CSC « First Consulting Group (FCG) « Zorch Software

Client: UpToDate

• As a Senior Consultant, provided technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring for Associate and Staff Consultants on project site.
• Helped bring project schedule back on track by solving many show-stopping technical hurdles and design issues in Office client programming.
• Wrote AJAX-enabled SharePoint integrated administrative utility to manage corrupted Word 2007 documents by allowing administrators to open, edit, and save a document's raw Open XML content via a web UI.
• Wrote custom, multi-threaded extractor/importer for moving content and metadata across SharePoint environments.
• Prototyped and implemented solutions for several challenging issues in programming for Office clients and SharePoint.
• Provided guidance and best practices for developing and deploying custom solutions on the SharePoint and Office platform.
• Participated in code reviews and guided development and architectural best practices for coding, unit testing, and refactoring code.

Product Development: FirstPoint

• Technical lead for Office client and SharePoint development activities for FirstPoint, an Enterprise Content Management solution built around the Microsoft Office solutions stack (Word, Excel, Project, and SharePoint 2007).
• Team lead responsible for standardization of internal patterns and practices including developer driven unit testing, consistent error handling patterns, standardized data access patterns (built on Enterprise Library), and logging.
• Designed and developed the FirstPoint Microsoft Office add-in using the Smart Client Software Factory.
• Designed and developed AJAX-enabled frontends (web parts and application layout pages) integrated with SharePoint and deployed via solution packages.
• Designed and implemented a custom workflow engine prior to the release of WF for task routing and notifications based on Microsoft Project 2003 project plans.
• Designed and implemented custom Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation runtime hosting services (Windows Services).
• Authored specification and architectural documents for development partners.
• Evaluated SharePoint 2007 from Beta 2 and was responsible for designing the overall solution implementation and deployment patterns and practices.
• Installed and managed software development and collaboration environment including Apache, Trac, and Subversion (over HTTPS).
• Interfaced with FirstDoc developers to provide SharePoint knowledge for SPX development activities.

International Network Services (INS) « Immedient

Client: Pfizer

• Interfaced with business stakeholders to gather requirements, design, and implement multi-threaded custom .NET (VB.NET) wizard for performing batch updates to project plans in Microsoft Project Server 2003 using client automation.
• Documented specifications and created wireframes to present use cases to business users for a custom audit component integrated with Microsoft Project Professional and Server 2003.
• Wrote custom API to the Microsoft PDS web services to abstract manual creation of XML documents typically required to leverage PDS (VB.NET).

Client: Northrop Grumman

• Wrote custom, AJAX-enabled, web-based spreadsheet application for resource planning which integrated Microsoft Project Server and SAP data.
• Created framework for automating the Microsoft Project Professional desktop client using a multi-threaded approach for controlling and monitoring client automation; implementation leveraged Win32 APIs to capture runtime screenshots, trap dialog text content for logging, and perform configurable automated key input (C#).
• Authored complex stored procedures and Microsoft Reporting Services reports.
• Created custom, AJAX-enabled query builder to allow business users to generate custom reports using a drag-and-drop web UI (ASP.NET, C#, AJAX.NET).

Client: Telcordia

• Created a custom, multi-threaded Microsoft Reporting Services deployment utility for automated deployment of hierarchical report packages (C#).

Client: Angelo Gordon (Hedge Fund, Investment Management)

• Designed and implemented proof-of-concept data transformation and integration system using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004.
• Helped guide client through implementation and deployment decisions, including platform and technology choices.
• Created ETL process to automate importing, normalizing, and aggregating data from multiple clearinghouses.

Butler International

Client: Merrill Lynch

• Designed and implemented ETL packages to automate loading of data from various data stores (DB2, SQL Server).
• Designed and implemented Intranet applications and ASP.NET web services (VB.NET) to streamline HR and sales related business processes.
• Proposed, demonstrated, and utilized WiX for creating installation packages.

Tekmark Global Solutions

Client: Factiva

• Created library for capturing and sending the contents of web pages in MHTML format in e-mails using a custom SMTP client (C#).
• Implemented ASP.NET web user interfaces to comply with established web standards including full CSS, XHTML 1.0 transitional, and Section 508 compliance.
• Designed framework to persist data across postbacks and pages without the use of a backing store (ASP.NET, C#).

Media Whiz

• Created web based data collection forms and applications for managing downloadable resources (ASP, VBScript).
• Implemented search UI which was designed to consume XML responses from service /content providers (ASP.NET, C#).
• Analyzed and solved existing reporting and database performance deficiencies by correcting and optimizing SQL queries.

Velankani Information Systems

Client: ITT Industries

• Built proof-of-concept deployments of various CMS products including Plumtree Portal 5.x (ASP.NET, C#) for IT evaluation.
• Responsible for database upsizing effort to convert existing Access based data stores to SQL Server 2000 data stores; analyzed schemas, managed conversion errors, and handled post-conversion data validation.
• Designed and implemented a solution to unify Intranet applications with common look-and feel and integrate system management (ASP, JScript).
• Rewrote many HR and supply chain management web applications to leverage SQL Server 2000, consolidate codebases, and increase code reuse (ASP, JScript).

Independent

Client: ADP

• Designed and implemented proof-of-concept prototype web-based integrated securities trading user interface utilizing ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET AJAX.
• Design and implemented custom web-based messaging and notifications GUI.

Client: Various

• Developed various websites for clients as an independent contractor. Responsibilities included visual/user interface design and development, database design and implementation, writing application code, handling service configuration, and hosting setup. Clients included (not all sites retain the original implementation):
  • ATA CPAs
  • iNetSurvey
  • Starr, Darcy, & Starr, p.c.
  • Sterling Printing