Project Manager Engineer

Phillip H. Blanton

Software Architect, Developer, Development Manager,

Development Team-Lead, Software Security Hacker, Professional Consultant

**** ****** ****** *****

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80923

Phone: 719-***-****

Email : abqbcr@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

I love software and technology. I am seeking a consulting position that will provide me a challenging, constantly changing environment. In twenty-seven years of work in the software and information technology sector, I have found that consulting provides me with the mix of fascinating work along with the kind of constantly changing environment in which I thrive. Designing and developing software professionally provides me the opportunity to pursue my passion for a living. I enjoy gathering requirements for new software projects, designing the software and managing the teams that develop it, as long as I still get to do some of the development myself.

I enjoy overseeing the entire software project lifecycle, and have done so as a team-lead and software project manager for numerous projects over the past thirteen years. I am an expert software project team manager with over eight years using Agile and Scrum methodologies.

I am a huge proponent of high-quality software development using the Joel Spolsky management methods. Essentially the goal is to provide your development team with the best tools available and shield them from the problems that rain down from above, and you will get the best possible results for your development dollar.

My philosophy is to hire the best developers available, provide them the best working environment, give them the best tools available, protect them from corporate politics and minutiae, and you will reap high-quality results. This is accomplished with a mix of scrum and agile techniques, and strong team-leadership / management.

Experience

I have twenty-seven years of experience in information technology and software development. I am an expert in software architecture, design and development targeting the Microsoft .NET framework and the C# development language.

I have many years of experience managing technical development teams as well as non-technical personnel. I began managing people in the Navy, and continued at Showtime Video. While at Sprint, I managed a small team of technical people and ever since then I have managed larger and smaller development teams. I believe that an optimal team is about five to eight people. That includes PM’s, PO’s Testers and Developers. Any team larger than five to eight people means you haven’t broken down the development task into small enough chunks to be able to manage it effectively.

I am an experienced red-team leader, and expert in network security, software security, security auditing and penetration testing. Certified Ethical Hacker C EH, and Certified Penetration Tester (CPT).

I am an expert in database architecture and T-SQL targeting Microsoft SQL Server 07, 2000, 2005 and 2008/2008 R2. I am reviewing SQL Server 2012 now and am impressed.

I am also an expert in e-commerce and online payment systems, having implemented a number of online e-commerce systems with integrated payment, as well as an automated merchant registration system for Intuit.

I am an expert in, and and certified in development on, and customization of, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 platform.

I am experienced architect for Apple iOS and Android mobile application development using Monotouch / Monodevelop.

I am also experienced in iOS development using xCode / Objective C, but prefer to do most of my development in Monotouch / Monodevelop.

I am experienced in Android development using Java/Eclipse; but again prefer to do most of my development in Monodevelop.

And I am also an expert IT department director, project manager and development team-lead having repeatedly lead software teams in all phases of the software project life-cycle.

I am an expert at the design and development of internal applications, commercial applications, component class libraries and developer tools.

I am a contributing author of the C++Builder 5 Developer's Guide. (Sam's; ISBN: 067*******)

Technical Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Professional: ASP.Net C#, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker

CPT: Certified Penetration Tester.

Current Top-Secret / SCI Security Clearance.

Additional certifications that have expired or are no longer relevant.

Relevant Education

US Navy

Electronics Technician specializing in radar, and satellite communications. Military education included BEE, ET-A, NAVMACS-B, and NAVMACS-C.

1998: University of Northern Colorado, Physics and Computer Science

3.6 GPA. Recipient of the 1997 UNC Physics Department's "Departmental Scholar" award.

Certifications and Clearance

Microsoft Certified Professional

CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker and CPT: Certified Penetration Tester.

Current Top-Secret, SCI Security Clearance.

Additional certifications that have expired or are no longer relevant.

Skill Matrix

Skill

Last Used

Experience

.NET Web Services

Current

9 years

Java (On Android Platform)

Current

4 years

Java Spring

Current

1 year

Spring .NET

Current

1 year

Monotouch (iOS) development

Current

1 year

MonoDevelop (Android)

Current

1 year

XCode, Objective C iOS

Current

1 year

Ajax / Java script

Current

9 years

ASP/ASP.Net

Current

9 years

C#

Current

11 years

WCF

Current

3 years

WPF / Silverlight

Current

5 years

C/C++

2 Years Ago

26 years

MS SQL Server

Current

14 years

Delphi / Pascal

3 Years Ago

26 years

XML

Current

10 years

Software Security

Current

6 years

Hacking (Security Auditing)

Current

4 years

Penetration Testing

Current

4 years

Security Red-Team

Current

4 years

The most in-demand skills listed here. Over the course of twenty-five years as a developer, I have picked up a large number of relevant and irrelevant skills.

I also have experience in developing for Linux/Unix, and in the L.A.M.P. stack, but am not actively seeking employment in those areas so haven't listed those skills here.

Experience

As a consulting software architect, my experience overlaps quite a bit. This is because many of my clients call me back from time to time, in order to provide ongoing support and services; also because I own, or am part-owner of a few consulting businesses.

