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Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Led delivery-focused product-feature team while defining technical standards and encouraging individual development

• Contracted as-needed to provide design and development services for website and iPhone app with 4 million+ membersCompleted numerous projects over approximately 6,000 hours with a heavy focus on data-driven analytics.
• Ensured comprehensive test coverage of logic using TDD principles and nUnit and Autofac dependency injection
• Managed versioned RESTful Web API to add new iPhone app features while maintaining backwards compatibility
• Coded Windows Services, Hangfire Tasks and Console Applications to consume external APIs and services
• Developed React Components using TypeScript and webpack consistent with frontend team specifications
• Migrated existing ASPX, MVC and jQuery functionality into React Components and ES6 JavaScript as required

Wellington, New Zealand

• 500-hour contract for enhancements to website which analyzes financial performance and assesses risk for businesses loan applications while providing cashflow management guidance and metrics for applicantASP.NET MVC.
• Resigned simplified user experience for customer registration, account management and loan application paths
• Significantly refactored backend codebase to enhance existing features and support updated user experience
• Integrated with Xero API to retrieve data required to evaluate, calculate and display financial performance

Wellington, New Zealand (Remote)

• 600-hour contract as technical team lead for SaaS organization providing web applications for US government agenciesASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Git, TFS, nUnit, TDD.
• Inherited unsustainable ASP.NET MVC codebase built by under-qualified internal resources on an at-risk project
• Redesigned codebase to address architectural deficiencies preventing bug resolution and continued development
• Provided technical leadership and training of existing resources regarding architecture and development standard

Rockville, MD

• 500-hour contract to design and develop automated system which consolidates financial and behavioral data from multiple storage facilities into a single repository to assess performance metrics and identify customer.
• Created complex comparative reports for YoY and MoM analyzation of performance across and between facilities
• Designed multiple dashboards, charts and reports to monitor and review key performance metrics updated daily
• Developed background Windows Service to retrieve and process data from external API into a local SQL database

Wellington, New Zealand

• Full-time employment as director of technical team, project manager and lead developer reporting directly to CEOASP.NET MVC, WebForms, SQL Server, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SVN, TFS, nUnit, Agile, ecommerce.
• Defined new project management guidelines and policies after business restructure to support updated objectives
• Led development and test teams through complete responsive redesign of large multilingual ecommerce website
• Redesigned and modernized software architecture, development tooling and production hosting environment

Wellington, New Zealand

• Full-time on-site contract to migrate and update legacy app into existing Microsoft Dynamics/SharePoint environmentC#.NET, Dynamics (CRM), SQL Server, Report Services, SharePoint, Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).
• Delivered high-quality solution despite many significant last-minute changes and project team turnovers
• Interpreted platform-agnostic business requirements to define Dynamics specific development approach
• Designed and implemented architecture coherent with existing internal policies and Microsoft best-practices

Reston, VA

• WOW! Deal of the Day eCommerce Website @ jQuery, HTML/CSS, XML, Freemarker, OfBIZ, Java
• Created data driven Freemarker templates for dynamic HTML page
• Coded dynamic user interaction web features using jQuery library

Washington, DC

• Independently designed and developed custom software solutions or contributed on multi-developer projects efforts
• Interfaced directly with non-technical stakeholders to comprehend and describe detailed business requirements in order to define, estimate and implement a custom software solution within the requested budget and timeline
• Created a reusable DesignedNet application framework and code generation engine to establish a common solution architecture significantly reducing the cost of implementation for eight systems with modest requirements
• Established a strong work ethic, sense of responsibility and understanding of business management concepts resulting in an efficient and pragmatic approach to project delivery, issue resolution and resource.

• Configured Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 server farms
• Engineered VB.NET/InfoPath/SQL Server workflows for MOSS 2007

• ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SEO
• Designed new C# search engine for high traffic global website
• Implemented ASP.NET administration interface for legacy data

• BizTalk, C#, SOAP, SQL Server
• Built BizTalk custom business process orchestrations and workflows
• Coded pipelines and adapters to interface with proprietary hardware

• ASP.NET, C#, Office Automation
• Led four person programming team through full life cycle process
• Defined three-tier C# ASP.NET software development framework

• .NET, C#, WinForms, Touch Input
• Developed WinForm Ink user interface for Windows Table application
• Designed SQL Server replication service for data synchronization

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Visual Basic, ASP, HTML, SQL
• Initiated process to create and maintain common ASP code libraries
• Implemented Product Categorization Tool for intranet administration

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• DHTML, VBS, Visual Basic, MTS, COM+/DCOM
• Designed data access layer using Visual Basic DCOM/COM+ objects
• Coded DHTML user interface using VBScript and ActiveX components

College Park, MD

• Provided end user technical support for multiple office locations
• Designed and assembled server and desktop computer systems

Rockville, MD

• Debugged Visual Basic v4.0 16-bit Windows application code
• Assisted IT directory with internal hardware and software support

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Science

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (Mcpd), .Net Framework V2.0

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (Mcsd), .Net Framework V1.1