John Babb Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, MD, US

Baltimore, Maryland Area

I have been a partner at Cheshire Software Solutions since 2005. During that time, I have personally been a team lead, architect, and/or lead developer on all of the projects listed below. In addition, I have a hand in managing the technology choices and direction of projects at CSS. Listed below are the most recent projects of which I have been a part.

Arlington, VA

Worked as a senior software developer converting a legacy retirement and savings application to a single page application, using Backbonejs, ASP.NET Web API and C#. Navigated the project’s complex composition and requirements to deliver software using SCRUM Methodologies, Continuous Integration, and Paired Programming. Our process required heavy use of.

Bethesda, MD

Worked as a senior engineer with the MRDW Build team loading Adobe’s Omniture web analytics package and Google's DoubleClick for Advertisers data into Marriott's data warehouse (Netezza). Additional responsibilities included the migration of data out of the Marriott data warehouse into the cloud via Amazon Web Services, using services such as Redshift, EC2.

Remote

Project manager and team lead at PlanetTran.com, a green-friendly car service. As team lead, I was responsible for managing the application life cycle by systematically deprecating legacy code and implementing new feature sets to reduce the overhead of managing the car service, as well as implementing feature sets and requirements to meet ever-evolving.

The Agilent Demo Division is responsible for demoing its products throughout the world. I supply IT support for their inventory tracking system for the Americas, Europe and Asia. Recently, I managed the data migration from MS Access to SQL Server. I am also responsible for moving the code base from MS Access to an ASP.net, n-tier application to consolidate.

Wilmington, DE

Created and developed several websites, including www.cffde.org, www.jitc.org, and www.delawareadrc.org. Aided in server migrations to Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7. Migrated and upgraded a mission critical application, Evolv-CS, used to store HR data used to apply for government funding, their main source of revenue. Configured, developed.

Boston, MA

Architect and team lead for Grinnit.com, a startup company focusing on smart phone application development to solve the problem of context-based photo and media sharing. As team lead and architect, I was responsible for coordinating efforts and building a client server solution that published content to a variety of homegrown clients including native.

Developed and consulted on a Facebook marketing campaign to drive site traffic and exposure for Ski.Com’s web presence through the creation of Facebook applications developed with Microsoft technologies leveraging the Facebook Developer Toolkit, VB.Net and Sql Server.

Developed a custom scheduling application to track ASPA’s anesthetists and the locations they are staffed at. Developed and N-tier solution that hooked into Exchange server to sync outlook calendar’s with the application and created custom reports to track the amount of call that each person takes.

Developed custom add-ons for Advent Partner Reports, a hedge fund reporting and accounting software package, used by clients such as HBSC and Canyon Capital Advisors LLC. Trained their clients, nationwide, on custom reporting and how to navigate the data structure. Reverse engineered complex SQL Serverstored procedures and schemas to create custom internal.

Developed and maintained an advanced custom tourism scheduling, pricing and tracking Access/SQL Server application for Winged Victory USA, a student travel service. This project included extremely advanced pricing calculations and very specialized reporting capabilities as well as interaction with Sales Logic API.