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Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Fl, Us

● Provide bespoke cloud-native DevOps architecture services for clients. Projects range from DevOps jump starts/checkups providing guidance and support implementing modern cloud-native software and delivery architectures to the design and implementation of sustainable landing zones, hub-and-spoke infrastructure architectures, transitions from monolithic to microservice- and message-oriented architectures, multi-region and disaster recovery support, supportable and scalable database management and deployment, data and data lake platforms, software development lifecycle practices, DevSecOps, and monitoring and alerting best practices.● Internal thought leadership, including leading a Terraform Module Design Steering Committee, creation and demonstration of an internal Database-as-code CI/CD solution from source control to templated multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines which supported customizable parallelizable databasedeployments, and co-leadership of our Kubernetes Community of Practice.● Implementation of private Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) clusters, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring/operations.● Implementation of private Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, and Azure Databricks workspaces via IaC, and creation/maintenance of automated Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for promotion of workspace artifacts including Databricks Asset Bundles between environments.

Austin, Texas, Us

● Developed and productized an automatic form recognizer/extractor to allow students to upload their Federal Student Aid Form and have the information extracted as machine-usable data for use with ScholarSnapp and other vetted/approved applications. The ultimate solution used a multi-cloud approach comprising both Azure and Google Cloud Platform.● Performed additional proof-of-concept and initial development work on related tools, including a school information database and a SOLR search database to allow Foundation employees to perform rapid analysis of scholarship applicants.● Developed an OAuth2-protected API for use by scholarship providers to automatically acquire applicants’ Scholar Snapp files (with explicit permission from the applicant) and allow them to upload new versions of that information back to ScholarSnapp.org.● Primary (and often sole) developer responsible for designing and developing a Minimum Viable Product for the ScholarSnapp.org website, which allows college applicants to fill out commonly required scholarship application information once and reuse that information with multiple scholarship providers. ● ScholarSnapp.org collected more than 650,000 applicant profiles between go-live (August 2015) and April 2016. More than 25,000 applicants actively used the site over this period and over 99% were matched with at least one potential scholarship within the first year.

Austin, Texas, Us

Senior developer, jointly responsible for the primary line of business application used to make and manage grants totaling over $100 million annually.Finished development of and launched next generation of grant-making applicationInteracted with users at all levels from the foundation’s Executive Director down.Served as one of two primary QA testers after our existing QA resource left the organization; I and one other developer and the project manager performed regression and release testing prior to each biweekly deployment.Served as a general technical resource both for program officers, other tech team members, and grantees.Technologies used: AJAX, jQuery, C# 4.0, ASP.Net 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Entity Framework 4.0, WCF 4.0, .Net 4.0, OData, Telerik ASP.NET AJAX control suite, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server 2010, Team Build 2010.

Teaneck, Us

Cognizant Softvision acquired Magenic in March 2021.● Cloud Solution Architecture (primarily Azure) and full-stack custom software development for diverse Fortune 100 companies. Primarily .NET-stack (.NET Core, ASP.NET Web API/MVC, Javascript, C#, SQL Server, Angular, etc).● Filled multiple roles over time (development lead, DevOps lead, team architect, and platform/solution/enterprise architect), involving direction and mentoring of junior developers, DevOps implementations, team leadership, and architecture design.Project - 11/2021--09/2022● DevOps player/coach and development team partner for an aggressively growth-focused mid-size financial services company: project-specific DevOps implementation, mentoring client DevOps engineers, guide organization-wide development and CI/CD.● React/NodeJS/MSSQL/Cosmos development stack with Docker containerization deployed to Azure.Project – 05/2018-10/2021● Core platform architect for EY's Global Tax Platform: a cloud native, highly available, globally distributed .NET Core microservices-based platform, owned core platform services (authentication, authorization, client tenancy model and routing). Multiple Release Trains (20+ total development teams, using Scaled Agile/SAFe) over a multi-year period. Azure native, multi-region availability, SSO, automated data ingestion/transformation, etc. Responsible for overall architecture for the entire project. The EY Global Tax Platform is intended to enable all EY global tax service offerings, in part resulted in EY being named a Microsoft Gold Partner for 2020, and won two 2020 International Business Awards (Stevies): a Silver Stevie in Achievement in Product Innovation, for “GTP: Transforming the Way We Work” and a Silver Stevie in Cloud Platform for “GTP Creates Clarity with Cloud-Based Compliance”.

