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Took some time off from the real world to be a "Gentleman Farmer" and work on our new property in Bedford

Extensive experience working with both Federal and State agencies on multiple projects.

Software company focusing on helping teachers control technology used by students in their classroom. Their product, DyKnow Cloud, allows teachers to monitor and control iPads, Macs, Chromebooks, and Windows based devices in the classroom.As a software developer, areas of responsibility encompass analyzing business requirements and creating tasks to meet those requirements, developing and implementing new software programs, constantly improving and maintaining existing software, creating effective testing of code to ensure software is optimized and functional.• Designed and delivered full stack proprietary issue tracking system in ASP.NET and SQL Server for use by customer service and development teams to better track development issues• Re-designed existing ASP based administration console in ASP.NET for primary legacy product resulting in improved user workflows and added functionality• Designed and delivered production Node service used by customers to split and convert PDF file content to SVG and SVG back to PDF, allowing users to import data into a web based document broadcast system• Designed and delivered custom URL filtering and tracking system in C# and Interop for Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox on Windows based operating systems, allowing teachers to track student usage of the web and block inappropriate URLs during class time• Worked closely with team to move legacy server back end to Web API in C# and MVC, on Amazon Web Services improving scalability and management• Designed and delivered search services from SQL Server only search to using Apache Solr with SQL Server back end to drastically improve search times for users• Continually maintained and updated suite of integration and unit tests to ensure quality of code