Topeka Tech

Enterprise Agile Coach, IT Leadership, Remote Team Manager, Agile Scrum Resource, Communities of Practice, Technical Upskilling, Agile Dojos, Dotnet, C#, Java, Python, REST WebApi, Angular

High Springs, Florida

I perform code-reviews, help improve dev ops (jenkins and cloudformation mostly), help mentor and improve BDD gherkin test automation, help with larger framework and project work around the dotnetcore stack and T4 code automation and help with Agile program development/operations to ensure devs and teams can go fast.  Build teams, encourage people, upskill, modernize.  When the opportunity arises, cloud, AWS mostly.2020 was odd, started by helping a non-it firm with their Merger into a non-traditional team based structure.  Pivoted to helping a software dev shop adopt mature patterns and practices, and replace their internal build worlds with a recently Microsoft dotnet angular stack.  Pivoted to help another firm to build an internal framework they can use to deliver external client needs repetedly and build a tremendous amount of initial architecture for a few of their external client projects.  Lastly helped another shop with some late night emergency dated-Java shoved into beautiful AWS cloud-native (mostly) diagnostics, rework, training (cloud formation, cloud watch mostly), and a few new feature developments against a 10M/hits/min endpoint ;)What was a simple path, has been made colorful and adventerous, tnx covid.

Wabato, Inc

Enterprise Agile Coach, Technical Trainer, Software Developer

Helped create and grow their Agile Dojo programs at Verizon Tampa.Remote, clear value, focuses on teams actual day-to-day work plus an improvement goal. Some were Java, Dotnetcore, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, ready to externalize configurations, create installations and lift-and-shift their way into the cloud.Many were there working to support aged, large systems seeking to being a cloud lift-and-shift as well but needing bits of technical upskilling, stack modernization, and monolithic separation if you will.Was a great opportunity, thought always had a very short fixed time-line, taught some, learned much, grew often.

Verizon

Enterprise Agile Coach and Technical Trainer

dotnet, sql, health care data, ssis, jenkins, devops, scrumAs a traditional employee it was remarkable just how quickly leadership allowed me to share from a wider set of skills.  In the first weeks I was hosting workshops for the company on product thinking, right sizing, agile, lean, scrum, servant leadership and the like.  I even got to help co-host operations for a number of weeks as I helped the company pivot into product teams.  As the dust settled, I joined one of the feature delivery teams that delivered internal and external work across multiple disciplines and lines of business.  Ranging from a focus on Automated File Delivery (.NET StateMachine running as a Service/Console app), Internal Client Facing Portals (AngularJs, MaterialJs, AD FS SSO integration, WinSCP Library), file processing and formatting application suite in (WPF/MVVM) a myriad medical record analytics and submissions work/edits/updates in a vast deep SQL implementation, as well as some amount of BI assembly/repair in Tableau/Sisense.  To the development team I have had additional focus on helping bring further automation and testing practices {Unit: ‘nUnit’, e2e: ‘casperjs/phantomjs’, bdd: ‘gherkin/specflow’}, automated deployments (Jenkins and MSBuild), improved process (scrum), additional environments, better uses of virtualization and related work.Then, and years later now, this company is a powerful story to what can happen when leadership remains hungry to listen and always do better.  Way to go P8 Team.

Pulse8 Inc.

Senior Developer

Helped the company (re) on board scrum, rearrange team composition, invert the flow of communication and information between teams and leadership in a microsoft <a href="http://asp.net">asp.net</a> mvc environment.

OPIE Software

Enterprise Agile Coach

Helped conduct agile assessments of several key-departments agile adoptions, team configurations, KPIs and metrics, and co-hosted sessions for a few weeks to mature the questions and adjust the approaches used internally to continue their large-take effort to adopt Agile Scrum.

Nielsen

Agile Coach

Working with the amazing staff of this great 1,200 person software development company is as rewarding and successful as the brand suggests.  Looking to take their Agile Scrum adoption to the next level everyone from bottom to top is hungry for the advanced scrum concepts and organizational structures that the highest performing teams and companies have come to adopt.  We are only a few weeks into the transformation and it is clear Scrum and these people are a winning combination.  I highly recommend this coaching to anyone looking to get to market faster with more valuable, higher quality software products while having a much more enjoyable time doing it.  This was a great engagement that yielded in an average self-rating of 520% improvement in 8 weeks.  Looking forward to future opportunities to work with these amazing teams!

