Implement bug fixes and customer requests in a variety of job-cost accounting programs; advise and work on upgrading legacy code to the latest version of Delphi. Introduced automation and unit-testing; improved code style and reduced memory leaks and duplicate code.

I work with businesses of all kinds and retailers around the globe to provide software solutions that improve efficiency, add new features, or integrate disparate systems.Sample Projects: • Designed and built customized sales and reporting applications for a variety of industries; • Host legacy Windows apps on Azure virtual machines for multiple insurance agencies; • Built and maintain websites for several customers in Drupal and Hugo; • Built applications to synchronize inventory, sales, and customers between websites and Retail Pro, a point-of-sale application, for a large variety of retailers; • Built plug-ins to augment functionality in Retail Pro 8 and 9; • Added cloud database support with user authentication and logging to commercial software; • Converted a Windows-based Delphi web server to Free Pascal on Linux.

• Participate in requirements gathering, project analysis, quality assurance, and many other facets of the customer engagement team on a technical level to support smooth SaaS implementations for lending institutions. • Craft XML transformations to process data and workflows for mortgage loan processes. • Setup customer sites, customize HTML and CSS as needed. • Assist QA team in trouble-shooting web application bugs. • Work with several internal tools for data manipulation, PDF editing, script automation, file movement, and site maintenance and verification. • Work with data governance team for planning and designing standardized and simplified cross-department processes and tools. • Build internal tools using Visual Studio to audit and document processes saving time and reducing errors. • Write documentation and Knowledgebase articles for reference and instructing new employees.

Responsible for estimating, building, and delivering custom integration applications and plug-ins for Retail Pro 8 and 9, establishing department policies for development and deployment, and providing technical expertise to sales people and technical support staff. Developed a set of custom components that talked to a proprietary API published by Retail Pro to improve speed and reliability of application development. This later became a selling point of the company and helped promote our team to prominence among Retail Pro dealers for custom requests.Developed RPro4Web, a stand-alone application to import and export various sets of data to and from Retail Pro. This was originally for synchronizing inventory and orders between the desktop POS and online stores using a variety of data formats including CSV, XML, spreadsheets, SOAP web services, PHP scripts, and direct database manipulation of MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. Later, RPro4Web was expanded to export many sets of data for a variety of reasons, including shipping integrations, tax reports, and for importing into loyalty programs.Sometimes, customers needed custom applications or plugins written for supportive or related purposes. These requests led to some work being done in C# or VB. I also built stored procedures, batch files, utility programs, and scripts for customers as needed.Because we had so many custom applications with occasional updates, all relying on both internal and third-party libraries, I built an automated build server to recompile every library, plugin, and application every night. This helped significantly to reduce surprises when a customer wanted to add a feature to an old application--I could make sure all code was kept up-to-date.

Responsible for building user-friendly data acquisition programs used by human subjects for various research programs using Delphi with Firebird. • Helped evaluate new touch-screen “tablet” computers and how best to utilize capabilities to make data entry simple, private, and secure; • Created stored procedures for all database access to increase security and promote clean and consistent data access for all applications to conform to new HIPPA guidelines; • Developed team standards for development practices, source code archival, new employee machine setup, and established regular schedule of testing backup systems.

Created a medical bill re-pricing application using Delphi and SQL Server which utilized existing calculation modules.

Worked in a team to expand capabilities of telephony software written in Delphi, provide reports, and respond to QA issues on a release schedule. • Wrote a web-based server module generating instant PDF reports; • Wrote Windows services to process database requests at a remote server.

• Supported users and their computers and peripheral devices at three locations and in field offices; • Developed in-house applications in Delphi; • Rebuilt company web site (both external and an intranet) using HTML, Perl, and VBScript.

Responsible for creating an educational management system complete with teacher review modules and integrated student education software, mentoring junior developers, and traveling to customer sites for installation and training in Turbo/Borland Pascal and assembly. • Built leading edge menu system that surpassed expectations in both time to develop and concept. • Wrote reading comprehension application in Borland C++. • Modified third-party educational software in various languages (including several flavors of BASIC, Microsoft C, and even FORTRAN) to interact with management system and required the creation of low-level software hooks to be triggered from any programming language.