Application Developer Resume
Profile
Technical Lead /Senior Application Developer with PMP and ITIL Certifications possessing extensive development experience for industry leading firms. Proven experience leveraging technology to reduce operational costs, increase productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. Breadth and depth of technical and business leadership skills facilitate role agility. Creative and resourceful entrepreneur who is passionate about discovering the hidden bonus of technology to delight business customers.
Professional Experience
Confidential, Chicago, Il 6/2010 to Present
Consultant/Application developer - ASP.net, VB .net 3.5 , SQL Server 2008, AJAX
Confidential houses legal, medical, child protective, law enforcement and social service professionals who tirelessly work together for the safety, health and well being of abused children.
The goal - - eliminate the suffering of abused children in Chicago.
- Major enhancements to ASP .Net 2008 Multipiscplinary Pediatric Education and Evaluation Consortium (mpeec) system - system converted from VS 2005/Sql Server 2005
- Redesign of SQL Server 2008 table - Add RI, apply OOD concepts
- Redesign/rewrite of VB .net asp pages to table advantage or new database design
Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL 2000-2009
Began as an Application Developer, and role was quickly expanded to include Project Lead, Business Analyst, and Technical Lead duties. Liaise with business leaders, understand the business needs, and drive the development of projects in order to create a technical competitive advantage in the marketplace. Technical Lead on two concurrent projects.
- Managed off shore developers, did technical business analysis, wrote technical specifications, conducted design reviews, directed and coached development efforts and documented detail processes and procedures that allowed off-shore team to take on primary development role for the Benefit Index system.
- Incorporated new DB2 table with existing VB6 job using Excel to reduce run time from 20 to 5 minutes on a data collection function which runs thousands of times a year
- Designed and implemented the WEB based Components of Pay (COP) rule builder replacing manual Excel based process resulting in annual saving of hundreds of hours of manually intensive work.
- Developed VB .net Windows app using CSLA Framework to pass data via XML file to sister systems replacing a nine step error prone manual process resulting in a savings of 200 man-hours per year
- Developed VBScript functions to strip invalid characters from text fields on classis ASP pages
- Initialed NUnit unit testing tool for VB .net batch jobs.
- Developed, enhanced and maintained ASP .net application using VB .Net and CLSL Framework
- Provide tier 2 production support for Classic ASP, VB6, ASP .net, VB .net and C# .Net systems.
- Designed and developed major enhancement to VB .net report job using Excel and CSLA Framework
- 5 years working on client server classic ASP utilizing HTLM, VBScript and third party controls
Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL 1998-2000
Three month consulting contract turned into three years and a full time position - Senior Programmer
- Built interface between mainframe Datacom database and Unix-based Informix database using DataCom DB utilities and Informix SQL
- Assumed responsibility for maintenance of high complex online and batch systems where numerous programs had 20,000+ lines of procedural code.
Confidential, Chicago, IL 1990-1998
Three month consulting contract turned into 8 years - Senior Programmer/Analyst on a repeat engagement to add enhancements to the Competitive Accounts Billing system
- Developed six major Datacom/Ideal enhancements on time and under budget
- Redesigned system to take advantage of reusable modules which reduced maintenance cost by 50%.
Confidential, Deerfield IL 1989-1990
Consultant - Senior Programmer/Analyst brought in to help design and develop a consolidated Supplier Incentive/Rebate System.
- Consolidated the rebates systems from Kraft's 23 food service acquisitions. The combined system enabled Kraft to garner significantly higher percentage discounts from its suppliers and added $10,000,000 to the bottom line in the first 6 months. Developed and implemented data model and test plan. Delivered system on time and under budget.
Confidential, Chicago, IL 1988-1989
Consultant - Senior Programmer/Analyst brought in to help the company transition its billing
- Developer/Analyst on the Competitive Accounts Billing system which reduced new corporate contract setup time from 3 months to 3 days.
- Normalized data model to better match application needs.
Confidential, Brookfield, WI 1988- 1988
Senior Programmer/Analyst brought in to reduce operations costs which were trigger by code complexity
- Developed a spreadsheet which correlated code complexity with production defects. Identified the six ‘worst offenders'. Recommended re-writing of these six programs along with process improvements.
- Upon subsequent implementation, these changes led to a decrease in production defects and an estimated first year saving of $100,000 in down time and re-run costs.
Prior Engagements
Confidential (Programmer Analyst/Interim Project Manager)
Confidential (Project Leader/Analyst Pricing of Float Project)
Confidential (Vice-President, Supplier Relations)
CERTIFICATIONS
PMP Jan. 2010, ITIL V3 Foundation Feb.,2010, Oracle SQL Apr.,2010
Education and Technical Skills
- BA Math
SKILLS
VB6, Classic ASP, VM .net, CSLA, Informix SQL and SP, DB2 SQL and SP, XML,
CPM, PERT,
DATACOM, IDEAL, VSAM, COBOL, TSO, JCL