PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I am a developer/analyst with over 10 years of experience since 1994 in Internet/Intranet application design, development and analysis. My skills as a versatile team player with exceptional analytical skills include strong writing and presentation skills, with experience in corporate presentations, public speaking, and training, including 4 years of teaching experience in programming languages at a leading college.

SKILLS

• ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library V2 and V3
• Certified Scrum Master
• Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Foundation Server 2010, Team Foundation Server 2012
• VS2008/VS2010/VS2012 and .Net 3.5/.Net 4.0, VB.Net, C , SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle PLSQL, XML, Java Script
• Operating systems: Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 and Windows XP
• Software: Visio, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Remedy, UC4, Microsoft Test Manager
• Documentation Processes and Maintenance Methodologies

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential

• Senior Team Foundation Server Administrator and Developer
• Privately held company from Northern Ireland with over 3300 employees providing research, pharmaceutical and clinical services to over 600 companies worldwide.
• Currently tasked with upgrading TFS 2012 environment to TFS 2013.
• Create standards for branching, code deployment, builds and various other TFS activities
• Create toolsets for managing TFS tasks such as code promotion and branching
• Responsible for providing ALM guidance to management and the development community.
• Manage all Team Foundation Server TFS related duties, from improving current TFS architecture to creating toolsets for streamlining ongoing TFS tasks
• Define and lay foundation for TFS architecture for ALMAC
• Provide solutions architectural duties

Confidential

Technical Lead

• Member of the Application Architecture Council at PPL. Job entails code review, architecture verification, investigation the feasibility of new technologies and review of overall existing architecture hardware and software at PPL. There are 8 Architects that compromise the council.
• Technical Lead and Lead developer for Team Foundation Server 2010. Responsibilities include and not limited to maintaining and monitoring the health of the TFS Application and Build Servers, enforcing good branching strategies, customizing process and scrum templates, providing coding solutions to development community for good builds, creating toolsets to managing the overall TFS environment, proving training and creating documentation pertaining to TFS for developers and overall general support of the toolset.
• Tasked with managing Visual Studio CAL's and initiating developer improvement programs using Microsoft Premier Hours.
• Successfully migrated entire TFS 2010 environment to a new internally hosted cloud environment.
• Tasked with creating several utilities to manage routine and complex TFS 2010 task such as managing permissions and the automation of creating new projects which include SharePoint and Reporting services portals for each new project created. The applications were written in C and have reduced support personal SLA's times by 50 in TFS related support activities.
• Lead for upgrading and migrating 300 applications from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. Using the services of a Microsoft partnered consultant created the present TFS 2010 architecture and initiated the migration of the applications.
• Scrum Master for several capital projects.
• Selected by PPL's elite Shared Solutions team to develop coding standards for PPL developers.
• Lead Developer for Voucher Search Voucher Retrieval system . BI application that allows external customers to view status of outstanding invoices. First application at PPL to pass BTI initiated penetration test in the first round saving PPL thousands of dollars in retesting cost typically penetration tests with retesting cost upwards of 25,000 . Application had capability to track and monitor all BTI hacking attempts providing PPL valuable data on future web application construction.
• Lead developer for Vendor Payment Search. Internal application that allows business users to search and track vendor payments due and history of payments.

Confidential

• Benefits included rapid application deployment and a massive cost reduction in the development of new web applications.
• Architected and ported Fisher Clinical Service's most valuable client server application to the web.
• A subsidiary of Fisher Scientific Inc., a world leader in providing clinical trial supplies. Lead web developer for all Fisher Clinical web initiatives.
• Led initiative to move to the dot net 2.0 platform for new applications while VS2005 was still in beta trials.
• Lead developer in the architecture and coding of a Single Sign On Portal solution for Fisher websites using authentication and authorization protocols for security and application access. Application was written in house using ASP.Net VB.Net with a SQL 2005 database. IIS 6 was used to host the portal and custom configuration was done to IIS to enable single sign on.
• Coded and Incorporated common error handling, look and feel, data access and security for all applications that will be installed into this solution.
• Coded and implemented Inventory, Storage Billing and Job Specification applications into the web portal
• Lead developer for Depot Management System. A web application that allows 11 Fisher depot sites based in different parts of the world to manage, receive and adjust inventory sent to them from Fisher sites based in Horsham, Basel, Mt. Prospect and Allentown. The application was coded using ASP.NET and the business logic was embedded into the SQL code. XML was used to transport data from application to SQL Server via web service.

Confidential

• Member of the Air Products Fortune 100 E-Business Team, as a consultant from Computer Aid Inc. Part of a 5-member team specializing in development, root cause analysis and troubleshooting of B2B applications. Was instrumental in the process of coding new solutions for implementation of dot net standards and creating living documents of all pre-existing e-business applications
• A Global leader in technology, energy, healthcare and industrial markets worldwide, with annual revenues of 6.3 billion and operations in over 30 countries.
• Led project to develop a real time construction change order process. With the development of this system the processing time for orders was reduced from 6 weeks to a number of hours. The system also reduced the initiation in the field to less than 50 of the previous manual system. Received recognition award from Air Products Global Engineering
• Implemented solutions for several business critical eBusiness applications during various breakages using ASP, COM , JavaScript, .NET and SQL, in a timely fashion resulting in minimal outage times.
• Designed and Implemented Solution for the development of an interactive GUI to ease support and managerial duties for eRoom, a 3rd party collaboration tool, using ASP, COM and eRoom API's. The tool reduced support and managerial task by 20
• Designed and Implemented Solution for Global Engineering to move all Engineering Standards documents to a web based system allowing users from across the world to access them instantaneously. The application was architected using an ASP GUI with reusable COM components and a MS SQL Server database
• Created critical VBScript application to serve as a data entry interface for a Mainframe based accounting application
• Received several recognition awards, some of which include awards for intercepting and identifying over 99 of all Stake hack attempts during a corporate sponsored security check and for being part of the most effective team on a client site
• As part of the Rapid Application Development team, instrumental in the design, development and implementation of several projects.
• A leading company in process and productivity, headquartered in Pennsylvania with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Philippines.

Confidential

• Led project to create a new payroll application for Furman Foods to calculate employee hours using Visual Basic 6.0 and COM , enabling them to streamline their payroll process by 20
• Lead developer in the design and creation of an ASP based customer referral application for American Bank. The application was integrated seamlessly with their existing online banking system, allowing existing customers to earn bonus dollars for referring potential clients
• Converted all Lotus Notes based work sheets for Cadmus Printing, critical for order recording to Microsoft Excel using VBA
• Part of a development team that created the UnversityQuest.com website. Coded student module using HTML, Java Script, ASP, COM and ADO
• Instrumental in the creation of reports application for Valley Youth House using ASP and Crystal Reports as the front end and Oracle as the backend. The reports were integrated into an ASP based intranet application available to all counselors on a demand basis
• Led project to create an online help system for Air Products and Chemicals portal users, using Flash, Java Script and HTML