Tom Abbott Email & Phone Number

I love solving puzzles. All kinds of puzzles: crosswords, cryptoquotes, ken-ken, kakuro, mysteries, etc. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from solving a good puzzle.Professionally, I also love puzzles. How can we get more efficiency from this algorithm? Why isn’t this software working as it should? Where have I seen this problem before and how did I solve it? Is there an even better solution now? Can this business process be improved with the judicious application of software? Where can I apply a minimal change to yield the maximum benefits in the shortest possible time with the least risk? I derive a lot of professional satisfaction from solving these kinds of puzzles. I have consistently demonstrated that I have the skills and the tenacity to solve them.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, C#, Software Development, Visual Basic, and 10 others.

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  Senior Software Developer

  Envision It Inc.

  Dec 2002 - Present

  My recent work experience has been in the Microsoft ecosystem. For the past decade, or so, I’ve been using the .Net languages, Visual Basic and C#, to create business and data tiers for custom websites and line-of-business applications. Front-end development has been primarily .Net based, but in recent years I’ve had the pleasure of learning and working with some newer frameworks such as JQuery, Knockout, Bootstrap and Angular JS. I hope to see Angular gain some productivity and structural enhancements in its next releases to support true enterprise level development.MS SQL Server has been my main tool for back-end storage. I’ve learned to make good use of stored procedures and user defined functions to wring performance out of the database and keep the data tier clean. I have also had some experience with Oracle and MySQL, but that has been limited to conversions to MS SQL and occasional troubleshooting.I’ve spent a lot of time putting together custom SharePoint solutions. As anyone who has worked with SharePoint knows, it rarely works 100% as documented and in those cases where it hasn’t lived up to its hype, I’ve always been able to find/build the necessary workarounds. Reflector has been my favourite tool for digging into the guts of applications such as SharePoint. Those peeks into third party libraries and applications have been invaluable in solving many difficult issues.I really like the concepts of Agile development and have successfully used Scrum on several projects ranging from a small two person team working for a couple weeks to several person teams working on multi-year projects. I don’t have a favourite when choosing between lone wolf development and team focused projects. Sometimes the problem calls for a single point of view. Other times a dedicated team brainstorming and hashing out the best solution is the right way to go. Ideally, I can do some of each and keep improving both sets of skills.

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  University Of Waterloo

  Mathematics And Computer Science