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Adaptable Solutions Architect with a passion for knowledge management and process improvement. 20 years of experience in extracting institutional knowledge, designing and building software-driven business solutions that are manageable in both content and structure. Skills in Systems Analysis, Requirements Management, Development (Software/Web/Database/GIS), Systems Documentation, COTS Integration, Server Administration, Enterprise Architecture and Project Coordination. Eventually I’d like to find a long-term engagement where I can design, build, maintain and administer integration, continuity and adaptability into many processes, products, systems etc. In the mean-time, I’m open to a variety of engagements utilizing some sub-set of my skills and hopefully challenging me to acquire new ones.
Education and Training:2018 - / Chef - DevOps Foundation - Linux & Windows
2017 - / Acloud.guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2017, Certified Developer - Associate 2017 and Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate 2017
2011 - / Microsoft Self-Paced Training Kit - MCTS, MS SQL Server 2008 Developer
1996 - / Nicholls State University - BS, Computer Information Systems - NOT COMPLETE, but completed half of Junior Year
Clearances:
2017 - / DOD Clearance
2011 - / DOD Clearance
2009 - / Position of Public Trust, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, US Government
2000 - / Position of Public Trust, Department of Transportation, US Government
Work History:
Dept. of State / Moss Cape / Skyepoint Descisions
AWS Cloud Administrator / Apr 2017 - Present
Worked under mentorship of Sr. Amazon Web Services Architect/Administrator, on a team that provides managed services to groups within the agency. Underwent extended, intensive, AWS Training toward achieving Associates Certifications in Solutions Architecture, Development and SysOps Administration. Heavy use of the AWS Javascript SDK and Node.js for discovery, reporting and manipulation of AWS resources. Worked with design and administration of virtual networks and servers, as well as web site and web-server administration. Some work developing custom functionality in Google Mail, Forms and Sheets using Google apps script.
US Army G4 / Dynetics / Sharp Minds LLCSystems Architect / Lead Developer / Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Initiative to design and build a Data Cleansing Solution to apply to the Army Enterprise Material Master Catalog. Enterprise modernization and consolidation efforts require much higher standards of data quality than were practiced in legacy systems, involve many complex business rules and a number of subjective decisions, all which would place impossible demands on small staff of experts, but are badly needed to realize mission critical objectives. I joined the team as a senior full-stack developer and within weeks was promoted to System Architect and Lead Developer, where I worked with a team of 7 others to develop a solution using Sql Server 2012, Asp.net Web API, Javascript, and Telerik Kendo UI. I took responsibility for all database and restful service design, database, server and webserver administration and much of the git source code administration. I worked 80+ hours/week for a number of months to meet difficult deadlines, and was quickly able to drastically shrink the number of developers needed to keep the project on track.
US Patent Office/SAIC/TEM Software/Equity PersonnelSr. UI Developer / Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Front End Developer on a rather large project to create a modern solution to consolidate and replace the numerous legacy systems that are currently used for processing Patent Applications. Agile development with Continuous Integration to develop a browser-based web application that consumes RESTful services developed in JAVA. Working with Business Owners, QA and a team of developers, I performed development, trouble-shooting and testing on a rather large, 508 compliant web-application using Javascript and Javascript Frameworks, HTML5, CSS 3, etc.
Proactive Shift LLCSoftware Consultant / Aug 2013 - Present
Working closely with top leadership in several organizations to design and develop applications. With one primary client, I worked to determine how to better leverage Geographic Information Systems, researched available products, and developed some of the more readily needed solutions using ESRI's ArcGIS API for Javascript, Dojo Toolkit, HTML5, ASP.NET, Sql Server Spatial, and ASP.NET Web API Services. Integrated new development with legacy applications and databases, and made improvements to legacy Foxpro-based systems by modifying logic and converting them to consume new Web API Services. Some experimenting with setting up GEOSERVER. With another client I resolved impossible bottle-necks and developed insightful reports surrounding and incredibly tedious, broken and unstable web application that they are forced to deal with in their day-to-day work. I developed a program that would launch numerous windows that would each log in to this difficult site, navigate through a serious of pages and options, enter data there, scrape data off of pages, and developed useful reports off of captured data. This application used Visual Studio 2012, Selenium Web Driver and Sql Server 2008R2.
