SUMMERY

Strategic, solutions-oriented and cross-functional professional with progressive experience contributing to advanced organizational performance through expert alignment of technical, management, and business strategy teams while meeting corporate and customer objectives. Strong desire to support a robust organization, ideally capable of utilizing my multi-lingual competencies, to include fluency in English, French and Amharic. Reputation for overhauling operational and technical processes to improve efficiency, productivity, and bottom line performance of database design and management. Known for pragmatic problem solving skills and capabilities, leading to rational and positive outcomes. Highly versatile, quick-learning, and capable of readily establishing a positive and dependable rapport with team members. Maintain exceptional interpersonal communication skills, and am intellectually equipped to serve within roles where agility and effective leadership is key.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Software: MS Office, Eclipse, Visual Studio, TFS, ColdFusion Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, TOAD

Platforms/Operating Systems: Windows Vista / 7 /8 Server 2000, 2003, 2008 , Unix/Linux, Bloomberg Terminal

Networking: FTP, TCP/IP, Ethernet

Databases: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012 , MySQL

Programming Languages: C , VB, Java, HTML, ColdFusion, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, PL/SQL, Ruby on Rails, T-SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Serve as a Lead Software Developer on Pegasys, an 85M project which will replace an existing legacy application to a newer application using new technology using a MEF Managed Extensible Framework . Thoroughly gather information about the business requirements from the Engineers, and then develop modules based on the businesses need utilizing an agile methodology. Provide estimations of time required for all tasks and assignments. Experienced in using technical documentation, to include use cases and functional requirements documents, to assist with application development requirements.
• Effectively design and Develop GUI using C and XAML.
• Design and code UI, utilizing XAML, Infragistics Charting and reporting controls.
• Involved in the complete SDLC including requirement analysis, design and implementation using agile methodology.
• Designed and developed a utility application using WPF to avoid manual entry, which successfully decreased the amount of work needed for each module by almost two weeks also utilized WPF to design and develop a code generation tool.
• Perform Agile development testing, and applied Agile software development methodologies.
• Effectively employ the Model-View-ViewModel MVVM design pattern.
• Utilized Infragistics WPF chart and report controls.
• Designed WPF reusable custom controls using XAML and C.

Confidential

• Brought on as one of the company's first Developers on the Confidential Development Team. Enhanced and developed new features for the organization's Custom three-tier Desktop Application, Vision Client, a windows form application that is utilized throughout in 15 offices worldwide. As Lead Developer, maintain responsibility for the design and implementation of new features while effectively maintaining the code base. Provided hands-on assistance in the restructuring of the Development Team at the request of management.
• Effectively maintain SQL Server 2008 Production Server .
• Designed and developed Microsoft Outlook Add-In that would integrate Vision Client with emails that are sent and recieved for the purpose of running the business.
• Redesigned a B2B application to use WCF rather than a FTP application.
• Created Vision Publisher utilized to move new features from development to UAT, and from UAT to production.
• Actively involved in the hiring and interviewing of new Developers.
• Install and configure TFS for source control, automated builds and unit tests.
• As one of the first Developers that joined the US Development Team, was responsible for installing and configuring TFS, Development and UAT Servers.
• Upgraded ASMX web services to use WCF.
• Authored SQL scripts and applications which would extract and export data to spreadsheets reporting application .
• Improved performance on SQL Server, to include the creation of indices and optimization of processes.
• Designed and Implemented B2B application for Bank of America and a other business partners.
• Designed and Implmented Web application using MVC for releasing a new update for Desktop Application.
• Created and enhanced SQL objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Indexes, Triggers and Functions.
• Worked on legacy systems written in ASP and PHP.
• Designed and implemented internal web application using Entity Framework 4.0, LINQ and C , .NET 4.0.
• Developed detail and summary reports according to business requirements using SQL Server 2008.

Confidential

• As Lead Developer, played a key role in launching a successful WPF application, while providing the proof and concept of the WCF application itself.
• Spearheaded the development of interactive web applications for financial professionals, to include EZ-Edgar and EZ-Insider, using .NET, JQuery and SQL Server 2005.
• Significantly enhanced web form applications for the delivery of insider trading data to institutional investors utilizing Bloomberg API for accessing pricing and fundamental market data generate custom, historical insider trading data.
• Configured IIS Internet Information Service Manager 7.0 for internal and public facing web applications.
• Conducted development of a full text search application utilizing Lucene.NET.
• Create a test plan for testers, and built and deployed applications on a production server.
• Designed and implemented code to generate an HTML email automatically, compatible for every email client Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird .
• Collaborated in the development of a plan to upgrade SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012.
• Created System Schedule Jobs to run in-house applications on a recurring schedule basis.
• Charged with managing 30 in-house desktop applications, which ran on various servers, ranging from MS 2003/2008 R2.
• Built reusable, business object libraries using CLSA.NET 3.5/3.8/4.3 , along with a methodology to speed the development of web and desktop applications.
• Developed in-house web application to generate News for EZ-Insider and Bloomberg Terminal.
• Created a scalable, real time email generator Desktop application for alerting investors who were interested in insider trades.
• Successfully manage SQL Server 2005, develop and maintain SQL scripts, along with utility functions for automating specific database maintenance.
• Monitor the database server performance and fine tune TSQL queries, stored procedures and table indices. Collaborate in the disaster recovery plan.

Confidential

• Enhanced and developed new features and applications for the organization's web-based financial software products, Origenate and eValuate, utilizing the latest browser-based technology.
• Maintained and implemented new features for .NET applications, to include Configuration Management software.
• Created SQL tables, PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Views and Tables Indices on Oracle 10g utilizing TOAD software.
• Successfully modified and enhanced J2EE, Java servlets, JSP, Java Struts, Spring and Hibernate coding.
• Documented SOAP based Web Services to import/export Applicant data to Bureaus to obtain their credit score, and to also communicate with several vendors and loan processing customers in the approval/denial of their applications.
• Utilized ANT and Maven for the build and deployment of various deliverables.
• Created and edited Cold fusion pages using ColdFusion Studio 5.0.