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Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Beaverton, Oregon, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Suwanee, Georgia, Us

Led a group of developers and quality assurance professionals to implement platform-focused solutions supporting an enterprise SaaS multi-platform application hosted on Microsoft Azure. Worked closely with architects, team leads, and Product Management to deliver new features, increase quality and performance, and facilitate team growth and a positive culture. This role required a deep understanding of Azure offerings, .NET technology stack, DevOps strategies, Agile and Scrum activities, and a strong commitment to the success of the team. • Contributed to the design and development of microservices for security, logging, and configurations including a user service that wrapped Azure Active Directory and supported authorization for the platform.• Refactored microservices to optimize performance and scalability as well as lowering cost• Led daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinements, and sprint retrospectives.• Participated in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural reviews.• Designed Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates patterns for automated deployment on Azure.• Created and optimized Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) build and release plans.• Prototyped and implemented monitoring solutions such as Dynatrace, New Relic, and Application Insights.• Implemented DevOps strategies including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and site reliability. • Promoted strong communication between scrum teams, management, and others.• Helped team focus on continued growth of both technical and soft skills.• Became a reliable resource for troubleshooting bugs and issues across all aspects of the product.• Authored NuGet packages out of common code for consistency across multiple microservices.TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Azure, C#/.NET technologies, Web API 2.0, WCF, EF6, Swagger, JavaScript, TypeScript, Polymer, Bower, Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo, VSTS Build, Package and Release Management.

Chicago, Il, Us

Designed web-based applications based on the Click Research Portal and partnered with clients to leverage the latest industry and technology best practices. Development included business logic programming, UI/forms/reports design, workflow design and configuration, and other design and implementation driven by customer-specific requirements. Defined and developed the requirements and detailed design for the customer-specific application and involvement in customer interactions. • Worked closely with project and account management to develop a clear definition of requirements and function required. • Documented requirements, design, and implementation. • Interacted and worked closely with Customer Services to deliver follow-on consultancy and services as required, provided technical help/consulting on customer support calls and helped ensure customer satisfaction. • Interacted closely with Product Development Team toward objectives of: o Ensuring design and implementation choices are consistent with best practices. o Providing feedback and direction to Development on product improvement and extension. o Creating functionality that is reusable and leverageable in the product or in other deployment projects. TECHNOLOGY: Click Portal and Research Application Suite, Microsoft Jscript, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server MS SQL Server Reporting and Integration Services (SSRS, SSIS), Team Foundation Server, Visual SourceSafe

Seattle, Washington, Us

Created and maintained the Thursday Market application built on the WordPress framework in collaboration with the font-end design team. Integrated Facebook Graph and Google Maps APIs to leverage social and neighborhood data to provide highly-intuitive and relevant results to consumers searching for local businesses. Developed data models implemented in MySQL and business logic to allow users to search for, and connect, with local businesses recommended by their friends or neighbors. TECHNOLOGY: PHP 5.X, MySQL 5.X Relational DB Design & Development, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, WordPress, Facebook Graph API, Google Maps API, PHPUnit, AngularJS, Twig.js, Foundation, MAMP, Git, Neo4j Graph Database

Portland, Or, Us

Facilitated integration of payment gateway APIs. Designed and developed ecommerce and shopping cart functionality, innovated new database designs and solutions for incrementally expanding datasets. Lead a team of developers to create and launch solutions for internal applications and reporting tools. • Designed and implemented reporting using SSRS Report Builder and Designer for monitoring live sales and transactions.• Designed and implemented several stored procedures, table valued functions, indexes, tables and CLR objects for SQL Server.• Analyzed and implemented fixes for stored procedures, indexes and Entity Framework queries.• Used DTS and SSIS packages to load and transform data from external sources into our system.• Built many custom reports for all levels of the organization using Microsoft Excel pivot tables and pivot charts.• Helped design and implement the reporting database to remove the burden of reporting directly on the production database.TECHNOLOGY: C#, ASP.Net, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, MS SQL Server 2000-2012 Relational DB Design & Development, MS SQL Server 2000-2012 Reporting and Integration Services (SSRS, SSIS), Team Foundation Server

Foster City, Ca, Us

Managed Call Center application development running on the Interactive Intelligence call center platform, a .NET based solution with SQL Server 2005 backend. Duties included custom script development, database design, and reporting and system configurations. Facilitated the integration and migration of the ReliableRemodeler.com Microsoft web-based platform and data to the Java and Oracle based platform at Quinstreet. Optimized and enhanced the ReliableRemodler.com systems including company intranet and public websites using a variety of technologies including ASP 3.0, .NET, XML. Iterated database design and administration of multiple SQL Server 2000 databases. Managed, maintained and reported large datasets through stored procedure, triggers, indexing, views, and custom functions. Managed data transformation between call center software and internal systems.TECHNOLOGY: Java, JSP, C#, ASP.Net, HTML, CSS2, JavaScript, ASP 3.0, Oracle 11g Development, PLSQL, MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, Source Safe, Perforce, ININ Call Center Software, Excel Reporting

Designed, developed and implemented a web-based document management system called @Hand using the .NET framework, ASP.NET w/ VB.NET and a SQL Server 2000 backend and was developed with Visual Studio .NET 2003, using Visual Source Safe for version control.TECHNOLOGY: VB.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Source Safe

Developed and implemented the ProEM intranet and associate database and designed Gorilla Motorsports advertisements for web, magazines, banners, and flyers. Provided support in the design and maintenance of the Gorilla Motorsports website, and provided technical and network support for all the Gorilla Companies.TECHNOLOGY: ASP 3.0, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, MS SQL Server 7, Photoshop, Access, Excel

Sacramento, California, Us

Duties included maintaining, modifying and implementing the current Software Engineering curriculum at Apollo College. CURRICULUM: Structured Analysis and Design, E-Commerce, Client-Server programming Database-Driven applications, Distributed and Web Applications, Object-Oriented programming using Java and C# .NET, Pseudo Object-Oriented programming using Visual Basic 6.0 and VB .NET, Active Server Pages 3.0 and ASP.NET, Java Server Pages including JDBC, Visual InterDev, HTML 4.01, XML/XHTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1, CSSP, CSS2), VB COM and COM+, SQL Server 7/2000, and Web Services