Summary

Over 20 years experience in the internet in general including architecture, development, support and management. I started programming in 1983 on a Commodore 64, and have loved it ever since.

Programming skills include: HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, XML, Cold Fusion, ASP, VBScript, VB 6, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Win Forms, COM Interop, COM, SQL Server (6.5, 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012), SSIS, TSQL, Perl, PowerShell and Java.

2/2004– Present                 Citco                                      Fort Lauderdale, FL

Global Application Development Manager
Manage a team of developers integrating various systems, and building new interfaces to our back end accounting systems, time and billing systems, and HR systems. Dealing with teams of people from all over the world, and flying to various countries to support said teams.

• Rebuilt billing application to be centralized and migrated from VB to C# using COM+ interfaces at first, and slowly migrating all code to Dot Net eventually.
• Lead teams ranging from 3 to 5 people in size managing and building software for the company to be utilized worldwide.  Applications included:
• Merge filtered replication between multiple sites and databases on a custom billing application.
• Financial portal facilitating functionality that packaged applications did not have.
• Architected a new reporting infrastructure, with servers and tables using SSAS, SSRS and SSIS 2005 tracking all aspects of the packages in SSIS and reporting to be able to see how fast each package took to run, find any bottle necks in the pipelines, and be able to deploy management reporting in a timely manner.  Migrated this to 2008 R2 and finally to 2012 just recently.
• Server tracker application that would keep information on all our servers, virtual and non and reach out with WMI to gather patching information to validate the servers after O&S finished patching cycles automatically.
• Assets Under Management application to keep track of assets to our Trust Clients.
• Integrating all packaged applications through various API's provided by the vendors, or direct SQL Server / backend reverse engineering depending on the size of the vendor application.
• Managing team members in other countries and timezones, as well as projects across the globe, as half of my team is in Toronto and the other half in Fort Lauderdale.  The clients we served in the company were in offices in the Netherlands, BVI, Cayman, Curacao, Bahamas, Canada, Asia, Australia and other parts of the world.

8/2003– 2/2004                  Chhabra / Metability                  Weston, FL

Contract Developer
Chhabra group hired me to work on various projects, most notably a Commerce Server deployment at some point in the near future. Some of the tasks I am currently working on include:

• Modification to a backend system utilizing web services and XSL / XML. Applied new logic to system and SQL Server 2000 database to handle CVV2 credit card processing from the commerce system to the back office implementation, all work was done in C#.
• Construction of sales extranet in C# to enable a sales force outside the company to manage their own coupon codes. These codes are used to track sales and give commissions with percentage off the purchase to the consumer, and base percentages to the Manager and Salesman. 3 levels of security built in utilizing the .NET Authentication infrastructure. Modifications to the same backend system talked about above to facilitate. Tasks to note which were preformed:
  • Built a web service in C# to feed reporting information from the backoffice to the sales extranet.
  • Implemented reports for the extranet listed above in Crystal Reports .NET on an application server that fed the web server using web services integral to Crystal Reports .NET. Heavy modifications to the Crystal Reports web service to carry over parameters and build datasets were done.

8/2002– 9/2003                  Rexall Sundown, Inc.                  Boca Raton, FL

Web Technical Lead
Rexall Sundown, Inc. had a bunch of websites in dire need of updating, their previous web team had been let go, and they needed someone to bring their websites into the present and beyond. I was hired to the team at Rexall to help architect and build a new web infrastructure. This is where I really polished my .NET skills. The projects we worked on utilized the .NET runtime exclusively:

• Lead team of 4 developers on various projects in the organization ranging from intranet, extranet and internet applications.
• Architected the SQL 2000 database and specifications document on QMS (Question Management System) which was a question handling system for all information submitted from end users through our websites. This facilitates the regulatory, scientific and technical operations side of the business to be integrated into this communication medium.
• Built a common framework of VB.NET assemblies for all websites to utilize. Some of the functionality in that framework includes:
  • Individual sub system – Individual sign ups throughout all websites had the ability to share logins, or not based on some properties set in the object layer. Company decided to not, due to individual brand needs, but functionality remained.
  • News postings – The ability for each website to have its own news postings
  • Error handler – Common error handler for all websites that sends detailed information to support email address to ensure that any troubles with the websites can be addressed.
  • ECard – Electronic cards functionality for a kids website, so that cards can be swapped in and out, and shared across multiple websites.
  • Encryption – Utilizing 256bit AES (Rijndael) encryption algorithms, built a common encryption object / routine for all the libraries internal to use. This was used to encrypt passwords with passwords and credit cards with a 32 byte key.
  • Product – All of Rexall products go through this library and can be fed to any number of websites by passing or setting a few parameters.
• Commerce Server 22002 .NET implementation – Utilized CS2002, VB.NET and ASP.NET on the MET-Rx website to start the company doing commerce on the web. Learned the basics of CS2002, and progressed to learn CS2002 intimately. Documented the procedure to lock down the site utilizing Microsoft’s best practices documentation and applying it to our hardware and software infrastructure. This was a massive project, which encompassed nearly reprogramming the entire Retail 2002 site to fit the needs of the MET-Rx brand, and make it look sharp and fresh.
• Implemented a number of template systems using ASP.NET for each of our websites, refining the structure each site. This was a common set of functionality for each of the websites that was implemented with user controls throughout the site. Some of that functionality was to print the page, e-mail to a friend and a dynamic menu.
• Built a marketing program in C#.NET using win forms for the sales force of MET-Rx to take to road shows, and collect data on people at conventions. Information included name, address, city, state, zip and types of products they use (for sports nutrition). The information was collected into a strongly typed dataset and saved out as XML and e-mailed to the team for placing in a database (SQL 2000) for data manipulation and reporting.

