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Sole developer on an ASP.net/VB.net 3.5 Visual Studio 2008 intranet application with a SQL Server 2005 database for a medical device/biotechnology company. Used the AJAX extensions and the AJAX Control Toolkit. Used Visual Studio 2008 to create a Winforms application in VB.Net to load large XML files into SQL Server 2005. Used industry standard .Net architecture with a presentation layer, business logic layer, data access layer and business objects. Wrote XSL templates to persist the parent-child relationship as the entities were inserted into the tables.

Drove new development on a dashboard web site using ASP, the prototype JavaScript framework with AJAX and Flash using a MySQL database. Mapping components written in VB.Net. Wrote complex stored procedures, views and creating tables in SQLyog. Also did new development and maintenance on an ASP web application using MS Visual Studio 2005. Wrote complex stored procedures, triggers and jobs in SQL Server 2005. Wrote numerous stored procedures to handle the business logic in T-SQL. Constant use of VSS, FileZilla, VPN and Remote Desktop Connections.

Responsibilities ranged from guiding a team of .Net developers, requirements gathering, business analysis, making and meeting deadlines, to promoting the project into production. Wrote the business layer and business objects in VB.Net & C# in VS2003 and VS2005 for a large web project. Wrote complex stored procedures, triggers and jobs in SQL Server. Worked daily with the Business Analyst and DBA to turn business requirements into business logic in code. Wrote numerous stored procedures to handle the business logic in T-SQL. Wrote a VB.NET Wwindows service for handling file system operations.Maintained a large legacy import application written in Visual Basic 6.0. Wrote DTS packages in SQL Server to handle large, complicated import processes. Coded the middle tier VB6 dlls to parse XML. Helped design the UI and wrote the ASP logic. Wrote components that transformed data using XML/XSLT using classic MS distributed enterprise-wide architecture. Created reports with Active Server Pages in MS Visual InterDev and Crystal Reports. Connected to MS SQL Server with ADO. Constantly usingUsed Enterprise Manager/Query Analyzer to write stored procedures, triggers, and views and design tables using T-SQL. Occasionally writingWrote scripts with VBScript and familiar withused CuteFTP, PGP, SSL and SSH2.

Worked on a B2B web site for a manufacturing company. Used ASP, VB, MS Commerce Server, COM+, and SQL Server. Wrote a data accuracy application for keeping two databases synchronized. Pulled Extracted data from an Oracle8 database, performed aggregation in a VB component, transformed XML documents through XSLT then inserted the data into the SQL Server 2000? backend using ADO. Experienced with writing queries in both Transact-SQL and XPath. Used MSXML, and Data Transformation Services

Built a massive VB n-tier application with MS-SQL 2000 database using COM+/COM/DCOM. Created ActiveX DLL’s for use in Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and Component Services. Used Data Access Objects (DAO) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Did database analysis, writing views and stored procedures in SQL Server. Familiar with the Rational Unified Process and Unified Modeling Language (UML). Thorough understanding of deploying and installing distributed applications using vbMake and InstallShield. Exposure to Extensible Markup Language/ Extensible Stylesheet Language (XML/XSL) and Microsoft Messaging Queue (MSMQ). Experienced with Object Oriented Programming concepts (OOP). Used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for version control.

Wrote applications for a small insurance company using MS Access, VB 6 with SQL Server. Created and modified COM/DCOM components using VB 6 for use in Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). Used Data Access Objects and ActiveX Data Objects.

Was responsible for all technical aspects of building web sites for external clients. Wrote servlets in Java using Visual Cafe and MS J++. Used SQL Navigator to modify and browse Oracle databases. Set-up Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to hit Oracle back-ends. Used Homesite to edit HTML/DHTML code. Maintained and enhanced a large client/server distributed application for a Fortune 500 client. Tools used: Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access, SQL, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) to an Oracle database. Used DAO and ADO.