Mcfarren, Kristopher Email & Phone Number

Fredericksburg, Va

Fredericksburg, Va

Fredericksburg, Va

Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States

Fredericksburg, Va

Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States

Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States

Quantico, Va

• Maintained and supported the inherited legacy MCRISS application, which consisted of more than 30 modules written in a combination of ASP 3.0, Java, C++, VB 6.0, and Perl.• Lead a team of 12 engineers to reverse-engineer the legacy MCRISS application and rewrote it in C# in under 3 months.• Created a flexible and reusable PKI-enabled authentication and authorization module that meets all Information Assurance (IA) requirements defined by the Marine Corps.• Created multiple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services to support MCRISS in a simplified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that provided scalability and reusability.• Converted FTP-based application interfaces with real-time, SSL and PKI-enabled web services to improve efficiency and security of data transfers between the Marine Corps and other DOD agencies, including the Military Entrance Processing Command.• Planned, coordinated, and oversaw a complete infrastructure refresh of 24 servers spread out over 4 different environments.

• Filled the role of an Enterprise Application Architect, balancing implementation design trade-offs for 12 separate applications, encapsulating common functionality into core ‘framework’ components for reuse, and providing long-term, larger -scope direction.• Provided leadership and guidance for a team of 4 programmers.• Balanced team workload between multiple new projects and maintenance of existing applications to meet deadlines and support goals.• Acted as liaison between the development team, the business analysts, and the customers.• Played a vital role in all phases of the JSF Program Office Certification tool. This included leading requirements gathering meetings, designing a user interface that met the customer’s needs and all of the team’s UI standards, writing all documentation as defined by our CM process, creating and following a schedule using Microsoft Project, architecting the design of the programmatic classes need to construct the application, assigned tasks to junior developers, writing some of the more difficult code, coordinating all members of the team for testing and debugging, and finally deploying the application to production using automated scripts I created.• Changed the process the developers use to check files in and out of PVCS Version Manager, taking advantage of its integration with Visual Studio to provide a more reliable version control process.• Modified team processes using PVCS Version Manager and PVCS Track to provide more reliable processes by preventing developers from skipping necessary steps.• Developed a formal procedure for deploying code to a QA environment for testing.• Created a formal process for deploying code to the production environment. • Acted as the Lead Developer on Manpower and Personnel System (MPS) project.

Germantown, Md

• Interacted with customers as the primary Technical Lead for NNSA’s Project Management, Facilities Management, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Defense Programs, and Headquarter Security Office intranet web sites.• Aided in the design and development of a custom web-based Content Management Application (CMA). CMA is an Active Server Pages .NET application that uses XSLT templates to dynamically render XML data stored in a SQL Server database into browser-independent HTML.• Primary coder for much of the original VB COM components including security, and dynamic data input forms.• Instrumental in the port of all applications from ASP 3.0 / VB 6.0 COM to ASP.NET.• Designed and developed a standardized approach to using the Content Management Application which reduced the amount of time required to create new sites by approximately 90%.• Developed “Quick Transfer”, a web based (http) application that was used to replace FTP due to security needs. • Evaluated compliancy of all developed applications with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.• Initiated Server Configuration Management by recommending new procedures, and creating extensive documentation, including existing web server configuration and web server lockdown procedures.• Maintained and supported all web servers (Windows 2000 / IIS 5.0), including planning and performing all web server builds, and maintaining server security through regular audits.

Hershey, Pa

• Conceptualized, designed, and developed a web-based scheduling system utilizing Active Server Pages connecting to a Microsoft Access back-end through ActiveX Data Objects. This system completely replaced a paper-based schedule which was error-prone and maintenance intensive.• Created and maintained online documentation for the Technical Support Center. This included internal procedures, as well as troubleshooting documentation and frequently asked questions made available to end users.