US Dept. of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency/SAIC/VoltSr. Developer / Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Responsible for continued maintenance, upgrading and development of a mission-critical, GIS-centric legacy application, "Tool for Environmental Resource Results Assessment (TERRA)" mentioned at This windows client application built on ESRI ArcObjects applies rather complex business rules, performs complex spatial operations re-projecting data, searching, intersecting and measuring features taken from various shapefiles, services and geodatabases, and accesses a number of SQL Databases.
Responsible for maintaining, configuring and consuming internal WCF Services. Responsible for maintaining a WPF application consuming services. Assisted with analysis and maintenance of related applications and databases. Provided technical leadership in Sql Server, Visual Studio Development, build and deployment with applications published to Citrix environment. Provided leadership in broader team concerns such as technical documentation and configuration management.
Proactive Shift LLCSolutions Architect / Jun 2012 - Jul 2013
Continuing development of a general-purpose, Information Management Framework described at , as well as a promotional website, promoting advantageous organizational strategies, practices, and disciplines that are made feasible by using this Framework as an extensible central hub for collecting, vetting, organizing, aligning, disseminating, and re-purposing all of the diverse information and details useful in describing, modeling and documenting the purpose and implementation of Business Systems, processes, integrations, etc. I give examples illustrating the fusion, normalization and refinement of diverse structured and unstructured information into a “single version of the truth” which ultimately makes it more manageable, consistent, searchable, and consumable. Practical examples include the kinds of information found in knowledge-transfer documents, user-guides, business rules, systems requirements, meta-data, configuration management data, system design, entity-relational modelling, data dictionaries, service catalogs, and traceability matrices to name a few. Using a provided api, the existing means of producing these deliverables can be replaced by reports developed to draw off of this repository. At this stage I developed a Winforms implementation of the product using C#/.Net 4.0, Sql Server 2008 and developed the website with Asp.Net, Sql Server 2008, Dojo, HTML5 and Macromedia Fireworks. Ongoing work involves porting this application to web using MVC 3.0, HTML5 and JQuery.
Defense Logistics Agency/ IBM / Kore Federal, Inc.Sr. Software Engineer / Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
Designed and developed interface between the .Net/Sql Server based Foreign Vendor Registration Web Application 'Joint Contracting and Contingency Services' at and a new express version of the DLA's Central Invoicing System 'Wide Area Workflow' at to provide registered vendors with single-sign-on capability between these public-facing, disjoined systems. Used SOAP Web Services and Certificate Authentication between servers. Provided analysis and recommendations for process improvement, and revamped the MS Office Access/Sql Server based Internal Contract-Closeout and Inventory System to implement new requirements and provide better understanding into existing functionality. Some work with Team Foundation Server resolving phantom file checkouts.
Anonymous Financial Advisor/Anonymous ContractorWeb Developer / Feb 2011 - Apr 2011
Managing requirements and performing modifications to Asp.Net/Sql Server internal Securities Pricing Management Web application to integrate with FactSet and EzeCastle using WCF, Scheduled Tasks and SSIS, then assisting with the technicalities of shepherding the combined system through a server upgrade/migration from Win Server 2003 to 2008 R2
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission / General Dynamics IT / Custom Software, Inc.Sr. Software Engineer / Feb 2009 - Sep 2011
Working on-site at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a variety of areas surrounding the development, documentation and operations of their internal and public-facing web sites, web services, applications and databases, many built on SOA using WCF. Played key role in gathering complex requirements, designing and developing the new e-filing system ‘eTariff’ found at , built with ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WCF and SQL Server backend . Stint in operations administering systems, troubleshooting in-house SOA-based production systems, integrating numerous COTS applications with internal databases and Active Directory for improved Management Reporting and coordination of efforts to remediate issues such as failed or missing computer security updates. Automated numerous processes internal to the contract. Served as functional and technical liaison to outside vendor implementing new Freedom of Information Act System built on CRM Dynamics and integrated with Sharepoint using components from C360.
