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Leadership: Created Microsoft systems workgroup to educate Java/Linux infrastructure team. Instituted DevOps changes with working examples using existing software architectures and tooling. Created high level architectural diagrams of process workflows. Diagnosed institutional problems across siloed teams.Security: Directly responsible for providing documentation and systems knowledge for PCI audits. Designed and implemented standards based authentication (2FA, OAuth2) for legacy apps. Implemented automated package analysis for .NET and Node projects. Cloud: Migrated ASP.Net sites running in static AWS EC2 instances to run in AWS Fargate containers. Created new Angular and .Net Core applications running in Azure App ServicesDevOps: Instituted Infra-as-code, created guidelines and examples for CI/CD using Bamboo. Created migration path from Bamboo to Github Actions. Tooling: Enabled development in VS Code via remote containers. Reorganized problematic solution/project/file architectures in Visual Studio. Added editorconfig files to alleviate problems between Linux and Windows developers.Software: Upgraded legacy .NET Framework 3.5 apps. Web sites were migrated to .NET Framework 4.8 while console apps were migrated to .NET 6. Class libraries were migrated to .NET Standard 2.0. Migrated from static/shared classes to dependency injection using latest .NET Standard APIs. Implemented Entity Framework ORM to replace legacy data layers.

Consulting for cloud-based, containerized applications and associated DevOps.

SaaS: Implemented Node.js,GraphQL, C#, PostgreSQL applications, Docker build files, GitLab & BitBucket CI/CD for containerized fintech SaaS applicationsCI/CD: Implemented idempotent database migration scripts, automated containerized builds and testsTooling: Implemented VS Code containerized development tooling, build tasks, launch files, and debuggingTechnologies: Node.js, GraphQL, C#, PostgreSQL, Visual Studio Code, GitLab, BitBucket, AWS, SSO, OAuth, TypeORM w/ migrations, Stripe Connect

Leadership: Spearheaded efforts to correct institutional problems related to management, Ops, technical directionTechnologies: AWS, Angular Universal, Node.js, .Net Core, Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Stack, VSTS

SPA: Developed multiple single page applications for the cable industryCI/CD: Implemented automated build, testing, release management using VSTSLeadership: Member of UI patterns & practices team, R&D for new technologiesTechnologies: .Net Core, Angular, Node.js, Entity Framework (w/migrations), OpenID Connect, VSTS, Git, MongoDB

Full stack .NET consulting

Patterns and Practices: Helped a growing software development team implement best practices for source control, security, and methodologyTechnologies: C#, ASP.Net Web API 2, TPL, OWIN, Angular.js, Bower, NuGet, GitHub, SQL Server Clustering, IIS Web Deploy, Active Directory Federation Services

PCI Compliance: Designed PCI compliant credit card rewards redemption system for a major credit card vendorSystems Analysis & Design: Lead architect and developer for a Human Resources Information System project to integrate existing third party applications and web services into a centrally managed and operated internal website. Worked extensively with HR personnel and upper level management to define business rules and guidelines. N-Tiered Development: Designed a business object framework based on .Net framework guidelines and principles. Allowed separation of front-end HRIS job application websites and HRIS administration websites from middle tier business logic code/servers which in turn allowed a separation in logic and hardware from database code and servers.Agile Development: Implemented source control and project management using Team Foundation Server. Implemented branching and merging guidelines to enable an iterative development and deployment process for projects. SQL: Developed data-migration software using .Net encryption services. Designed and implemented databases for HRIS applications. Designed database architecture for a dynamically generated questionnaire and workflow tracking system.ASP.Net: Designed and created front-end HRIS user and administrative portals. Used jQuery, AJAX, LINQ-to-SQL, ADO.Net and ASP.Net data-bound controls architecture. Designed custom ASP.Net controls with design-time support in order to cut down on development time and enable code reuse.

Technologies: C#, SQL Server 2005, .Net Remoting, Visual Studio 2005, Subversion (Source Control), Microsoft SQL Server Management StudioSystems Analysis & Design: Designed and implemented modules for complex course scheduling software. Was lead developer in charge of meeting with division managers, president of company, and users to determine system requirements, analyze business needs, suggest changes to business processes, and create a project development plan.Leadership: Instructed co-developers in object oriented programming principles, organized code reviews, helped less experienced programmers refactor code.Windows Forms: Designed custom user controls with design time functionality to integrate with custom business objects used in the project. Cleaned up and redesigned plug-in architecture for project. Tested and debugged pre-existing problems caused by flawed multi-threaded programmingSQL: Created an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework that integrated with pre existing business objects. This involved creating dynamic SQL statements and implementing caching schemes to create object graphs which maintained reference integrity when database objects were converted into business objects on the client. Developed a custom notifications service that integrated with SQL Server 2005 using .Net triggers and stored proceduresRemoting: Created a custom notification service that used .Net remoting architecture to send messages from server to client machines across networks. Consisted of a plug-in architecture that allowed for extensions to communicate with a variety of clients and accept messages from a variety of servers.

Leadership: Lead developer for distributed processing audio/video search appliance. Designed application framework with lead architect. Organized efforts of co-developers. Met with clients to determine needs.XML: Designed and developed enterprise xml search engine. Utilized XPath expressions and .Net Xml DOM to provide context sensitive searching of documents. Provided setup wizards that analyzed xml schema documents and xml documents to find text nodes and build appropriate XPath expressionsMarketing: Worked with marketing team to facilitate custom development for customers. Travelled to/worked with clients that required a person with technical expertise to close a deal. Clients included Colorado Public Radio, North Virginia Community College, and University of Oklahoma. SQL: Developed stored procedures, database architecture for CRM database, online storefront database, setup Membership/Role/User database for ASP.Net 2.0Remoting: Developed interfaces, MarshalByRef objects, and configuration files for communication between clustered search appliances. Designed custom channel sinks for encrypting and decrypting messagesASP.Net: Created web services to monitor status, run diagnostics, and change settings on running applications. Created easy to understand administrative user interfaces for multiple websites and appliances. Developed custom ASP.Net server controls for drag-and-drop functionality in Visual Studio.Multithreading: Refactored existing code to better utilize multicore/multiprocessor machines. Utilized locking mechanisms ensure thread safe access to shared resources.