Sql Server Developer

Vernon L. Miner Jr.

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Profile

A highly motivated software architect, designer and developer with a distinguished career of creating superior desktop applications and web sites for a wide variety of companies. A creative problem solver experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle utilizing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. An inspiring dedicated professional and an exceptional team leader who has proven abilities implementing industry best practices and solving challenging business problems.

Education and Professional Training

Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Novel Certified Network Engineer,

Microsoft Certification Windows NT & Microsoft Certification Internet Information Service

Skills

asp.net • mvc • entity framework • visual studio • team foundation server • sql server • ssis • ssrs • rdlc • Jquery • javascript • bootstrap • css3 • html • html5 • c# • vb.net • csla • clasic asp visual basic 6.0 • wcf • wpf •opos •winforms •iis • xml

Professional Experience

Sep. 2013 – Nov. 2016

.NET Developer Essilor for America Farmers Branch Texas

Designed and constructed an asp.net intranet web application for Human Resources department to log and track requests.

Designed and constructed an asp.net intranet web application for Oracle R12 administrators to execute administrative queries on multiple databases.

Primary support for asp.net intranet applications used to manage product price lists for more than ten thousand products and more than twelve hundred different price lists. Updated this application from asp.net 2.0 to asp.net MVC 5 with bootstrap and entity framework 6 in 2015.

Primary support for asp.net intranet application used to manage special product pricing events for specific customers or customer groups. This asp.net 2.0 application utilizes web services 2.0 as a middle tier between the user interface and the database access layer. Special pricing approvals were also marshaled with this application including proxy approvals.

Primary support for asp.net internet application that is a multi tenant application allowing customers to manage employee industrial safety eye glass orders. This asp.net 4 application is hosted on multiple web servers and utilizes web services as the middle tier between the user interface and the data access layer. The database used is a SQL server database with integration to order processing Oracle database using DTS and SSIS.

July 2012 – August 2013

Contract Developer for Alcon Fort Worth Texas

Designed and constructed an MVC 3 intranet web application to replace an Oracle Forms application for indexing laboratory notebooks for the R&D department.

Application is used by R&D personnel to create searchable records of experiments including chemicals, assets, products and procedures. Other personnel can query the database for pertinent information to find corresponding imaged notebook pages.

Expression Blend 4 was used to develop the prototype for the web application. The application was developed using C# as a Visual Studio 2010 solution. SQL Server 2008 became the data repository. SSIS was used to create a data migration package and a nightly update package. SSRS was used to build the new reports that were migrated to RDLC reports. Entity Framework 4.1 was used to build the model portion of the MVC application. jQuery and javascript were used for client side coding.

December 2011 – July 2012

Contract Developer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas

Converting Paperless Inventory application originally written using Visual Basic 6.0 to VB.NET. Application is a winforms application used by claims processing personnel. Application presents users with next claim to be processed and tracks claim processing time and counts number of claims processed by user.

Application interacts with Mainframe terminal windows used for claims processing. Integration with Microsoft Excel provides report creation capabilities. SQL Server 2005 is used as claims queue repository and work tracking storage database. Application contains more than 40 forms and 200 classes.

June 2011 – October 2011

Contract Developer for Alcon Fort Worth Texas

Worked on the newest version of their “Diner” application that is used as a sales quote, contract creation and compliance monitoring tool. The equipment and packages are for eye surgery clinics and doctors. The application allows for customizing to contents of surgery packs for individual clinics or doctors.

The application is a winforms application that uses an n-tier design creating three distinct layers, the presentation layer, the business rules and logic layer and the database layer. Visual Studio 2010 is used to manage the projects and source code from the requirements through specific tasks, unit tests and approvals.

The presentation layer utilizes winforms with resource files for localization and globalization for multiple languages support. All winforms and source code developed using VB.NET.

The business rules and logic were constructed using the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture abbreviated as CSLA. Visual Studio 2010 managed these classes and objects.

March 2010 – May 2011

Contract Developer for Game Stop Grand Prairie Texas

Worked on the international team to support and extend the Point of Sale applications used in more than 8000 stores worldwide. The core POS application is primarily a Visual Basic 6 application with some parts written using C# and the .NET 2.0 Framework.

The presentation layer is a mixture of Visual Basic 6 forms and .NET winforms. Microsoft Access databases, resource files and xml files are used for configuration and globalization to support multiple languages and cultures.

Visual Studio 2010 is used to manage the source code, defect tracking and all new extension projects.

Interaction with external devices such as barcode scanners, receipt printers, cash registers and credit card scanners require the application to be highly configurable. OPOS is used to interface with many of these devices.

September 2008 – July 2009

General Electric Corporation Bedford Texas

Provided expert leadership for the credit origination website purchased from Citi as part of the Leasing division known as Citi Capital. The development team was diverse with persons in India and local. No new development was done, just maintenance with 98% availability.

Served as a lead analyst for commercial finance department as assets and customers were moved to other GE Capital resources. The website was retired and personnel reduced when asset and customer migration was complete.

October 2003 – September 2008

Citigroup Irving Texas

Started as a support developer/analyst for the payment collection web application developed while contracting from Interactive Business Systems. Improved web design as business rules changed. Web application utilized conventional ASP pages with HTML and CSS code as well as JavaScript for client side validations.

Moved to leasing web site team to work on major revision of web site for new credit originations for Ford Motor Co. Updated many of the conventional ASP pages with JavaScript and XML posts over HTTP to reduce processing times. Utilized page branding techniques to allow site pages to display as several different customers including Ford and Bobcat.

Promoted to manager over same credit origination web site. Managed a diverse development team while migrating web site to new data centers requiring a redesign of the communication layer between the web pages and the back end SQL Server and AS400 DB2 databases. Communication protocol changed from COM to HTPPS with secure PKI certificate authentication.

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