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Lead developer for the nation’s largest and most respected provider of nuclear engineering and radioactive waste management services. Responsible for the design, development and deployment of internal solutions to improve software development standards and streamline general, day-to-day business processes.Led and managed the ground up redesign of several flagship software offerings into a single, new platform utilizing .NET 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SOAP based Web Services. Designed and deployed redundant infrastructure utilizing load balanced web farms, mirrored SQL Servers and automated status monitoring and notification tools.Handled all phases of contract negotiations from design through implementation of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service partnership with Rackspace, reducing IT management overhead while improving reliability, performance, capacity and scalability of numerous systems.Developed websites (both internal and external) utilizing ASP.NET, jQuery, SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Reporting Services to improve client collaboration, responsiveness to evolving industrial changes and reporting of project status.Implemented a new software development process, incorporating agile techniques and test driven development (TDD) methodologies to ensure the highest quality software products delivered in the shortest possible time frame.Developed several software solutions utilizing .NET, SQL Server 2008 and Dundas graphing components that are currently utilized in many nuclear power plants to forecast, monitor and reduce radioactive waste generation.Championed the rollout of terminal services and virtual server infrastructure to maximize existing hardware investment while increasing availability of computing resources during software testing, training and evaluation.

Lead developer for one of the largest audit recovery firms in the world. Responsible for the design and development of numerous software applications, websites and utilities used both internally and by our clients, most of which are Fortune 100 companies and leaders in their respective industries.Architected and developed Retriever™, a suite of massively distributed, multi-threaded applications and services that scan, OCR, index and search email messages, office documents and many other file types. This suite of applications directly led to nearly $200 million dollars in recoveries for our first client alone.Managed a team in the design and development of ClaimsOnline™, a B2B website offered to our largest clients to track, manage and report audit findings in real time. This website integrated tightly with other applications in the suite and was a key part of our client, vendor and auditor relationships.Led the design and development of ClaimsPlus™, a VBA/Access application and framework created to record and track claim information. Data from this application integrated with ClaimsOnline™ to provide multi-platform reporting capability.Led the development and maintenance of our corporate intranet, which is used to track and report on all areas of operations from time & expenses and inventory management to executive reporting and remote file system access.Designed and developed several ETL applications in .NET, SQL Server, and Windows/Web Services, which significantly improved data analyst productivity, allowing the company to pursue larger, more resource intensive projects, leading to significant year over year growth.

Brought in as a consultant to lead the development of a personalized Human Resources portal for Watson Wyatt, an industry leader in financial services and Human Resource Management.Led a team that worked closely with the clients’ IT and marketing personnel to assess, document, design and develop their corporate website.Primary developer for ‘My Watson Wyatt,’ a personalized portal for human resource news, research and white paper analysis written with ASP and SQL Server 2000.

Led a small team that worked on-site at Lawson headquarters in Minneapolis, MN to assist in the development of GoFinancials, a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning suite leveraging the business intelligence of Insight, their flagship ERP offering.Developed a set of JavaScript APIs which reduced development time and offered a rich and consistent set of client side behaviors and capabilities.Developed an on-line help system utilizing a SQL Server back end that offered a large knowledge base of technical and user related articles that substantially reduced support calls.Designed and developed interactive, data-driven web forms utilizing AJAX, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS and Lawson SEA (middleware RPC calls into the Lawson Insight API).Recommended and implemented development standards, flexible class and interface design as well as efficient server architecture.

Programmer/Analyst for a small consulting firm specializing in healthcare systems development.Served as the primary developer for the Oxford Health Plans electronic enrollment application. Designed and developed an internal application that cut enrollment update reporting turnaround from several weeks to several days.Aided in the design, development and marketing of Care Call Center™ and Encounter Form Maker™, two commercial software offerings targeting vertical markets such as healthcare clinics, private practices and other small healthcare centers.Developed a community relations system for The Burke Rehabilitation Hospital that managed contacts and constituent information, generated personalized newsletters and printed labels and envelopes to assist in mail based fundraising campaigns.Designed and developed a corporate website to market our commercial software and consulting services, track and maintain sales leads and report on software maintenance agreements.

Associates Degree, Computer Systems Management

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