EMC Consulting

Senior Solution Architect

Oct 03 2011 – Sept 13, 2012

Supervisor: Lawrence Stallman

At EMC I have worked on a number of contracts for different types of clients. Most notably being the design and development of a Patient Relationship Management system for Denver Health Medical Center. It was built on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It used a custom Windows service application utilizing a dependency injection model based on Spring for .NET and Quartz.net for event scheduling. The system also implements a custom HL7 feed with a Java Spring front-end, Rabbit MQ (AMQP implementation) and .NET Spring / Quartz back-end.

The system interfaces with the hospital’s HL7 feed in order to provide real-time data into the patient outreach system, where patient interaction is managed with SMS text-messaging, phone calls, and home visits; all tracked in Dynamics CRM 2011. Outreach targets are HIV/AIDS patients, prenatal patients, and diabetes patients. The system has proven that consistent outreach plays a big role in patient outcomes and increased revenue to the hospital.

I also worked on a large datacenter virtualization project for Postmedia / Canada.com. My role there was to evaluate their complex database needs and design a hybrid SQL Server clustering/mirroring solution in in order to balance their need for speed and availability.

Warfighter’s Edge (WEdge)

US. Air Force Academy / IITA – Software Developer, Architect, Red Team Leader. May 2009 – July 2011.

Supervisor: Lt. Col Andy Berry

The WEdge (Warfighter’s Edge) team is a group of software engineers and US Air Force warfighters based at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We are engaged in changing the way that the Air Force designs and develops software. At WEdge, I am involved in the development of a situational awareness client called the WEdge Viewer, which allows real-time visualization of battlefield information using the Google Earth plugin. I designed the modular framework used to support plug-ins that can create a highly customizable application, based on the user’s needs.

I also work on the AANT (Aeronautical Advisory NOTAMs Tool) project which is an initiative to enhance mission planning by graphically displaying NOTAMs (Notice to Airmen) in Falcon View (Georgia Tech Research Institute’s mission planning and mapping application).

I designed the Digital Tactics Binder (DTB). The DTB is a software system comprised of a configurable Windows service which periodically gathers specified files from resources on the DOD SIPRNet. The system also has a web-based ASP.net front-end that allows a user to download an electronically packaged file binder used to execute missions.

I am also WEdge’s Red-Team leader, in charge of hacking our own applications and performing security audits in a proactive attempt to discover vulnerabilities before the applications are fielded.

I have a great deal of experience in preparing software for the DOD certification and accreditation (C&A) process.

I was awarded the IITA (USAFA’s Institute for Information Technology Applications) excellence award, and presented with General James P. McCarthy’s, USAF (Ret.) coin for Outstanding Performance and Achievement for my work with the US Air Force Academy’s Software Engineering Capstone 2009-2010 .

I left WEdge to pursue work on independent contracting opportunities.

PhasePoint Technology Partners

Principal Architect & Master Consultant. August 2008 - present.

Founder

PhasePoint is a small consulting company specializing in software design and development consultation. We have five technical partners of which I am one.

I am currently involved in the design and development of an Android-based mobile application for a consortium of automobile dealerships, and an online WCF platform called Quintessence .

I am also working on an iOS mapping application for a client in the timber industry, and a number of other contracts.

Akanomi Technology

Chief Architect & Master Consultant. July 2003 - present.

Founder / Owner

Akanomi Softworks is a small consulting company that I founded while at TurboPower. The goal was for me to use this company as my consulting base while investing time in ComponentScience. I still use it to work contracts for various companies, but prefer to route most of my contracting work through PhasePoint.

At Akanomi, my most recent customer was IPCommerce in Denver, Colorado, where I worked on a contract for Intuit. I was part of a three-man team that designed an automated merchant enrollment system for Intuit. It is in place now and automatically scores more than 90% of their new merchant applications, saving Intuit tens of millions of dollars per year in manual merchant enrollment costs.

Before that I worked on an internal project for Bechtel in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that lasted a little over a year and resulted in a new employee portal for over 100,000 employees, former employees and their family members.

Through Akanomi, I also worked on Community-Server customization projects for Aliveware, Avenue A / Razorfish, Investor's Business Daily, Seller Ventures, and the Cirrus Owner's and Pilot's Association.

Falafel Software

Consulting Software Engineer / Architect. Aug. 2003 - January 2007

Supervisor: Lino Tadros

Lino Tadros, the president and C.E.O. of Falafel, was also my partner in the ComponentScience business.

I served Falafel on a consulting basis and was placed on contracts with Hewlett-Packard, Earthbound Farm, The US Olympic Training Center and Learning-Rx.

ComponentScience Inc.

Chief Technology Officer. Aug. 2003 - August 2006

Upon the demise of TurboPower, I founded ComponentScience with four of the other TurboPower engineers and a former Borland senior engineer. I served as Chief Technology Officer and Director of Research and Development. As such, I was responsible for product architecture and R&D on the company's line of .NET component libraries. While we had some critical acclaim on two of our products, we just couldn’t get the sales to a level to support us all.

