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Sterling Heights, Michigan

Full-stack developer in an Agile development team utilizing ASP.Net, AngularJS, SQL Server 2014 and Windows Server 2012 to design, implement and support a portfolio of enterprise business applications. Gather and refine customer requirements, implement new applications and features, perform maintenance and second-tier technical support.• Extended an existing AngularJS application for viewing the standardized corporate job structure by implementing a Salary Modeling tool for managers and HR users to calculate salary offers and bonuses based on candidate’s geographic location and corporate policies. This feature replaced a spreadsheet that required periodic updates and manual distribution to individual users, reducing labor and ensuring salary offer consistency.• Extended an existing, high volume ASP.Net Web Forms application for Project Accounting ticketing to include new functionality for Contracts ticketing. New functionality included custom user interface and business logic to support fifteen variants of Contracts ticket types. This enhancement allowed the retirement of a separate SharePoint application and improved productivity of the service center by merging functionality into a single tool with substantially improved page rendering performance.• Designed, implemented and administered a hybrid ASP.Net MVC 5/AngularJS International Travel Request application. Application implemented complex business logic enforcing corporate international travel policies, provided workflow routing of approval tasks, advanced reporting and query capabilities, and user-configurable data values and embedded text. Application replaced an end-of-life commercial platform, providing a substantial savings in licensing and support expenses.• Designed and implemented a Web API OData interface around a corporate data warehouse that provided a simplified data access mechanism supporting client-based applications using commercial software suites such as Kendo UI.

Lead engineer for Microsoft .Net-based robot and PC application development. Establish best practice guidelines for proprietary software development kit, create reusable code repository, mentor other engineers and perform training seminars for both internal and external audiences.• Re-designed a partially complete, multi-tiered data acquisition application into a component-based, encapsulated, maintainable solution that implemented last-minute changes in customer requirements while meeting original delivery schedule.• Re-factored R & D prototype parameter optimization functionality into a modular, internationalized, “wizard”- type robot functional package, as part of a market-capture initiative with a large automotive partner.• Migrated legacy PC application functionality to the .Net Compact Framework and added new features using an undocumented, pre-release, private API in under four months which met strategic customer’s accelerated system installation deadline.• Acted as validation team leader for US in multi-country beta testing effort with product development group in Sweden. Validation program recognized within ABB for its cost-savings benefit, nearly 100 defects were reported and resolved prior to most recent major release.• Designed and delivered several ABB WebWare-based robot backup systems ( up to 800 devices ) using virtualization technology to consolidate as many as 25 middleware PCs onto one server-class machine.

Serve as primary support contact for all ABB WebWare product support issues. Act as customer advocate in Configuration Change Board ( CCB ) meetings, assist with Integration and Verification activities, develop and maintain software test equipment, provide application engineering and sales support services. • Served as liaison between customer and development team for product’s first enterprise-scale system deployment, played crucial role in reproducing and resolving connectivity issue with NT4 operating system.• Created several WebWare SDK utilities to extend product functionality, bridging crucial functionality gaps that were addressed in later product releases.• Founding member of the ABB Software User Forum, an external user group that offered free, community-based assistance to users of ABB Robotics software products.

Gain exposure to several sectors of the Robotics business through a series of six-month assignments within the organization. • Developed and delivered Robot Containerization System training for newly-hired technicians without budget funding, during system development and acceptance testing.• Created Excel-based risk assessment tool that standardized, documented and greatly reduced the time required to conduct Robotic Industries Association ( RIA ) compliant system safety audits.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Electrical Engineering