Tom Dang Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx

Part of a development team that is responsible for the development, enhancement, support, and maintenance of the provider side of RealEC's product "Exchange." The environment/tools and skills used are Visual Studio 2013, SQL 2014, C#, MVC, Bootstrap, AngularJS, NuGet packages, WCF, XSLT.

Houston, Texas Area

Duties: Quickly became an integral part of the team that designs, implements, tests, enhances, and supports the organizations BizTalk applications that number in the hundreds. These interfaces/integrations often communicate with the customers from various financial institutions such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, etc. and involve work with all modules of BizTalk (schemas, orchestrations, pipelines, maps, deployment, and administration).Notable Projects:Loomis ESBOne of the two development resources on the project team to implement an ESB solution for Loomis using the Neuron ESB tool by Neudesic.

Houston, Tx

Manage a team of 3 developers, 1 BA/QA, and 2 Prod Ops personnel that develop strategic projects and support the organization.Notable Projects:Stewart Employee ImportBizTalk Project. Input is taken as daily XML files that sent new, current, or terminated employees. The files are consumed, archived, job codes translated, locations translated, and all employee data stored in SQL server via SQL Adapter. Employees were inserted or terminated based on a status flag. Cross reference data is kept in custom tables specific to the integration.Employee and Location Sync to HEAT Cloud AppBizTalk Project. Employee information and their associate location information is fetched from SQL Server via SQL adapter, and put into separate flat files. Files are sent as delta files that are sent for the past X days. By default it sends any employee who has been modified or added within the last day.Travel Profile info for EmployeesBizTalk Project. Employee information and their associate location information is fetched from SQL Server via SQL adapter, and put into separate flat files designating “adds” or “deletes.” This integration also works like the previous one where it can be run for updates that have occurred within a configurable amount of time.

Serve as a Project Manager for various client and internal projects, filling in as a developer as needed. Contributor of Point of Views that serve as analysis of important and emerging issues and topics within the IT industry.

Was part of a team of developers that worked alongside an offshore team to develop a new enterprise level web application product. The web application was designed using the MVC pattern. Also worked with WiX to develop install kits for both the system database and web application. Also served as a Tech Lead for the product, which entailed project management duties. Got exposure to the administrative side of TFS and the Process Templates.

Technical Environment: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server 2010, BizTalk Server 2006Development Team Lead:Serve as the team lead being the go-to person for any questions related to the system.Also provided feedback on individual team members and the overall performance of the team.Recognized slowdowns, and recommended solutions to the overall software development process.Facilitated code reviews.Serve as the spokesperson during scrums.SureClose/AAR Agent Sync:Design and implementation of the integration between AAR and Stewart's transaction management system, SureClose.Used BizTalk to take in a flat file of AAR users, and performed various operations on the users in the SureClose system.AAR Notification Windows Service:A timer enabled windows service that checked for certain criteria, and if those conditions are met an email notification is sent out.Flagstar/SureClose Integration:Design and implementation of the integration between Flagstar and SureClose.Process involving accepting a request via SOAP into BizTalk, decoding a base64 encoded string that represented a zip file, unzipping, renaming files, and using web services to import documents into SureClose.SureClose Export Contact Web Service:Design and implementation the export of contact information from the SureClose database.Relatively simple SOAP request/response.SureClose Web Application Development:Various work on the group's main customer-facing application dealing with UI, business layer, and data layer changes/additions.SureClose Printer Driver:A windows form application designed to import data into the SureClose system/DB using the WCF web services we have.

National Oilwell VarcoSingle Sign-OnWork with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) to implement Active Directory Federation Services in order to provide a single sign-on solution for the customer-facing web applications.Dealt with the engagement manager to deal with Statement of Work and availability of consulting services.External Website OverhaulRedesign the process in which the organization creates pages, publishes pages, and manages site contentBecause of lack of programming resources, I did the development work myself.This overhaul will most likely replace some of the projects being worked on, making those processes easier and more efficient.Search Engine OptimizationProvide and manage a phased solution to improve the external site's search result rankingThe first step was to employ meta tags with keyword dataThis project was replaced by the website overhaul that incorporated these changes in a more efficient manner.Contact Information ConsolidationProvide and manage a solution to consolidate all contact information that is displayed on the external websiteCurrently, contact data comes from three different and varying sourcesThis project was replaced by the website overhaul that incorporated these changes in a more efficient manner.Custom Web CatalogProvide and manage a solution to allow website visitors to create a custom PDF of various pages of the websiteProvided the Proof of Concept by illustrating that we could create PDFs via an Adobe product's API

AvanadeTechnical Environment: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server 2004, SAPShell Project:eRouter for NordicsInvolved in schema creation and mapping validation of purchase order and invoice documents from flat file format to IDOC format to be imported into SAP.Designed the orchestration to validate the incoming data.

SoldDynowatt, L.P.Projects:Termination LetterFinal Attempt LetterSmall Claims LetterIVR Call ProcessesAll above used as means of collection efforts. Involved creating stored procedures that would create XML lists of customers that would be FTP'd to a "print shop." Created various custom web applications to provide Customer Service Representatives with quick look up tools using ASP.NET/C#Duties:Support the Billing system (NirvanaSoft)Correcting bad statuses of customersCorrecting customer balances via correction of EDI transaction processingCorrecting Customer information via SQL Query Analyzer

Technical Environment: Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2004Projects:Supplier EDIImplemented using BizTalk 2004, along with Windows/Web Services in C#Responsible for the Acknowledgement step of the process.ADIC/DellPPIDImplemented using BizTalk 2004, along with Windows/Web Services in C#Responsible for extracting data from a database, constructing an XML file, and transporting it via HTTPS to Dell.Direct Order Fulfillment (DOF) projects (2 different projects Ciena and Alcatel)Design the overall process for numerous sites.Implemented the process using Inovis Process Manager and JavaPoll for Purchase/Change Orders, validate the orders, generate confirmations, generate advance shipment notices, and packing/shipping information, and FTP the appropriate filesIntegration TestingBackup Production SupportPurchasing Parts Cross-Reference ToolDesign, develop, test, and support a process with a web front-end in ASP.NET/C# to give engineers the ability to enter, edit, and lookup cross-reference information on parts used in manufacturing.FTP File MoverImplemented Windows/Web Services in C#Design, develop, test, and support a process to schedule file downloads from one FTP server, delete old files, and move those files to another FTP server.

Purist Audio DesignTechnical Environment: Visual Studio 2002/2003, SQL Server 2000Duties:Maintain Windows Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000Designed a database application in Alpha version 5Designed manufacturing procedures to ensure better quality of products.Returns and claims dropped dramatically after implementation of the new procedures.