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Helping Clients leverage the power of the Azure Cloud to transform their business and processes to handle global scale.I’ve assisted clients with beginning, delivering and completing their Cloud Adoption journey. I’ve led many assessments understanding clients’ existing on-premise landscape and presenting a Cloud Innovation Roadmap. I’ve assisted in many presales discovery meetings with clients’ in order to understand and present application modernization opportunities.I have experience writing Statements of Work, estimating costs, breaking down Deliverables and presenting the delivery timelines. I have experience speaking and communicating with all levels in the executive hierarchy from CEO down through the C-Suite.

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Full Stack developer building SASS platform for Employee Benefits enrollment system. Our platform stack includes ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Angular, Razor, ReBus, SQL Server and Windows Services.I work across the entire stack implementing front-end designs using Boostrap CSS and Ajax, building middleware integrations and handling high transactional capabilities using ReBus Message Bus techniques. Our ORM is using Entity Framework communicating with SQL Server. Our team uses best practices of unit testing, automated UI testing, and continuous build and deployment integrations.

I am working as a consultant for CallingPost on their latest product release using AngularJS, asp.net, WebAPI, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, AJAX, json, WCF, SQL Server and Windows Services technologies.I have been working extensively with Angular JS client-side framework leading our development team in an effort to replace our existing asp.net webforms application with a full single-page application.We are using industry best practices through all layers of the application leveraging techniques including Dependency Injection, Interface abstractions and Unit Testing.I have performed full stack development of front-end UI/UX, WebAPI middleware and database including writing stored procedures. I have implemented our continuous build automation using NodeJS and Grunt.I have also worked a great deal with the Bing Maps ajax sdk 7 using Geospatial analysis and drawing capabilities to build advanced Business Intelligence using demographic data.

Consultant for AON creating a new global enterprise application that provides insurance, reinsurance brokerage and risk management services. The new application supports multi-tenant, multi-currency and multiple languages. The new enterprise Silverlight SOA based web application is replacing a traditional WinForms 3 Tier application Some of my roles have been to create generic frameworks using well known patterns and practices to work with multiple database technologies(SQL Server and Oracle). I have also created a universal Document Management system that is responsible for managing and producing terra bytes worth of insurance documents.Experience with creating interfaces into Filenet document management system.Our team is setup to work in Agile Scrum methodology.We are using many different development patterns on the project including MVVM, Repository, Factory, and Interface development. Test Driven development using NUnit is also fully utilized.The web asp.net application we are creating is written in C# that is based on Silverlight 5, LightSwitch, RIA Services, WCF Services and Windows Workflow Foundation using Oracle and SQL Server 2008 R2 databases. I have created WCF Web interfaces to SalesForce.com to allow seamless back and forth integration between both platforms.I am constantly working with business stake holders to gather requirements and turn those requests into working software.I interact on a frequent basis with divisions of Aon across Europe and Canada, along with interacting with outsourcing development teams in India.

Responsible for the creation of the high availability communications service that utilizes .NET remoting and SQL Server to communicate and synchronize critical data between n-tiers of clients.Creator of technology to manage large scale distribution of software to clients world-wide using all forms of Microsoft.Net solutions.Implement continuous integration techniques to allow large scale development teams to work simultaneously.Generate installation packages to quickly install Windows Forms, Windows Services and Web based solutions on client machines.Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server database technologies.Participated in the architectural design, development, integration and testing of all legacy products into one unified platform using Microsoft best-practices and technologies. Extensive work and experience with developing relationships with internal business owners and external customers to create solutions that solve real business problems.Expert ability to assist with escalated customer support cases related to data communications, software installation and failures.Guide team on best practices with using custom framework.Experience with writing complex T-SQL queries to generate real-time reports related to software updates and communications along with assisting in repairing bad data conditions.

Contributed to the successful start-up of Z-Tel in 1998 which became a publically traded company in December of 1999. Played a diverse role in implementing solutions to allow internal call center staff to quickly respond to and have access to customer information. Assisted with creating web based solutions to allow external customers to quickly register for and gain instance access to our products and services.

Developed the Customer Services software for The Southern Company as part of a large Andersen Consulting engagement.

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Management Of Information Systems

Management Of Information Systems