Experience

Evaluated the industry needs for forensic data tools and developed a service oriented architecture to support hot swappable distributed system components and a set of extensive libraries for forensically sound manipulation of data over the network. Included in the libraries is functionality to support; File paths in excess of 30k characters which most applications would error on, MD5 and CRC hashing of unstructured data such as emails as opposed to files. Created a file copy product that outperformed robo-copy by 30% in speed and proved the application in a forensic lab to be sound for legal EDD collection use. Created a build automation tool unifying Visual SourceSafe, Visual Studio 2008 and InstallShield resulting in more regular build/testing cycles including release notes from the bug tracking system which improved the cohesiveness of the development and testing teams dramatically. Designed a web based portal application to consume the distributed service oriented architecture by way of a messaging service which provided search, saved search, review, export and administration features over the collected data.

Technologies: C#, VS2008, IS2008, VSS, XP, Vista, Server ’03, Server ’08, MSMQ, SQL Server 2005, IIS 7, AJAX, MOSS ‘07, Visio, Office ’07, Mac OSX, VMware, XML

Managed a small team of engineers maintaining and enhancing a web based asset management product designed for the IT industry. Among my responsibilities was the translation of product requirements into technical and functional specifications as well as the engineers understanding of those documents. I also provided governance over the implementation of the specifications as well as creation of automated testing using nUnit.

Technologies: C#, VB.Net, IIS 6, VS2005, VSS, XP, Server 200, Server 2003, SQL Server 2000, Active Directory

Maintained excitement and enthusiasm of the development team during a buyout. Improved the speech recognition services of the primary product by variable degrees with the introduction of shared speech recognition dictionaries and multi-threading. Implemented a formal code review process which reduced the number of release issues by approximately 40%. Implemented and enforced coding standards which unified the appearance and simplified to maintainability of the code base for all products. Produced training videos and provided face-to-face training on IIS, InstallShield, and our own proprietary globalization tools; for company developers which, increased productivity thought the development department by increasing each developers “focus” time. Improved the backend communications architecture by enabling real-time component communications through ha generic and universal socket interface which eliminated the end-user waiting on an operation to propagate the system. Developed several UI controls using GDI+ to enhance the end-user experience.

Technologies: C#, C++, VS2005, IS10, VSS, SharePoint ‘03, SQL Report Services, Active Directory, VMware, Citrix, IDOL, SoftSound, XML

Guided a migration from VB.Net to C# and educated my coworkers on the indifference of the languages to the technology eliminating the prejudice between which skills set to hire. Architected the SharePoint 2003 deployment to a large server farm of 16 servers with over a Terabyte of storage which replaced the entire organizations intranet and unified document storage, access and control company wide. Mentored the team on web part development and deployment while providing them with a web part that would install other web parts for them thereby eliminating the confusion of web part deployment across multiple servers. Created several internal applications to facilitate the migration to SharePoint including an application supporting drag-n-drop document migration into SharePoint preserving the original dates and author names which removed the necessity for a IT staff member to migrate the data. Additionally I developed a service to maintain regular synchronization of the companies active directory structure with the users and groups inside of SharePoint eliminating the need for manual manipulation of the groups by an IT staff member.

Technologies: C#, VB.Net, IIS 6, Active Directory, SharePoint ’03, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, Toad

I regularly met with clients for requirements gathering purposes and provided technical sales support. Design, Developed and Deployed several web sites and application including: http://www.ntsp-md.com, http://www.myntsp.com, http://www.viazi.com, http://www.houstonranch.com, http://www.cowgirl.net, http://www.colonialtickets.net, http://www.naasf.org. I was responsible for the evaluation of new third party components for use in sites the company built as well as the sales negotiation of the components during a buying decision. I consistently met, and frequently beat, the deadlines set by the sales contracts.

Technologies: C#, VS2005, IIS 6, VSS, Server 2000, SQL Server 2000, XML, CSS

Created several public facing websites including http://www.crossroadsgroup.com, http://www.capitalanalytics.com, http://www.e-valuate.org; some of which provided user login abilities through a proprietary single sign-on framework which I also designed and built providing an interactive multi site facility for the clients. Mentored developers on the team during their transition from windows development to web development providing the staff with a more rounded knowledge and preparedness for future projects. Designed and developed several reusable libraries

Technologies: C#, VS2003, IIS 4, NT 4, Server 2000, Active Directory, Yellow Pages, Photoshop, Flash, JavaScript, XML, CSS

Designed and developed components for unified point of sales reporting and management providing a simplified interface to the end user. Played a key part in client demos and technical sales support. Created and executed a migration path from Sybase/DynaScript to SQL Server/Classic ASP model which increased develop productivity, available talent pool and speed to market.

Technologies: DynaScript, Sybase, SQL Server 2000, IIS 4, TextPad, PowerBuilder, Data Windows, Server 2000, JavaScript, Tomcat, ASP

Researched and wrote cross browser compatibility documentation enabling the development guidelines produced by the architecture team to be enforceable across all platforms and facilitated the rich client interface available to the end user. Researched 3rd party Java components during build vs. buy decisions enabling more educated purchasing decisions by the department head.

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, JSP, SQL Server 2000, Word ‘97

Taught classes on HTML and Java enlightening and exciting students in the world of development. Performed custom VB development for local businesses and was recognized by the local chamber of commerce as a booster for local technology acceptance in Corpus Christi. Designed and built the business card ordering system for DART enabling point and click design, proofing and print ordering by authorized personnel within the organization. Designed and deployed several public sites including http://www.ijump2.com, http://www.radrockers.com, http://www.gen2web.com and http://www.precomp.net providing small business with a public face on the internet.

Technologies: HTML, Java, VB, WinSock, JavaScript, Access, ASP