I am currently working with clients to create new and move existing applications to Microsoft Azure. This includes web applications that use Blazor and Angular on the client side. The application also uses .NET 5/6, Azure Active Directory, CosmosDB and File/Blob storage, and Azure Cognitive Search and ML.NET. Batch processes are being moved to the cloud using Azure Functions and WebJobs.

- Worked with a startup on an Android mobile application with Java web services.- Mentored internal developers and worked on an internal Kentico application that was used as the company Intranet.

Joining AdventureTech in February 2007 reinvigorated my desire to improve my skills every day. Working alongside the talented consultants at AdventureTech really helped me challenge myself and grow both technically and professionally.My first assignment at AdventureTech was both a mentoring and development role. While helping the client to develop a mass mailing administration application I also mentored the existing AS/400 developers in best practices for object-oriented design and development. We used NHibernate to access DB2 on the AS/400 using Visual Basic.NET.Another longer term project consisted of designing, developing and supporting a high-traffic e-commerce web site written in .NET 2.0 and eventually converted to .NET 4.0. The data-driven site also supports a high degree of customization with content management features and a large number of integration points with other internal and external systems.

PDA Software Services was sold by Selective Insurance to Covansys in 2002.As part of Covansys I was technical lead for a group that did data collection, validation and reporting for the agricultural and animal health industries. This included web sites written in ASP and ASP.NET/C#/VB with SQL 2000 and 2005 databases. The reporting used Microsoft SQL Analysis Service and Reporting Services and exposed those reports through a secure customer portal also written in ASP.NET.Covansys was purchased on Computer Science Corporation (CSC) in 2007.

At PDA, I generally did project-based work and most of the projects were fairly large and included maintenance and support over a number of years. More often than not PDA would host the solution and provide support.When I first joined PDA in 1991, I worked on insurance target marketing application written in C/C++. It was a client server application that ran on IBM OS/2 with a DB2/400 back end database. I also designed and developed a remote data replication system for a distributed DB2 database so the system could run a subset of system functionality on a laptop.Another large project at PDA was an insurance claims management system. The client server application was written using Visual Basic 6 and Oracle was used for the database back-end. On this system I also designed and implemented a data replication system that allowed claims to be processed in the field during the day and synchronized later with the central database. Later I would prototype converting this application to the J2EE platform. During much of this project I also was responsible for a large portion of Oracle database administration activities.PDA was purchased by Selective Insurance Company in 1999 and was sold to Covansys in 2002.

In a consulting role, I mentored team members on object-oriented analysis and design while implementing a client-server application for a phone directory listing application using IBM VisualAge for Smalltalk on OS/2 and DB2 for MVS on an IBM mainframe.

I originally started at Pansophic as an associate in their PC division and when a lead developer left the company I learned the C programming language on the job. My introduction to pointers and managing your own memory early in my career has served me well.My first project was to support and enhance an OS/2 and DOS-based installation and network administration tools written in C. I also developed and supported an OS/2 and DOS-based auditing package that was ported to C from IBM mainframe assembler.Pansophic was purchased in late 1991 by Computer Associates and I relocated back home to Kansas City.