Experience

Summary

Has over 14 years of practical experience in all aspects of IT infrastructure, design, and troubleshooting. Primary focus has been with within the context of designing and implementing software solutions to meet the product needs of the business Has the ability to analyze, design, document, construct, and test (both functional and integration).

Implementation of projects has been focused on the creation of custom software, but has also participated in provisioning and maintaining production server environments to support the software solutions created.

Skill Sets

 

Open Source Project

10/2011-Present    CarrotCake CMS

https://code.google.com/p/carrotcake-cms/
http://www.carrotware.com/carrotcake-cms.aspx

Release of homebrew CMS to open source. Currently this is a C# 3.5 WebForms application. It heavily leverages jQueryUI and TinyMCE for creation of the user experience. It is built on a SQL 2008 database and will run on Windows 2003 or 2008. Several interfaces are provided within the code library to provide flexibility of integration of custom components within a website. Supporting documentation is also published on the project homepage.

bytes of knowledge

4/2010-Present    Senior Programmer

Web Development Team
Custom Software Development Team

Provide new and ongoing software development for bytes web clients. Including .Net programming in C# and VB.Net, WebForms, MVC2, Entity Frameworks, LINQ-to-SQL, SQL stored procedures, SQL data modeling, application architecting. Consumption of credit card processing and shipping vendor web services for e-commerce solutions. Created custom components to integrate into Sitefinity 3.7 & 4.X websites. Created native mobile applications for Android (Java + Android SDK). Created Wordpress sites and manipulated data within My SQL databases. Debug/troubleshoot legacy PHP sites.

Provide production server management and performed configuration of IIS 6/7.5, basic SQL Server management, setup of Windows Server 2008 / 2003 hosting environments. Perform basic administration of CentOS (Linux) server. Performed DNS changes (updates to A, MX, CNAME etc). Performed deployments from local to staging/QA to production.

Used a multitude of technologies: C# 3.5/4.0 WebForms and MVC, Telerik Ajax Controls, jQuery, jQuery UI, Java (Android SDK), PHP 5.X, MySQL 5.X

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 WebForms (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#) WebForms, .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

5/2011-Present    Carrotware.com, VPS

Self manage and administer dedicated Windows 2008 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 2008 Express database backend and ASP.Net 3.5 web GUI interface. This content management tool was also utilized by hosting clients. Earlier incarnations of this app were written in ASP.Net 1.1, ASP.Net 2.0, and ASP classic. Also hosted on this server are several Wordpress 3.X sites/blogs with MySQL. Created scheduled scripts to create rolling 7 day backup archives of both SQL Server and MySQL databases.

10/2006-5/2011    Carrotware.com, VPS

Self manage and administer dedicated Windows 2003 virtual private server (VPS). Hosted and administered multiple web sites, ftp, and email.

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    DVR (Digital 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) with Windows XP. Eventually implemented GB-PVR based capture to better leverage multiple tuner cards and integrate with a TV schedule. Also wrote the first plugin for the GB-PVR Web application: Season Recording Manager. Upgraded to Windows 7 to support the Ceton InfiniTV4 and converted to Media Center 7.

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

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