OBJECTIVE

Looking for telecommute .NET programming work. Can be Windows Forms, Web Forms, SharePoint, Console Application, Compact Framework, data layers, web services WCF, most any programming using .NET, Visual Studio, C or VB.NET I love it all. Work can be project based, contract, corp - to-corp, or W2. I can do the whole project or just one module or layer. I work on projects with requirements ranging from nothing written down I have to pull all requirements out of you by asking you a bunch of questions, to reprogramming an existing program screen shots, to fully documented requirements.

SKILLS SUMMARY

KEY SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

Databases

10 years

Architecture Design

10 years

Full Life Cycle Development

10 years

Project Management

10 years

Windows Forms and Visual Studio

10 years

Object Oriented Programming

10 years

VB.NET C

10 years

ASP.NET website development

10 years

XML UML

10 years

ADO.NET, LINQ, Entity Framework

5 to 10 years

WORK EXPERIENCE

For the last 15 years I have focused on Microsoft technologies and am comfortable with most Microsoft development tools and servers. I am certified, and have experience, on most parts of the .NET Framework. I am comfortable with VB.NET, C, windows forms, web forms, web services, Windows Communications Foundation WCF, datasets, object oriented programming, ADO.NET, databases, reporting services, GDI graphics, custom controls, multi layered software, SQL Server, XML, LINQ, Entity Framework, and much more. From my manufacturing background I have extensive experience interfacing computers and software with external devices, real time programming, and control and monitoring.

Architect Developer

• Customer runs an insurance appraiser / adjuster business
• Designed and developed a custom system to help manage the claims
• Created data layer using Entity Framework, Repository and Unit Of Work Patterns
• Implemented threaded logging utility with threaded queue
• Telerik UI
• JavaScript, jQuery
• C, Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5, ASP.NET
• Address validation via USPS, Bing, and Google
• Used geocoding to assign claims to closest appraiser. Used latitude and longitude between claim and adjusters to calculate distance.
• Implemented zip code database lookup to expedite entering of addresses. User enters zip code, program fills in State, list of cities, street addresses, companies and people in that zip code.

Confidential

• NACI Federal Contractor Security Clearance
• Application manages project management of hospital and medical information projects
• Designed, developed data layer using LINQ to SQL
• Designed, developed web services that allow other systems access to the database
• C, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0
• Designed, developed custom SharePoint web parts
• Designed, developed Windows Forms application that generates XML to upload to Federal OMB office
• Validates generated XML using XSD
• Wrote unit tests to test classes
• JavaScript

Confidential

• VB.NET, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0
• Converted several Windows Forms and VB6 applications over to ASP.NET
• Infragistics controls
• Upload and import files from mobile devices
• Dynamic screen creation based on tab, panel, field definitions stored in database
• Application involved a project estimate system that standardizes estimates, allows user to download the estimate as a Word document, edit the document and then uploads the document
• Developed application that adds additional functionality to Sage CRM
• JavaScript
• AJAX Control Toolkit, UpdatePanels
• Wrote unit tests, created test web pages to test components
• Document tracking, records and retention management
• Labor and Revenue Forecasting
• Helps sales people develop consistent estimates and quotes
• Web portal for neighborhood association members to look up documents and billing
• Web Services
• Visual Studio 2010, 2012, C, ASP.NET
• Telerik and Aspose controls
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Add In
• ASP.NET custom user controls
• Read Sage Timberline database and create purchase orders in ADP XML format. Post Purchase Order to ADP server.
• Read ADP Invoice XML format, convert to Sage Timberline XML Format and post to Sage Timberline server
• JavaScript, AJAX

Confidential

• Designed and developed downtime monitoring system requiring ASP.NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, AJAX, SQL Server, LINQ, SSRS, caching, Microsoft unit tests. Tracked amount of downtime by downtime reason, Factory, Cell, Line, Module. Special business rules to make sure that all time was accounted for. Reports were pareto and pie charts, lists. Extensive sorting and filtering of report data.
• Designed and developed a problem resolution system that walks the user through the steps of defining, analyzing, resolving, and documenting manufacturing problems. ASP.NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, AJAX, SQL Server, LINQ, Dynamic LINQ complex search, SSRS SQL Server Reporting Services, 25 custom user controls, caching, Microsoft unit tests. Active directory for authentication.

Confidential

• Web forms ASP.NET with Telerik controls for viewing laboratory data
• Windows forms for real-time data collection
• Automated data collection using serial interfaces to instruments: weigh scales/balances, pH meters, Soluble Salts, Organic Matter, Colorimeter
• Importing of data files: spectrometers, Skalars, and other instruments
• Manual data entry
• SQL Server database
• Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS and Crystal Reports
• Active Directory for authentication and authorization
• LINQ for data layer
• Active directory for authentication.

