Rick Buffington Email & Phone Number

For more than 20 years, I have worked as a Software Developer and Technology Consultant, leading and supporting initiatives to develop innovative software products and services. I am highly skilled in collaborating with cross-functional business and operations teams to identify business requirements and develop software and automation solutions that improve business performance and user experiences. My work history also includes driving the effective planning and completion of software product development objectives, while managing key relationships with customers and internal teams throughout the development of software solutions.PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS*Improved document accuracy and throughput by creating an application that automated PDF document review and comparison processes, which enabled the SAP team to evaluate documents more than 70% faster compared to previous manual processes.*Developed a software service able to collate hundreds of events per minute from several data sources and created a master table view for displaying outage details on maps via GIS mapping software, improving railway network troubleshooting by providing near real-time visualized statuses of railway devices.*Produced more than $100,000 in annual cost savings by developing an Outlook Add-in to manage distribution lists using Active Directory Services; solution facilitated the successful migration of more than 44,000 mailboxes.*Designed software functionality to use Flow Actions in ServiceNow as REST endpoints via a Mid Server, enabling the live presentation of data during user form population processes.

Listed skills include C#, .Net, Asp.Net, Visual Studio, and 44 others.

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  Ceo/Founder

  Oktorocket

  Dec 2022 - Present - Tennessee, United States

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  Western Governors University

  Information Technology