qualifications summary

• Senior Software Developer, experienced software developer and software engineer in multiple industries with over 19 years experience across Financial, Telecommunication, HealthCare, IVR, Banking, ACH Processing, and Entertainment Industries.
• Designed, developed, and delivered 4M Web Application, 4 weeks early, thus decreasing time to market.
• Expertise in delivering Enterprise-Scale Web Applications, with a variety of backend databases and data-centric web services, including cloud-based DBMS and No-SQL databases.
• Success in Leading developers, as a Team Lead.
• Passionate Trainer Speaker, as both a Certified Trainer and a Distinguished Toastmaster, I've successfully written and delivered hundreds of technical and non-technical talks and presentations.
• Successfully worked as Remote Developer, for the past 2 years, developing and delivering enterprise class applications working from home.
• Engaged successfully in Agile Software Development and Scrum Methodologies, both as a Scrum Master and on many different Agile development teams.
• Competencies: Ruby, Rails, .Net, C , ASP.Net, SQL Server, No-SQL DB's, Linux, TDD, BDD, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, Messaging, HIPAA, PCI, Git, OWASP, Security, AJAX, JavaScript, Cloud-Computing, OOP, New Relic, and more.

professional achievements

Senior Software Developer/Team Lead

Confidential

overview: scope of role and key accomplishments

• Designed and built custom, HIPAA and PCI compliant, web application in Ruby and Rails for dental industry involving financial transactions, credit scoring, and Customer Service Management Portal.
• Designed and built custom Educational Online Learning System in Rails for an online university implementing Canvas LMS architecture.
• Technical hands-on responsibility for complete Cloud-based Data Center Migration from private hosted provider to AWS Amazon implementing AWS/EC2 and AWS/RDS for SQL Server, which reduced resources and cut costs by 75 .
• Responsibilities include Open Source architecture, design, development, and documentation of application software, as well as source control using Git through Bitbucket.
• Starter proof of concept project working with AWS/SNS, AWS/SQS, and Elastic Search.

Senior Software Developer/Team Lead

Confidential

overview: scope of role and key accomplishments

Software Development for enterprise class line of business web application for the health care industry. Written from scratch in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Backend messaging architecture implementing Active MQ Apollo messaging architecture and messaging broker. Caching strategy written implementing Redis. Background

professional achievements cont'd

• processing through a customized fork of Sidekiq. Open Source architecture. Complete Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments designed and built in Amazon AWS EC2 and S3. AWS .Net SDK implemented in Web Service development.
• Increased maximum transaction volume by 100 along with a proportional increase in revenue.
• Reduced nightly processing window by 20 refactoring key bottlenecks within the system.
• Processed 18 Billion dollars in payment transactions without error.
• Migrated system to a cloud environment preparing for conversion to an SOA model.
• Modified the system to be FFIEC compliant multi-factor authentication .
• Responsibilities include Open Source architecture, design, development, and documentation of application software, implementing TDD and source control with Git.
• Strong emphasis on secure coding practices and OWASP.

Senior Software Developer

Confidential

overview: scope of role and key accomplishments

• Software Development for enterprise class point-of-sale and corporate office systems for movie industry. Software solutions developed include web-based mobile ticketing application for iPhone iOS and Android OS web-based Google-style movie database search engine complete with edit tool and custom SSRS report viewer interface. Solutions developed in C .Net 3.5 4.0 using Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS , and Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSIS .
• Responsibilities include architecture, design, development, and documentation of application software, implementing TDD and source control with TFS.

Senior Software Developer/Technical Lead

Confidential

overview: scope of role and key accomplishments

• Software Development and ongoing system expansion development of systems, interfaces, and integration for BizTalk-centric Health Care Claims Processing Solution. Solution included development in and with the following technologies: C .Net 2.0 and 3.5, Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010, SQL Server 2005 and 2008, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS , and Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSIS .
• Improved Web Site Performance by over 200 , by refactoring ASP.Net code base as well as extensive refactoring and optimization of TSQL Stored Procedures.
• Responsibilities include architecture and development of applications written in C .Net for all web, Windows Forms, and Web Services.
• Performed BizTalk development as well as custom C .Net Integrated Assemblies.
• 3M: Led the development effort for this project.
• Developed .Net software system to provide Claim Eligibility 270/271 interface between 3M and GHN Online, in C .
• MedData: Responsible for design and development of secure .Net C Web Service to interface with MedData to provide Claim Validation for standard 837 transactions.
• Responsible for numerous projects involving gathering business requirements to full system implementation and upgrades.
• Responsible for making recommendations to functional requirements for cost effective solutions.
• Recognized and respected by customers and peers as a 'Top Gun' technical engineer by consistently providing high quality system solutions with a dedicated focus towards customer satisfaction and business objectives.

professional achievements cont'd

Successfully demonstrated leadership skills and wore different hats in an attempt to make the projects go smoothly and gained customers trust and confidence.

Senior Software Developer/Architect/Technical Lead

Confidential

overview: scope of role and key accomplishments

• Architected Microsoft .Net solutions, developed software and played a lead consultant role in multiple large-scale deployments involving design, development, implementation and post production support in a team environment for several leading enterprise customers in various industries. Additional responsibilities included customer integration liaison and onsite implementation support.
• Responsible for mentoring other software engineers by offering technical expertise and guidance. The developed systems were tied to multiple Web Server interfaces spanning multiple IVR nodes. Allowing for Web IVR data access with charts, reports and statistics to monitor systems performance as well as providing remote maintainability. The implementation of this solution allowed agents to increase their productivity and provide faster and more efficient service to the end users, resulting in a ROI within a short period of time. The quality of this implementation created a huge investment channel for Intervoice in the long run the team was recognized for its outstanding achievements.

Confidential

Senior Developer

• Implemented a number of major systems utilizing Intervoice's Proprietary Software Frameworks
• E-Business solutions integrated with Java script, HTML with functionally rich voice automation applications. Including text-to-speech, advanced speech recognition, fax integration, numeric and alpha paging, call monitoring, predictive outbound dialing.
• The business objective was to facilitate IVR based Employee Services integrated with People Soft via Oracle 7.x. Enhanced the efficiency and speed in which employees can obtain benefit information.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Contact Center Solutions

• Product implementation, demonstrated ability to learn, and adapt to new technology and new product within a short time frame.
• Successfully demonstrated and showed willingness to take more responsibility from design phase to post production phase. Created a number of project documents DDD Detailed Dialog Design, DSD Detailed Solution Design, FRD Functional Requirements Document, Visio workflow diagrams, VTP verification test plan, As-built final and red lined version of solution design as well as coding and maintaining positive customer interaction skills.