3M Health Care

The 30 day assignment was to help review contracts and work performed for a private international online car commerce business.  In the end we were able to quickly remove parts, add parts, and do differently to help put the project back on track and help a company that was trying to compete in one of the most changing landscapes in the digital economy.

Private - Cs

Custom Software Business Consultant

As a strategy consultant I get to meet amazing companies that are working hard to change the world in positive ways.  This was definitely one of those companies.  Amazing people that already know how to delight their customers are always seeking out better ways of working together.  Having had some previous training in Scrum this team was ready to unlock some of its more advanced features, this team was ready to take things to the next level!  They are push hard towards becoming the most recognized leader of innovation in their markets and our time together cut years off of that timeline.  The week-long engagement was a great success as we were able to discuss many critical breakdowns and suggest some small changes for big results!

Private - Dc

Agile Business Consultant

An amazing 12 week program that had been delivered successfully a few times in the past was ready to go "online" with its first custom software product packaging.  As we built the vision around taking the product to market there was a desire to create something that was original, new, fresh and engaging.  Something that held peoples attention from the first week through the 12th not just delivering the best content on the best platforms in a timely fashion but incorporating gamified concepts around progress tracking, leadership boards and teamwork.  With only a few weeks before the product would need to launch in multiple-countries supporting all major brands of mobile phones, tablets and PCs to have at minimum 100 people signed up and using it day one this was one of the fastest, most successful and most fun build outs ever!  The product did launch before time, under budget, well ahead of expectation and with technology EXCELLENCE, no notable bugs day one or day last.  The creation of the digital assets, look and feel elements, user experience design, Facebook security integration, registration, team creation and tracking, score tracking, leader-board, events calendar, weekly automated release of materials, setup and configuration of cloud services to include both the Azure and Amazon services, video encoding, and site assembly were all rock star solid, implemented and launched in the same 30 days they were thought up.  I would recommend this team of people for any project of any size, and have become an Evangelist for other products created by this course author.

Private - Virtual Sales Bootcamp Distribution and Gamification Project

Full Stack Developer, Community Organizer, Leadership Trainer

Helped the team deliver a series of smaller key Angular, Dotnet projects that served large-scale live event organization.  Most of my focus was on dotnet, angular, id4, json, rest api and material UI.  Each delivered and helped build a base product to encourage the next.  One of my favorite parts, a large-scale instant anonymous component, was last seen being used by thousands of people to collaborate with their audiences.  Neat when we get to build such usable things, and help improve the lot for a nice group of devs and leaders.

Stagetally, LLC

Full Stack Developer, .NET WebApi AngularJs

Through a combination of tools, many I have built in-house and some I have acquired through partnerships I can help you to better understand the current situation and together we can get you and your teams back on track in a big way.  The content is short, the results are fast, the approach is unlike anything you have seen before.  You are one free initial consultation away from knowing all the things you didn't know you didn't know.  It is easy today to do what was impossible just a few short years ago.  I look forward to making it all available to you and helping as much or as little as your teams need for me to lead the charge and lead the change.

Agile Coaching and Culture Work

Independent Full Organization Transformation Agile Coach and Trainer

On occasion I teach AngularJs, Scrum Project Management, Intro to Scrum and ASP .net web forms for hybrid Ed Center and remote anywhere students.

Learning Tree International

Classroom Trainer, Scrum Trainer, .Net Trainer, AngularJs Trainer

In my capacity I am part of an exclusive group worldwide called upon to meet directly with Paul Martinelli the President of the John C. Maxwell Team, his staff, their advisers and the other members of the panel.  We are part of an overall strategy to grow the John C. Maxwell Legacy and get his timeless Leadership teaching and training materials and styles into the hands of others.It is my personal vision to drive leadership and personal development coaching to the forefront of technical learning models honoring 2014.  My part in all of this initially is to help with advanced technologies and process rethinks such as Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Gamification, Flat Organizational Structures, Honesty, Radical Transparency and the incubation of small self-sustaining, powerful, cross functional, autonomous team based working structures.  I am focused on next generation leading and learning models as well as the custom software re-think that goes into truly building a next generation coaching/mentoring/leading platform.

