Dharmesh Patel Email & Phone Number

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Product concept, design, development, for a wide range of applications.

Technical Director responsibilities includes professional freelance development team management, professional freelance designer team interaction and coordination, IT management, server architecture, promotion concept creation, programming and development project management, testing and Q&A for the following.

• Development and mgmt for all of Discovery Networks web content, B2B/B2C applications, games, user data, mgmt, back-end integration, 3rd party integration, and some of the biggest on-air/online promotions by Discovery.
• Teamsite CMS
• Teamsite improvements dev using Adobe Flash, HTML, CSS, XML,.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, ESI and SSI.
• Discovery Windows Media center content by testing, Q&A, dev and updating media, hardware and software components of the WMC application.
• Authentication modules used with Struts back-end and Oracle database for user account information for Body Challenge, My Discovery, and games.
• Using Actionscript 2.0, and 3.0, designed and dev applications to be used as health mgmt tools. Age validation tool for sensitive content with COPPA and 508 compliance standards.

• Primary Contract: National Guard Bureau - System Admin: established IT solutions, software dev policies, project objectives and milestones. Infrastructure redesign and implement. Dev environment: Windows 2000 and.
• Flash Comm Server used for chat, 1-1 messaging, video conferencing, and distance learning app.
• Flash Remoting components used to add, or update info, settings, reports and daily briefs for VirtualArmory.com. Site used RPC to generate custom pages based on login data. Display local news, events and special.
• Google API for custom internet search engine, a geospatial navigation system for driving and location info.
• ActionScript 2.0 w/XML, Web Services and server side RPC to generate dynamic forms; admin reports for product dist. Events were permission based on individual login information of >1.5 million users driven by a MSSQL.
• Main site in ASP, using VB, Javascript, C#, XML, and CSS to generate HTML web pages to handle auto emails, eCommerce, merch shpmnt tracking and warehouse mgmt. Permission based nav system was dev'd using personal info.

• Developed, managed and successfully deployed the MoneySmart project for FDIC, used for training employees and customers from multiple websites across the US.
• Developed an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR) backend to gathers data from individuals without Internet access. Configured and managed on a Linux 7.2 server with MySQL 4 database, and a C++ application to.
• Online version of the product was developed using Macromedia Director MX, and Flash MX to meet the 508 compliance standards.Developed, tested, Q&A, and documented the intranet Skill Detective educational software with.
• Created computer games, simulations, quizzes and tests programmed in.NET, Director/Shockwave 8.5 Lingo, and Macromedia Flash MX for K1-K12 students covering several subjects such as language arts, reading.
• Cross platform application developed and using Photoshop 7, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia,.NET, and Install Shield for Mac and PC based computers.

• Built web driven applications, which allowed for biologists and botanists to track, update and maintain a centrally located plant and species database containing terabytes of data.
• Produced using Visual Basic for the GUI in conjunction with VBA and Crystal Reports to generate reports.
• Prepared Visual C++ application that allowed for new data to be filtered from the database and displayed for stakeholders. Plant and species information was relayed through ASP, which dynamically generated web pages.

• Lead a team through full lifecycle application development including, requirements analysis, design, specifications, development, testing, production, maintenance, and enhancement. Enhanced and maintained Software.
• Built an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR) using a Dell 9800 NT server with D/240PCI Dialogic voice boards. The software was configured for Dialogic boards to work through a PBX switch on a digital T1 line. The.
• Developed multithreaded, component driven software using MFC C++ class library, and VB to communicate directly to D/480SC-2T1 48-port Dialogic board drivers, connected to dual digital voice T1 lines, on a Windows 2000.
• Provided consultation for Navy’s Hazardous waste management system which included developing custom COM, DLLs and software using Visual Studios.
• Provided technical support for large Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, and Windows 95/98 based networks. Configured and managed User Accounts, Policies, Permissions, Security, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NetBuei, IPX/SPX, Novell.