4/2001 – 8/2002                  Promero.com             Pompano Beach, FL

Team Lead / Senior Developer / Application Development Manager
Promero was built from the best of best technologies, and personnel from a previous company ByeByeNOW.com.  My role in this new company was to bring my knowledge of those technologies from ByeByeNOW and build a multitude of product offeringings from them.  Some of my responsibilities include:

• Examined existing ByeByeNOW technologies and their usability for Promero.
• Was mentor and lead to the team of 5 developers working on various projects on Promero’s new product offerings.
• ByeByeNOW content engine.
  • Reworked this engine to allow it to be more extensible and allow us to resell the content to multiple distribution channels. This was done using SQL 2000, ASP and VBScript on IIS 5.0 and Win2k servers.
  • Reprogrammed content engine into JSP / Servlets / Beans.
  • Architecture of an XML interface to the content engine using XML and XSLT. Currently building the prototype using ASP.NET and web services.
• VOIP - Promero licensed a technology from Cosmocom, which is an open-ended technology (using VBScript and XML to create IVR).
  • Integration of this technology with our CRM (VOIP, PSTN, Web, Email and Chat) using SQL 2000, VBScript and ASP.
  • Construction and architecture of a Smart 1-800 routing product known as Smart8. This system is for managing, adding, deleting and updating campaigns, groups and agents in a distributed call center situation. This system was built on ASP, VBScript, JavaScript and SQL 2000.
• CRM – Promero had licensed a technology from Onyx for their customer relationship management software. This software is utilizing ASP, VBScript and SQL 2000.
  • Extended CRM with additional fields, integration with E-commerce engines and VOIP product offering re-writing some of their ASP to accommodate.
  • Integration of this to our Cold Fusion E-commerce engine (able commerce) through an XML interface to the CRM using ASP and XMLDOM.
• Assisted in upgrading the systems to SQL 2000 from SQL 7.0 across the Internet applications.
• Built a stored procedure generator on personal time for utilization in the organization and distribution as freeware using VB.NET. Check my website for more details.

3/2000 – 3/2001            ByeByeNOW.com              Pompano Beach, FL

Team Lead / Lead Developer
The main responsibilities in this position were to lead the effort of taking control of our intranet / extranet and internet websites from a contracting firm (ICI) located in Dallas, Texas and head the new internet development department.

• Worked with the team that originally built the websites for four weeks to get a familiarity with the architecture.
  1. Took lead of said team to ensure the launch of a new version was done on time, and bug free.
  2. Assisted in coding the application, which was in VBScript, ASP and with a SQL 7.0 backend
  3. Managed workflow processes.
  4. Acting liaison between ICI and ByeByeNOW ensuring changes and functionality of the website were done to spec of the management team at ByeByeNOW.
• Built a hard-core team of developers to repair, modify, upgrade and maintain the website for ByeByeNOW.com.
• Was lead programmer to said team of 12 developers working on various projects on the ByeByeNOW.com's Internet, Intranet and Extranet projects which utilized XML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript and SQL 7.
• Fleshed out the development workflow with 1 Development, 1 Staging, 3 web and 3 database servers for redundancy working behind Arrow Point load balancing solution. This included configuring, installing and managing the Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Visual Interdev Server and debugging on the Development machine.
• Implemented a Persisted XML recordset and developed technology to automatically update the XML dataset across multiple web servers through a custom built ASP XMLHTTP API to ensure the web sites scalability and enhanced user experience.

6/1998 – 3/2000               Power Images                 Fort Lauderdale, FL

Web & Internet Administrator / Sr. Programmer / MIS
Brought in to rebuild the internet department, take control of the servers and hardware, and turn the department around. 

