| Candidate Information | | Title | Software Developer Sql Server | | Target Location | US-CO-Denver |
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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateSUMMARY:A highly dedicated and creative Application Architect and Lead Developer with over two decades of experience in designing, developing new and updating legacy web-based applications across various industries. An expert in ColdFusion and MS SQL Server development on the server side of the application. Experience working with various frameworks such as the CFWheels MVC and FuseBox. Experience in creating intuitive and responsive client side interfaces using HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS, CKEditor and the Bootstrap framework.Experienced in interpreting project requirements and providing feedback to meet the customer requirements. Experience working both individually and with a development team. Provided Dev-Ops for applications, working with ISS, Apache, NGINX on both SQL Server and Linux based servers. Served as a release manager to coordinate developers changes with QA and project managers for timely updates to applications with a minimum of issues and disruptions.Bachelors Degree with experience in the Engineering, Construction, Government, News, Telecommunications, Financial, and ECommerce industries.TECHNICAL SKILLS:Responsive web layout and front end web development utilizing JavaScript, BootStrap, CSS, AJAX and JQuery and SEO optimization. Site building utilizing Drupal and Wordpress. Server side application development using ColdFusion, SQL Server, MySQL and MongoDB and some PHP, C# and Vue. Experience with REST APIs both as consumer and producer. Experience with developing an OAUTH 2.0 API interface. Familiar with code repositories such as Git, Subversion, VSS and Bitbucket. Familiar with Eclipse, Visual Studio Code and other IDEs. Familiar with ADA compliance.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Architect / Lead developer / Independent Contractor / - TriBuild Application (March 2019 - January 2024)Note: The TriBuild application began as Radar and has been under multiple owners since the inception in 2014. In 2019 Radar was purchased from myself and my business partner by TriBuild Inc at which point I became the lead developer of TriBuild. In 2020 TriBuild Inc sold the application to McCormick Estimating Software at which point I became an independent contractor supporting the application. McCormick was acquired by Foundation Software in 2021.As the system architect, I created the technical design of an online project management application designed for use by construction subcontractors for managing their project documentation, communication,budgets and files. The application was built using the CFWheels ColdFusion based MVC Framework with SQL Server on the back end and Bootstrap and JQuery for the front end.Worked closely with the product manager to create the design of the application to be user friendly and usable on both desktop and mobile browsers. Part of the requirement was for client companies to have multi-tiered organizational setups allowing for multiple regions, offices and projects per company.Developed a user role and permission system that allows for areas of the application to have access roles based on these company tiers with some roles flowing down to sub tiers.Developed a REST API to allow the transfer of estimating and project data from the McCormick desktop estimating application into the TriBuild application.Created a consumer of the third party Bluebeam Studio REST API used by clients for real time field-to-office drawing management and coordination.May 6, 2021 McCormick systems was acquired by Foundation Software of Strongsville OH. I continued as an independent contractor with Foundation, providing support for the TriBuild application. Due to an overlap with an existing Foundation application with similar features to TriBuild, new features and marketing of the application have ceased. During this time Ive also worked on other applications owned by Foundation based on Vue and Wordpress. The TriBuild application is sunsetting in 2024.Contract Senior Developer - Colorado Governors Office of Information Technology (January 2018 - March 2019)Upgraded code to support the migration of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) Benefits Utilization System from Coldfusion 11 / 32 Bit to Coldfusion 2016 / 64 Bit server environment. Provided other application improvements including fixing an issue that caused users to lose data when opening the application in more than one tab or browser. Took SD Analyst training to support handling OIT service desk tickets.Architect / Lead Developer - Radar Application (June 2014 - January 2018)This application began under GTP Services LLC. and was later co-owned by myself and my business partner who was also the project manager. The application was purchased in March 2019 by TriBuild Inc. and renamed to TriBuild. See TriBuild above for development technical details.Technology Developer - HostWorks Inc. (September 2012 June 2014)Developer for a variety of clients sites from small brochure style sites to large custom built