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Profile
Hands-on and goal-oriented IT professional with over eighteen years of industry experience. Proven record in designing, developing, deploying, and managing cutting-edge business IT solutions that address business challenges and opportunities. Hold an advanced technical engineering degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in electronics and computer engineering. Have extensive experience managing projects, developers, database administrators, network administrators, and IT support staff. Equally strong as a software developer, database administrator, project manager, business analyst, and systems integrator. Areas of expertise include:
- Expert knowledge in full cycle software development using object-oriented methodologies.
- Advanced Web/e-Commerce design and development.
- Database administration, design, back-end development, and performance tuning.
- Data warehousing, business intelligence, and big data solutions.
- Implementation of software factories through the use of strict guidelines, software development frameworks, and code generation tools.
- IT Project Management.
Skills
Software Development, frameworks, and Methodologies | Visual Studio 95/97/2002/2003/2005/2008/2010/2012, C#, VB.Net, Windows 8 Store Application Development, Windows Phone Development, VB 1.0-6.0, FoxPro 2.0-9.0, C++, Java, Pascal, WPF, WWF, Linq, WCF, Web API, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), ActiveX, COM+. TCP/IP programming of servers and clients. Object-oriented programming methodologies using RUP, UML, XP, Agile, Scrum, and SDLC. Test driven development. Extensive experience working with ORM tools and frameworks including Entity Framework, LinqToSQl, nHibernate, CSLA, Enterprise Library, and others. |
Web Development | Asp.Net (Webforms/MVC 1/2/3/4), Javascript, TypeScript, SignalR, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, Silverlight. Interdev/Asp, Dreamweaver, Front Page, Coldfusion. Java Applets, Java, JSP, Fireworks, Photoshop, CorelDraw. Credit card authorization, eCommerce, B2B, Intranet, SSL, and Internet security. Cloud computing (Azure). |
Azure | Web Roles, SQL, Storate, and IaaS. On-premise, private, and hybrid application development. |
Database, Data warehousing, and Business Intelligence | Microsoft SQL, Hadoop (Pig and Hive), Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySql, Postgress, SQLite, FoxPro, Access, OLAP, MDX queries, Cognos, Proclarity Analysis Server, Excel pivot tables, ODBC, ADO, ADO.Net, T-Sql, PL/SQL, back-end development of stored procedures, functions and triggers. Manipulation of MSSQL databases using SQL-DMO object. Extraction and transformations (ETL) using DTS, SSIS, XML and XSLT. Database maintenance and tuning. Have taken advance T-SQL and PL/SQL development and database tuning courses for MSSQL and Oracle respectively. |
Source Control | TFS (Administration and template modifications), Visual SourceSafe, ClearCase, and SVN. |
Reporting Systems | Crystal Reports Enterprise (BusinessObjects), Microsoft Reporting Services, and Macros for Excel using VBA and .Net (including pivot tables). |
Security and Auditing | SOX, HIPAA, PCI, LDAP, Single sign-on systems, custom security and auditing. Auditing using Windows Event Logs, Log4Net, ELMAH, Enterprise Library, and custom System Center modules. |
Server Administration | Windows NT-2012, Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Terminal Services, VNC, service updating and patching, and Powershell scripting |
Applications | Office and Office application development. VBA development of Macros and COM integration. Sharepoint and Microsoft FAST. |
Professional Experience
Microsoft, Fort Lauderdale, FL
03/2012 - Present
03/2011 - 03/2012
Carnival Corporation (CCL), Miami, FL
03/2010 - 02/2011
UGS, Inc. Miami, FL
12/2010 - Present
Equiflor Corporation, Miami, FL
09/2009-02/2010
Assurant Inc. (AIZ), Miami, FL
02/2004-08/2009
Steiner Management Service LLC (STNR), Coral Gables, FL
02/2003-02/2004
03/2012 - Present
- CGG - Houston, TX - Developed solution to replace Lotus Dominos solution to .Net using Desktop and Web Technologies
- McGraw Hill - S&P - Capital IQ. - New York, NY - Helped re-architect Office application plug-in used in the financial markets
- Senior Application Development Consultant for Microsoft Services in Enterprise Systems
- Enterprise Architecture (N-Tier, SOA, Distributed)
- Advanced Web Development (MVC, Asp.Net, Web API)
- Advanced User Experience Development (Ajax, jQuery, Javascript, CSS, HTML5)
- Azure Development
- Windows Phone Development
- Windows 8 Windows Store Application Development
- Windows Forms Development
- Silverlight/WPF Development (MVVM/Prism)
- Sharepoint Development
- Microsoft Office Application Development
- Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
03/2011 - 03/2012
- Senior Solutions Architect In charge of the design and development of the high-availability and high-volume world-wide consumer Web sites. Dell has the largest online retail operations in the World and a complex heterogeneous IT environment.
- Participated in Dell’s enterprise architecture council charged with promoting and expanding Dell’s development frameworks and standards.
