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High Point, Nc, Us

High Point, Nc, Us

Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

• Product manager and system architect of the Market Tracking System, a high-profile set of in-house software that supports our brands and sales teams through 6 furniture markets a year.• Analyze business needs and requirements. Architect, design, and build solutions and enhancements using Microsoft development technologies including ASP.Net, MVC, C#, JQuery, Bootstrap, WebApi, and Xamarin iOS mobile app all with SQL Server data.• Provide and manage integration of SAP export data into the Market Tracking System and other 3rd party systems for product, inventory, customer, sales, invoices.• Manage and lead 1 Software Engineer.• Support and update features in the Caracole iPad App sales tool, including tighter integration with Market Tracking and Front Desk guest management.• Designed and built new Caracole Web Portal, a portal containing Front Desk, Market Tracking, Price List, and administrative features.• Designed and built new Front Desk registration and showroom management application with ASP.Net MVC to replace the outdated VB Winforms client application.• Fixed and improved business processes, code, and data to greatly reduce issues and needed support during busy market times.• Designed and built new administrative showroom maintenance (to add/remove items in a room).• Support showroom staff, product development, and sales reps all year and through 6 furniture markets a year, with supporting data, reports, and code changes as needed.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Worked in a team of 5 software engineers in an Agile / SCRUM environment designing and building a new web application to support their new Ecommerce business.• Worked on ASP.Net MVC and Web API using .Net Core, Entity Framework, LINQ, Bootstrap, jQuery and Azure SQL and Blob storage.• Built shared distributable components through Nuget packages.• Worked with the product owner to solidify requirements through user stories and acceptance criteria. Attend all sprint meetings and participate in sprint demos.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

As a Lead IT Developer I worked in an Agile / SCRUM environment using .Net technologies to develop Windows and Web applications.• Worked with a team of 5 developers in an Agile / SCRUM environment, supporting and adding new functionality to the EMS applications, including WPF, ASP, JQuery, Bootstrap, Web API, Azure, EF, EDMX, T-SQL.• Worked as consultant with our BA’s, PM’s and our client to design and develop a solution to automate user creation and management for access into MarketGuard using XML and WebAPI.• Designed the UI and helped develop the EMS application, a .Net 4.0 C# WPF (MVVM) application using Entity Framework and LINQ. EMS is both a client app running on a Surface Pro and a server application ASP.Net (MVC) with synchronization between client and server databases. • Designed the UI and helped develop the Survey Management Tool. SMT was designed using Expression Blend and developed with C# WPF. The application maintains surveys in a SQL DB. • Redesigned UI look and feel for MarketGuard, a customer facing reporting tool in ASP.Net.

Monett, Missouri, Us

• Initiated source control with VSS, Automated build process, improved installation of BI Navigator.• Re-architected Dashboard Designer from classic ASP with heavy client side code to ASP.NET and AJAX utilizing new classes for business logic, database access, and dashboard data. • Researched, proposed and recommended solutions for SQL Injection, Simultaneous loading of dashboards (page load from 12 sec to 5 sec.), Telerik and Dundas server controls.• Lead migration of source control to Team Foundation Server and adopt agile development with Conchango. Team TFS administrator.• Architect, design and begin coding of new Hierarchy Builder utilizing Telerik server controls.• Re-designed and developed My Profile in BI Navigator from classic ASP to ASP.NET.

San Francisco, California, Us

6 Month contract position. Developed SQL stored procedures and designed UI for Actuate reports and Surrogate administration.

Due to company layoffs, my employment here was terminated.• Designed and developed Official Work Wear marketing and transactional eBusiness web app.• Move Lollytogs.com web site from static HTML, to DotNetNuke, a content management system.• Developed WebAppDeploy, a VB.Net application to assist in the deployment of web sites.

• Designed, documented and lead developer VFS Gateway, to allow several 3rd party applications to interface with Info Lease. VFS Gateway would log, track and pass messages along to destination applications via .NET Web Services, Windows Services and TCP/IP sockets.• Utilize Crystal Reports to create, maintain and support reports from Express OS with a SQL Server database. Created many database views to support reporting requirements.• Enhanced, improved and supported a Volvo dealer application “TransAction”. This application allows dealers to create and submit deals for credit approval and dynamically generates PDF legal documents for the contract of sale. TransAction integrates with systems via web services• Gathered user requirements, designed and developed custom application to allow developers to better track their time support or project development. ( ASP.NET, C#, Oracle DB )

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

• Gather user requirements, design and developed custom and unique web applications and intranets utilizing ASP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL Server.• Received ASP.NET and VB.NET training.• Build administrative applications for existing web applications utilizing ASP and SQL Server.

Stamford, Ct, Us

• Designed and developed new Customer Service Representative Intranet portal. • Performed cosmetic and catalog changes to CareXpress, a Web Self Care package.• Designed and developed Information Systems intranet web site with remote administration.• Maintained and enhanced Customer Service Representative (CSR) intranet portal.

Denver, Co, Us

• Team lead for VFBrands BtoC site. Responsibilities included review of site requirements, architect and design of database and middleware applications utilizing XML and MQ Series.• Developed coding standards and guidelines for the eBusiness group after cleaning up memory leaks and other coding issues in both ASP and VB for several sites.• Team lead for Delta BtoC site. Gathered customer requirements as well as designed, coded and managed two contractors on the project. Technologies used included XML and MQ Series.• Project lead for a JanSport web site. Interfaced with customers to gather requirements as well as architect, design and develop ASP web pages, Oracle database and stored procedures.• Project lead for Chic and Gitano jeans sites. Implementation of new retail locator for both sites.• Team lead programmer in researching and designing database and MTS COM objects to support the growing number of VF BtoB and BtoC commerce sites.• Implemented a SQL DTS package to process store data for the retail locator at Wrangler.com.

• Developed ASP pages and VB programs to test and debug C++ and VB COM objects. • Developed C++ and VB COM objects running in MTS and IIS that access SQL stored procedures allowing ASP pages to access all DayTimer product information. • Documented internal and external design of COM objects to be used in the new online store. • Built intranet for web team documentation to allow remote builds of C++ COM objects. • Worked in a team environment, to design and develop the new DayTimer online store. • Received training for COM development using Visual C++. • Improved and enhanced existing 3-tier client/server telesales application using Visual C++. • Received training for MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) development using Visual C++.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Us

• Programmed with in-house developed 4GL language (similar to INFORMIX). • Improved and modified existing applications to fit customers growing needs. • Coordinated specifications for customer enhancements and implemented the enhancements. • Supported customers running SCS software on UNIX, MS Windows and DOS. • Automated many backend processes using Batch script, Kermit Script and Korn Shell scripts.