Nicholas Brabon Email & Phone Number

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Rochester, Ny, Us

International, Global, Oo

• Lead Scrum Master: facilitating Agile ceremonies for Daily Standup, Retros & Sprint Planning. Participate in the Global Scrum of Scrums meeting weekly in partnership with other international teams working to remove blockers and collaborating on upcoming changes to the application. Identified opportunities for continuous improvement focused on removing impediments from different teams. Created dashboards on Azure Dev Ops and then volunteered to be a developer resource on weekly bug meetings with Pos & Stakeholders.• Implementing features in the Academic Module, including working with PO’s on design decisions and built features to custom specifications. Features included: Academic Progression, API Updates, Student Registration, Grades, Student Display Data on the Portal and fixing released functionality bugs. • Serve as U.S. resource to investigate build issues on the Team City CI server when Poland is not available. • Added enhancements to the Student Portal, which is a WordPress based site that uses KnockoutJS to do CRUD operations against the U4SM API.• Lead Developer resource available to troubleshoot issues with U4SM & Student Portal upgrades and deployments during non-working hours • Started preliminary investigation of Canvas LMS API and built out a test project to consume the API in C# before passing work to the engineering team for completion. Test project was used as the foundation for the LMS package that was deployed to customers for utilization in their installation of U4SM• Mentored our QA staff to stand up their local environments and teach them how to build the multiple applications that allowed the local site to be functional. Selenium auto tests were then run on their environment to complete integration testing. • Traveled to Poland to help set up multiple teams with their local environments and do a knowledge transfer of our process and coding practices.

Encompass Lifecycle Management – Manages the tracking of prospects from prospects to alumni, focusing on Occupational Therapy students at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri.• Led the writing of client’s new UI using MVC 4 and jQuery UI; including C# and SQLServer on the back-end• Work with the open source library EPPlus to generate reports to convert data into a user-friendly excel files• Provide direction on the placement of imported data from multi-sourced files and transferred to SQLServer tables Time Entry – Create a productivity-tracking web application designed to ensure accuracy in billing recording daily job responsibilities • Design and build the complete system using Bootstrap, Knockout JS, Entity Framework (Code First, SQLServer), EPPlus (Report Creation) and MorrisChart (Dashboards)• Facilitate bi-weekly meetings with the client to review system functionality, user-interface design, and execute change requests

Worked on Swank's next generation health care platform. Fixed bugs and worked on new enhancements to the system.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Ekon Benefits specializes in the administration and consulting of employer sponsored retirement plans.Relevant ProjectsEkonnect- A proprietary daily valuation system based on web technology to replace a third party server client application system. A web application built on the .Net MVC 4 stack to handle dividends, reports, transactions and confirms for 401k participantsTechnologies Used: C#, MVC 4, Team City, Git, Visual Studio 2012, jQuery & jQuery UI, NHibernate 2.0, MariaDBFrontendBuilt using MVC 4, Razor View Engine and jQueryCreated acceptance tests utilizing open source projects CasperJS & PhantomJS from GitHub. The test results were then integrated with Team City.BackendBuilt two Virtual Machines using Virtual Box running Ubuntu Server 12.04: Primary: MariaDB database with automated backups using Percona Xtrabackup, allowing hourly incremental backups with shell scripts run by Cron jobsSecondary: Used rsync for taking data from the primary for testing in development casesVoice Response Unit – A phone system built so that participants can look up account information, transfer calls to administrators and request documents that allows intergration with the old system and Ekonnect. Technologies Used: CentOS 6.2, VirtualBox, Prophecy 11, VoiceXML 2.1The VRU was built with Prophecy 11 running on CentOS 6.2 in a VirtualBox VM. Built an MVC 4 web based application using Razor with VoiceXML 2.1.Developed a program to import old data to be intergrated with Ekonnect Secure Send - An MVC 3 C# web application use by our administrator and clients to securely send information between each other. Technologies Used: C#, MVC 3, Mercurial, Visual Studio 2010, jQuery & jQuery UIUpgraded from a ASP.NET Web Forms to MVC 3. Added searching, paging and auto-complete using jQuery UI with Ajax, improved overall user experience for the Administrators

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

I worked for Stockell Health Care. Using a case based process, I worked on the group enhancements. I used C++ and SQL to accomplish these upgrades on the InsightCS system.

FileArmor *Responsible for analyzing project requirement documents from PM andincorporating functional designs into Engineering Requirement documents for use by theFileArmor team. .Designed and implemented a reworking of the interprocess communicationbetween the GUI and the Windows service. Upgraded from a C++ implementation to a C#implementation using built-in .NET Remoting, which was more object-oriented and improvedthe reusability of the code base, which led to a 30% reduction is defect reports from theapplication.*Redesigned the scratch space DataSet tool to be serialized instead of parsing XML,which allowed us to decrease file size and write the encrypted data to Alternate DataStreams on NTFS file systems with a result of significant performance improvements.*Implemented Smart Card authentication and, more specifically, Common Access Cards (CAC)that are used on all Government sites, with ActivIdentity software.KeyArmor *Designed test programs to find critical bugs in the IronKey SDK, which used C++ andlater wrapped the final program in C#.*Awarded Product Development “Outstanding Service Award” for the successful prototypethat was certified by the Quality Assurance department.*Managed the creation of a build process on a separate Windows Server 2003 machine,running NAnt, to improve the reliability of KeyArmor and FileArmor builds.*Learned how to use C++ to call managed code from an unmanaged executable to handleinstances where the product was not installed. Also implemented an unmanaged executableto contain the managed code so the proper user alert box was displayed, if .NET was notdetected.Technologies Used: WinForms, C#, C++, Dotfuscator, VMWare, ActivIdentity, SVN,Tortoise, NAnt, MS Visual Studio 2005, Technologies Used: WinForms, C#, Micorosoft Installer, C++, Dotfuscator, Crypto API, VMWare, ActivIdentity, SVN, Tortoise, NAnt, Team City, MS Visual Studio 2005; Installer, Crypto API, Team City

St. Louis, Mo, Us

is a government contractor specializing in access control thatwas bought by ITT in 2007.Relevant ProjectsPurifile - Purifile is a cleansing tool for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDFfiles. As a summer intern I did the preliminary research and development for the PDFapplication.* Developed and delivered a 30 minute in-house training educational presentation aboutthe PDF file format to other team members working on similar applications. * Created a PDF module for Purifile programmed in Java that searched PDF files forinformation pertaining to the Purifile environment.8 Technologies Used: Java, Eclipse

Ba, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering