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Objective Target Job Target Company Target Location Experience Education Skills

OBJECTIVE To architect and implement enterprise level applications and to improve the breadth and depth of my software engineering knowledge.

TARGET JOB Desired Job Type: Employee
Desired Status: Full-time
Site Location: On-Site
Date of Availability: Unknown

My perfect job:
I am seeking a lead developer / architect position that would allow me to stay on the cutting edge of technology and present me with stimulating and challenging problems to constantly test my abilities and expand my skills set.

TARGET COMPANY Company Size: No Preference
Company Category: Software Development

My perfect company:
A company that is agile and fast moving, but has established a solid base of talented employees..

TARGET LOCATION Relocate: Possibly

Areas of interest:
Anywhere in or near Boston, MA.

EXPERIENCE Time Span Company Name Location
 
12/2008 - Present Galen Healthcare Solutions Boston, MA
Sofware Architect
Responsible for all software architecture at the company. Designed and implemented Galen's VitalCenter business continuity solution which enables access to critical clinical data at the point of care during downtime situations. Also responsible for a wide variety of electronic healthcare record system customizations and extensions.

5/2004 - 11/2008 Four Score Technologies Inc. Boston, MA
Sofware Architect
Responsible for guiding all product development at the company. Architected and developed a highly scalable and maintainable platform for online advertisement delivery, which at its height handled more than 10 million hits per day, using technologies such as ASP.NET, MSMQ, and SQL Server. Architected and developed a reliable and extensible mobile commerce solution for their mStyle.com brand that included both a web and WAP storefront, an SMS / MMS / OTA content delivery solution, and a billing platform. Designed and developed the popular RoamDrive Windows application that allows users to store files using their Hotmail or Gmail accounts.
7/2002 - 5/2004 Jenzabar Inc. Cambridge, MA
Software Engineer
Developing enterprise higher education portal software using a wide variety of technologies, including VB COM, ASP, XML, XSLT, SQL, C# and the .NET Framework. Primarily responsible for systems architecture and development. Primary architect for their .NET-based Internet Campus Solution product.
 
4/2002 - 4/2003 SiLing Inc. Geneva, NY
Consultant
Consulted on and developed highly scalable licensing and e-commerce software for the SiLing product line, written completely in C# on the .NET Framework.
6/2001 - 8/2001 Click2Learn Needham, MA
Programmer (Intern)
Worked extensively with ASP, Java, Javascript, DHTML, CSS, SQL Server, Oracle, Visual Source Safe, IIS, and various other environments, to create e-learning software for the web and CD-based media.
1/2000 - 6/2002 Webativity Milton, MA
Partner and Co-Founder
Co-founded a web development company called Webativity. Specialized in dynamic, database driven web sites and applications using ASP, COM+, SQL Server, and Windows NT/2000. Suspended the partnership after graduation from RIT.
6/1999 - Present Milestone Inc. Sherborn, MA
Web Developer and Consultant
Conducted needs assessment, tutorials on the Windows OS, migrated mission critical data from legacy Macintosh systems to Windows machines, and created database driven company web sites. Created ASP-based web front end with a relational Access database backend, real-time online chatting, message boards, user driven polls and surveys, and various other collaboration tools.
 
6/1997 - 9/1997 Header Advertising Inc. Boston, MA
Web Developer and Consultant (Contract)
Developed company web site and database backend. Site consisted of fairly simple HTML and JavaScript, but also included dynamic functionality to allow Heater to share all its account data with its clients securely over the Internet; used Tango from Everyware software to create a real-time link from a FileMaker Pro database to the Web. Also responsible for training Heater's employees to use the new database and web systems.

EDUCATION Graduated School Name Location
Class of 2002 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY

Degrees
    Bachelor's of Science in Information Technology
    Minored in Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies

Cumulative GPA: 3.97 / 4.0 (Highest Honors)

Scholarships
    RIT Alumni Scholarship
    RIT Presidential Scholarship

Awards
    President's List for all four years
    Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award
    Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society
    Offered Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society membership

Class of 1998 Proctor Academy Andover, NH

Created Proctor’s first web site. Helped setup and maintain the entire school network, and initiated their Intranet project.

Awards
    Charles Levy Award to the Valedictorian
    Colby College Book Prize
    Luella Scales Award for Excellence in Mathematics
    Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award
    Fred Elroy Emerson Award
    Technoid-Humanist Award
    Member of the National Honor Society


SKILLS Skill Name Level Experience
C# Expert 12 years
.NET Framework (1.x/2/3.x/4) Expert 12 years
ASP.NET Expert 12 years
Windows Communications Foundation Expert 7 years
MSMQ Expert 9 years
Visual Basic 5/6 Expert 7 years
COM/COM+ Expert 7 years
ASP Expert 7 years
HTML / XHTML Expert 19 years
XML / XSLT Expert 14 years
VBScript Expert 14 years
JavaScript Expert 16 years
IIS 4/5/6/7/7.5 Expert 12 years
Windows NT/2k/2k3/2k8 Expert 18 years
Team Foundation Server 2k5/2k8/2k10 Intermediate 7 years
Adobe Photoshop Intermediate 18 years
SQL Server 2k/2k5/2k8 Intermediate 15 years
SQL Intermediate 16 years
CSS Intermediate 14 years
Java Intermediate 2 years
VB.NET Intermediate 4 years
Visual Source Safe Intermediate 6 years
Linux/Unix Beginner 2 years
C++ Beginner 2 years
Silverlight Beginner 1 year
PERL Beginner 1 year