- Main technical emphasis in VS 2010, ASP.Net MVC 3.0, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, WCF, Microsoft Unity (Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control), Telerik MVC controls, XML, XSLT, SLQ2008, and Oracle 11g.
Carnival Corporation (CCL), Miami, FL
03/2010 - 02/2011
- Designed and developed consumer based, high-volume transaction and high-availability e-commerce solutions in a complex heterogeneous technology environment.
- Architect in charge of design and development of enterprise components including CMS, caching, and logging.
- Main technical emphasis in VS 2010, ASP.Net MVC 2.0, Javascript, JQuery, CSS, Entity Framework, StructureMap container (Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control), SQL 2008, WCF, XML, XSLT, Mainframe in a Scrum methodology.
UGS, Inc. Miami, FL
12/2010 - Present
- Designed and developed an enterprise application development framework used to develop modular plug-ins to automate and monitor mission critical jobs for a large public traded company in the leisure industry.
- The framework included several logging and auditing instrumentation systems and an advanced web-enabled reporting tool and email notification system.
- The goals of the engagement included system integrations using durable message oriented middle ware, hardware redundancy, load balancing and scalable multithreaded components.
- The technologies used included VS 2010, C# 4.0, Linq, Entity Framework, Silverlight, Data Services, WCF, MSMQ, WebSphere MQ, XML, XSLT, SQL 2008R2, Log4Net, SQLite, Epicor, IBM CW, and Asp.Net Storefront.
Equiflor Corporation, Miami, FL
09/2009-02/2010
- Designed and developed modules to process purchase orders and record quality control findings. Modules integrate with the company’s ERP system. Quality control system includes touch-screen imaging module used to capture QC findings. QC reports are made available to suppliers via Web portal.
- Developed business intelligence solution used to analyze customer orders and sales and quality control data, to compute statistics, and to determine primary key indicators in these disciplines.
- Main technical emphasis in WPF, ASP.Net Net, Silverlight, JQuery, CSS, SQL 2005, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS.
Assurant Inc. (AIZ), Miami, FL
02/2004-08/2009
- Lead developer responsible for architecting, developing, and implementing internal enterprise level software solutions in a complex heterogeneous environment.
- Lead a team of developers in the design and development of a legal document management system. The system is used enterprise wide to catalog all the different documents in use by the company and also stores disaster recovery information in order to be able to reproduce the documents if needed.
- Lead a team of developers in the design and development a compensation system used to pay Assurant’s agents their commission. System replaced an obsolete application allowing users to process the commissions faster and increase customer satisfaction. Commissions paid are in the hundreds of millions.
- Lead a team of developers in the design and development an eliminations application used to post journal entries into the corporate general ledger system (Smart Stream). Entries are reported during SEC fillings and have to comply with SOX and time requirements. Application reduced processing times from weeks to days allowing faster reporting to the SEC.
- Participated as a technical lead and resource in the design and development of a reinsurance application. The reinsurance business accounts for a large revenue source for the company. New system implemented new contract calculations which allowed the company to increase revenue sources.
- Participated in the design and development of the Assurant development framework. The framework is used in the development of all enterprise applications. The framework allows applications to be divided into distinct layers including: data access layer, business objects, presentation, and user interface.
- Main technical emphasis in .Net (C# ASP.NET) using VS/2005VS2008, Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, Sybase, IBM Mainframe, Crystal Enterprise, CSS, SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS.
Steiner Management Service LLC (STNR), Coral Gables, FL
02/2003-02/2004
- Migrated Partech touch-screen POS developed in VB6 to a .Net using SQL as the backend. System is deployed in all major cruise lines (Royal, Carnival, Princess, Crystal, etc.).
- Developed backup/restore and debugging tools for unique off-line vessel environments.
- Developed .Net web-based reporting system tied to the company's ERP and data warehouse systems.
- Developed VBA Excel and Crystal reports to address several business issues.
- Re-designed the SQL 2000 data warehouse, the OLAP cubes, and the Proclarity presentation layer.
- Developed TCP/IP network traffic analyzer, an automated email and web-based support system, a web-based project management system, a web based requisition tracking and approval system, and a gift card payment authorization system used to authorize transactions with Datamark.
- Managed IIS Web (Windows 2000 and 2003) and Proclarity Servers.
- Introduce company to server and client virtualization.
- Technology solutions introduced helped to reduce multi-million inventory costs, and to increase productivity and profitability.
Education
Florida International University, Miami, Florida, 1991
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Specialized in microcomputer design and software development.
Training
- Windows 8 Metro-Style Development Training
- Windows Phone Development
- Azure Architecture and Development
- Scrum Methodology
- Oracle database advanced tunning/optionimation and PL/SQL development
Links To Production Projects
Dell
Dell TroubleshootingDell Manuals
Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival ActivitiesCarnival Booked Guest
Urology Center of South Florida
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