Professional Profile
I am an innovative software engineer with diverse experience designing, specifying and creating enterprise solutions. As a self-motivated individual, I work equally well in a team setting or independently. My written and verbal skills, along with my technical skills, offer a desirable addition to any setting.
I have more than nine years of experience in software testing, design and development on many Microsoft platforms in a variety of industries. My experience results in skill at balancing practical requirements and timelines with high coding standards. I have complete software lifecycle experience, from design to release and long term maintenance. My communication skills interacting with technical and non-technical people have proven to be an asset. I bring passion and excitement to software development because I love what I do.
Technological strengths and interests in:
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C# / VB.Net
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Open Source
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.Net Framework
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XML
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Windows Operating Systems
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Webservices
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SQL
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Cryptography
Professional Experience
Senior Consultant
October 2004 -
Present
Cornerstone Consulting
, Milwaukee, WI
Mentored other consultants and team members on assignments. Conducted training classes on .Net and ASP.Net technologies. Architected and implemented ASP.Net business applications for a medical provider client. Developed a product for the inventory appraisal industry leading a team of consultants on the project using Unit testing and Continuous Integration as well as other Extreme Programming methodologies.
Software Engineer - Research & Development
December 2002 –
October 2004
Security International
, Franklin, WI
Architected a distributed, yet real time, access control system using encrypted Webservices, ADO.Net and Windows Forms all in the C# language. Recommended and implemented a Source Control Management system. Conducted a two day crash course in .Net development. Implemented procedures for test driven development, automatic software builds and extending Visual Studio.Net for more uniform and quicker development for the team.
Software Engineer
October 2001 - December 2002
Camtronics Medical Systems,
Hartland, WI
Helped bring the team up to speed with .Net and C# while developing a multiple tiered application for cardiologists. This application utilized Sharepoint Portal Server, ASP.NET, SQL and Tablet PCs over a wireless network to allow for electronic charting. Created many useful C# utility classes. Educated the developers in Open Source Licensing and integrated many tools from Open Source to improve development. These tools included Log4Net for abstract logging of system messages, NAnt for automating the software build, NDoc for creating useful documentation and NUnit for test driven development.
Software Engineer
October 2000 – October 2001
Northern Computers – Honeywell Fire and Security Group
,Milwaukee, WI
Designing User Interfaces using Microsoft’s new .Net technologies. Simplified current MFC UI for usability as well as designed several wizards to automate menial tasks for the end users. Upkept and supported the database API provided to other developers for product integration.
Software Engineer - IT Database Group
April 1997 -
October 2000
GE Marquette Medical Systems
, Milwaukee, WI
Responsible for converting MUSE hospital databases to Btrieve and SQL format to provide year 2000 solutions. This involved the design of an MFC interface, upkeeping code, documentation, computer hardware and network operations.
Helped design and manufacture the multi-modality GEMnet Image Vault medical imaging product using the merge DICOM toolkit and a Hierarchal Storage Management System.
Quality Assurance Engineer
June 1996 -
April 1997
Frontier Technologies Corporation
, Mequon, WI
Testing and debugging of Internet and Intranet applications. Specifically focused for the NFS (Network File System) team. Involving the role of interfacing between customers and the Indian design engineers and generating feature requests for the team.
PUBLICATIONS:
Author, “Windows Communication Foundation” Addison-Weseley, 2005
Author, “Webservice Security in the .NET Platform” Apress, 2004
Author, “Open Source .Net…” Addison-Weseley, 2004
EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS:
Bachelor of Science Degree Electronic Engineering,
Bob Jones University, 1996
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (NT4)