Misc. Consulting GigsSoftware Consultant / Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
Small projects to repair older MS Access applications that have arguably outlived their useful life for clients that have adopted them into their business processes.
MPRI, an L3 Communications Company / TEK SystemsTechnical Lead / Mar 2007 - Dec 2008
R&D project to develop a marketable Crisis-Response system. Managed requirements, devised design solutions, and developed an Ajax enabled, ASP.NET web application integrated with ArcGIS .Net ADF map components in a highly iterative SDLC as directed by non-technical management. Used Dojo and Jayrock to implement AJAX functionality. Grew into role of ‘accidental’ Administrator of IIS, ESRI ArcGIS, MS SQL, and Windows 2003 Servers.
Anonymous Sports Medicine Portal / Anonymous ContractorWeb / Database Developer / Feb 2007 - Apr 2007
Subcontract where I played a role in developing what turned out to become a successful new Golf-Medicine portal. My role in developing this Asp.Net/Sql Server/.Net Nuke based application mainly involved creating means to insert data into .Net Nuke as if it had been manually entered through the content management user interface, link products and articles, and tweak UI elements.
Anonymous Hedgefund Management Firm / Anonymous ContractorApplication / Database Developer / Sep 2006 - Dec 2006
Short-term subcontract joining in late in the development of a Hedge Fund performance monitoring and portfolio management application for a formidable player in the Hedge Fund arena. Windows Forms application with Oracle database. Worked mainly to debug, optimize and modify rather complex PL/SQL stored-procedures, middle-tier C# components, and tweaks to the UI.
Proactive Shift, LLCProprietor / Developer / Oct 2005 - Feb 2007
After some years of working with Business Systems as a Programmer/Analyst, I started to recognize ways that many desirable organizational abilities such as transparency, traceability, compliance, repeatability, predictability and adaptability could be vastly improved through a better fusion of Institutional Knowledge Management, the entire Systems Development Lifecycle AND comprehensive management of knowledge and details more internal to the SDLC. I spent a couple of years working in my spare time to develop these ideas, and finally decided to fund myself to work on them full-time. In this time I made substantial progress toward developing a framework that has become an integral part of my work ever since. ProactiveShift.com is the public interface to this work. I developed these tools using Asp.Net, Sql Server, Oracle, Javascript, DOJO, Jayrock, XML and other technologies.
US FHWA Dept. of Transportation / Signal Corp. / Indus Corp.Analyst / Programmer / Dec 2000 - Sep 2005
Working in the Office of Policy and the National Highway Institute analyzing processes, managing requirements and implementing various internal and public facing mission critical projects. After working closely with client Analysts to document their legacy system, I worked on a small team using C++, Oracle, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, Crystal Reports etc. to build a distributable client-side data management/submittal application and a central processing system for e-filing, processing and reporting on motor fuels data which then handled nearly $18 billion/year. A publically accessible report generated by that system can be seen at I later served as the web-master for NHI while primarily working on a project to revamp their training and distance learning portal using Oracle and ASP.NET, integrating with Pay.Gov
Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County, IN / Crowe, Chizek & Co. / NIMS & AssociatesReport Developer / Oct 2000 - Dec 2000
Short-term project integrating Crystal Reports to extend functionality of their Tidemark Permit Managing System. Worked to mentor junior developers and guide their efforts while personally implementing the more complex requirements
D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue / Andersen Consulting / Infinite Software ResourcesProgrammer / Analyst / Dec 1999 - Oct 2000
R&D project by Andersen Consulting for D.C. Government Office of Tax and Revenue to redesign the Property Tax Billing System and supporting users while implementing changes.
NDC eCommerceProgrammer / Analyst / Sep 1999 - Nov 1999
Working for a 'Merchant Processor' of Debit/Credit card transactions to resolve data problems created by a legacy system loosely integrated with SBT Accounting.