TurboPower Software Company

Senior Software Engineer. Nov. 2000 Aug. 2003

Supervisor: Julian Bucknall (Current CTO of Developer Express)

TurboPower was the leading third-party component vendor for Borland compilers; Turbo Pascal, Turbo C/C++ and Delphi.

Our focus was on Delphi and C++ Builder component libraries. Due to our relationship with Anders Hejlsberg at Borland, and later Microsoft, we were among the first outside of Microsoft itself, to get our hands on early beta copies of .NET and C#. As a result, I have been designing and developing with C# and the .NET framework longer than it has been commercially available.

At TurboPower, I was in charge of the User Interface component libraries (Orpheus, Visual Plan-It, Essentials) and the UI architecture for our application product line (Sleuth QA and ProActivate).

TurboPower's parent company was "Aristocrat Leisure Limited", a casino gaming company based in Australia and Las Vegas, Nevada. After they decided to close down TurboPower, they assigned the engineers to projects working on casino floor software; using the beta version of the .NET framework. During that time I designed my first .NET architecture, subsequently patented in the US and Australia as "N-tier architecture for a casino management system and method".

In August 2003, I left Aristocrat and struck out on my own.

Sprint Corporate Security

Senior Engineer / Analyst. Aug. 1999 Nov. 2000

At Sprint, I served as the chief architect and lead developer for the Call-Trace system. It is the system that Sprint and United Telephone still uses to trace calls through their network, track the results, and provide comprehensive reporting to law enforcement agencies. It uses a custom TCP/IP stack, RS-232 and RS-485 protocols to provide operator access to Sprint/United's global network of communication switches. It was developed in Delphi 4 and 5, and utilizes a Microsoft SQLServer 97 back-end. The system interfaces with Sprint's various enterprise systems including DB2, Oracle and a number of specialized mainframe applications. The application made Sprint *CALEA compliant eight years before the mandatory compliance deadline.

*Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

Hewlett-Packard

Software Engineer. Aug. 1997 Aug. 1999

At Hewlett-Packard I worked on a two-man team to develop a manufacturing/testing application for the HP CapShare-910 information appliance. I worked on the following projects.

I designed and developed an object oriented, field configurable, distributed manufacturing application tool suite for HP scanners. Developed with Microsoft Visual C++, and Borland C++Builder 3, and 4. The system was comprised of an Internationalized GUI, MS-SQL based database mining tools, remote management, RS232 communications, graphical analysis and data acquisition tools.

I also designed and developed a reusable object set for scanner component testing and image processing, which encapsulated calibration logic, motion stage controllers, data recording, image manipulation, sensor activation and statistical algorithms. The system was designed in Microsoft Visual C++ and deployed as a dynamic link library, which was wrapped by a variety of different applications.

I was a member of the team, which created the first implementation of the PathFinder technology. PathFinders are the little optical microscopes, which ultimately replaced the mouse ball in optical mice. I developed the software tools used to test and calibrate PathFinders during manufacturing for the HP CapShare 910 scanner.

Connecting Point

Network Administrator / Software Engineer. 1996 – 1997

At Connecting Point I was contracted to Hewlett-Packard’s Greeley, Colorado facility, where I was a network administrator and member of the IT support staff. I designed and developed software that helps to remotely manage the routers and switches used in the network.

I also performed desktop support on an as needed basis, as well as designed and installed new network segments as the facility grew. While in this role, I met George Celvi who was the sole developer working on the CapShare project. He hired me away from Connecting Point and gave me my first 100% developer job.

Satellite Specialists

Satellite Broadcast Engineer. 1987 – 1990

I worked as a satellite broadcast engineering consultancy in Fort Worth, Texas as a broadcast engineer. I was contracted to the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission in Benbrook, Texas where I worked the uplink facilities during special events. I also worked in the Ku-band uplink truck from time to time, in order to support the backhaul feed during Dallas Cowboy’s football games.

I designed business satellite systems and lead the installation team on a number of two-way satellite-based data network installations in high-rise buildings in Dallas.

Software-wise, I wrote a few software utilities that interfaced with the various pieces of equipment using an RS-232 connection, in an effort to control the transmitters and receivers with a PC. This was very early in the PC-control world and there weren’t many software libraries that provided controllability, but I was able to craft complex control functions in C and C++ that allowed us to create a custom suite of satellite control applications that interfaced with the equipment over their RS-232 interfaces, and set us apart from the competition.

Since then, I have worked on the development of a full library of RS-232 communications tools for .NET called TransPort . TransPort was an award winning software library that was offered by ComponentScience.

Showtime USA Video

IT Director. 1986 - 1996

I was part owner of a small chain of video stores called, Showtime USA . There, I spearheaded the initiative to computerize the business. When I started, we handled all transactions on paper tickets. I partnered with Personal Touch Systems of Orem Utah in the development of a software package called E.V.A. Electronic Video Automation . EVA was the first video store software package to integrate barcode readers into the system. It was originally written in Borland Turbo Pascal, but later re-written in Borland Turbo C.

Until my local Albertson’s grocery store switched to RedBox in 2008, they were still using EVA as their video store software. My brother closed down the last Showtime, which was in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2011 and up to the last day was still using EVA to run his business.

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