Application Developer

Summary

• Experienced backend, from the ground up, developer. SQL Database, Data Layer, Business layer, API, Identity Server, forward facing Client side.

  Resume

Employment

• Form Automation Solutions

  Lead Developer

  Role Title

  Jan 2018 – Present Addison, Texas

  ? Months

• MV Transportation

  Mobile / Ionic Developer.

  Role Title

  March 2017 – Jan 2018 Dallas, Texas

  10 Months

• Rainmaker Membership Systems

  Lead Web Application Developer.

  Role Title

  Jul 2015 – Feb 2017 Mansfield, Texas

  1 Year 8 Months

• GSCS - Global Supply Chain Solutions

  Web Application Developer.

  Role Title

  Feb 2009 – Sep 2009 Dallas, Texas

  8 Months

• Heritage Auction Galleries

  Application Developer / Network Admin / Help Desk.

  Role Title

  Jan 1996 – Jan 2009 Dallas, Texas

  13 Years 1 Month

• Tarrant Business Systems

  Copier and Electronic technician.

  Role Title

  Jan. 1990 to Jan. 1996 Fort Worth, Texas

  6 Years

Featured Skills

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Classes Taken

• June 2016, Completed the Menlo 5-day course.

  The Menlo 5-day course is a 'Hands On' course. After each section, we went into the real world and practiced them. Ask me how.
  Below are some of the main take aways from this course.

  Story Cards

  I learned in detail the importance of Story Cards and how they are best used. each story card should have the minimum amount of work that can be accomplished and can be pushed out into production on its own. If a story card lasts more than a day, it needs to be broken out. Ask me why.

  Scrum

  Scrums can be of any length depending on the need. Start with 5-day scrum and adjust as needed.

  Project Management

  Menlo has their own adaptation of Project Management.

  Observing

  It is very important to observe the end user in THEIR environment. Ask questions that do not influence their answer. Ask me why.

  Estimations

  Estimations by nature are always wrong. It is very important that the developer that is estimating sees the actual time it took to do the task. This makes their future estimates 'predictable'.

  Show and Tell

  Show and Tell with the owner of the project is very important. It should happen at the end of each scrum. Ask me why.

  Pairing

  The pairing of developers is a very powerful tool. Some of the benefits are:

  • Eliminates the Tower of Knowledge developer
  • At any one time, multiple developers know any one project.

  Daily Stand-Up

  Output Only. The daily stand up is for the entire office. You stand in a circle and go around and tell the group what you are working on. 10 - 20 seconds. State if you need to see someone after the stand up.

  Make Mistakes Faster

  This simply means. The sooner you make and identify a mistake, the less it costs to fix it. Having all the pieces listed above in place ensures that mistakes are identified earlier rather than later.

  Quality Advocates

  QA's are there to make sure that the project owner gets a quality product and works as requested.

• MS 2373 – Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET. June 2005

  At Heritage Auctions Galleries, when we decided to convert from VB6.0 to .NET I took a 5-day course on .NET.

• Xerox eXelerate Operator Training. IGEN high volume printer series. July 2003.

  At Heritage Auction Galleries, I oversaw maintaining and operating the Xerox high volume printer. I took a course on the operation of the large Xerox printer.

• Xerox DocuTech Operator Training. August 1997.

  At Heritage Auction Galleries, I oversaw maintaining and operating the Xerox high volume printer. I took a course on the operation of the large Xerox DocuTech printer. This was our first printer that we could send jobs to.

• Ricoh VT3600, VT1730 Service and Maintenance Technician Training. August 1995.

  At Tarrant Business Systems, I was the lead technician on the high volume and duplicator printers. This was a technical course on maintaining and repairing the Ricoh VT3600. This was not a copier but a duplicator. It replaced the old mimeograph machines. You sent your file over and it created a template that was used to create the copies. This system used ink and not toner.

• Copystar 2256/2260/2270 Service and Maintenance Technical Training. August 1994.

  This class was my first technical copy machine class and was on the smaller copy machines.

Awards

• 2001 Employee of the Year at Heritage Auction Galleries.
• In the past I have been awarded the Employee of the month twice at Heritage Auction Galleries.

References

• Available upon request.