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Vusion is a sister company of PeopleNet and part of Trimble’s international Transportation and Logistics division.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

* Design, develop, document, test and debug new and modified application development objects including: + Technical designs, coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting, maintaining, and implementing complex business application programs. + Ensure a systems development methodology is followed including completing design, testing, code reviews and technical documentation. + Work directly with Business Analysts and end users to design solutions that best meet requirements. + Analyze, review and alter Legacy programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements. + Maintain information confidentiality and security. Protect and prevent unauthorized attempts to obtain information. + Monitor and report progress and status or assigned projects following established department guidelines.* Technical lead role on projects, coordinating the technical delivery of projects utilizing third party and outsourced development resources.* Assist business users and other Information Technology team members in troubleshooting the production environment, provide production support to research, resolve and document system problems.* Act as a mentor to less experienced Applications Developers, providing guidance regarding both technical and methodology related issues.* Assist department leadership with project cost estimates, development and implementation of technical standards, methodology and toolset.* Strict adherence to established support and service management policies and procedures (i.e. incident, change, problem, SDLC, etc.) thereby ensuring all activities are fully documented for auditing and future support purposes.* Keep abreast of developments and best practices in the information technology field. Maintain the knowledge necessary to support department goals and programs, and retain professional competence.

* Lead developer of current ASP.NET student test management system.* Participating in moving product to open source technologies including Grails/Groovy and MongoDB on linux platform.* Adhered to strict MVP and other design patterns making use of the Web Client Software Factory from MS Guidance Automation for Visual Studio and ASP.NET.* Coded LINQ to SQL and stored procedures to pass data to client via WCF services.* Implemented elaborate permission based security.* Developed custom server and user controls with DevExpress and CSS for rich user interface.* Working to improve Agile process moving from AgileZen Kanban board and Team City for automated builds to msbuild, nant and TFS for bug tracking.* Continually strive to improve quality and productivity by advocating unit testing, refactoring and formal code reviews.

* Participated in design of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) / Services Orientated Architecture (SOA) automating human / system work flows with VS2008 WinForms, Biztalk and K2 Blackpearl.* Implemented Model-View-View Model, Custom Data Provider and other ASP.NET design patterns for large public facing web application.* Evaluated Silverlight 3.0 and Rich Internet Application Services* Improved scrum process and code base by introducing Test Driven Development (TDD), CSharp (C#), code generation, and Object Relational Mapping (ORM).

Independent Consultant for many clients some detailed below.Masys / Positron Public Safety 911 11/2004 - 12/2007, 12/2008 - 10/2009* Maintained and enhanced massive proprietary WinForm framework written in VB6, VB.NET, MS SQL Server.* Generated data objects, screens and many base classes using XML, Object-Relational Mapping, My Generation and DevXpress custom controls* Exported XML and performed multilevel validation before sending to Web Service.* Mastered the National Incident Based Report System (NIBRS), a comprehensive set of rules for exporting crime statistics to the FBI.* Improved the development processes by implementing SCRUM, Cruise Control, Perforce, nUnit, test driven development, FIT and Fitness automated testing on Virtual PC environments, continuous builds, continuously releasable source code mainline, and pair programming.Centerpoint Energy (CNP) 8/2008 - 12/2008* Made critical enhancements to customer facing web site supporting 3 million customers using VS2003, VB.Net and ASP.Net.* Helped speed conversion of 1400+ Lotus Notes applications to SQL Server, VS2005, VB.Net and CSharp.* Impressed client with clear and detailed change management and design documentation exceeding Sarbanes Oxley requirements.* Implemented web security for Inmagic databases (DBText/WebPubPro) with IIS, Active Directory and Windows Authentication.* Created friendly install and user guidesUnited Health Group 4/2008 - 8/2008Boston Scientific 1/2008 - 1/2008TCGRx 1/2008 - 1/2008Thomson West Publishing 2/2006 - 8/2006

Independent Consultant .. see Community Choice, LLC above.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

At Best Buy I had three different positions starting as a Project Lead and ending with Senior Developer. A brief summary follows.Senior Developer in the Software Engineering Center of Excellence 2/2003 - 4/2004* Developer of several Telxon handheld barcode scanner related efforts using MS Visual C++ 6.0, Retek data, MS SQL Server stored procedures, Wise installer, telenet, ASP.NET, MQ Series, web services, LDAP security and wireless label printer hardware.* Primary Visual C++ subject matter expert in the Best Buy Center of Excellence.* Completed many POS, Intranet applications including an Access electronic trade-in and a VB.Net gift registry.Developer on the bestbuy.com Stabilization Team. 1/2002 - 1/2003* Responsible for ensuring 24/7 operation of the bestbuy.com websites.* Primary point person for all Verity search engine issues and order fulfillment.* Fixed and enhanced Visual Basic, ASP and SQL stored procedures.Project lead in the Release Management department, bestbuy.com. 11/2000 - 1/2002* Responsible for implementation of CCC / Harvest version 5, an advanced configuration management and workflow modeling tool.* Coordinated and documented change process flows of many groups including Release Management, Build and Deployment, Quality Assurance, ePublishing, Development and the business teams.* Designed, documented and helped code forms and processes in HTML, VBScript, Java Script, Java, Perl and Oracle Triggers.* Created training program and presented to developers and other users.

Bs, Computer Science

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