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Escondido, CA, US

Vista, CA, US

While originally engaged to assist in development of and maturing robots used in crop genetic manipulation, from automated microscopic growth analysis to sampling and beyond, the role quickly grew to tackling the enterprise needs. This included architecture and development to provide support for “floors” or robots, implementing workflow, implementing.

San Diego, CA, US

Provided full stack development in C# for their NuVasive ERP System and Oracle-to-SQL integration. Engagement included DevOps evolution, urgent repair and dramatic enhancement of REST API implementation including automating Code Reverse Engineering and Re-Generations based on enhanced models. Revamped database interactions and provided cross-schema.

FCS Consulting was engaged by Forbes Media and Bridgepoint Education to design, build, deploy and support the cloud based Learn@Forbes e-learning platform. This product (https://learn.forbes.com/) is a B2B/B2C product used by numerous government and civilian organizations as well as individuals for premier business and technology courses and custom.

San Diego, California, US

FCS Consulting was initially contracted by Inseego to port legacy VB back-office services and private Web App to Azure, C# and Asp.NET MVC as part of the Inseego global ERP consolidation/migration effort. The effort quickly morphed to FCS tasked with providing resources to assist in global program management across US, Europe, Africa, Australia, project.

The original engagement was to assist development and implementation of a highly customized Polymer framework implementation used in the Back-Surgery assistance software. This later also involved design and implementation of the X-Ray imaging and patient/table/C-Arm X-Ray machine tracking via creation of Quaternion libraries. Additionally assisted in the.

FCS was hired by Blast Motion to fix the Identity Server, identity management and OAUTH implementations. The fix allowed for immediate growth by tens of thousands with minimal maintenance vs. the previous implementation. Additionally implemented proper CI/CD for the web applications and services and SQL Servers across the Dev->Prod spectrum, reducing cost.

• The primary purpose of this engagement was to establish a development team/presence in San Diego for the client. To provide focus, I was responsible for converting legacy applications written as classic VB.NET ASP with.
• For areas of client focus, architected new approach consistent with clients vision, provided development plan and resource planning as well as oversight for local development team resulting in highly accurate delivery.
• Architected and implemented new approach for processing version data from external entities resulting in dramatically simplified development effort, reduced complexity and increased performance (99.5% performance.
• Developed a host of tools to assist developers and QA in code generation, automated testing (including at CI build layer) and automated/manual test suited for QA and Developers to use. Most tools were Windows Services.

San Diego, California, US

This contract was to assist Audatex with the corporate merger and office consolidation effort from their satellite development offices to a single dev center in Utah. The contract was to provide the business with a consultant team capable of addressing critical issues and maintain business and technical knowledge while the new teams were being built out in.

San Diego - US | Tokyo - JP, US

Contracted by Sony Electronics to significantly enhance existing support products as well as to design and deploy new solutions leveraging cutting-edge technologies to automate diagnostics and metrics collection and reporting across devices, ranging in OS’s from Windows to Android and iOS running on classic desktops/laptops to mobile devices, cameras.

London, England, GB

Contracted by Towers Watson to help across the engineering spectrum to quickly increase product quality and return product to a predictable schedule. This has included identification and resolution or recommendation of changes from management approach, SDLC/Process adjustments, team adjustments, direct management and training where needed for internal and.

San Diego - US | Tokyo - JP, US

Contracted by Sony to provide immediate resolutions for a product and project in crisis, as well as to architect a new set of software products with “Mobile” focus to provide assistance to cross the Sony product line. Also responsible for definition of new DB systems, jobs and services as well as related coding and implementation across Mobile tier.

Providing consultant services utilizing.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, SQL, LINQ, Code Gen, JQuery, Javascript, Kendo, Knockout among other technologies. Effort includes rapid development of new Web sites and performance optimization across tiers using various tools as well as providing recommendations/ad-hoc training on more advanced techniques in management.

San Diego - US | Tokyo - JP, US

Worked on various products and technologies, such as LINQ, WPF, C++, C#, SQL Server on Windows 7 and now Metro on Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2011 and the latest related.NET. Some efforts included creation of kernel mode driver (using C) for Windows 8, to provided data for the Metro App (BIOS tables and other information). Effort also included work to.

London, England, GB

• Contracted by Towers Watson to work with their international teams to port a legacy ASP.NET / Web Service application to an MVC / WCF based application leveraging DI (Dependency Injection) via Castle and JQuery(UI)..
• Provided training and guidance on MVC, corresponding robust modeling, WCF, threading, security and others technologies and approaches.
• Coded foundational layer of MVC Implementation across tiers open which applications were built. Also developed custom Role Provider, security/thread principal implementation and serialization, and custom request.
• Assisted with implementation of Dependency Injection across tiers
• Developed new charting engine and redesigned many pages to use the new engine.
• Implemented numerous VS 2010 Add-Ins for Code Injection and Instrumentation available for use in production runtime support using high-speed shared memory.

San Diego, California, US

Initial contracted as Sr. Architect to provide prototype WPF app, hosting large custom OCX written in C++, and to make changes to the C++ HTTP requests to instead route thru WCF Services created as part of the prototype. Contract evolved to also include providing training to local and remote teams on items such as WPF, LINQ (in general and To SQL and To.

