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Georgia, United States

* Worked closely with CTO to build a development team, including hiring and mentoring those developers.* Team Lead of up to 12 developers as the company grew.* Work with Product Management on Design and Vision of Command 360.* Front end lead using React, Typescript.* Using Cypress to test front end code.* Using nUnit then xUnit to test C# back end code.* Working in a microservice architecture.* Wrote OneService, an internal NuGet package that made creating a new microservice one call from Powershell.* Redid our TeamCity set up to make it easy to add new microservices to our build server.* Suggested and implemented MongoDB.* Wrote oAuth2 Authorization service.* Moved all our projects over to the new .Net core structure.* Leveraged Open Source for faster iteration.* Wrote various Powershell cmdlets to help our Dev and Customer Support groups.* Wrote code and scripts to enable our site to run on SSL.* Wrote an installer that can be run remotely and on the command line as the beginning of automating our customer install process.* Helped the company transition from Trello to Pivotal to Jira.* Helped the company transition to a full time distributed team.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Norcross, Georgia, United States

* Grew development team from one team of 5 into 5 teams of 26.* Ran 5 development teams encompassing a total of 26 Developers, and Developers In Test, using Javascript front end, .Net back end, RavenDB document database, and SQL Server.* Created and managed 3 Level Three support employees to keep support issues out of development that could be handled earlier in the pipeline.* Worked with CEO and owners to design long term strategy for the Development Department and direction of the company.* Worked with Product Management and UX groups on all aspects of the GRC Suite.* Worked with VP of Human Resources, CEO, and various other departments to move us from co-located work to a fully distributed team. This reduced time to hire from 2 to 4 months to 1 to 6 weeks.* Worked with HR to hire and mentor new developers.* Implemented click-to-deploy Continuous Integration workflow to get from QA servers to development on a weekly release schedule.* Enforced TDD/BDD for all work.* Implemented Definition of Done for all stories.* Worked with Product Owners and Managers to develop stories.* Worked with Mercurial, then Git to move to a DVCS.* Moved source code into GitHub and implemented a modified GitHub workflow.* Worked with the document database RavenDB to develop a mult‐tenant system.* Developed a multi‐tenant backend capable of serving large user bases ﴾1 million +﴿ with large, sustained burst loads.* Helped write a near real time ETL to move data from our transactional system to our reporting system.* Wrote a streaming, low memory report outputting tool.* Used various Open Source components to build .exe's for Customer Service organization's usage.* Wrote a Just In Time database migration infrastructure to migrate our documents over without requiring a big bang migration.* Wrote various Powershell cmdlets to help our Customer Service organization. Transitioned a team from fully co‐located to fully distributed.

Norcross, Georgia, United States

* Enforced TDD/BDD for all work.* Implemented Definition of Done for all stories.* Worked with Product Owners and Managers to develop stories.* Worked with Mercurial, then Git to move to a DVCS.* Moved source code into GitHub and implemented a modified GitHub workflow.* Worked with the document database RavenDB to develop a mult‐tenant system.* Developed a multi‐tenant backend capable of serving large user bases ﴾1 million +﴿ with large, sustained burst loads.* Helped write a near real time ETL to move data from our transactional system to our reporting system.* Wrote a streaming, low memory report outputting tool.* Used various Open Source components to build .exe's for Customer Service organization's usage.* Wrote a Just In Time database migration infrastructure to migrate our documents over without requiring a big bang migration.* Wrote various Powershell cmdlets to help our Customer Service organization. Transitioned a team from fully co‐located to fully distributed.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

* Architecture of systems, build processes, full development life cycle from requirements gathering through to QA and launch.* Introduced ASP.Net MVC and Hudson.* Introduced Test Driven Development.* Introduced nCover and coverage metrics.* Worked with various clients and their advocates to drive out real requirements and user expectations.* Worked with upper management on establishing goals, best practices, and incentives for developers.* Advocated with upper management on behalf of developers.* Assisted on work in the sales pipeline.* Created business level documentation for CxO level review* Worked on all aspects of * http://www.exploregeorgia.org* http://www.ruthschris.com including interfacing into OpenTable API* http://www.georgiacustomerservice.com* Advised on work with * http://www.georgia.org* http://www.protectionone.co`m* http://www.keh.com

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

* Lead a group of developers and established coding standards and best practices for the entire team.* Worked with other developers on the Cox Auto Fulfillment project. This project lets customers self-serve their cable and other Cox communication services.* Used TDD to drive out requirements from stakeholders* Wrote a prototype decision engine for use in Auto Fulfillment.* Developed architecture and coded a dynamic SQL engine that uses generics to search across Oracle or Sql Server data stores.* Wrote UI and middle tier framework and utility code for use by other developers to speed up time to market and reduce testing costs.* Assisted in setting up SubVersion as a department wide source control solution. Helped with new code layout for more efficient code deployment Worked with QA department to ensure quality of testing.* Worked with Web Applications Support to troubleshoot and diagnose end user issues.* Worked with the Deployment team to coordinate overnight deployments.* Created automated multi‐site and multi‐machine deployment scripts using NAnt.