The John Maxwell Company

Technology Adviser Serving on the Presidents Advisory Council

I worked closely with key staff and a small team to rebuild a large real-time energy analytic platform.  The goal was to move from Silverlight 5 to pure HTML/Javascript.  With my recent experience with Durandal, Javascript, Require, Q, Breeze and exposed REST Services using the .NET WebApi it made perfect sense to rebuild the world in pure Javascript on top of Durandal.  The project was a huge success!  With my knowledge from working on the Silverlight project many years prior and my knowledge of these new frameworks we were able to rebuild the entire offering in just about 35% the time and cost.  Fantastically we were also able to continue to build such attractive, highly usable software that they went on to begin winning all sorts of favor and recognition for the above average quality of the products they were able to offer their customers.TECHNOLOGIES: ENTERPRISE JAVASCRIPT, DURANDAL, REQUIRE, JAVASCRIPT, C#, ENTITY FRAMEWORK, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> MVC WEBAPI, BREEZE, Q

NorthWrite

Front End Development Team Lead / Programmer / Consultant

I was invited into help evaluate the existing software product as a service IT arm of company and advise on how to reinvigorate the program.I helped map older technolgies and concepts to latest versions of the stack and helped upskill the team(s).  I also help create example sets of a few of their systems using a combination of Microsoft .net, mvc and mobile technolgoies.  This was the day before mature JavaScript SPAs but we were able to bring in a nice JavaScript Angular SPA as well.

Jenmar International

Agile Business Consultant / Software Development Trainer / Full Stack Developer

I was hired to help build out an initial solution framework for a mainstream suite of prescription order fulfillment and automation software.  I was able to bring a good team together and we did build a fantastic solution framework as well as solving may key features headed well into a strong release for a v1 market offering before the project lost funding and the team was disbanded.  I brought MEF and the Caliburn Micro MVVM, View Composition, and Event Aggregation framework to the table and we had built a nice Visual Studio Clone IDE for the rest of the software to be built on.  More specifically I built a bulk fax inbound-outbound processor that could scale up and down by running dozens of “self-hosted WebApi” applications that could automatically coordinate the pulling and processing of requests from the queue.  I also built an office 2013 WORD automation to generate PDFs out of SQL Table Data on demand and send them to the fax automation queue, also exposing a port:80 http-verb based self-hosted WebAPI application interfaces for this product.  Lastly I built a large scale Federated Single Sign On solution by extending the .NET Membership provider and an MVC site hosting the private authorizer.TECHNOLOGIES:  LEAN - AGILE - SCRUM, .NET, ENTITY FRAMEWORK, WPF 4, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> MVC, MS OFFICE INTEGRATION, TFS 2012, C#, SELF HOSTED WEBAPI, WEBAPI, CONSOLE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, SQL

SurePoint Medical

C# WPF .NET Application Developer / Scrum Coach

To continue to stay years ahead 352 Media brought me in to help slam dunk the transformation into Lean, Agile and Scrum.  In working alongside key company champions we were able to bring development practices, technology stack, project tools, and organizational practices into 2014 and beyond.  The talent pool being of such caliber the entire transformation was completed in very few short months.  By cross training project managers into Scrum Masters we were able to work together to help the shift of designers, digital strategists, front end developers, programmers and dba’s into high performing, autonomous, fully cross-functional teams.  By adding additional QA roles onto each team, and helping refocus the entire strategy to focus on relationships, business value propositions, and quality work result we were able to greatly reduce in many cases eliminate future needs for overages or, stabilize the work flow, and further increase the already amazing working culture into an explosive delight where outcomes affect incomes and teams spend the majority of their time in a high-octane high-five with their customers at the table.TECHNOLOGIES:  LEAN - AGILE - SCRUM, .NET, ENTITY FRAMEWORK, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> WEBFORMS, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> MVC, LEADERSHIP, BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION, TFS 2012 CUSTOMIZATION AND COACHING, C#, .NET, DEPT+ DUTY