Reno, Nv, Us

Maintain, update, and improve web application for producing job quotes, tracking jobs, and creating designs for countertops.Add html5 capabilities (drag and drop file uploads, etc) to web app.Redesign user interface elements to improve ease of use/discoverability of features.Technologies used: HTML5, AJAX, VB.NET 3.5/4.0, ASP.Net 3.5/4.0, .Net 3.5/4.0, SQL Server 2008/2012, CVS.

New Orleans, La, Us

Developed a custom CMS designed for music industry (streaming music and music download purchases) sites. CMS is based on ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, and custom javascript code, using OData/WCF Data Services for virtually all data delivery and is designed for scalability and high levels of client-side interactivity as well as pervasive localization and close integration with simultaneously developed mobile (iPhone and Android) apps.Developed a set of market-specific stores allowing marketing-driven downloads of music tracks. Created a flexible infrastructure allowing for redemption of codes for credit, either in terms of # of tracks, dollar value, percentage discount, etc. Sites supported localized versions, including localized versions of graphics, javascript resources, etc and allowed the user to dynamically switch languages at any time; implemented one Spanish-language localized version. Sites also supported audio preview and similar functionality.Developed a customer-facing management website for managing media whitelists and other functionality for various other applications/websites. Technologies used: HTML5, AJAX, jQuery, C# 4.0, ASP.Net 4.0, ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, .NET Entity Framework 4.0 and 4.1, WCF 4.0, WCF Data Services, OData, .Net 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, Subversion.

Great Neck, Ny, Us

As SME, responsible for creating exam questions for Microsoft .NET Certification Exams (from exams for .NET framework versions 2.0-4.0 inclusive). Questions have to conform to strict Microsoft guidelines and require a thorough knowledge of .NET technologies to successfully write.I have consistently received praise as a technical writer in this position; both Studio B and L10bridge have invited me to participate in each generation of Microsoft exams, including expanding existing exam question libraries.As Lead SME, responsible for reviewing exam questions created by other SMEs for technical accuracy, grammar, and conformance to Microsoft guidelines. This job also involves close coordination with the Content Development Manager in order to ensure that the questions could successfully pass Microsoft’s Alpha Review.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Responsible for design, implementation, and testing of industry-leading and well-regarded customer-relationship software for the non-profit and association market, including server-side, web-based, and thick client components. Lead development of a brand new, .Net 3.5/Web Parts-based, highly extensible Content Management System integrated with (and used as the platform for developing) the rest of the application. Presented on new and upcoming features at developer and customer conferences.

Austin, Texas, Us

Designed, developed, tested, maintained, and supported custom software for the automation of high-end commercial and residential spaces; more specifically, to provide an integrated, intuitive, flexible, and friendly way for homeowners to control every aspect of highly complex homes and systems. Created software interfaces to security systems (Apex, Radionics), lighting systems (Cutler Hammer, LiteTouch, Lutron), pool controllers (Jandy), phone systems (Televantage), and a wide variety of IR- and RS232-controlled audio and video devices. Performed ground-up redesign of application from Visual Basic 6 forms application to C# Windows Service, including modules which support self-management, remote control and configuration, and automatic error reporting.

Arlington, Va, Us

A primary developer involved in redesigning, implementing, and testing several industry-leading, cutting-edge software applications pertaining to the maintenance of the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet tactical aircraft. These applications were designed as modular 3-tier solutions which integrated identically with multiple back-end databases (incl. Access, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server) and vendor-supplied Maintenance Management Systems. Designed and supported a secure, dynamic website which hosted documentation, testing information, and trouble reporting for supported application suites which conformed to US Navy security requirements. Primary developer responsible for customizing and maintaining our process automation tool for managing change request process/activities, producing software metrics, etc. On my own initiative designed, implemented, and supported a custom, extensible in-house application to manage automated software builds for multiple project languages, settings, and versions. The software integrated directly with SourceSafe for version control, cutting time to manage software builds by 50%. Technologies Used: Visual Basic 6, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, ANSI C, Visual C++ 6, COM, Perl, HTML, ASP, ADO.