* Lead a group of developers and established coding standards and best practices for the entire team.* Architected and coded an ORM persistence layer using Attributes, Reflection and Generics to create a robust and flexible system for use by the entire development team.* Worked with management and sales team to develop StarQual in a pre‐qualification mortgage engine that processes nearly 20,000 decisions a day. Used Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0, C# 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2000 for the entire system.* Worked with a 3rd party software vendor to integrate their decision engine into our new UI and middle tier for StarQual.* Worked on a replication scheme between our CRM system and our Loan Application system using Reflection and XML to send data over real time through a queuing system.* Implemented new code layout for more efficient code deployment and source control. Established TDD standards focused on using NUnit.

Itasca, Illinois, United States

* Architected, designed and wrote the TACHS system for the Archdiocese of New York. This system was the registration system for over 40,000 students for the entrance exams for the Archdiocese school system.* Using C#ASP.Net, and SQL Server 2000 stored procedures, wrote UI, middle‐tier and database systems to create a scalable and stable system for registration.* Designed a flexible UI system for the many custom UI requests the Archdiocese made.* Worked with 2 developers and a QA staff to ensure on time and on budget delivery of the application. The system was robust enough to be used for 2 years in a row, and it is planned to be used this year as well.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

* Supervise three technical staff and led the engineering team in charge of the Adexs platform which currently has over 90,000 users.* Collaborated with various stakeholders in the platform to gather requirements and user issues for inclusion in future versions of the product.* Using C# and ASP.Net, and SQL Server 2000 stored procedures, wrote UI and middle‐tier code to create a custom scalable and responsive reporting system for the Adexs platform.* Worked with sales and marketing on a complete front end re‐design of the Adexs platform using the latest in CSS, ASP.Net and C#.* Translated various pages from VB and VB.Net to C#.* Worked with experienced TDD practitioners to learn and implement TDD

Itasca, Illinois, United States

* Supervise three technical staff and team lead the reengineering of Assess2Learn Internet‐based test creation and delivery engine into a standard Microsoft DNA scalable product.* Integrated ASP.Net and C# into the current Assess2Learn application both adding new functionality and re‐writing existing pages using Microsoft Visual Studio.* Worked with student focused Java side to make UI updates and configuration changes.* Design user interfaces for creating tests, courses and reporting tools for student information. Collaborated with stakeholders of Assess2Learn to develop requirements and specifications.* Rewrote all administrative functionality for the application under a tight deadline. Reduced 65,000+ lines of code into 10,000 lines, and the application footprint from 5MB to 500KB.* Enhanced the application from one supporting up to four simultaneous users to one supporting 1,500+ simultaneous users with less than a three second response time.

* Collaborated with end‐users and sales/marketing staff to develop requirements and specifications for front desk web‐based salon management product Appointments123.* Engineered schedule management and point of sales functionality. Co‐architected middle tier and database programs. Wrote framework code for use by other developers using Microsoft Visual Studio.* Supervised and team led developers. Coded and unit tested business logic, and assisted with the design of database schema. Wrote store procedures and setup triggers and tables.* Assisted sales and marketing staff with definition of new application features.* Wrote a stacked search feature to allow salons unlimited flexibility in searching for available time slots for technicians and services. Wrote a web farmable middleware component for tracking session state.

Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

* Spearheaded technical initiatives on behalf of clients. Team led R&D on new web projects and emerging technologies. Coded and unit tested UI and middleware on a web‐based time/billing system.* Developed UI to meet customer requirements including coding and unit testing of a document information and preparation system for a major, national title and escrow company.* Worked in Delphi front end code.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

* Wrote an itinerary import program that used airline reservation data. * Designed various Lotus Notes databases for internal company use. * Repaired PC’s in the absence of IT staff.* Developed a meeting booking application for Andersen Consulting. * Traveled onsite to Atlanta to streamline product launch and integration.* Recipient of President’s Club Award for superior achievement.* Worked on Delphi front end.* Assisted IT with various computer repairs.* Set up an initial DSL connection to the internet for the entire company.