352 Media Group

Agile Business Coach, Lead Scrum Master, .NET Consultant

Took a senior role on a short term project focused on using Orchard CMS, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> MVC3 RAZOR to provide geo-ip lookups to convert IP addresses into zip codes, to convert those zip codes to Long/Lat coordinates, then used those coordinates to find all of the zip codes within a designated radius (100 miles for instance).  All of this was then married to a great service catalog provided by the customer so a visitor might be presented with all the service providers of a variety of different courses within 100 miles of a given location....   Was brilliant fun, an impossible deadline and was able to mentor other staff in Visual Studio, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> MVC3 / Razor, Orchard CMS and other development practices.under promised, over delivered, and with the help of several other key committed team members we delivered a ridiculously cool system that did a brilliant job in short order.

10GeekSoftware

ASP.NET MVC Developer

Nothing is more rewarding than working with an outstanding group of performers who are all intensely focused on radiating the world with heavy doses of amazing!  Mostly just help with ideas, and websites, and technology bits as I am able to add value.  If you haven't met Joe, or the team, I encourage you to seek them out.

WIKISPEED

Agile Programmer .NET MVC

An existing system that married numerous excel spread sheets with an Access Database using VBA to produce large batches of print jobs for end of year receipts is unable to keep up with the numerous changes to the business model of the organization and the changes in question are highly involved and must be completed and proven production ready in quick turn around to support one of the businesses key functions.

VBA Programmer

Working with key ministries within the church we have begun building out a myrid of custom software to help internal business and external reach.  As a part of this technology ministry I will be working with a variety of college and youth to mentor them in the process of enterprise software development.Just last week we converted HVAC thermostats to new wireless network capable and will be tieing in our "life change ministry" class schedule software we are building with the facilities temperature control system...  yea, fun stuff!

Westside Baptist Church

Volunteer Development Coordinator / Programmer / Architect

I am heading up a project that is certain to win awards.  What an amazing team as we all work towards critical deadlines to help our customer get caught up and and ahead of the 8 ball.  With .NET 4, WCF RIA, Silverlight 4, Expression Blend 4 and C# 4 the world is an amazing place to live and work!  More and more it feels as if we are building high end gaming systems for line of business applications.  Thank you Microsoft!

C# WCF RIA Silverlight / Team Lead

By creating and exposing a custom WCF web service I was able to leverage the same validation system as the current website enabling current and future software products to all consume a single membership provider and therefore present a single sign on experience for their users across all platforms and projects.Another product I delivered monitored special folders on the server for keyed files to come from the Silverlight or Local Install Windows applications.  I coded against the Word Interoperability to convert these Word Documents into Clean HTML Documents representing either Candidate Resumes or Job Postings.  From there I worked with another toolset to extract relevant information from the Word Documents such as First Name, Last Name, Postal Address, Email, Phone, Job History and so forth.Lastly I build a parsing engine that would clean sensitive information from a given Word Document / HTML File so in the case of an “out of network” viewer all candidates contact information including first and last name would be hidden until terms, conditions and fee-splits were agreed to and approved.TECHNOLOGIES:  C#, .NET, WINDOWS FORMS, ONE CLICK DEPLOYMENT, WCF WEB SERVICES, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>, <a href="http://ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a>, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR ENGINE, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION, TFS, SERVERS MANAGEMENT, MENTORING OF JUNIOR AND MIDLEVEL DEVELOPERS, TEAM LEADING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, IMPOSSIBLE ODDS MET HEAD ON AND DELIVERED ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.

