Experience

Summary

Has 13 years of practical experience in all aspects of IT infrastructure, design, and troubleshooting. Has the ability to analyze, design, construct, test and implement a project from both the software and hardware perspectives. Can also efficiently examine, diagnose and optimize issues and enhancements to existing systems when they are required by request or out of necessity.

Skill Sets

bytes of knowledge

4/2010-Present Senior Programmer

Web Development Team

Provide production support for web hosting clients (configuration of IIS 6/7, SQL management) .net programming in C# and VB.Net, entity frameworks, LINQ-to-SQL, stored proceedures etc.

Kroll

8/2009-4/2010 Software Engineer II

Kroll Fraud Software group

Provided C# 3.5 software coding support for the Fraud Admin system. This system is the portal for enrolling and managing subscribed members of the Fraud/Identity Restoration services for KBA (Kroll Background America).

Used C# 3.5 (LINQ, DBML, AJAX, ASP.Net, WCF), Telerik AJAX controls, SQL 2000.

Deloitte, 4/1999-8/2009

1/2005-8/2009 Developer V (Senior Developer, Deloitte)

DeloitteNet Independence, Compliance, and Ethics (ICE) development group

Lead Developer on compliance applications critical to the Firm's ongoing compliance with SEC, PCAOB, and other accounting regulatory bodies. This included O&M, re-development in both individual and team settings. Worked regularly with India-based resources utilizing daily touch point calls to resolve needs/issues and to obtain status updates of the remote team. The main applications supported are: Independence Representation, Partner Rotation (ParRot), and Audit Client Information Summary (ACIS). These applications are all complex rules driven survey engines with extensive data aggregation and reporting requirements. Conceived, created and tuned SQL queries, access and presentation methods to allow quick, useful and esthetically pleasing web applications.

Used SQL 2000 and 2005, ASP (classic), ASP.Net 1.1-3.5 (C#), .Net WinForm 1.1-2.0 (C#), JavaScript, XML, CSS, and AJAX.

6/2003-1/2005 Developer IV (Deloitte)

RACK rewrite team

Worked on team project to migrate the ERS RACK (Risk and Controls Knowledgebase) application to SharePoint 2.0 platform and IIS/SQL 2000. Served as one of the primary SQL developers for the application. Created method to dynamically retrieve data from the SQL Database to create crawl pages which were then mapped to application URLs. This allowed SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) to leverage search catalogs. Also developed an application to extract SPS 1.0 documents and their metadata to then import via batch to SPS 2.0. Created several ASP.Net 1.1 applications utilizing the Excel API to create spreadsheet exports of key data for the client.

10/2002-6/2003 Developer II (Deloitte)

ERS (Enterprise Risk Services) development group

Continued work with O&M for ERS Sites. Participated in migrating applications from Site Server to SharePoint 1.0. Wrote custom code to synch the SQL database with SPS APIs to maintain list values. Created a document submission interface in ASP.Net 1.1 which used SPS API to create a custom document workflow approval process which required that only approved documents be released to the general population. Created .Net libraries for Active Directory lookups for retrieval of group and user attributes.

10/1999-10/2002 Developer I (Deloitte)

ERS (Enterprise Risk Services) development group

Worked in a team effort to re-platform the main ERS application from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP). This application was a private portal for the global ERS practice group. Created MTS components, used Site Server 3.0 Search API and LDAP/Membership Directory Service, and later Active Directory. Worked on O&M for ERS sites (ERS Link and RACK - Risk and Controls Knowledgebase). Utilized SQL Server 7 and 2000, ASP, XML, SharePoint 1.0, C#.

Web Solutions development group

Migration of Access back-ends to SQL 7 and creation of global web applications. Assisted with server administration and configuration.

4/1999-10/1999 Assistant Developer (Deloitte)

Prepared press releases for web consumption on Deloitte's public global web site. Worked with the intranet web development team to maintain several departmental websites. Used HTML, ASP, Access MDB on NT4/IIS platform.

Aerotek

9/1998-4/1999 Consultant/Contractor

Square D : Assisted in testing and debugging custom software applications for PowerLogic® as well as assisted in data analysis. Wrote Visual Basic 4.0/5.0 utilities, created an InstallShield routine to merge new device types with an existing system database. Wrote VB 6.0 billing allocation modules which connected to ODBC databases. Created documentation to accompany software .

Used MS Access, DAO, TDBG5 Pro, Crystal Reports 6.0.

Vanderbilt University

6/1996-5/1998 Campus Computing Technician

Provided on-site Windows network assistance for the Vanderbilt ResNet program. Assisted in troubleshooting students' Windows 95 computers in residence halls with ResNet related software problems. Wrote an installation script (using Freeman Installer) for the Vanderbilt Windows 3.1X internet software suite. Created new scripts for use with Trumpet Winsock and the PAP dial-up host. Assisted the ACIS (Academic Computing and Information Services) help desk with Windows questions. Installed software and hardware on DOS/Windows machines .

Computer Hobbyist

10/2006-Present: Carrotware.com, VPS

Self manage and administrate dedicated Windows 2003 virtual private server (VPS). Hosted and administered multiple web sites, ftp, and email (SmarterMail) with spam blocking for design clients. Created content engine to manage template based websites which use a SQL 2005 Express database backend and Dot Net 2.0 web GUI interface. This content management tool was also utilized by hosting clients as well. Earlier incarnations of this app were written in ASP Dot Net 1.1 and ASP classic, both with an Access MDB database backend. Also wrote POP3 libraries in Dot Net for a personal web based email client, initially in Dot Net 1.1 and later ported to 2.0. Created SQL batch files to create rolling 7 day SQL backup archives of the database.

3/2002-10/2006: Carrotware.com, Shared Hosting

Created content engine to manage template based websites which used ASP and Access MDB. Also created personal webmail client in ASP which used JMail.POP3 (COM+) for email retrieval. Application in a shared hosting environment.

4/2004-Present: PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

Built and maintained PCs for dedicated video recording and DVD authoring. Initially used the native software provided by the tuner card manufacturer (Hauppauge). Eventually implemented GB-PVR based capture to better leverage multiple tuner cards and integrated TV scheduler. Also wrote the first plugin for the GB-PVR Web application: Season Recording Manager.

7/2000-Present: Home Networking

Created and managed single Active Directory 2003 domain controller (upgraded from 2000) which managed up to 12 PCs. Utilized Acronis True Image and NTBackup for system archival. Also managed DHCP, WINS, and DNS forwarding (for AD lookup purposes) running on Windows 2008. The network is a hybrid of 100MB wired hubs, 200MB Powerline bridge, and an 802.11a/b/g WiFi AP all behind a cable modem firewall/router. Network also included one Mac OSX system and one Linux PC.

Education

Vanderbilt University, School of Engineering , Nashville, TN

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 8 May 1998

Pelham High School , Pelham, AL

Advanced High School Diploma, 25 May 1994

Also completed several Microsoft certified courses for development technologies including: SQL 7 & 2000, SQL Reporting Services 2005, SharePoint MOSS2007, and C# (1.1 & 2.0). Also completed many self-paced technical and business electronic learning courses offered through Deloitte Learning Services.

Other Interests