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Draper, Ut, Us

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San Diego, Us

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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Brought on as a consultant tasked with training development teams and creating a process to ensure code quality, as well as providing architecture design and support. Took over role as Scrum Master for a failing team later in project.- Trained entire development staff of 30 developers on unit testing, test driven development, code quality, and continuous integration.- Built continuous integration system which automatically ran all unit tests, and produced reports on code coverage, and static code analysis metrics.- Developed rule loader tool which cut the debugging time down to 1/10th or less of original time, due to the ability to dynamically load up only certain parts of the code base.- Rewrote entire build system bringing entire build time down from 40 minutes to 5 minutes including unit tests and code coverage.- Created a tool for automatically parsing production and other environment logs from multiple sources in order to extract out unhandled exceptions and present a web based interface for seeing statistics on occurrences and details.- Took over responsibility for as Scrum Master for a failing team. Increased the team's velocity by a factor of 4 by focusing on best practices and accurate requirements gathering.- Acted as main technical architect for the project, and development mentor to each scrum team.- Designed and programmed many features of the system from front end to back end.- Developed an automated testing framework using Watij by creating an internal domain specific language, increased number of automated tests by over 1000%.- Created a custom language and compiler which allowed business users to write and understand automated functional tests.

Create architecture of the entire iLoanManager web software platform. Develop all code and database functionality to support the business. Integrate with existing third party companies for ACH, credit checking, and transaction processing services.- Built and designed the entire software package in ASP.NET and C# using Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, and ASP.NET Ajax.- Designed the database system for the software using SQL Server 2005.Developed a fully automated transaction processing system, to pull all transactions from the data store, FTP the transactions and responses from the third party system, and automatically reconcile transactions against the data store.- Created a fully automated system for checking and reporting credit to loan verification systems via web service calls and secure FTP automation.

Developed communication software to send and receive messages to mobile devices from a remote administration site through the use of ASP.NET and mobile cell phone technology.- Completely redesigned, and rewrote the existing VB6 communication framework using the latest .NET technologies, and design patterns creating a scalable plug and play model able to easily be scaled and expanded.- Integrated ASP.NET Ajax technology into an existing web app, creating new functionality and a much improved user experience.Designed and wrote framework code capable of taking an XML product specification and serializing it to .NET objects, greatly improving the productivity of the development environment and ease of maintenance of existing products and software.- Drove process improvements and best practices such as unit testing, test driven development and code reviews.

Maintain and stabilize existing software products. Design and develop new software solutions from business requirements to work within Amphire architecture and framework. Provide guidance to other developers in areas of software development best practices, .NET architecture, and software design.- Rapidly learned legacy VB6 BizTalk 2002 application and complex environment, adding immediate value and helping to stabilize a very unstable code base.- Designed and developed .NET 2.0 application used to preprocess incoming POs, creating an extendable plugin architecture, fully documented with NDoc and fully unit tested to 95% code coverage.Researched and applied development technologies and tools which greatly improved efficiency and code quality, including: Microsoft enterprise application blocks, FxCop, NUnit unit testing, NDoc, Microsoft Atlas, .NET Framework 2.0, MSIs, and Enterprise Architect.- Created documentation and process flow diagrams for legacy code using UML and Enterprise Architect.- Assisted in the architecture and design of solutions for many complex business problems.- Helped other developers, and acted as a mentor in many areas including: best practices, .Net Framework architecture and patterns, tools, and source control management theory.- Ported existing VB6 app to .NET, reducing source code to one fifth the original size.- Solved database issues and wrote stored procedures as necessary when DB team was overloaded.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed and developed core functionality and framework of Embedded XP .NET MFP product. Contributed to architecture of entire system in biweekly architecture meetings. Lead other developers in .NET development and windows development technologies. Served as .NET expert for the team, by providing in depth solutions to technically challenging problems. Owned and implemented feature for workflow application as part of .NET deliverables.- Discovered critical design error in the custom tool framework, which would have required a large amount of rework to fix.- Used Cruise Control and NAnt to create a fully automated build system, which automatically creates new labels in clear case, runs NUnit tests, runs FxCop, and runs NDoc on all assemblies.- Developed custom Tab Control for .NET from the ground up.- Key driver in development process improvements to include unit testing, code reviews and other appraisal activities as well as design methodologies.- Developed virtual keyboard custom control for .NET.

Crawley, West Sussex, Gb

Designed object-oriented applications based on specific customer needs. Developed C++ programs to parse data streams and translate data into compliant format. Designed web-based solutions and custom interfaces. Met with clients and analyzed requirements. Selected products, deployment process and technical environment. Performed post sales customer support for issue resolution, upgrades, modifications and new installations.- Developed C++ program using STL that enabled documents to be re-archived during index updates.- Designed C++ based report extraction tool that retrieved text documents and translated them for export into Excel spreadsheet, utilized for integration of Macro4’s software products.- Reverse-engineered metacode language and developed instream Xerox Metacode Parser to dissect components of print streams and version resources. Produced $1.3 million in new contracts.

Computers

Bs, Computer Science