Developer Web

Dear Sri/Madam,

Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my application for the

C# Web ASP.NET/MVC Software Developer position as advertised on indeed.com.

I am an experienced web developer currently residing in Miami looking to re-

locate to New York. I believe that my skills, experience and hardworking

attitude will make me a good match for this position, and I am certain I

can be of value to your company. I have always gone above and beyond what's

expected of me, because I am passionate about what I do. I work well in a

team as well as independently with minimal supervision.

I enjoy working on cutting edge technologies, and have worked with MVC

since it first came out. I am also highly proficient with Html, JavaScript

and Css as well as backend technologies such as Linq, Sql, WCF.

Please refer to my resume for my skills and experience and I hope to hear

from you soon.

Sincerely,

Jorge Alvarado

Jorge Alvarado

cell: 305-***-****

email: *******@*****.***

Web Developer

I am a Web Developer with more than 7 years professional experience

providing enterprise solutions to high traffic websites using the latest

.NET technologies. I feel equally at ease writing multi-browser compatible

HTML and CSS by hand, developing Object Oriented re-usable JavaScript

components, WCF services, Entity Framework data access components, merging

and branching code in TFS, leading Agile teams, doing BDD using mSpec and

other testing frameworks and writing maintainable and elegant code. I have

excellent analytical, problem solving, technical, interpersonal and

communication skills. I am fluent in English, Spanish and Russian.

Technical Skills

Languages: C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, T-SQL, MDX, XML, Objective C,

ActionScript

Frameworks/Technologies: ASP.NET MVC 3, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Entity

Framework, LINQ, Ajax, SOAP and REST Services, WCF, IIS, jQuery.js,

Knockout.js, mSpec, Cocoa and UIKit for IPhone

CMS: Sitecore, N2

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008, Analysis Services, MySql

Development Tools: Visual Studio.NET 2008/2010 Team Edition, Microsoft SQL

Server Management Studio, XCode and Interface Builder (Mac)

Reporting Tools: .NET Charting, Web Office Components, LogiXML Reports

Version and Source Control: TFS, SVN, CVS

Operating Systems: MS Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/Server 2003, OS-X Leopard,

IPhone 3.0-5.0

Experience

4/2010 - Present Carnival Cruise Lines (www.carnival.com) Doral/Fl

Senior Web Developer / Technical Lead

As a technical lead and architect I worked on the complete re-design and

overhaul of the www.carnival.com website, a high traffic ecommerce website

with over 300,000,000 monthly users and tens of millions in monthly sales.

The effort resulted in a significant increase in traffic and millions in

increased monthly revenue. Converted the old website from WebForms to

ASP.NET MVC 3 framework with dependency injection using StructureMap,

Entity Framework, Sitecore CMS, jQuery, knockout.js. I lead an Agile/Scrum

team with four developers and two testers, designing solutions in tight

collaboration with various departments including the Graphic Design, IBM

Web Methods and Mainframe, Marketing and Revenue Management teams. Led the

implementation of Agile practices such as Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

and User Stories and Acceptance Criteria Driven Development (ACDD) using

mSpec, specFlow with WebAii for browser automation and jUnitDriver with

Jasmine for JavaScript unit testing.

Sample Projects

Led the implementation of ASP.NET MVC 3 for the new version of the

www.carnival.com website.

Designed a sophisticated CSS and JavaScript combiner module that plugs into

any web site with a minimum amount of configuration and at runtime grabs

all the JavaScript and CSS files and combines them into one of each. Does

not require any modifications of existing pages. Available via Nuget

(JsAndCssCombiner).

Designed a global email WCF service used by multiple web applications and

internal applications that combined content from Sitecore CMS bound to data

objects via the standalone Razor view engine.

Designed a single sign on mechanism using a custom implementation based on

the Forms authentication provider.

Was one of the leads in the implementation of Acceptance Criteria Driven

Development using specFlow and WebAii browser automation and mSpec unit

tests.

Worked on implementing countless features, performance optimizations,

security enhancements.

Improved the JavaScript codebase by refactoring procedural JavaScript to

Object Oriented components.

4/2008 - 1/2010 HOPS International (hops.com) Miami Lakes/Fl

Software Developer

Was a lead developer and architect of many components of a Business

Intelligence web application based on the YUI library, jQuery, Asp.net 3.5,

C#, LogiXML Reports, .NET Charts, WCF, Analysis Services and the HOPS

engine. The application provides custom Reports, Charts, KPIs and Fraud

Detection services to dozens of large retailers and governmental agencies

including Medicaid. It queries multidimensional cubes built on top of data

warehouses based on the HOPS engine.

Sample Projects

Implemented the Business and the Data Access Layers including writing the

necessary SQL and MDX scripts.

Designed highly configurable, scalable and maintainable user and server

controls with ajax functionality, charting capabilities and rich client-

side functionality such as drag and drop, auto suggest, validation, etc...

Played a leading role moving from CVS and SVN source control to Microsoft's

TFS. Trained the department in the usage of TFS. Was in charge of keeping

the various branches in sync.

Extended LogiXML's javascript libraries to make them more scalable and

maintainable, by adding custom events and custom validation logic and by

integrating them with our js libraries.

Designed a plug-in for LogiXML that handled the dynamic generation of MDX

queries used in the retrieval of data from Multidimensional Cubes stored in

the Analysis Services Data Warehouse.

Took the initiative in moving the existing framework from LogiXML to .NET

Charts.

Implemented an OLAP .NET Chart similar to the OLAP Dundas Chart.

5/2006 - 4/2008 Auction123.com (auction123.com) Weston/Fl

Web Developer

Was a key developer in a small team maintaining and extending web-based

Motor Vehicle Inventory Management and eBay listing application used by

thousands of car/motorcycle/boat dealerships nationwide.

Sample Projects

Ported the major functionality of the main application to a mobile

solution using .NET, Mobile framework. This resulted in a significant

increase of productivity for the field agents.

Designed an advanced listings Hit Counter on eBay listings that operated

in a web farm environment and significantly improved the overall

performance of the application by reducing the number of database

hits.

Designed a Reporting Framework, producing reports such as dealer

inventories, field agent's payroll. Used the freely available Web Office

Components to produce interactive and visually pleasing charts and multiple

drill-down levels.

Implemented an XML Lead Collection and Management system that became

invaluable for our dealers.

Designed an advanced Stock Photo framework that automated the retrieval of

stock photos for vehicles with missing photos. The photos are dynamically

matched by year, make, model and color. This became a paid service sold to

the dealers, resulting in increased revenue.

8/2005 - 1/2006 US Department of the Treasury (Washington, DC)

IT Support Intern

Worked as a full-time paid intern for the department's datacenter in

Hyattsville, MD. Took part in the migration from Windows 2000 to Active

Directory for the entire building. Solved authentication, networking and

various customer related problems from users calling in to the Help Desk

from all over the world. Successfully completed training in various

Mainframe applications used by the department. Wrote VB scripts to automate

several networking administration tasks.

Education

2001 - 2005 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Florida

International University, Fl

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