Preston Alexander LLC

C# Lead Developer, Team Lead, Scrum Master, C# Programmer

Took charge over 8 resources from architect and developers to testers and project stakeholders.Built a Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and shifted the entire team into a shared development experience.Built a production web server and database server to shift the product and company onto IIS7 and Windows Server 2008.I provided a full product and practice audit to the customer exposing key strengths and weaknesses that they were able to use with investors to gain the additional funding they required and rightly align themselves for the future.I cleaned up the product codebase, completely rearranged and split out over 45 respective Visual Studio Projects, reorganized and trained the .NET Developers/SQL Dbas and helped move the entire company and shop into an aggressive powerful software developing machine.   In addition to pushing a remote team through a very aggressive series of improvements, changes and additions I was able to architect and deliver a series of products during this same timeline.A Windows Silverlight Application that allowed users with a single click to select and upload a seemingly limitless number of Microsoft Word Documents to our webserver for further processing.A windows C# WinForms application for those able to install software locally to magically sync our web servers idea of their accounts with their local hard drive.  As new Word Documents were dropped into these folders the application would rename the local files to include identifying recruiter keys and would then sync the local file system with our servers in 15 second batches where the files would await further processing.TECHNOLOGIES:  C#, .NET, WINDOWS FORMS, ONE CLICK DEPLOYMENT, WCF WEB SERVICES, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>, <a href="http://ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a>, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR ENGINE, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION, TFS, SERVERS MANAGEMENT, MENTORING OF JUNIOR AND MIDLEVEL DEVELOPERS, TEAM LEADING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, IMPOSSIBLE ODDS MET HEAD ON AND DELIVERED ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.

In my role as a contributing Architect and Lead Developer I worked on the organizations Common Library, Code Automation Framework, Shop Coding Standards and Best Practices.  As well I was able to deliver a solution to the problem that had been presented. AUTOMATED DATA EXTRACTION UTILITYThe Challenge: The government produces a data file that is 5GB of zipped up flat files.  When extracted the largest of 42 files was over 1GB in size.  As this information did not come from a Relational Database Management System as SQL Server is, it is one dot shy of impossible to work with.  The Solution: A system that monitored the Federal file server, download and decompressed files as they were presented.  Parse through all of the provided information to formulate an acceptable Schema for storing the data.  Generate scripts to build the structures as well as load all of the data into those structures.  Lastly the system runs those load scripts via generated batch files invoking the OSQL utility passing in the script file and logging information using the new parallelism framework.  TECHNOLOGIES:  C# .NET, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR Engine, CODE AUTOMATION, AND SOME ADVANCED SQL AND AUTOMATION CONCEPTS.TFS, VS2010, SHAREPOINT 2010, C#I worked extensively in Visual Studio 2010 Beta and RC as per the customer’s requirement.  I gained exposure to SharePoint 2010, Team Foundation Server 2010, and Office Products Integration in 2010.CS TECHNOLOGIES:  <a href="http://ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a>, C# .NET, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR ENGINE, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION

C#/.NET Consultant

MVC 2 ADMIN/USER SCREEN AUTOMATION ENGINE•	I invented a scripting language that developers could embed into a given Database Design that could later be used to build a complete secure MVC website for a given database providing an Administrative and User Interface to select fields including error handling, input validation and more.TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  MVC 2 .NET, C# .NET, CODE AUTOMATION, ADVANCED CODE AUTOMATION CONCEPTS.

Recover Care

C# Lead Developer / Consultant

Assisted the IT manager / developer during an increased period of workload due to a merger/acquisition of another very large company with vastly different systems.  Some of my main duties were to merge, improve and deliver on one combined high-volume invoicing system that interfaced with dozens of digital file formats and clearing houses, ftp locations and submittal processes as well as printed/mailed invoices.  Each of these systems were to appear as if nothing changed for either company to their respective business partners/receiver of goods and internal employees of each original entity.CUSTOM BASE ENTERPRISE CODE AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK / EXPANDED ENTERPRISE COMMON LIBRARY •	One custom core enterprise automation framework that ranged the gamut from simple to very complex systems.  o	An example of a simple system is the shops ability to print two customer reports from any given database at any given time that documents the overall relationships and purpose of each system.  o	An example of a more complex system is the invented scripting language added to the basic SQL Schema definition of SQL Table and Columns that bridged the gap between a given Active Record DAL and more of a Domain Driven automation engine to provide not only the base data abstractions and business objects but further to create domain based objects and generate usable and secure testing harnesses for several complex systems.•	.CS .NET Object Oriented Framework .DLL Class Library •	.CS .NET Business Objects•	.CS behind .ASPX to generate reusable server and user controls•	.CS behind .ASPX to generate admin screens•	.CS / MVC 2.NET CODEGENERATED USER AND ADMINISTRATOR TESTING HARNESS(ES)TECHNOLOGIES:  <a href="http://ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a>, C# .NET, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR ENGINE, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION,