The Rouse Company / KPMG / PKW & AssociatesProgrammer / Analyst / Dec 1998 - Aug 1999
Interdepartmental R&D project orchestrated by KPMG for The Rouse Company to develop an executive budgeting projections system integrated with JD Edwards Accounting.
Maynard SoftwareProgrammer / Analyst / Jan 1998 - Oct 1998
Working for a Value Added Reseller of PLATINUM Accounting to develop and customize complimentary modules.
Various Independent ProjectsSoftware Developer / Jun 1997 - Present
I spend most of my free time building practical tools and resources that I find useful or helpful.
Business Systems for Various ClientsConsulting Apprentice / May 1997 - Dec 1997
Working for a consulting firm implementing various mission critical projects for unsophisticated clients.
National Network SystemsProgrammer / Analyst / Jan 1997 - Apr 1997
Contract to implement a policy management system for a life insurance company.
KP Housewashing & PaintingProprietor / Apr 1990 - Aug 1996
Finding clients, tailoring projects to best utilize their resources, then managing all of the details of bringing those projects to completion
KP Bookkeeping & Tax Consultanting Inc.Income Tax Preparer / Jan 1985 - Jun 1993
Worked for Tax Consultant keeping books and preparing State and Federal Tax Returns for Individuals, Partnerships and S Corporations.
Skills Matrix:Skill / Years / Level (1-5) / Last Used / Skill / Years / Level (1-5) / Last Used
.Net Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / Log4Net / 5 / 0 / 06/18
Acronis Backup and Recovery 11 / 1 / 3 / 07/13 / MBSA 2.1, 2.2 / 3 / 4 / 09/11
Active Directory / 3 / 2 / 09/11 / Microsoft Project / 10 / 3 / 08/13
ADO.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / MS Access 2000, 2003, 2007, 95 / 16 / 4 / 06/18
Agile / 12 / 4 / 06/18 / MS Excel / 20 / 4 / 04/17
AJAX / 9 / 4 / 06/18 / MS Office / 19 / 4 / 06/18
Analytical Functions / 13 / 5 / 04/17 / MS Office Automation / 4 / 4 / 07/13
ANSI SQL / 7 / 5 / 09/11 / MS Paint / 3 / 4 / 09/11
ArcGIS API for JavaScript 3.6, 3.8, 3.9 / 5 / 4 / 06/18 / MS Sql Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, 6.5, 7.0 / 13 / 4 / 06/18
ASP (Classic) 1.0 / 7 / 3 / 09/11 / MVC 3.0 / 1 / 2 / 07/13
Asp.net 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / Node.js 0.12.7, 6.11 / 2 / 2 / 06/18
ASP.Net Web API 1, 2.2 / 5 / 4 / 06/18 / Object Oriented Design / 17 / 3 / 06/18
AWS Administration 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / Object Oriented Programming (OOP) / 17 / 3 / 06/18
AWS Architecture 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / ODBC / 8 / 3 / 06/12
AWS CloudCheckr Government / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / OLE Automation (with MS Office) / 8 / 4 / 09/11
AWS Development 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / Oracle 10g, 11i, 7, 8, 9i / 11 / 4 / 09/11
AWS GovCloud 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / PL/SQL / 9 / 3 / 09/11
AWS SDK for Javascript 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / PowerGrep 3 / 12 / 4 / 06/18
AWS Tools for Windows Powershell 2017 / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / Powershell 1.0, 2.0 / 9 / 3 / 06/18
