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Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Examine upcoming technologies and evaluate how good of a fit they are for our platform.The goal is to help move our platform forward without disrupting our current system and to continue delivering on the current business needs and not disrupt our highly available 24/7 system.A current project is looking at ways to embrace containers with a micro-service oriented mindset. This task requires careful planning on how best to convert our monolithic system into a set of domains that align with distinct services.A more future looking task is examining the level of effort to work with Reactive platforms that enable more flexible, loosely-coupled and scalable solutions with the same goal of not disrupting our current platform.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Work with stakeholders to develop an architectural framework that aligns strategy, processes, and people with business goals. I translated requirements into various solutions using strategies and patterns that would make them adaptable, available, scalable, and reusable.Key Achievements:• Look at ways to bridge the gap of various legacy systems with more recent development patterns and create new solutions that leverage old and new.• Work at a leadership level to provide feedback on the development processes and to help establish effective guidance.• Established an architectural community of practice to share ideas, implement solutions, and foster acceptance among the teams. During our interactions we defined the architectural road map, planned for significant changes, documented standards, created reference models that guided the teams.• Examined commonalities that cut across domains and find ways to incorporate them into the workflow of all teams in order to avoid duplication of effort, provide efficiencies, and bring a cohesive whole to the various products across all of our teams• Develop and guide teams into using Domain Driven Design, cloud based patterns, messaging patterns and examine the Actor model in order to enhance the elasticity of our applications and services.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Develop and Designed software that helps route doctor and patient calls. The system that was created processed calls 24/7 and has achieved a .99999 uptime rate. The platform is a combination of specialized call server processing, databases, services, web applications, and windows applications.Key Achievements:• Worked on integrating a large variety of technology to create a cohesive platform. Some technologies that were used are call servers, SQL Servers, Exchange, IIS, Active Directory, Web, Azure, Windows, ASP.Net, MVC, Ajax, JQuery, Rabbit MQ, Azure Service Bus, RESTful interfaces.• Helped design and implement a new platform and guide a team of developers in its creation.• Wrote numerous applications spanning from internal tools for the customer service unit, customers, and our IT department.

Sussex, Wi

Performed software consulting in the development of an industrial application, working with .NET and C# technologies.Key Projects:• Helped Quad Technologies rewrite their applications using C#, .NET, ADO.NET, and XML. Two key areas that I was responsible for were custom controls to be used in Windows Forms and accessing their data using ADO.NET and remoting• Develop custom controls for a specialized printing press application in C#

Worked with Sierra on development of the User Interface for Hallmark Card Studio 2003

Chelsea, Mi

Performed software consulting in the development of consumer games and a peer to peer content distribution system, working with .NET and C# technologies.• Developed a content distribution system that allows users to share content in real-time. Prototyped application and presented proposals to investors for funding.• Worked with Sierra on development of the User Interface for Hallmark Card Studio 2003.• Utilized new technologies and platforms for engineering GameStudio, an interactive space game.

Bellevue, Wa

Managed software development projects and led the engineering team to complete projects within time guidelines. Scheduled software production tasks and executed product marketing.Key Achievements:• Created FotoMessenger, a client-server application for sharing, viewing, and managing digital pictures that provides a single user interface for all interactions. Programmed with WTL and used WinInet API for server communications.• Developed a subscription-based application allowing groups of people to share content securely. Designed messaging logic, client networking layer, and main application. Integrated TCP/IP, and HTML protocols.• Engineered prototype for multi-user game with Internet capabilities, utilizing Wild Tangent Drivers, WTL, simple collision detection, and network messaging.

Bellevue, Washington Area

Software Patterns and C++ where my bread and butter along with learning about Project Management and User Interface Design.Key Achievements:• Performed team supervision and leadership for up to 12 developers in the creation of software products. Mentored and trained development teams and liaised between technical staff and other departments.• Led team of three engineers in creating a derivative work for Print Artist for Hallmark Scrapbook Studio, revising existing code base to differentiate user interface.• Provided team supervision for 12 programmers in the development of Print Artist 12, managing project schedules to deliver fully functional product early without work overload. Integrated new publishing object into the system via the command controller and created new User Interface for future versions.• Co-led migration of Print Artist code into several libraries used by other teams within the company, focusing on the central command controller and the undo/redo logic of the engine.• Designed underlying document template for all documents in Print Artist 8.0, creating tools to generate all blank documents and a large portion of the user and internal interface for the core Print Artist engine.

Led engineering efforts for development of a Resource Management system used in Learn to Speak 7.0 and Reader Rabbit Kindergarten 2.0, improving storage, modification, and retrieval of media elements.Key Achievements:• Used Visual C++ and MFC to design a Visual Tool for media addition that allows data setup for all resources and recognition within a running application.• Created a Speech Recognition wrapper for Microsoft’s Whisper 3.0 Engine and finalized design on internal DirectX framework for animation, text handling, and printing modules.• Supported and implemented Speech Recognition and Counting Lake Exercise in Reader Rabbit Kindergarten 2.0.• Designed and executed a Text Effect and Clip Art component for Calendar Creator 5.0.

Initiated and implemented modular networking scheme for a Stratus host and client PCs, utilizing a common code base to communicate via IPX and NetBIOS over Ethernet and Token-Ring and support Windows and OS/2 application communications with the Host.Key Achievements:• Designed network-printing program allowing Stratus host to print to any Netware printer.• Created a driver license imaging system integrated with Oracle database for textual information, photograph, signature, and fingerprint file maintenance.