Trabon hired me to finish a large .NET web application built on a custom enterprise portal framework and foundational content management system.•	Cooperated with a small team using Team Foundation Server to finish numerous complicated systems that was 2/3 completed during a previous development push.  With little to no access to the original development team members or their notes we were very able to come together quickly to hit a home run.•	Tapped into vast enterprise of CSS to deliver an attractive and intuitive GUI combined with AJAX and Telerik Control Suite to mast otherwise complicated systems with simple interfaces.•	Delivered well on some unrealistically complex functionality to keep with initial contract documents while not pushing the allotted time or existing budget.•	Build code automation scripts to regenerate the enterprise and created bridging between myself and the 5 previous developers and myself to enable the most efficient use of time and money for my management team.•	Delivered final solution in very few billable hours compared to expectation due to a high reliance and mastery of automation concepts.TECHNOLOGIES:  ASP .NET, VB .NET, TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION, EXPERT LEVEL CODING, BEING ABLE TO FINISH THE WORK OF MULTIPLE EXPERT LEVEL DEVELOPERS.

Trabon Solutions

.NET Developer

At Robot Builders Inc I architected and built a large scale content management system and code automation framework.DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK •	4-tier/2-layer flush-n-fill enterprise framework (could write hundreds of thousands of lines of code for you in minutes, code that you could delete and rebuild over and over again)•	Integrated seamlessly with Visual Studio Built to support the .NET developer in daily tasks•	SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 SQL Stored Procedures•	.VB or .CS .NET Object Oriented Framework .DLL Class Library o	built as “just add water” enterprise framework for shops to build desktop, web or mobile apps all from single – core- flush and fill solution.•	.VB or .CS .NET Business Objects•	.VB or .CS behind .ASPX to generate reusable server and user controls•	.VB or .CS behind .ASPX to generate admin screensTECHNOLOGIES:  ASP .NET, VB .NET, C# .NET, CODE SMITH CODE GENERATOR ENGING, TELERIK RAD CONTROL SUITE, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION, CRYPTOGRAPHYMASSIVE MULTI SITE ONLINE ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP SYSTEM•	Provides Association HQ the key ability to extend a website building experience to subordinate divisions and chapters while providing a consistent look, feel and flow down of information and publications.•	Easy to use interfaces with a strong base OO enterprise framework for building new web components or extending to additional “association management” functions.•	Both a private gated online community and business productivity environment for 200 Chapters and 20 Divisions.  Went on to support over 900 webmasters, 14,000 members and 300 businesses.•	SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008•	Visual Basic .NET or C#  code baseTECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  ASP .NET, VB .NET, C# .NET, ENTERPRISE OO, CODE AUTOMATION, FEDERATED SINGLE SIGN, BRIDGE MULTIPLE 3RD PARTY CLASSIC ASP, .PHP AND JAVA APPLICATIONS TOGETHER.  MANAGED MULTIPLE SERVERS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF USERS, THOUSANDS OF WEBMASTERS

Robot Builders Inc.

C#/VB.NET and SQL Developer – Architect – DBA

At Regulatory Consultants Inc. I Architected and developed dozens of web based and desktop based applications using <a href="http://VB.NET/C">VB.NET/C#</a>, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> and SQL Server.  •	Mentored other developers in .NET•	Some .NET components served in unique roles such as being consumable in WScript, Classic ASP, Word and Corel WordPerfect.  •	 Architected and delivered a full-scale CRM and Workstation (single click deployment) application that tied the entire company together to track project workflow in the front door and out the back regarding their country wide bulk chemical facility inspections.•	Aided in the reducing of complex mathematical algorithms in calculating bulk chemical storage disaster overflow capacity while accounting for shapes in floor and tank design as well as partial tank exposure beneath the containment wall to an easier workflow of questions and on the fly calculations.TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  ASP .NET, VB .NET, ACCESS, WIN FORMS, WEB FORMS, EXPERT LEVEL CODING, TRAINED OTHER DEVELOPERS IN .NET, WEB SERVICES

Regulatory Consultants, Inc.

