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Vienna, Virginia, Us

Leveraged existing tech stack including Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, RSpec, Jest to deliver professional, fully tested updates and enhancements to mission-critical internal web applications according to user stories.Practiced Agile and extreme programming methodologies, including daily standups, iteration planning, retrospectives, pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration.Collaborated with product managers, designers, and team developers to deliver high-quality, user-friendly features and bug fixes on time.Performed in-depth code reviews, junior developer mentoring, and provided technical guidance to team members as needed.Primarily responsible for creating technical interview methodologies, relative candidate ranking, conducting interviews and evaluating candidates for open positions.Conduct brown bag sessions to share knowledge and experience with company development team, particularly in the areas of personal/team development and growth.

Washington, D.C., Us

Spearheaded new development of Login.gov’s groundbreaking Inherited Proofing workflow using Ruby on Rails and Agile development methodologies/practices.Solely responsible for the design and development of the secure software integration between Login.gov and Service Providers (VA), utilizing RESTful API and JWT.Artfully leveraged existing codebase and Gems, maintaining DRY principles for all new source code produced.Employed RSpec and Capybara Ruby Gems to produce robust, automated unit and feature tests for all developed code.Provided invaluable technical advice, direction and solutions to unblock team members and help drive software solutions.Collaborated with Project Managers to provide solutions to complex design challenges.Interfaced directly with product Stakeholders by providing working product demonstrations as needed.

Washington, Dc, Us

Design, test, code and deploy software solutions using Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, React Redux, Redux-Saga, TDD, GitHub Flow and Jenkins/Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)-centric CI.Designed, implemented and secured JSON APIs using Rails, to be consumed by client-side AJAX requests.Successfully squashed myriads of bugs improving the codebase and improving the end user’s experience.Provided consistent software delivery quotas, meeting organization and customer expectations.Collaborated closely with team members using Agile development and Kanban workflow using Jira.Aligned with stakeholders and business users to gather specifications in order to create Epics and User Stories for team backlog.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Designed, coded and implemented full-stack web application solutions using Ruby on Rails and TDD. Significantly enhanced user experience in the UI through database (PostgreSQL) index optimization.Troubleshoot and provide fixes for bugs making for a more stable code-base and user experience.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Interfaced with company stakeholders and software engineers to provide company TaxWare integrated software solution, resulting in $20,000 monthly savings using Ruby.Problem solved and integrated Yardi Resident Screening into the company flagship product using MITS Resident Screening 3.0 standards.Communicated team sprint/status updates directly to superiors and stakeholders serving as Scrum Master.

Port Washington, Ny, Us

Leveraged Visual Studio 2012 Enterprise Edition, ASP.NET 4.0/C#/VB.NET/WCF/CSS/jQuery/jQuery UI/JavaScript/Ajax and SQL Server 2008 to design, code and deliver solutions spanning the full-stack of company flagship product, SAM.Single-handedly provided technical analysis, documentation and coding for migration from jQuery 1.3 to jQuery 1.11.1, jQuery UI 1.8 to jQuery 1.11.2 and DHTMLX 1.3 to DHTMLX 4.0 for company flagship product, SAM.Go-to person to deliver analysis, technical documentation and refactoring of all in-house JavaScript libraries and JavaScript in Web Form markup to support Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Edge for company flagship product, SAM.Designed and coded ASP.NET/C# POC Web Application to provide manual, on-demand, cache busting capabilities for cache-enabled Web Forms and Web User Controls.Responsible for creating .NET applications to support QA, including Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) report generators that utilize C# .NET and the TFS API.Accountable for the enhancement and maintenance of company TFS ASP.NET/C# Web Portal application in support of QA.Responsible for the integrity, maintenance, and enhancement of all PowerScript modules used in all company software development environment auto-deployment processes (development through production).Coded PowerScript/SQL solution Pre-compare script processing flow for SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – to maintain the integrity of tables linked using Microsoft’s SQL Server Change Data Capture (CDC) technology.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Us