Confidential

• Designed and developed application that stores voice recordings in SQL Server, then allows customer service representatives to recall and play those voice recordings
• Designed and developed application that allows customer service representative to view the changes
• Designed and developed application that allows Customer Service company system to automatically load XML files into Life Insurance company system to update the status of customer life insurance policies
• SAS modules wrapped in a .NET console application so that it can be scheduled and run
• Integrated the FTP download, importing, analysis, and export of large datasets
• SQL Server database
• SharePoint for project management
• Used iTextSharp library for PDF generation
• Imported encrypted XML EDI

Architect, Manager, Developer

• collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Outlook.
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO, Add-In Express
• C
• SharePoint for project management
• Created an ASP.NET user control and web service that translated old codes into new codes.
• To separate data layers from business layers wrote about 100 web methods in C . Wrote a proxy that serialized and deserialized objects being passed through the web services. Added custom caching of objects. Used SOAP and Binary Formatters. Lots of custom serialization due to unique objects. Wrote NUnit tests for each web service and proxy call.
• Migrated websites and applications from IIS6 to IIS7.
• Lots of NUnit tests to prepare for validation and verification.
• Ran on embedded computer running .NET compact framework
• Maintenance and development of an Ecommerce website for a prominent US historical landmark. Based on Commerce Server 2007, ASP.NET, C, and SQL Server.
• Commerce Server 2007 training from Max Akbar
• Advanced copy of Programming eCommerce Applications with Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 by Wade Wegner ISBN
• SharePoint for project management
• Worked on an ASP.NET application that performs the validation of sterilizer batches. Mixture of .NET 2.0, old asp code, VB script, and SQL Server 2005.
• Working on a quote configuration system developed and implemented across the world. My responsibility is to take this global software product and implement the business rules that are required to configure the system for specific facilities in North America. Requires working with international and off shore development teams. Convert old code from VB6, VB script, and Java Script to .NET. Technology is moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008. SQL server moving from 2000 to 2008. Many different technologies involved including ASP.NET web forms object oriented programming, and stored procedures.
• Used an agile / scrum project management / development model
• Used SQL Service Reporting Services SSRS reports for this international application
• Wrote seven programs to help interface SAP to existing processes. Some programs loaded and translated data, some programs allowed users to maintain data, etc. Some programs import SAP data back into operations.
• Set up SQL Server replication of SAP MES data to each plant
• Designed reports based on SAP data
• Rewrote an Order Management System Windows Forms application that managed orders for a plant in St Louis. Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
• Created an Order Change Acknowledgement system that automatically sends email acknowledgements to customers when orders are created and as their status changes. This program helped the company address requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley SOX or Sarbox
• Created a Windows Forms application that serves as the configurator for the Order Change Acknowledgement system.
• Analyzed and devised methods to tie into other Order Management Systems to push changes to the Order Change Acknowledgement system.
• Most windows forms applications deployed using ClickOnce
• Most of the code was written in VB.NET, some in C
• SharePoint for project management
• Worked with a group of developers and testers to write and debug a large, object oriented, Windows Forms application that was being converted from C to C version 2. Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
• Used an agile / scrum project management / development model
• Designed and developed an e-commerce B to B website using C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, BizTalk, Content Management Server and SQL Server that allows users to order products on-line.Integrated existing systems with new designs to meet user requirements.
• Created several Microsoft Content Management System templates in Visual Studio to host content. Helped authors and managers get started on developing their content.
• Modified SharePoint application for tracking bugs
• Designed and developed a graphical retail store design and planning application using VB.NET, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Web Services, Compact Framework PDA, ADO.NET, SQL Server, Data Transformation Service, FTP, Deployment, and GDI . Looked at sales by product for typical stores to determine what products, and how much, should be stocked in each store, and then laid out the products in bays to scale. Generated engineering like drawings and Excel spreadsheets that can be sent electronically to remote set-up crews.
• Another application standardized the labeling of products manufactured in many different plants around the world. Required analysis of what products each plant manufactured, uploading datasets to a central server in Texas, and then a windows forms application at each manufacturing site to pull down the data for that manufacturer and configure bar code, SKU, text and graphics for printers.
• Designed, developed, and integrated financial applications using C, ASP.NET, Web Services, Remoting, Microsoft Messaging Queue MSMQ, Compact Framework PDA, ADO.NET, and SQL Server. Interfaced users and other enterprise applications to the Blaze Advisor rules management based engine supplied by Fair Isaac.
• Work flow done with BizTalk
• Developed web parts for SharePoint.
• Designed and developed VB.NET software for test measurement stand. Requires multi-tasking / threading, real-time response, and intensive data analysis. Provided dash board interface that when clicked would drill down to more detail.
• Designed and developed VB.NET software for monitoring vibration of polyester winders.
• GDI, custom controls, ethernet I/O and Access database.
• Siemens PLC that tied together bar code readers, printers, and RFID tags
• VB.NET application that changes company name and logo on bar code labelers
• Designed and developed software for machine that inspects and sorts semiconductor wafers. Used OCR to read the wafer ID then looked up wafer parameters in SQL Server MES database, and then used advanced algorithms to sort.
• Designed and developed software for material handling of wafers. One machine was servo and stepper motors, another machine used a robot.
• Designed and managed a software project for loading powder into crucibles
• VB6, interface to plant Manufacturing Execution System MES and SQL Server databases, Wonderware, motion control, and machine vision.
• Designed and developed a VB6 quality control application that measured the dimensions of fire extinguisher cylinders, plotted the dimensions, signaled pass / fail, and wrote measurements to a database.