.NET Application Developer SQL database admin

Performed full SDLC to deliver a hybrid thin client application that allowed volunteers to visit historic court houses and archive court records from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.   •	Used MS-SQL Replication to allow “off-line” data entry to be added during the day and sync’d into the database during the evening.•	Used <a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a> WinForm Programming plus Adobe Studio to provided a very simple interface to an otherwise set of complex rules to enable older volunteers the easiest time in the field while requiring little in the way of formal training.•	Allowed for specialized keyboard short-cuts to speed up the entry process for seasoned users while featuring a simple GUI and mouse interface for others. •	Quickly learned and mastered the complexities and abnormalities offered up by the .NET 1.1 framework in building WinForms (installed windows desktop applications).TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  VB .NET WINDOWS FORMS, SQL SERVER REPLICATION, SQL STORED PROCEDURES, DATA ABSTRACTION AND BUSINESS ABSTRACTION LAYERS, EXPERT LEVEL CODING.

Rose International Consulting Group

Lead .NET Developer      Missouri, Secretary of the State Office

The department I joined provided Data/Data Modeling oversight to all of the hundreds of offices that SRS oversaw.  It was my duty to enhance the large modeling tool used, to create and maintain intra-departmental software and websites used in conjunction with modeling efforts, to create any necessary reports and serve as the on-hand programmer and technology expert for other departments to pull from.•	Transferred User Requirements to Design Documents using UML and Logical Models for other departments/agencies during large joint application design sessions.•	Participated in many of the Departments projects as a developer and an architect/modeler•	Used modeling skills to mentor department staff in design and modeling tools•	Plugged multiple holes and created dozens of behavior enhancements for Popkin Sytem Architect (similar to IBM Rational Rose, a more widely known suite of modeling software).•	Exposed VBA and COM+ objects and APIs of Popkin System Architect to interface other applications and processes into the modeling processTECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  VB .NET/ASP, C#/ASP, C#/VB-WIN FORMS, J2EE, IBM WEBSPHERE, ENTERPRISE JAVA, COM+ PROGRAMMING, CLASSIC VB6  APPLICATIONS, VBA, VBSCRIPT, WMI SCRIPTING, 3RD PARTY PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS, DB2 MAINFRAME QUERYING, ENTERPRISE OO, EXPERT LEVEL CODING, ATTENDED AND PRESENTED IN LARGE JAD SESSIONS.

State of Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services

Application Programmer Analyst III, Information Resource Specialist II

In addition to a large percentage of my day being database and programming work, Freelanced Technologies allowed me to adopt and utilize a very wide base of technical skill sets. •	Web, Desktop and Web service Programming•	Installing/hardening Servers, Firewalls and Inline Network Intrusion Detection Systems.•	Setting up VPNs •	Programming Routers•	Server deployed corporate anti-virus•	Built Domain Controllers and setup active directories•	Purchased/Installed various servers including Exchange, IIS and Network Attached File Servers.  TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  ASP .NET, VB .NET, C#, IIS, SQL SERVER, ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Freelanced Technologies Consulting Company

.NET Consultant / Programmer

Affiliated Acceptance Corporation, Sunrise Beach MO. hired me to help with supporting the applications they had at market, oversee the huge daily batches of credit card processing and to build in-house utilities and applications.  That role expanded to include programming of all sorts, some nightly auditing and server work, firewall programming, VBScript windows programming, VBScript web programming, PcPluss Autodial scripting, as well as socket level VB6 programming.  In the end I worked on desktop applications, web based applications, windows and Unix servers and more.•	Built in-house, client facing and web based applications•	Worked closely with VISA to automate/perfect massively-scaled-CC-processing Software•	Provided first, then second tier support to club and studio owners.•	Helped with nightly as well as Month End Audits on Unix Servers•	Helped with in-house and client hardware/software debugging/support. •	Helped move from classic ASP written entirely in VBScript to IIS 4 COM+ VB6-.DLLTECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED:  VB6, VISUAL FOX PRO, VISUAL C++ W MFC, CLASSIC ASP, IIS, ASP .NET, VB.DLL->VBSCRIPT FOR LARGER MORE SOPHISTICATED APPLICATIONS, CLIPPER W/BLINKER COMPILER, UNIVERSE DAC ON UNIX, CISCO ROUTER PROGRAMMING, DIAL-UP SCRIPTING, WIN NT, SOCKET LAYER PROGRAMMING

James Kies

James Kies