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South Carolina, United States

Columbia, Sc, Us

Guest speaker at the 2017 SC Education and Business Summit in Greenville, SC. Participated as part of a panel discussing how to successfully address Section 508 website compatibility.Currently implementing Kentico as the district's content management system.Project lead for addressing Section 508 compatibility issues with the district web content.Implemented SharePoint 2010 as the organization's primary information delivery and development platform. The implementation consists of over 40 site collections, the district's main web presence as well as an internal employee intranet.Responsible for development and implementation of custom web part solutions to enhance the SharePoint platform.Responsible for implementation and ongoing development of the district’s main web site. The site was implemented using Ektron CMS400 content management software and has won several awards for design.Featured speaker at the 2005 School Administrators Symposium in Washington, DC in 2005.Responsible for all database design and implementation utilizing Microsoft SQL Server 2016. Responsible for the architecture and design of all internally developed software projects. Software development is performed using ASP.NET, VB.NET and Visual Studio 2017.Recognized by the Board of Trustees and the district superintendent on numerous occasions’ for outstanding work and contributions.

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Responsible for development projects implementing both original design and current application maintenance utilizing ASP.NET, VB.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server 2000. Designed and implemented a service site for broker’s that allows real time access to data stored on our legacy VMS system. This site incorporates multiple web services to access VMS flat files as well as SQL Server data. The presentation layer is written in VB.NET and ASP.NET.Provided programming maintenance for a document distribution application that is responsible for providing dynamically generated legal documents to brokers.Responsible for providing maintenance and new content development for the corporate intranet as well as the company’s public web presence.Responsible for database design and modification of stored procedures and data transformation scripts using SQL Server 2000.Developed an XML based document delivery system for a high volume customer whose legal document requirements are outside of the scope of the system provided to the rest of our brokers. The application stores its data as XML elements which are then used to populate crystal reports.Responsible for performing detailed technical integration projects, new technology research and analysis, as well as automation of key processes such as ACH processing, credit bureau reporting, as well as other various data reporting requirements.

Columbia, South Carolina, Us

Assisted with the implementation of Microsoft Active Directory server. This implementation represents the first Active Directory instance with over 1 million users.Responsible for code distribution to using PVCS, application configuration and debugging, and documentation.Provided general application support, debugging and log analysis for production applications.

Responsible for the configuration and deployment of over 80 internet/intranet applications. These applications included centralized parts ordering systems, HR systems and systems used for scheduling production facility outages.Assisted with the development of procedures that streamlined and improved the process by which applications moved from their various development centers through the staging environments. This included a complete redesign of policies and procedures for the deployment process, enhancements and restructuring of change control, implementation of a ticket tracking system, and the introduction of CVS into the organization to better manage movement of code within the staging environments.Created a program to measure application metrics for senior management. These metrics included the amount of time to configure new applications, failed builds, failed configurations due to faulty documentation or code, etc. These metrics were grouped around the various development areas for measuring quality performance.Responsible for the management of three employees.

Greenville, South Carolina, Us

Responsible for departmental recruitment, role definition, budget development, release schedules, and working with the corporate project manager to incorporate user feedback on various software systems.Responsible for managing the development and maintenance of a distributed store management system utilized by over 1400 branch locations as well as 200 internal users.Helped to develop structured processes between Development, QA and Operations specifically related to release schedules.Responsible for the management of three employees.

Responsible for meeting with customers to gather project requirements, identify technical resources and provide project management from a technical perspective.Developed technical project plans for new initiatives that were incorporated as part of the overall project plan.Responsible for maintenance on existing customer sites using ASP 2.0.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Responsible for maintenance and new development of web driven customer solutions utilizing HTML and C++.Routinely participated in high level design sessions with the various project teams and senior management.Team lead for a backend conversion from MFC data access objects to a custom ODBC wrapper API.Projects consisted mainly of financial systems primarily dealing with lending and lease applications.Managed small teams of developers on short term projects.

Worked on a small team tasked with providing high level design and implementation.Developed a DCOM server as a prototype for real time database monitoring. This application monitors a set of critical criteria such as inventory levels, sales quotas, etc and sends alerts to clients based on those rules.Developed an “in memory database” system using a combination of a 3rd party API and custom C++ objects. This system was developed primarily to provide communication between two separate software systems via another in house developed API.Provided some development and maintenance on the company’s main product written with GUPTA Windows.

Chicago, Il, Us

Designed and developed an application using C++ that acted as a collection point for “Call Detail Records” generated during conference calls hosted on each bridge server. Each bridge server would send call data packets over a pre-defined port. This port was monitored by my application and the data written to an Informix database for data analysis. Developed various Java programs as “proof of concept” applications for management including the complete rewrite of the primary customer service and scheduling application used primarily in daily operations.Responsible for the management of four employees.

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Responsible for developing and maintaining software systems written in C.Responsible for managing the internal network.

Responsible for software maintenance.Provided support to end users.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsible for data entry, financial paperwork processing, and supervision of 20 headquarters personnel.Awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service.Honorably discharged.

Mba, Business

Bba, Information Systems