Josh Horton Email & Phone Number

Charlotte Area, North Carolina

Kannapolis, Nc

• Conducted research and development of new web technologies (i.e. Telerik Kendo, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, and Twitter Bootstrap) to be used in the application rewrite using MVC 4.5 and Entity Framework 5• Coordinated with Business Analyst to provide desired functionality requested in service tickets for the maintenance and support of legacy applications.• Updated TFS AutoMerge application which when executed merges TFS changesets from a development to a production environment.• Wrote Standards of Procedure documentation for staging the production environment to be published to the production server.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Involved in the development and maintenance of an internal web application that would allow the client to view and update work orders created by their sales personnel in the field.• Tasked with the re-write and optimization of their web service that would generate PDFs, through the use of SSRS, to be stored in a Document Repository for later viewing.• Required to pass PCI security certification in order to hold secure code reviews of fellow team member's code.• Created a server-side DataAccess class that allowed for a central location of all ADO SQL queries. Along with a client-side library that made actual asynchronous post backs and data retrieval more efficient giving web pages faster load times.• Also created a client-side library for Telerik controls that removed redundancy and handled client-side databinding.• Created mobile web application for iPads using jQuery widget controls so that managers would have the ability to work in the field and around the office.

• Developed a Dental Admin Portal using Silverlight 4, RIA Services, and the Model – View – ViewModel pattern. This application is to allow a user to generate a rules based system that would determine if a person is eligible to have a dental procedure performed.• Created custom Membership, Role, and Profile Providers that would allow other developers to use the built in ASP.Net Application Services with the company’s custom data accessing COM+ components.• Aided with the further development and maintenance of their NetClaims application which was used as a reporting application for the insurance providers budgeting needs.• Helped other developers with their debugging issues, along with giving them ideas of other technologies and practices.

• Identify and analyze known issues within the application, and develop solutions to correct these issues. • Provide solutions in response to employee service requests which result in higher employee efficiency and effectiveness. • Assisted in the development of the internal SharePoint application in transition from the Asp.Net web application.• Created features for a Client Portal which allows clients to review account details and assignments, and export data to MS Excel spreadsheets.• Created customer dashboards with Silverlight 3 to give a more aesthetically appealing look and feel to the data.

• Worked on a team to convert and upgrade a Java-based application to a .Net web application. The 404c MASTER Diagnostic™ tool is the industry's first automated web-hosted 404(c) compliance tool. The site is deployed in a SaaS environment and uses an innovative questionnaire format to provide plan sponsors with the documentation necessary to substantiate their fiduciary compliance. • Worked on a team to provide the securities department of a major bank an application to track an employee's certification(s) in security and procedures. Application also manages the employee's personal and work information consisting of assigned branch, region, and managers, giving the ability to easily assign to new areas and classes.• Worked with a team of developers to create an enterprise-level .Net web application to replace an existing site. The new site is an employee benefits enrollment and administration platform that electronically connects brokers, human resource administrators, employees, carriers, and third party administrators who participate in the benefits enrollment and benefits administration process. Uses the latest in object oriented technology and approaches, and has over 1 million registered users.

● Responsible for conversion from outdated software to .Net platform.

Computer Science, Software Engineer, Data Structures, Networking, Compiler Contruction, And Mathematics

Computer Science, Vb.Net, C++.Net