Christopher Choate Email & Phone Number

Sebastian, Fl, Us

Blacksburg, Virginia, Us

* Serving as Senior Developer for legacy Client-Server, WinForms application. Still providing guidance and advice for the application regarding current requirements and future transitions into current technologies. * Serving as Developer on Batch Processing portion of a Web version of the same application mentioned above.* Serving as Scrum Master: Assisting to remove impediments as they arise. Helping to plan for future work and monitor current progress.* Serving as a Technical Lead on contract., providing input for production support and new modernization efforts on the horizon.* Serving in Business Analysis capacity to assist in a) Epic and feature planning.b) Customer-facing communications.c) Program Increment and Iteration planning and coordination.d) Requirements gathering.e) Bridging communications between the customer, developer and testers.* Served as tiger team lead for transitioning from legacy TIBCO communications Technology into new Kafka technology, saving USCIS approximately $6 million/year.* Served as manager and team lead: Working to grow team members to realize their potential and discover their goals.* Served to assist in the interview process as the contract continues to grow in staff.* Served as Senior Developer for legacy Web Application, providing emergency back-fill while the team was understaffed at the time.* Served as technical lead for implementing requirements within the CLAIMS 3 system that were initiated from the Executive Branch.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Technical Lead, Manager, Software DeveloperSoftware Tools: Visual Studio 2015, 2013, GitHub, Automated Test Scripts, JIRA, SQL Developer, WPF, Windows Services, WCFTechnology/Software Tools: C#, Oracle, Visual Studio, GitHub, JIRA, Kafka, AWS, WPF, Java, Web Services employing WCF, Entity Framework.* Serving as tiger team lead for transitioning from legacy TIBCO communications Technology into new Kafka technology.* Serving in Business Analysis capacity to assist in a) Epic and feature planning. b) Customer-facing communications. c) Program Increment and Iteration planning and coordination. d) Requirements gathering. e) Bridging communications between the customer, developer and testers.* Serving as Senior Developer for legacy Client-Server, WinForms application. Still providing guidance and advice for the application regarding current requirements and future transitions into current technologies. * Serving as Team Lead, Manager, Scrum Master: Serving across multiple teams to advise, guide and facilitate to deliver requirements from the customer with quality and timeliness.* Serving to grow team members to realize their potential and discover their goals. One is now serving as Technical Lead for his team.* Serving as a Technical Lead on contract, providing input for production support and new efforts on the horizon.* Serving to assist in the interview process as the contract continues to grow in staff.* Served as Senior Developer for legacy Web Application, providing emergency back-fill while the team remains understaffed.* Served as technical lead for implementing requirements within the CLAIMS 3 system that were initiated from the Executive Branch.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Software Tools: Visual Studio 2013, Team Foundation Server, Automated Test Scripts, Universal Modeling Language (UML), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), XML, ANSI SQL* Participation in the development of next-version applications, ranging from simple client-server to enterprise-wide.* Heavy Team Environment, focusing on legacy system re-architecture.* Implemented solution framework based on architectural direction.* Incorporated automated enforcement of programming best practices.* Developed the means for employing MEF to suit architectural requirements.* Responsible for re-factoring business rules logic and implementing them to suit architectural requirements.* Implementation of customer requirements at all levels of the architecture.* Employment of design patterns such as MVP/MVPS, Singleton, Command, Factory and Repository,* Employed XML to serialize and deserialize objects for transmission and consumption.* Participation in Agile development methodology. Serving as team representative within Kanban context.* Responsible for Design Documentation using UML, New Development using C#, Unit Testing via Automated Test Scripts and Maintenance Programming.* Working with Requirements and Testing teams to ensure delivery of quality software.* Responsibilities grew from junior level to senior level within the team.

Fairfax, Virginia , Us

Arts Management

Technical Director- Responsible for all IT related needs at a non-profit organization.· Infrastructure Development and Maintenance· Computer Training· Software Engineering and Development· Technical Writing· Computer Staging· Technologies employed: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Professional, HTML, Linux, Java

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science