London, England, GB

• Contracted by Watson Wyatt to urgently resolve numerous product and process issues and to design/develop product enhancements for their new flagship, multi-culture sensitive product. Organizational improvements.
• Developed code reverse engineer and instrumentation add-ins for Visual Studio
• Provided numerous enhancements to teams via cross-training of advanced features in.NET, including LINQ, multi-threading, reflections, extenders, etc.
• Provided wealth of one-on-one training to teams in proper use of SQL capabilities, such as partitioning, profiling and optimization, indexing strategies, among others.As engagement hours regularly consisted of.

San Diego, CA, US

Retained by LPL to fill numerous roles, such as Enterprise Architect to Programming Lead. Architecture tasks were at the enterprise layer with responsibilities of oversight of projects from architectural perspective, including review and sign-off authority for all software documents required for SOX and other regulatory requirements. Programming was for.

US

As an independent consultant to this outsourcing firm, responsibilities range included providing sales assistance, architectural recommendation for proposals, local vs. off-shore allocations for engagements, project estimates to hands-on development for very-to-extremely complex / high-risk efforts. Provided architecture and development work for numerous.

• Brought onboard to immediately resolve all critical product failures, increased global confidence in product suite, transform engineering organization as well as corporate engineering approach. Maintained this new.
• Build global confidence in the products, company and new corporate technical vision and ability to deliver.
• Set the enterprise engineering vision and objectives, assume budgetary responsibilities and manage all aspects of engineering including training, architecture, design, implementation, testing, release and support and.
• Definition, staffing and training of the Dev, QA and IT departments.
• Assessment and correction of all major management, personnel, process, and product issues.
• Human Capital Management attributes, such as hire/fire, role creations and promotions for managers and directors, definition and implementation of corporate policy for engineering staff.

San Diego, CA, US

• Assume overall product development management responsibilities to rescue a market press sensitive/high visibility, high business value multi-million dollar portfolio management product.
• Provided numerous consulting services to LPL Financial, to include serving as a Development Manager, Project Manager, Analyst, Architect, and Programmer.
• Primary function was serving as program manager for business critical projects.
• Directly managed over 20 managers and developers, external dev. team managers, architects and other teams across 4 independent corporations
• Responsible for requirements management, risk mitigation practices, ensuring user-community and quality assurance verification progress and development responsiveness
• Responsible for release management process and plans, and creation of post-implementation support processes and plans.

San Diego, CA, US

• Contracted to assume overall ownership for the conversion of the LPL billing system, currently responsible for over one-third of the yearly income for this multi-billion dollar company.
• The conversion was from a Unix Perl/Sybase system to a load-balanced, fault-tolerant, high-speed C#.NET Intranet implementation.
• Fulfilled the business requirement of near zero user community impact, while greatly enhancing the capabilities of the billing system in areas such as performance, scalability, and administration.
• This effort consisted of all attributes such as budgeting, staffing, analysis, architecture, development management, verification and release management.
• Responsible for conducting analysis including trends and projections, designing product architecture, determining implementation infrastructure needs and development technologies. Additionally generated cost-center.

US

• Responsible for coordination between product management requests, development fulfillment, quality assurance efforts and product delivery attributes, such as ensuring legal compliance of escrow accounts, release.
• Provided planning, risk analysis, requirements review, scheduling, resource allocations and coordination for international development, quality assurance and implementation teams. Managed development processes related.
• Daily use of MS Project for mapping manpower and timeline allocation, as well as the use of Visio for programming models, department flow, and business processes.
• Responsible for development, training and implementation of complete product development lifecycle processes, including documentation needs through infrastructure requirements, such as QA verification environments to.
• Developed and implemented Configuration Management tools, automated build processes, task assignment notifications, automated project plan updates on status change and resource availability reporting.
• Conducted department meetings and managers meetings to assess product status, risks, provide focus and to provide technical advice when applicable.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Served in capacity as Assistant to Director of Software Development, sharing responsibilities for numerous in-house and distributed software applications provided by Waterhouse Securities, Advisor Services..
• Served as Enterprise Architect, responsible for reviewing existing product architectures, re-architecture and for architecture of new applications and services. Developed architecture for cutting-edge.

US

• Initially, directed a staff of six to conduct research and development for AdvisorPATH, a 3-tiered internationally distributed portfolio information and real-time trading package. Application was developed utilizing.
• Re-engineered and automated development department product life cycle, from request, through deployment. Automated CM processes. Environment development mixture to include Visual C/C++, Visual Basic, MS Transaction.

US

• Developed a multi-threaded Global Multi-Currency Portfolio Management and Analysis Systems utilizing C/C++ with Embedded and External SQL access. Environments exercising inter-process communication in C for execution.
• Developed application prototypes using Visual Basic 4.0. Senior Team Member in developing applications for security performance calculations used by exchange to compute the S&P 500.

• Redesigned entire Portfolio management package from Single-Threaded/Text Interface/C-Isam based application to Multi-Threaded/Windows NT GUI Interface/RDBMS based.
• Developed Print Controllers for all firm printing with printer independence and Print preview capabilities and billing, Automated print archive controllers, Mainframe replacement applications to enable and handle.
• Designed and developed a generic institutional interface system, which greatly assisted client to rapidly grow from $1.2 Billion to $6 Billion under Management with system currently handling over 60 various.

Washington, DC, US