Software Engineer Sql Server

MINH H. VU

*** ******* ****** 617-***-****

Brookline, MA 02445 ***@**.***

SUMMARY

Software Engineer with a unique blend of software experience and financial knowledge

including:

- Over 10 years of commercial software engineering experience of complex enterprise-class

software solutions for Windows, as a Software Engineer/Team leader.

- In-depth knowledge of the field of Finance, including Fixed Income, Derivatives and Risk

Management, Asset Pricing Models, Banking and Corporate Financial Policies.

Experience with the entire SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle): requirements analysis,

architecture design, writing design documents, implementation, unit / automation testing,

debugging, code reviews, team mentoring, deployment and performance testing.

Solid experience in object-oriented analysis/design.

Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills with technical issues on remote customer

and QA servers.

Experience with the SCRUM agile software development.

Highly motivated and a quick learner of new technologies.

Fluent in English, French (native) and Vietnamese. U.S. citizen.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages/Technologies: C, C++, C#, JavaScript, VBScript, .NET framework 3.5,

ADO .NET, ASP .NET, Web Services, XML, XAML, WPF, Silverlight, COM, ATL, Win32 APIs,

multi-threading, WMI, MFC, STL, NUnit, BOOST Test Library.

Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008, Microsoft Expression Blend, WinDbg,

Subversion, Microsoft SourceSafe, Installshield.

Databases: Microsoft SQL server.

Proficient in SAS programming, especially in manipulating financial data (CRSP database) and

running statistical analysis using regressions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Symantec, Inc. (through the acquisition of Altiris, Inc.), Waltham, MA

Principal Software Engineer 04/2007 – 06/2009

Key team member in the Server Monitoring and Alerting Solution:

Re-designed and implemented changes to the Monitor agent for Agent-less monitoring feature,

with agent performance and memory footprint a high priority.

Designed and developed metric polling on demand.

Took a leading role in analyzing performance and providing solutions to bottlenecks.

Identified issues and fixed bugs remotely at QA and customers site.

Improved code robustness by doing peer code reviews and adding unit testing.

Saved QA testing time by developing automation tests.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, continued

Involved in design meetings and wrote technical design documents.

Mentored junior team members.

Altiris, Inc. (through the acquisition of the Carbon Copy business), Newton, MA

Senior Software Engineer 05/2001 – 04/2007

Member of the team that designed and developed the integration of Carbon Copy into the Altiris

Notification Server platform (“NS”), in a very short and aggressive schedule.

Created and maintained the Xml solution that got plugged into the NS.

Developed classes using the NS COM interface to transfer configuration/inventory/events xml

data between NS and the agents.

Created tools for the agent to handle incoming configuration data.

Participated in the design and implementation of the new Server Monitoring solution.

Created a new Xml Monitor solution for the NS.

Designed, developed and maintained all of the user interface for metrics and rules

configuration that are stored in SQL server tables (ADO .NET and C#).

Designed and developed various features on the Monitor agent, including a separate

application to upload metric information to NS, and saving the state of triggered rules to file on

disk.

Participated in design of new features and functionality.

Performed release-engineering tasks.

Mentored junior staff and performed peer code reviews

Compaq Computer Co., Norwood, MA

Software Engineer, Carbon Copy Software Business Group 03/1998 – 05/2001

Enhanced and maintained UI features for Carbon Copy remote control software using MFC in

C++.

Troubleshoot and debugged various issues on agent for both TOMCAT and Carbon Copy 5.5.

Responsible for all I8N and translation activities.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Finance, August 2008.

Boston College, Carroll Graduate School of Management, Chestnut Hill, MA

Master of Science in Computer Science, January 1995

Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

Bachelor of Science, Major: Physics, Minor: Mathematics, May 1992

Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

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