Ken Carrier

Telephone: 817-***-****

**** ******* ****** **** *****, TX 76177 E-

mail: abl9r2@r.postjobfree.com

Computer Skills and Software Knowledge

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Pocket PC 2002

Languages: C#, VB.Net, JavaScript, XML, TSQL, PL/SQL

Databases: Sql Server 2008, 2005, 8.0, 7.0 & 6.5, Oracle 8.1.7, 9.2, & 10.1

Tools: SSIS, SSRS, BizTalk

Experience

Senior Software Engineer: Lehigh-Hanson Concrete Irving TX 5/08 to present

Designed and am writing a BizTalk Orchestration that sends Essbase email

status messages to the Essbase and BI users using dynamic send ports.

Designed and wrote a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with team of 4

developers using C# interfaces as source objects.

Developed a WCF services that update the corporate billing system with the

plants' quoting and ordering application from the C# source object. This

project will speedup the fulfillment of orders and payment of completed

orders. Used LinqToSql to update the database

Wrote a Silverlight web application using VS2010 and .net 4.0 to update

tables in the company's CRM and quoting application using the Entity

Framework POCO ORM and the WSSF 2010 Data Contract.

Wrote a Silverlight web application using VS2008 and Microsoft Blend to

update the Plant and Manufacturing Sites database. For the ORM wrote a WCF

project to update the database using a Service Factory Model (WSSF) project

and the Entity Framework.

Senior Software Engineer and Web Developer: First American Westlake TX 5/07

to 5/08

Rewrote a php web application in VB.Net. This project lowered future

maintenance budget for the application

Rewrote php webpage reports in Sql Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Designed and wrote a Network Equipment Tracking System UI web application

in C# using VS2008 Ajax web controls. This captured Network and Server

Usage so that it could be billed directly back to the business units.

Wrote Webparts web pages for a Sharepoint site

Senior Software Engineer: DynCorp Forth Worth TX 11/05 to 5/07

Designed an SQL Server 2005 Database, including tables and relationship

between the tables and views, based on design specifications for a

helicopter refurbishment Work Order Tracking System. This project

simplified the work order tracking which allowed the business to track when

orders were completed.

Led a team of 5 that wrote an asynchronous Web service in C# to transfers

data from the suppliers' and customers' Oracle and Sql Server transactional

databases into the DynCorp's Sql Server 2005 transactional and data

warehouse databases. Led a team that designed and wrote a Web Application

in C# using Ajax.Net web service callbacks and JavaScript to view the

status of the Web service to manage the web service. This project created

a data warehouse that that provided reports so that decision makers would

have more accurate current information.

Contract Software Engineer: American Airlines Forth Worth TX through APEX

Systems 10/04 to 10/05

Wrote an Intranet Web Application in C# using IIS to render the application

on a Symbol PDT 8100 wireless Pocket PC. The Application uses a scanner on

the Pocket PC to scan a part number from a barcode into an Internet

Explorer textbox to reorder the part number.

Used ActiveSync and Snowshoe Handheld Handler to copy programs to the

Pocket PC. Wrote WebControl.Attributes to put events on to the client

browser. Wrote client side Java scripts to handle the events.

Wrote an Inventory Tracking Intranet Web Application in C# and Oracle that

interfaces with the Sabre Mainframe program AAPICS.

Wrote a mainframe screen scrape object in C# that re-formats a mainframe

screen into an ASP.Net web page and passes the user inputs to the

mainframe.

These projects saved each American Airlines inventory analysts 15 hours of

time a week and led to $1,000,000 labor cost savings.

Contract Development Engineer .Net: True.com Irving TX8/04 to 09/04

Wrote reports using SSRS. Wrote DTS conversion scripts to convert a Test

TrackPro propriety database into a Sql Server Database.

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Oracle DBA,VB, C# and Java Software Engineer: JDA/Timera, Irving TX 1/01 to

8/04

Redesigned a single store retail MS Access employee scheduling Application

called "Portfolio Workforce Management" (PWM) to make it an Enterprise

Multi-Site/Store Application for either Sql Server 2000 or Oracle 8.1.7.

Was part of the development team that converted PWM to a web application.

Wrote a Web Service as an .asmx page in C# as a wrapper around the VB 6.0

COM+ components to be able to call the existing PWM windows middle tier

programs.

Created an IIS intranet Website to test and administer the Web Service.

Wrote aspx pages with Web Forms in C# and included them into the site.

Created Web Controls to enter information that was submitted to the Web

Service. Wrote a C# middle-tier .dll that the Web Service called. The C#

component then called the VB6 components that built the schedule.

This scheduling system saved the HEB Grocery Store chain $13,000,000/year

in labor cost

Microsoft Solutions Senior Developer and Architect: Vectrix.com, Dallas Tx

4/00 to 1/01

Led a team of 4 in developing an in house content manager application for

www.vectrix.com, using SQL Server 7.0 and XML to maintain the content.

This project saved the company's time when laying out the content of the

corporate website.

Designed the application's components and assigned the writing of them to

the developers based on their skills and the project's time line.

Wrote a VB 6.0 COM dll that took the source code from a VB 5.0 ISAPI dll

and converted HTML content into an ASP Website for

www.profilesontheweb.com. This project generated revenue from the

customer.

Wrote the COM object to use the request and response objects to generate

the various versions of the ASP page.

Wrote JavaScript for the onmouseover and onmouseout events for

www.cowboycasino.com. This project generated revenue from the customer.

Lead VB Software Engineer and Sql Server DBA: Insurdata/HealthAxis.com,

Irving TX 12/98 to 1/00

Managed a team of 7 developers that wrote a 3-tier Windows NT batch print

application. Was responsible for the team during the writing of the

Project. This application was used to bill the customers for their

policies.

Designed the application's components and assigned the writing of them to

the developers based on their skills and the project's time line.

Designed two databases in Sql Server 7.0 to support the application.

Was the DBA for the development and QA Databases. Performed backups and

Restores on these Databases.

Wrote an ActiveX Exe service in VB6.0 that monitors a directory looking for

customers' insurance policy XML files.

Wrote a program, using a VB Form to monitor the Service from a client,

using dcomcnfg to link the client to the service.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems: Texas Tech University,

Lubbock TX, August 1994

Bachelors of Science in Finance Business Economics: University of Southern

California, Los Angeles CA, May 1986

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