Designed/architected/coded extensible/scalable, ASP.NET MVC 5.0 web application/portal, providing company Cor360 Administrators with trusted access to several company web products, using Visual Studio 2012, C#, Razor View Engine for the Presentation Layer; a DDD approach with UoW/Repository pattern in the Domain Layer; Entity Framework 5/code-first/SQL Server 2012.Utilized Visual Studio 2012 Professional, ASP.NET 4.0/C#/VB.NET/WCF/TDD/jQuery/jQuery UI/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax and SQL Server 2010 edition to maintain company’s flagship Web Application, Cor360.Responsible for creating JavaScript libraries to add Ajax functionality to existing Web Forms using jQuery.Used TDD methodology for new projects, by writing extensive unit, integration and workflow tests.Provide technical assistance to junior programmers, as well as technical advice/direction/expertise to management.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Utilized Visual Studio 2012 Enterprise edition to enhance and maintain the GAF.com consumer website, which currently receives 250,000 monthly visitors.Responsible for the redesign/re-architecture of the next generation, award-winning, GAF.com web site, using ASP.NET MVC 4.0/C#/Razor/Entity Framework 5.Designed/architected/coded extensible/scalable, ASP.NET MVC 4.0 web application, providing GAF roofing product rebates to consumers, using C#, Razor View Engine for the Presentation Layer; a DDD approach with UoW/Repository pattern in the Domain Layer; Entity Framework 5/code-first/SQL Server 2008 R2 used as the back-end.Incorporate TDD methodology in to new and existing projects, by writing extensive unit, integration and workflow tests.Greatly increased productivity of the Design Team by refactoring/restructuring/simplifying existing application code and architectural design, eliminating the need for designers to recompile the application, in order to view their changes.Provide mentorship, code reviews to junior programmers, as well as technical advice/direction/expertise. Act as technical/relationa liaison between IT groups located at GAF Wayne, NJ.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed/coded major portions of a high-visibility ASP.NET MVC 4.0/C#/Razor-based web application, used by company Financial Officers, to manage/automate complex revision processes, applied to existing high-profile position placement projects.Assigned/assumed Team Lead position/responsibilities for aforementioned ASP.NET MVC 4.0-based web application, including team management, ongoing application design/development/maintenance, TFS task creation/management, team stand-up meetings, code reviews, software risk assessment, mentorship, etc.Provided extensive and strategic code solutions involving every tier of the application architecture.Developed WCF Web Services Service/Data Contract classes, in support of existing application SOA design, to consume Business Layer libraries, in order to service the application web-based UI.Implemented Translators used to transform Data Layer persistance objects to serializable Data Transfer Objects (DTO) for transport across WCF services and application UI consumption. Incorporated TDD techniques, using tools such as moq, MStest and Rhino Mocks, to ensure code/workflow integrity, through the use of unit and integration testing.Created ASP.NET MVC Partials, reusable Javascript libraries, jQuery plugins, and utilized OOP and Dependency Injection (DI) techniques to adhere to DRY principals.Produced more testable, flexible, scalable code and libraries through the use of Dependency Injection.Coded javascript libraries and utilized jQuery to support application client-side rich UI and functionality, including ajax implementations, to create a more responsive UI experience.Created jQuery plugins to simplify and provide common client-side jQuery functionality and UI consistency.Implemented CSS in order to maintain application-wide UI style consistency.Provided client-side, unobtrusive javascript validation, to create a more responsive UI, through the use of View Model .NET Data Annotations, and custom Data Annotations.

Chicago, Il, Us

Designed/coded ASP.NET WebForms to be used in Hedge Fund Manager/Investor web portal.Programmed/maintained ASP.NET Server Controls, providing both server-side and client-side code solutions using C#, jQuery and Microsoft AJAX.Provided updates and enhancements to existing jQuery/Microsoft AJAX-based JavaScript framework. Coded/implemented jQuery AJAX solutions in ASP.NET WebForms and custom Server Controls, providing richer UI experience.Coded ASP.NET Web Methods consumed by asynchronous client-side JavaScript calls, providing AJAX data updates within existing WebForms.Created JSON objects from Data Model objects to be consumed by client-side script.Developed SQL Stored Procedures using Microsoft SQL Server 2008, to be consumed by proprietary web framework that provides data to UI components.Manage work items using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010.

Washington, Dc, Us

Designed and programmed multi-tier architecture-based internet/extranet web applications used by 10 U.S. Army organizations, utilizing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Microsoft SQL 2005, Microsoft SQL Management Studio 2005 and other development and design tools.Coded reusable, object-oriented UI-tier components (WebForms/User Controls) using ASP.NET 4.0/C#.NET to satisfy ease-of-maintenance strategies.Developed stand-alone, deployable ASP.NET 4.0/C#.NET Custom Server Control assemblies incorporating AJAX, design-time support, custom templates, control state management and theme capability to enhance RAD of the UI-tier.Incorporated client-side/server-side security measures in the UI-tier, implementing Regular Expression data validation through the use of ASP.NET Validation Controls.Implemented extranet WebForm/content security using ASP.NET 4.0 forms security and Web.config security models in the UI-tier.Used C#.NET and ADO.NET to implement disconnected environment strategy data-tier components to be consumed by business-tier objects within ASP.NET 4.0 web applications.Utilized ASP.NET 4.0 Membership/Role Manager Provider API's to provide UI and business-tier security.Created databases, table relationships, schemas, stored procedures and triggers to meet complex web application functional and multi-tier requirements using Microsoft SQL 2005, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer.Developed and incorporated SQL stored procedures using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to enhance data-tier security against SQL injection.Reported to senior division heads providing detailed web application development project plans, relational database schematics, use cases, site design "storyboards", using Microsoft Project 2007 Professional, Microsoft Visio Professional 2007 and various Adobe graphic design software packages.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Developed solutions to meet business requirements in C#.NET, employing object–oriented programming concepts such as; encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction for in-house C legacy system conversion to C#.NET.Leveraged Microsoft Office 2003 Development Kit .NET Assemblies to integrate Microsoft Office Excel 2003 into C#.NET WinForm applications.Used C#.NET and ADO.NET to define and implement secure middle-tier components using both connected and disconnected environment strategies. Components were consumed by WinForms applications utilizing IBM DB2 to perform logical business transactions. Created custom C#.NET User Controls to meet application User Interface requirements. Maintained and enhanced in-house legacy Microsoft Windows applications for Pays/Order Processing written in C.

