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San Diego, California

Greater San Diego Area

• Worked closely with business analysts and frontend engineers to implement, secure and refactor public and private endpoints utilizing WebAPI, REST, and .Net framework. In addition each endpoint is secured with both role and row level access and complies with HIPAA, PHI and PII regulations. • Implemented N-Tier Architecture integrating repositories and database layers employing SQL, Stored Procedures, Database Views, LINQ, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework.• Employed unit tests to insure code coverage and the integrity of future code changes using both LINQ and the Moq framework to mock objects to simulate dependencies that would be otherwise unavailable in a unit test.

Greater San Diego Area

• Implemented re-architecture of the company’s client portal geared towards drastically improving customer experience. Utilizing an n-tier architecture employing .Net, Angular, TypeScript, REST, stored procedures and an approximate query engine to resolve high volume queries quickly, drastically improving performance and ease of use.• Worked with internal stakeholders to design and develop a single pane of glass Security Management Console allowing the in-house Security Operations Center to quickly analyze and produce timely security incident notifications to client. Built using .Net, WinForms, SQL and MySQL based high volume columnar databases.• Designed and developed a wide array of services and daemons to consume, analyze, and alert on more than 10 billion network logs per day. Implemented with C#, SQL Server and MySQL.• Worked with in-house stakeholders and product manager, expanded existing client, administration, and operations portals to add functionality and performance upgrades using C#/VB.net, ASPX, and Telerik controls. • Performed bug fixes and code management tasks on large pre-existing code base.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Spearheaded development of consumer facing financial calculators, utilizing MVC3/jQuery/JavaScript designed to generate financial planning leads for both retail and enterprise clients.• Implemented WCF web services to consume, calculate, and produce detailed retirement analysis reports intended to inform and motivate financial planning consumers.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Implemented ASMX and WCF web services to propagate financial planning leads to a data store, send alerts, query data and statistics, and map lead data to multiple enterprise application schemas. • Optimized web services by employing dependency injection to configure multiple workflows and simplify unit tests with StructureMap and NUnit. • Translated legacy Visual Basic applications and core libraries to C# applying OOP practices, increasing both application speed and stability while reducing the overall size of the code base.• Created SQL stored procedures, modified database scripts, and adapted legacy applications to use type safe SQL command parameters to prevent SQL injection.• Maintained and modified continuous integration and automated build processes with MSBuild and Team Foundation Server to both find code defects early and simplify to build processes.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Spearheaded a nine month development effort to create the company’s second flagship product, Profiles Forecaster.• Created and extended core COM libraries to consolidate 80% of the product code shared between desktop and web applications. • Developed proprietary licensing and administration tools to protect against software piracy and facilitate creation, transfer and accounting of generated licenses.• Implemented ASP web-based financial fact finders to simplify data entry between financial planning professionals and flagship products. • Developed intuitive product installations and patches to ease distribution of products and reduce tech support call volume.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Modernized legacy financial applications to expand into the MS Windows marketplace. • Developed a suite of automated test scripts to thoroughly test new and legacy products and reduce defects. • Created a wide range of custom development tools to simplify creation of input screens, software configurations, and user reports.

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