Project Manager/Senior Consultant Wintellect
Privately Held; Computer Software industry
October 2009 – Present
Senior consultant and project manager building highly scalable enterprise solutions using the Microsoft stack. Primary focus has been C#, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and Windows Phone 7 Series development and building composite, dynamic, modular Silverlight applications using the Prism Composite Application Guidance (CAG/CAL) and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) with WCF RIA using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (MVVM).
Project highlights that I was lead developer and/or project manager for:
Rooms to Go Slate Application — our company was hired to build a slate-based point of sale application in Silverlight to run on a ruggedized slate device. We used the Jounce MVVM Framework and Silverlight LightTouch library to build the application. The system runs on slate PCs, portable devices that have no lid or keyboard hardware and are slim, lightweight, and easy to carry. The slate PCs run the Windows 7 operating system, have an estimated battery life of eight hours, and are designed to replace fixed kiosks. The tool serves as a one-stop access point for store information. The company’s new point-of-sale system makes for a shorter and more efficient sales cycle and improves the customer experience. View the full online Microsoft case study by clicking here.
Microsoft 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics — used Silverlight 3, ASP. NET, C# Windows Services and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to build an internal health monitoring system with a realtime dashboard and enabled on-demand remote configuration changes for IIS Smooth Streaming servers that delivered the live and archived Olympic content. See the Microsoft case study and Silverlight team blog post:
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000007258
http://team.silverlight.net/customer-evidence/vancouver-olympics-ndash-how-rsquo-d-we-do-that/
Microsoft Looking Glass — Microsoft's Looking Glass product is a Social Network Analytics and Marketing tool that is the result of a two-year effort by the Developer and Platform Evangelist (DPE) team. The tool was originally planned for an open source Codeplex release and has since morphed into a targeted retail product release for Fortune 500 customers. The original project was a prototype and therefore was not architected to a production-ready level. Microsoft needed to re-work and enhance the UI design of the tool as well as re-migrate the code fully to Silverlight 4, and architect the backend code using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to support unit testing, modularity, scalability, and robustness within the application.
http://www.wintellect.com/Consulting/Case-Studies/Looking-Glass
SharePoint and Silverlight Data Visualization for PriceWaterhouseCoopers — PriceWaterhouseCoopers engaged Microsoft to help them build a proof-of-concept (POC) application related to enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the goal being to provide it to businesses in order to perform due diligence risk assessments of potential partners. In order to create a rich, competitive, and interactive application, the project would utilize Microsoft's Silverlight technology to deliver interactive dashboards and onscreen reports, within an integrated Sharepoint environment. Microsoft brought in Wintellect to create the Silverlight-based web parts that integrated with SharePoint, providing charts, tables and other drilldown capabilities for a great user experience.
http://www.wintellect.com/Consulting/Case-Studies/Integrating-SharePoint-Silverlight-Web-Parts
Comcast Grid Listings — worked with Microsoft Corp. and Comcast to architect a multi-touch Silverlight 4 "Comcast My TV" online viewing application for the organization. See the Silverlight Partner presskit release:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/developer/docs/WINTELLECT.docx
Microsoft SharePoint Business Application Proof of Concept — used Silverlight 4 to build integrated SharePoint (SP) web parts for a SP-based line of business application. The controls were designed so they can run as independent Silverlight controls, with design-time data in Blend, and in a live SP environment hooked to SP lists via CAML.
Architect Wandering WiFi, LLC
Privately Held; Wireless industry
January 2006 – October 2009 (3 years 10 months)
I partnered with Chairman Alan Dabbiere (former CEO of Manhattan Associates, NASDAQ: MANH) and CEO John Marshall to build the corporate network infrastructure and scale it to support growth while extending our operations into geographically disparate data centers. I visited customer sites, configured and deployed wireless networks and provided 24/7 technical customer service support. I established proprietary content filtering mechanisms, outgoing spam management, and custom hotspot solutions while extending the core product line and growing the development team.
My focus then shifted to scaling the development organization by increasing resources and improving technology: hiring and managing dozens of IT professionals in networking, operations, technical support, installation and development; implementing and enforcing software development lifecycle methodologies; introducing and configuring Team Foundation Server for ticket and incident tracking, performance metrics, source control, automated builds and unit testing; integrating with Sharepoint for standards, documentation, and best practices and formalizing internal training and onboarding process.
I finally served primarily in a development management capacity over the flagship wireless management application, streamlining the software development lifecycle and overseeing integration with Sharepoint and Team Foundation System. The application was N-Tier on the .NET Framework 3.5 stack using C# with a service-oriented (SOA) architecture and Rich Internet Application (RIA) console with AJAX and Silverlight. I invested as much time hands-to-keyboard coding and testing as I did with designing, managing infrastructure, mentoring team members and growing the organization.
