various interfaces. Node.js-based frameworks such as Karma and Protractor were used with Jasmine for unit and end-to-end client testing respectively. Server unit testing was handled by xUnit. Legacy product continued to be supported during migration and releases delivered on time. Managed diverse in-house team of four local and three remote developers, a technical writer, and four remote onshore consultants with indirect supervision of up to fifteen remote offshore resources located primarily in Bulgaria.Introduced Agile processes so that products were rapidly delivered and customer needs and feedback were promptly addressed. Established use of Atlassian issue and project tracking software.Oversaw effort to implement best current software development practices using modern web development technologies. Initiated use of mature open source frameworks instead of homegrown tools unless no other alternative existed. Codified SDLC and Change Management processes. Grew development team by 25%. Supervised creation of technical writing department.Set up and administered Jenkins continuous integration, Protractor automated testing, and QA environments hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Developed software when needed, such as proofs of concept, in languages such as C# and F#. Responded to RFP's in support of sales team.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Provided the overall technology vision and leadership for the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) custom development team. Improved business operations efficiency and effectiveness by optimizing the use of information technology.Led five person development team responsible for developing and supporting .NET healthcare applications, SQL Server Reporting Services reports, and extract, transform and load (ETL) processes.Planned and managed projects, ensured HIPAA and Sarbannes-Oxley compliance, and mentored developers. Established best practice policies and procedures surrounding Agile software development lifecycle. Saved company over $400,000 by not backfilling positions vacated through termination or transfers.Designed and developed software including but not limited to ASP.NET MVC web applications, Windows Services, and REST-based SOA applications. Acted as Team Foundation Server administrator.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Led team composed of up to 13 developers charged with architecture and development of new Microsoft.NET applications as well as supporting legacy software systems for a $1.3 billion healthcare company. Instilled discipline where chaos reigned by establishing repeatable, standardized processes based on industry best practices.Used iterative process to manage all phases of software development lifecycle. Established customer acceptance policies and tools based on Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 to track user acceptance testing progress and feedback.Greatly improved deployment efficiency and reliability by constructing CruiseControl.NET / MSBuild continuous integration solution for Windows Forms and ASP.NET application code, SQL Server Reporting Services files and Oracle database objects. Releases that once took days now take minutes.Responsible for resource allocation, change management, audit reporting, server configuration, development and test environment setup, Team Foundation Server (TFS) version control administration, and production release engineering and logistics.Developed new and supported existing C#-based .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Forms and WPF applications. Managed successful migration of line of business (LOB) application from Oracle forms to .NET 3.5 SP1 on schedule and $900,000.00 under budget.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Converted existing ASP 3.0 user interface to ASP.NET, creating or updating SQL Server 2000 stored procedures where necessary. Converted middle-tier data access components to Visual Basic.NET from Visual Basic 6.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

(This position was held at Kroll, Inc. immediately before acquisition by MMC.)Acted as project manager and lead developer for Global Academic Screening Service. This 4-tier solution, written exclusively in C#, used .NET remoting, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000 and Windows Services to capture, transport and process business school applicant data for institutions such as Stanford, Yale, and University of California at Berkeley.Lead developer for the Online Entry Application project. Phase 1 involved development of a dynamically generated ASP.NET website that allowed users to enter such data as address history, demographics, employment history, and educational background and then submit this information directly to Kroll Background America’s (KBA) background screening system for verification. Phase 2 required development of a set of C# web services for the interchange of XML to allow seamless integration between customer Human Resource systems and the background screening service. With the completion of Phase 2, customers now had the option of sending their applicants to KBA to fill out applications or uploading already completed applicant data to KBA for verification. Both phases of the project involved used SQL Server 2000 as persistent data storage.Developed, maintained, and extended the functionality of corporate internet and intranet websites and their associated content management tools using SQL Server 2000 full-text indexing and stored procedures, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, ColdFusion versions 4.5 and 5, and JavaScript.Designed and created client-server and Windows Service applications for Windows 2000 Server using Visual Basic 6 and .NET, C#, ADO.NET, and SQL Server 2000. These applications fulfilled corporate needs such as data aggregation, Active Directory maintenance, and email monitoring.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Developed dynamic, database driven sites such as The Upper Room, MethodX, LeftBehind and ForeFront Records as well as browser-based content management and administration tools for these sites. Tools and technologies used included ASP, Flash, Visual Basic, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, COM, and IIS 5.0. Developed two high-availability systems to track user interactivity with Flash and other rich media online advertisements. Both of these projects used PHP and MySQL databases and were hosted on Red Hat Linux 7.2 platforms. Wrote shell scripts to automate disaster recovery, database backup, and version control.