• Worked with Mac web servers, and various other technologies (perl, shell scripts, tango, butler) to integrate and bring all of those under one technological roof of ASP, VBScript JavaScript and SQL server.
• Duties included the programming, and architecture of all web applications built for the clients. The technologies of choice at Power Images were ASP, VBScript, JavaScript and SQL 7.0.
• Re-programmed the Miami Dolphins web site. This site had a publishing engine built on a legacy code that was extremely limiting. Re-programmed all legacy code into ASP using ADO and SQL 6.5 backend.
• Identified old equipment that was in need of upgrading to ensure growth and scalability and installed said equipment.
• Configured and established a Linux box for use as DNS / mail server on premises.  Locked the box down using SSH then closing all ports not required, and applying patches to it regularly. 
• Managed web team to ensure sites were done on time, efficiently and to customer satisfaction.
• Initiated a PDC & BDC using a dual Pentium NT 4.0 server running IIS 4.0 to centralize logins and passwords, simplifying their legacy account management system.
• My administration duties included these hardware platforms and OS's:
  1. Windows NT 4.0 with IIS 2.0 / 3.0 and SQL Server 6.5 as the new path for upgrading legacy sites, and initiating new sites
  2. Linux 2.0.1 & Redhat 6.0 as the new mail / DNS server
  3. Irix 6.2 SGI Indy boxes with Netscape Enterprise Server 2.01 for legacy sites
  4. Mac OS 8.1 with Webstar web server and Butler / Tango combination for legacy database driven web pages
  5. Windows NT 3.51 with Netscape Enterprise Server 2.01 & Netscape Mail Server 2.1 for legacy e-mail  
• Instrumental in the re-programming of Weston’s Towntalk from a kludge perl script into a fully automated, integrated, extendable backend administered online community programmed in Cold Fusion with a SQL 6.5 backend.

System Admin / Office Manager (final title)
Hired at Shadow as one of the first employee’s.  Started with the company when there were less than 20 customers and worked them up to 1500 customers before hiring more people.  Total number of customers when I left was 3000+.

• Started as Technical Support and developed strong interpersonal skills.
• Worked in billing, sales and finally advanced to Office Manager / System Administrator (supervising / training personnel / managing systems).
• Instrumental in implementing billing system in Microsoft Access for managing the growing customer base.
• Gained mastery in HTML 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 successively.
• Learned to program utilizing PERL through CGI outside working hours.
• Developed online ordering systems for e-commerce solutions in ASP in IIS 3.0.
• Migrated Microsoft Access billing system to SQL 6.5 billing system.
• Forged the technology that allowed customers to view their billing information securely online, as well as time online, dual login and other vital account information. This was initially done with IDX, and IDQ and eventually ported to ASP and IIS 3.0.
• Gained knowledge in VBScript using ADO to connect to both Access and SQL 6.5 backend.
• Self taught skills in the UNIX environment allowed me to move into a System Administration position taking care of all the hardware and software present. The technologies used here were Shell Scripts, Perl, etc.
• Built, repaired and consulted on new computer systems as well as implemented internal computer systems upgrade paths.
• Administered, upgraded, backed up and restored both clients and internal SQL 6.5 databases.
• Gained experience working with SunOS, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Mac OS pre 8.0, ODBC, MS SQL Server 6.5, Visual InterDev, Visual Basic and PhotoShop.

Additional Experience

Ever since my first taste I have immersed myself in the internet. External from the above experiences, some of my work has included a control panel for an ISP built in Perl on a BSDI box (qualserve.net). This included installing the web server, configuring sendmail and allowing customers to edit / add / delete accounts in their domains through that control panel.  The control panel allowed the customers to add pop accounts, edit those pop accounts, adding mailing lists and editing FTP settings.

Additional work included designing and building web sites for various companies (aaawatch, watchamillion, etc.), and a computer hardware store turning to the web for E-commerce (MITCorp, Shadow.com) and much more.

Personal

I am a hard working, dedicated individual with an appetite for learning and experiencing new challenging roles and duties.  I'm not satisfied until my assignments are completed successfully. If there is an area of expertise that I must achieve, I'll make the necessary sacrifices to achieve this expertise.

Case in point, when I was first hired at Shadow Information Services, I had until that moment, only barely knew PC’s and never used Unix (having gotten my first IBM PC Clone in August of 1994, before that I only had a Commodore 64). I worked hard and became system / network administrator for all servers, and those who use them (roughly a 3,000 user base by the time I left) in less than 2 years.

I am capable of learning new things quickly, effectively and efficiently.  I thrive on a good challenge.

Education

1992 - 1994                   Bauder College                                   Miami, FL

• Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering
• Graduated college with a GPA of 3.7
• Tutored classmates
• Currently working on getting my MCSD certification

Interests / Hobbies

I enjoy carpentry and do it yourself jobs.  I also enjoy my son more than anything else in the world.  If I am not fixing up the house or playing with my son, then I am sitting in front of my computer learning more, or reading about new technologies.

I also enjoy playing MMORPG’s on occasion in my free time. I have loved computers since I was 14, and starting programming with my first computer, which was a Commodore 64 using basic.

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