Investigating Joy in Software DevelopmentLots of clients, lots of technology stacks (mostly .Net, and now Cloud has branched things out), lots of different business domains. In the end: solving the right problems for people, making things smooth, getting things done.

Transfer to Web Team Leader in the Same Department. - WCF Web services for internal use (moving to SOA architecture)- Redesign of Participant-facing website (ASP.Net 3.5 using MVP, LINQ and TDD; Agile methodology with 1 week iterations) - Support of Legacy web sites and web services (WSE3, Asp.Net 2.0)- Support of internal and PING/Federate SSO.- Continued support of BLL and DAL layers- Continued support of merging/branching for entire department (up to 5 concurrent releases)

Member of Spending Accounts Management Systems team, developing product used to reimburse healthcare, dependent care, and commuter claims. Subsystems: Card Swipes, Adjudication/Rules Engine (the "brain" of decision making), Rollover/Paperless Reimbursement (data from carriers converted into claims), and Eligibility (data from clients to load participant, eligibility, and deposit information). * Modernizing DAL's and BLL's. * TDD as a way of life - setting the example, teaching others* Improving on designs - making a better loader* Building requirements documentation directly into tests and code* Test data frameworks for database-inclusive unit testing * Triggers for data roll up and concurrency* DAL generation via codesmith* Refactoring existing code to promote life of code and testability* Tools to improve efficiency- C#, .Net 2.0, Oracle .Net provider, NUnit, Codesmith, VS2008- NDepend, NAnt, Cruise Control, ER Studio- Determining what people know, what they don't know, whom to ask, and appropriate process.

Involved meeting with the customer to determine needs, figure out an overall plan, do specification work, do coding, building and packaging, and finally delivering software that did the right job on the first try. The customer and I went through 4-5 iterations of additional functionality, approximately one month per cycle. The solution involved designing DNN modules to rearchitect a CMS solution for a customer's public-facing website in C#, ASP.Net, and MSSQL. Used unit testing, functional testing, and MVP patterns to ensure a solid deliverable.

Member of software development team for UGS's product Teamcenter Community, using C#, ASp.Net, WSSv2 and v3, MSSQL, following a full SDLC process. My involvement: * Developed data migration and installation features for multiple releases; also data migration from external vendors. * Maintained multiple features for several releases.* Created innovative internal tools in support of QA, field engineers, metrics, and analysis. * Debugged and solved some of the harder field engineer problems. * Participated in system architecture and core internal library work. I had a special role as the Stress Testing Engineer: * Stress testing of features with automated benches* Scalability testing at HP laboratories yielding sizing and performance guidelines* Lots of automation, C#, Perl, WebServices, GNUPLOT, OpenSTA, ssh, and other scripting tools.

Perl developer and software development process tweaker: * Maintained core libraries for manang web server state (similar to ASP.Net for Perl)* Created reporting engine to enable users to perform ad-hoc queries against SQL databases.* CVS/versioning system expert

Member of team which used automation tools (Java, Perl, bash, etc) to make managing 500+ sun servers into a piece of cake (automated MOP boots, ssh bulk automation/package delivery, etc).

IT for Unix and NT network - * System Administrator for all network services* PC Help desk* Network Engineer* Assist developers in reverse engineering network protocols