BMC Remedy 7.5 / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / PuTTY / 1 / 0 / 06/18
C# 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / Regular Expressions / 16 / 4 / 06/18
c360 CRM/SharePoint Integration for Microsoft CRM 4.0 / 3 / 1 / 09/11 / Section 508 Compliance / 12 / 3 / 11/15
Citrix / 5 / 2 / 11/15 / Selenium Web Driver 2.4 / 5 / 3 / 06/18
CMM / 7 / 4 / 09/11 / Service Oriented Archictecture / 9 / 3 / 06/18
CMMI / 3 / 4 / 09/11 / Sharepoint 2007 / 3 / 3 / 09/11
COM/DCOM / 6 / 3 / 08/13 / SOAP / 6 / 3 / 06/12
CRM Dynamics 4.0 / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / SQL / 14 / 4 / 06/18
Crystal Reports 4.0, 6.0, 7, 9, 9.5, Basic for VS2008 / 8 / 5 / 09/11 / Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2005, 2008R2 / 3 / 4 / 09/11
CSS 2.0, 3.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / Structured Analysis / 8 / 4 / 09/11
Design Patterns / 7 / 3 / 07/13 / Subversion / 2 / 0 / 11/15
DHTML / 3 / 4 / 12/08 / Sunflower / 3 / 2 / 09/11
DOJO Toolkit .9x, 1.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 / 9 / 4 / 06/18 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 / 3 / 3 / 09/11
DOM / 7 / 4 / 07/13 / Team Foundation Server / 3 / 3 / 06/12
EcmaScript 3, 5 / 7 / 4 / 11/15 / Telerik Fiddler 4 / 5 / 0 / 06/18
Enterprise Architect 7.5 / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / Tenable Nessus Scanner / 3 / 0 / 09/11
Entity Framework 4, 6 / 5 / 4 / 04/17 / TOAD for Oracle / 10 / 3 / 09/11
ESRI ArcGIS .NET ADF / 2 / 4 / 12/08 / TOAD for Sql Server / 6 / 3 / 09/11
ESRI ArcGIS Engine 10.0, 10.1 / 1 / 2 / 08/13 / TOK / 4 / 5 / 04/17
ESRI ArcGIS Server / 2 / 3 / 12/08 / Troux Metis / 3 / 4 / 09/11
ESRI ArcMap 10.0, 10.1 / 6 / 2 / 06/18 / T-SQL / 9 / 4 / 04/17
ESRI ArcObjects 10.0, 10.1, 9.3 / 1 / 2 / 08/13 / UML / 7 / 4 / 09/11
Fireworks (Macromedia) 8 / 7 / 2 / 07/13 / VBA / 3 / 3 / 06/12
Foxpro 2.0, 2.5 / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / Visio / 10 / 3 / 09/11
Geoserver 2.4 / 5 / 1 / 06/18 / Visual Foxpro 3.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 / 10 / 4 / 06/18
git 2.4 / 1 / 2 / 04/17 / Visual Source Safe 6.0 / 15 / 4 / 06/18
Google Apps Script / 1 / 0 / 06/18 / Visual Studio .Net, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 6.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18
HTML 4.0, 5 / 16 / 4 / 06/18 / WCF / 9 / 3 / 06/18
IIS 6.0, 7.0, 8 / 15 / 3 / 06/18 / Web Services / 11 / 3 / 06/18
ITIL / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / Windows 2000, 3.1, 7, 95, 98, Vista, XP / 26 / 4 / 06/18
Javascript / 17 / 4 / 06/18 / Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) / 3 / 4 / 09/11
JAWS 16 / 1 / 1 / 11/15 / Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 R2, NT 4.0 / 17 / 4 / 06/18
Jay-Rock / 3 / 4 / 12/08 / WPF 3.5 / 1 / 2 / 08/13
JQuery 1.10, 1.5, 1.8, 2.1 / 6 / 3 / 06/18 / WSE / 1 / 3 / 06/12
JSON / 6 / 4 / 04/17 / XHTML / 3 / 4 / 09/11
LDAP / 3 / 4 / 09/11 / XML 1.0 / 15 / 4 / 06/18
LINQ to Entities / 4 / 4 / 07/13 / XSD / 4 / 4 / 07/13
LINQ to SQL / 3 / 3 / 09/11 / XSLT / 5 / 0 / 06/18
Linux AWS AMI / 1 / 0 / 06/18
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