Grady Persell Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Increased revenue by analyzing scalability of server resources and making recommendations that 'Big Mike' McRorey implemented.
• Developed web UI using React.js and Redux on an agile Scrum team.
• Added new web API capabilities using C#.Net.
• Designed and built improvements to the database to support new features.

Houston, TX, US

Contract to hire at Global Custom Commerce / Blinds.com (a Home Depot company)

Houston, TX, US

• Designed, integrated, and implemented cross-application improvements to the company’s main web software, writing high-level and low-level design documents that were used to communicate the design to Software.
• Led development and successful deployment of an ASP.NET MVC application with some aspects of the MVVM design pattern. This application uses KnockoutJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, RequireJS, Lodash, and other Javascript.
• Led development efforts in a Scrum/Agile environment with release cycles ranging from weeks in some cases to months for larger efforts. Provided leadership in implementing automated DevOps processes in Visual Studio.
• Led development and successful deployment of a business module that uses Entity Framework. This C# module is used by an internal and an external web application.
• Developed and enhanced a highly customizable, revenue-generating web application using JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, C#, ASP.Net, WCF web services, SQL Server, and SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services).
• Designed and developed new tables, views, stored procedures, and functionality on SQL Server databases to support the needs of customers.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Collaborated with product management personnel to gather requirements for an ASP.NET web application that should save the client more than $1.5 million per year.
• Designed, documented, and developed a SQL Server database for this ASP.NET web application to drive and track the creation of packages of engineering documents.
• Developed this data driven web application using C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, Javascript, XHTML, and SQL with Visual Studio 2008.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Developed a web application using C# and ASP.NET that uses more than a dozen.NET and COM components and third party libraries such as Infragistics NetAdvantage.
• Developed software using open-source libraries such as wxWidgets and Crypto++. Enhanced secure methods and protocols for hosted internet applications.
• Collaborated with product management colleagues and customers to gather requirements. Wrote functional specifications to document and confirm requirements.
• Designed, created, and tested a cross-platform GUI for cryptographic key management in C++ using several third-party code libraries.
• Developed several SQL stored procedures in collaboration with a DBA.
• Assisted and participated in software testing activities to assure the quality of my work.

The Woodlands, TX, US

• Developed.NET applications that use Oracle On Demand Web Services.
• Developed several Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures.
• Managed the development, testing and implementation of data integration processes between Oracle/Siebel CRM On Demand and legacy applications.
• Managed the successful rollout of data integration processes to production systems.

Pullach, Munich, DE

• Helped the company save millions of dollars per year by completing and rolling out asset management software.
• Saved the company's reputation with many large customers by designing and creating hot fixes on tight schedules.
• Helped save hundreds of man-hours per month from labor delays by identifying opportunities for speed improvements in the company's pallet tracking software known as PalTrax. Designed and developed software with a team.
• Managed the rollout of new features to maximize quality and met deadlines for new versions.
• Maintained more than three million lines of source code written mostly in VB.Net, C#, VBScript, HTML and JavaScript.

Houston, TX, US

• Generated $2 million in revenue in less than three years by creating quality software products that manage contract costs for companies with daily contractor headcounts from 1,000 to 30,000 people. Designed and.
• Created process flow diagrams and communicated system design.
• Wrote and tested object-oriented.NET components and ASP.NET web applications and Windows applications in C# as part of a team of software developers, meeting deadlines and rolling out new features.
• Created data objects that constituted a database layer to enable easy transition from a SQL Server database to an Oracle database. Solved database performance issues.
• Converted a large application (over 100,000 lines of code) from a client-server application written in C++ to a web application written in C#.
• Designed and created three COM components for one project to simplify software maintenance, saving the company hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars per year.

• Reduced operating costs by over $10,000 per year by analyzing and solving inaccuracies in the C++ code of the company's Total Order Planning System. Solving this problem involved reading and understanding unfamiliar.
• Participated in weekly meetings as part of a team that developed software applications to manage the inventory of the company. Improved the efficiency of enterprise software.
• Designed, programmed, tested, and maintained large-scale Enterprise Planning Systems software written in Visual C++ and ABAP (SAP). These systems were used to plan the company's worldwide operations.

New York, NY, US

• Worked on a team that generated revenue by developing software applications that manage credit card purchases and travel expense adjustments. These applications were used to win new corporate accounts.
• Participated in team development and testing activities. These activities improved the quality of the software products while building teamwork skills.

Bachelor, Computer Science And Engineering

Associate Of Arts (Aa)