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Cromwell, CT

Principal Software Engineer for Scientech, a Curtiss-Wright Flow Control's business unit, mainly providing real time and monitoring systems to the nuclear industry throughout the US.

New Haven, CT

Technical Lead and Manager for two development teams maintaining and developing CRM and online quoting systems for the ASSA Abloy Door Security Solutions Group.

• Responsible for product strategy and roadmap for Westbrook two EDM / ECM product lines and to organize production and deliverables for new products and upgrades.
• Implementation of methodology according to the Agile manifest in order to accelerate development with maintained high quality and predictable results.
• Organize day-to-day activities and production of 17 developers in two teams, to make sure production rate is maintained and that project scopes are met, together with the team leads.
• Negotiate product vision and strategy with stake holders and Product Planning Committee (PPC) to ensure goals are met and product strategy / vision fulfilled.
• Handling everyday HR tasks, including staffing, reporting, performance reviews and all associated tasks.
• Responsible for organizing Design session, JAD session outcomes and making sure design is interpreted into appropriate specifications and design documents.

• Lead Architect and Senior.NET Developer with a hands-on role in large SOA project for the Document Management and ECM sphere.
• Development of process for code promotion, continuous integration (CI), unit test framework and release manifests, using Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Foundation Server (MFS)
• Responsible for architecture and strategy for Westbrook Technologies Web Service portfolio and its evolution towards BPM / BPEL.
• Implementation of routines, defect tracking and process for Quality Assurance as well as introduction of proven Object Oriented Design Patterns within the Westbrook (Fortis) SOA architecture.

• Enterprise.NET Architect in several key strategic projects aimed at modernizing Human Services and Child Protective Systems for the Department of Children and Families.
• Hands-on team lead for.NET developers, data architects and graphics designer resources involved in SACWIS renovation / conversion from mainframe to.NET & Web.
• Instrumental in specification development, end-user interviews, requirements gathering and in development of the formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in use at DCF.
• Building an Enterprise Service Bus (SOA) for use by Case Management and Background Check web based systems, which were also developed by the team.

• Hands on project manager for team of seven (7) designing and developing the platform for next generation of OSI banking products, using.NET and C#. All design is done using UML
• Leading edge.NET development project, pushing the envelope for what.NET is capable of in implementing platform services, class libraries and enabling toolkit implementation based on XML/XSLT for end user RAD.
• Business Intelligence sub-project analyzing market trends, campaign results and e-commerce banking mart data. Solutions is based on leading edge.NET technology using OLAP and Microsoft Reporting Services.
• Building object oriented business objects and business façade using C# creating a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• Team Lead for team of three programmers implementing Web based medical coding and reimbursement system.Doubled as hands-on programmer and interpreter of HIPAA requirements:
• Design, coding and implementation of WebServices for medical coding, user authentication and in-patient grouping and pricing of medical cases. Environment used was ASP.NET, C# and JavaScript.
• Developing strategic medical coding and reimbursement software Web.Strat™ for hospitals and physicians.
• Evaluation and design of security for WebServices using Web Services Development Kit and digital signatures.
• Extensive exposure to C# and ASP.NET through product re-engineering to comply with HIPAA health care regulations.

• Senior Web Architect and supervisor (staff of 12) in development of a Web based customer care (CRM) system for the telecommunication industry. Tools used were MS Visual Studio, Microsoft Transaction Server and MS SQL.
• Design and modeling of strategic Web based call center systems for use over heterogeneous platforms.
• Evaluation and migration of new technologies (.NET) and administration / monitoring software for use in the customer service departments.
• Responsible for producing system- and functional specifications based on user requirements, as well as data modeling using System Architect and UML.
• Managing, supervising and recommending on deployment and scalability issues for eLEC customer base systems. Enterprise level rollouts using IIS, SQL Server and Oracle 8i.
• Responsible for team of four (4) developing financial OLAP software for margin analysis, corporate rollups and interfaces with accounts packages and payroll.

• Senior Solution Architect working for a software house based in Norwich, England. Was supervising team of ten (10) developers on both sides of the Atlantic, developing 3-tier client/server solutions for a time and.
• Vice President for RCS subsidiary sales & marketing division in Sarasota, FL, responsible for that divisions P&L / result.
• Project Manager for an enterprise sized 3-tier client server system, including Microsoft Transaction Server, Microsoft SQL Server and COM/DCOM technology.
• Developed enterprise CRM system for large customer on the US West coast, enabling them to deliver a much higher standard of financial information across their subsidiaries spread all across the continent.
• Specifying, modeling and participating in transition of RCS strategic products from a Access/FoxPro database platform, onto SQL Server 7.0 and Oracle 7.0.
• Modeling of enterprise wide security database, working in close conjunction with security experts from RCS customer base, using Rational Rose System Architect and Asymetrix Info Modeler. Advanced Performance Tuning and.

Organized day-to-day tasks, met with clients, gathered requirements. Translated RTM (Requirement Tracability Matrixes) into specifications. Calibrated actual schedule against estimates, goals and timelines. Made necessary adjustments to resource needs and made sure best practices frameworks and principles were followed and adhered to.