.NET Framework 3.5; WCF; C#; Silverlight, AJAX, Mobile Devices, Wi-Fi (802.11x); SQL 2005/2008; Windows Server 2003/2008; Visual Studio 2008 with Team Foundation Server (TFS); SharePoint; JQuery
Founder and Author Lose Fat, Not Faith
Health, Wellness and Fitness industry
June 2004 – March 2009 (4 years 10 months)
Built content rich website; designed graphics, layouts, articles, advertisements, fitness tools, etc. My NaturalPhysiques.com website was ranked in the top percentile of all websites (per Alexa ranking with 3,000+ unique daily visitors) prior to sale. Developed digital and hardcopy products ranging from CDs to books. Created residual income through sales of affiliate products, advertising, and other channels. Created top 10 search enginge rankings with high demand terms including "lose fat," "fat loss," "weight loss podcast," to generate daily qualified leads through organic non-paid search queries.
As a Certified Trainer and Specialist in Performance Nutrition and a life coach, consulted with clients to assist them with releasing fat. Produced multimedia (web pages, interactive tools, CDs) as well as telephone-based and live seminars to educate people about steps they can take to improve their health and lifestyle.
MySQL, PHP, SEO, Nucleus CMS, Coppermine, ClickBank
Independent Associate: Director USANA
Public Company; USANA; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry
November 2003 – May 2007 (3 years 7 months)
My time as an Independent USANA Associate was an exciting doorway into my future as an entrepreneur. I quickly rose to the level of Director before shifting my focus to use the skills I gained to build my own health and wellness business.
Senior VB6/ASP Consultant Veredus/PriceWaterhouse Cooper
Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry
October 2005 – December 2005 (3 months)
Three month contract supporting PriceWaterhouse Cooper's "Comperio" document management suite. Analyzed ASP pages for vulnerability to injection attacks and modified application to increase security based on audits. Built tools to facilitate replication between staged servers. Extended interace with search plug-in to improve full text search capabilities.
Director IT DrTango
Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry
June 2002 – April 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Reporting directly to the CEO, Roberto Estrada, and EVP (Dr. Dirk Schroeder), I managed and developed a major upgrade to web-based weight management software called MiDieta/MyDiet. Renovated the architecture to support separate database, business logic, and presentation tiers, built a CMS to allow nutrition editors to update data without requiring software revisions, designed a cache system to improve performance and scalability, built an image service and billing module to support marketing campaigns, created a customer relationship management module to track client activity and provide feedback mechanisms such as rating systems and referrals. Built the business and increased organizational capacity by introducing policies and procedures relating to disaster recovery, coding standards and guidelines, hardware and software procurement, purchase order requests, and implementation methodology. Initiated automated change request system and introduced revision control software.
SQL 2000; VisualBasic (VB) 6.0; COM; XML/XSLT; ADO; JavaScript; HTML; DHTML
Development Manager Manhattan Associates
Public Company; MANH; Computer Software industry
1997 – 2002 (5 years)
After being hired by and working directly with founding partner and Vice President Ponnambalam Muthiah on the flagship PkMS product, I transitioned from the midrange iSeries platform side to become technical lead over a team of 4 developers building a multi-lingual, XML-based, distributed Internet transaction for supply chain visibility. The supported databases included iSeries (AS/400 - DB2/400), SQL/2000, and Oracle. IIS 5.0 using a combination of Visual Basic 6.0 and ATL COM+, VBScript, JavaScript, DHTML, T-SQL, XML, and XSLT. Automated several key phases of developoment lifecycle. Used ticket and revision tracking software (StarBase’s StarTeam) to automate progression of code from unit testing through the Quality Assurance (QA) environment and out to production servers. Used automation features of InstallShield™ software to package web updates for distribution to clients. Delivered a web-based tool to monitor inventory over geographically separated warehouses for customer. Involved polling separate iSeries databases and merging the data with SQL/2000 views to provide a global inventory perspective. Optimized database views for high performance and scalability.
Freelance Technology Writer Penton Media
Privately Held; PTON; Publishing industry
June 1998 – December 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Freelance author of various articles including "The Exterminator's Guide," a guide to troubleshooting technology (June 1, 1998) and "Calling the Plays: Strategies for Successful IS Team Management" (April 1, 1999).
System Analyst CareCentric
Privately Held; Computer Software industry
1996 – 1997 (1 year)
System Analyst, was formerly called "Simione Central"
Programmer Analyst Bankers Insurance Company
Public Company; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry
February 1994 – June 1996 (2 years 5 months)