enterprise applications. Worked closely with clients from proposal phase through the release of their web projects to determine functional requirements, desired layout navigation and color scheme.Developed customized Drupal sites for APA Colorado and the University Club of Denver that met their requirements of custom areas for members as well as public areas. Developed custom theme elements to meet requirements.Worked on the conversion of a large ColdFusion/SQL Server based medical inventory and ordering system from a single customer per application instance to multiple customers per instance.Took on rescued Drupal sites for clients who were having difficulty working with their current hosting provider or developer. Repaired sites as needed after moving to Hostworks servers.After 2014 provided additional contract work to assist HostWorks clients. This included updating the Drupal view settings for the https://lmic.info/ site to comply with ADA requirements. This was accomplished using the WAVE tool to find and remove critical compliance issues.Sr. Software Engineer - Examiner.com (August 2007 September 2012)Part of the small tech team that transformed Examiner.com from a basic newspaper website into an independent local news and information site with over 80,000 contract writers attracting more than 2 million page views per day. This included brainstorming sessions to define the site and working with the product team to refine requirements as they were developed.The Examiner.com site at the time was based on ColdFusion versions 7 - 9 utilizing CFC data objects that interfaced with Microsoft SQL Server. The data and display layer were split to allow different content types to be combined with a variety of display components for reusability.Extended and maintained the site's publishing tool in support of over 80,000 writers.Added efficiencies to the ColdFusion and SQL Server code to help handle heavy traffic as viewership of the site grew.Examiner.com (continued)Release manager for the Examiner site, working with my fellow developers and QA to progress the code from development to staging to final release weekly.Created a unique JQuery based autosave feature to prevent writers from losing content.Designed and created a versatile scheduling tool that allowed the Examiner content team to schedule specific articles or query selected content for promotion on the sites home page for 270 localized editions. The content team was able to specify which editions the content appeared on as well as set backup content and overrides that spanned editions. Content could be scheduled to repeat at intervals or run once and expire. This system allowed the content team to maintain fresh content on the home page without constant manual intervention.Developed a ColdFusion interface to Gettys image search API to allow the writers to find relevant photos for their articles.Developed a dashboard to the payment system that allowed writers to see their page views and earnings in the publishing tool.Maintained and updated the ColdFusion based Examiner.com site during a 2010 transition to a Drupal platform. After the transition, continued to maintain and update the ColdFusion based payment application.Created a web service to allow the Drupal based Examiner site to continue to send out subscription emails using the original Coldfusion based mail system until the Drupal based subscription code was completed.Created an API to allow the Drupal site's dashboard to display earnings data from the ColdFusion based payment system.Updated and rewrote the ColdFusion based payment system to handle revised Omniture data reports. This system was designed to pull in daily views and visits data for each writer into SQL Server and computes the payout for the writers.Ran the monthly payment processes to compile earnings and generate the payment reports for the corporate Controller.Develop modules and features for the new site using the Drupal 7 CMS which runs on PHP with MySql and a MongoDB backend.Web Application Developer - Accubid Systems (August 2004 August 2007)Designed and developed new features for the award winning ConstructJob web based contract management application. ConstructJob won the 2006 NECA Showstopper award as well as the 2006 IEC Innovative Product Showcase award.Assisted in the planning of and full development of the ConstructJob Integrator utility. Worked closely with Accubid desktop product developers to give clients the ability to import their estimating data from the Accubid desktop application into the ConstructJob web based application. Created a web service to receive the desktop applications data to easily integrate client data into the system without resorting to manual entry.Designed reusable modules to simplify integration of emailing, file uploading and text editing throughout the system. Integrated 3rd party Wyncs Sync calendar sync tool into site.Web Application Developer / Consultant ConstructJob.com (March 2002 July 2004)Worked part time with the site owner to improve application security and add new features.In 2004, ConstructJob.com was purchased by Accubid systems, at which I became a full time employee.Web Application Developer - Mentis Broadband (March 2002 July 2004)Implemented new look / feel of Mentis core product while maintaining existing functionality based on a single static HTML page designed by a third party designer.Created a customizable custom tag to improve data layout and usability.Created a highly customizable cross browser compatible tree layout structure.Converted embedded SQL within the code to stored procedures.Implemented consistent form data field checking across the entire application.Sr. Software Engineer - EnvestNetPMC (July 2000 October 2001)Developed new features and enhancements to the PMC Denver website using ColdFusion, SQL Server 7.0 and Informix databases.Designed and developed system for back-end storing and retrieval of financial account reports in a web based system. Developed a security system to prevent unauthorized access to financial data and reports.Developed system to import third party XML data from MarketChannel.tv into the application.Web Application Developer / Release Manager KickStart.com (September 1999 June 2000)Developed new features on the KickStart.com Internet portal using ColdFusion with SQL Server 7.0 . Improved existing functionality and stability of the site.Provided Second Tier support to the troubleshooting team. Unresolved problems with the site escalated to me to be fixed.Managed the release of updates and patches to both development and production web servers using the Star Team revision control system. This included code written by other KickStart developers and myself. Production releases were done in conjunction with the DBA to ensure a smooth update to the page without downtime. Implemented Akamai upgrade to web site. Revised the entire KickStart.com web site so that all the advertisements were served using theEngage ad server.Software Engineer - USA Global Link (October 1998 October 1999)Co-design and full life cycle development of a Visual Basic application for administering and configuring an Internet based call service. The application allowed users to enter and configure accounts for the service. The features of the program included the ability to perform live credit card authorizations for new accounts, review call logs generated by the Siemens switch, and various billing functionsCo-design and Full Life Cycle development of a client-server application for tracking and storing trouble tickets for an international callback service.Design and full life cycle development of a client-server application for automatically generating invoices for an Internet based call service.Developer - The Polk Company (May 1997 October 1998)Responsible for concept and Full Life Cycle development of a Visual Basic 4.0 program to automate the production of quarterly Polk Pathfinder reports. The program accomplished this by first transferring the report files produced by a mainframe SAS program into the Windows environment and then translating these files into Microsoft Word documents. The transfer of the reports and related files from the VM/CMS mainframe environment was accomplished by using OLE objects to interface with the Attachmate Extra! Terminal emulation program. The application then interpreted the mainframe printer format codes in the file to produce a Microsoft Word document which was identical in appearance to the files printed on the mainframe printer. The program also automates the production of two bar charts and two pie charts that were previously produced using Harvard Graphics and later hand-collated into the mainframe report. The application has improved the speed and reduced the labor required to produce these quarterly reports.Modified SAS, PL/I and REXX programs in a VM/CMS environment to generate statistical analysis of data from consumer mail panel surveys. This included working closely with the product analyst to adjust to changes in the format or number of questions in the survey from quarter to quarter or adding new statistical reports to the program.Engineer - FERA Corporation (September 1990 May 1997)Served as an engineer for FERA Corporation involved in various technical projects in the natural gas pipeline industry. During this time various applications were developed to analyze data for the production of pipeline test reports.VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:Social Media Coordinator - Rocky Mountain Beard and Moustache Club (January 2023 Present)Responsible for posts to the clubs social media pages promoting our monthly meetings and our annual charity beard and Moustache competition. Designed the posters for our annual competition utilizing Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.Web Site Manager / Board Member - The 2016 Great American Beard and Moustache Championship (2015-2016)Volunteered to design and manage the updates for the inaugural Great American Beard and Moustache Championship held in Denver Colorado September of 2016. Designed the visual appearance of the site and coordinated with the board to create the messaging around the event drawing competitors from around the world and raising $16,000 for charity.EDUCATION::Louisiana Tech UniversityBachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering TechnologyRuston, LA (1990)References Available Upon Request |