Fairfield Township, New Jersey, Us

Designed, coded and maintained Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 GUI applications using C++/MFC, Win32 and Shell API's, to create, maintain and report Adobe Flash MX 2004 application configuration and user data.Programmed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 custom GUI installation applications utilizing C++/MFC and the Win32 API to support installations and ongoing updates of Adobe Flash MX 2004 applications.Created Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 .DLL Plug-ins for Adobe Flash MX 2004 to extend functionality to include: Microsoft Office 2000 Outlook Calendar integration using COM automation, Microsoft Internet Explorer Printing integration using COM automation, ODBC database connectivity/manipulation, complex file handling including object serialization, and various Microsoft Windows operating system features using Win32 and Shell APIs.Developed company standard Adobe Flash MX 2004 reusable ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 OOP application class libraries.Composed Adobe Flash MX 2004 secure XML class libraries, expediting application customization while prohibiting client changes saving company time and money.Maintained version control database using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0.

Designed and coded Microsoft Windows NT/2000 based GUI applications using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 as standalone and add-on applications for existing HIS/RIS medical systems.Created, maintained and implemented C++/MFC class libraries for new and existing systems to include: Microsoft Windows NT/2000 system functionality; Multi-thread functionality/pooling/control/synchronization; Windows Registry processing; file handling/complex object archiving/serialization; Web Protocols/Ftp/Http; Dynamic Link Library (DLL) creation/implementation; and more.Provided Sybase and Oracle database integration for new and existing applications through ODBC, Embedded SQL and Stored Procedures via C++/MFC class libraries.Designed and coded reusable OO classes using C++/MFC according to program functional requirements.Full life cycle application development including design, coding and maintenance.

Participated in the development Windows NT software product CP4000, written in MS Visual C++ 6.0.Designed GUI using MS Visual C++ 6.0 and MS Visual Basic.Designed and coded classes in C++ according to program functional requirements using MS Visual C++ 6.0.

Designed and coded CAS Satellite App. using MS Visual C++; a C Windows NT utility used to verify workstation application files against the application's “signature” files for troubleshooting.Designed and coded Windows NT application libs (.DLL) written in C using MS Visual C++, providing program functionality otherwise unavailable to the PowerBuilder Windows Development product. These libraries provide powerful system and file functions as well as process/thread and Window control functions.Designed and coded Microsoft Word Add-in libraries (.WLL) written in C to provide application controlled correspondence processing for CAS system.Designed and coded SiGmUnd I, a powerful COBOL utility that generates embedded XDB SQL in Realia COBOLDesigned and coded SiGmUnd II, a powerful C Windows utility that generates embedded ORACLE SQL in Micro Focus COBOL.Designed and coded all Windows API solutions written in Micro Focus COBOL utilizing the Microsoft SDK to date at EPG.

Designed and programmed DBASE III "Plus" system to automate report generation, daily wrap-up routines and utility functions.

Designed intra-company mail distribution system, increasing efficiency by 50%.Incorporate DBASE III table changes to accommodate organizational changes producing a more flexible system for mail distribution.AWARDS: AT&T Outstanding Performance Award 4th Quarter, 1990.

Managed squadron wide distribution of aircraft parts via Honeywell NRMMS computer system.AWARDS: Platoon 3052 Honor Graduate U.S.M.C 1986, Meritorious Promotion to PFC 1986, Awarded Commanding General Leather Neck Award 1986, Awarded Good Conduct Medal 1990, Honorable Discharge 1994

Diploma In Computer Programming, Computer Programming

Graduate, Web Design

Cyber Security

Ruby On Rails 4.1, Postgres, Git, Twitter Bootstrap, Heroku, Dry, Rails Best Practices.

Certificate, Ios Development, Xcode 8, Swift 3, Rails-Api, Ruby, Rspec, Postgres, Heroku, Git

Certificate, Microsoft Course 10264 Developing Web Applications With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft .Net/C# Mcad/Mcsd Certification/Training, Microsoft ® Certified .Net Training

Graduate, Web Application Development/Web Design

Certificate, Java Programming For C++ Developers

Certificate, Fast Track To Powerbuilder (Building Distributed Powerbuilder Applications)

Graduate, Object Oriented Programming Using Ms Visual C++ 6.0