Web Developer Computer Science

Rich F rench

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Mid Level Full Stack Web Developer looking to find a position where I can grow my technical skills and explore interesting, challenging problems E ducation

Union College Schenectady, NY

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Minor in Mathematics, June 2013 Cumulative GPA: 3.45; Departmental Honors Dean’s List 2009-10;

John J. McManus '42 Scholarship

Relevant classes: Data Structures, Computer Organization, Large Scale Software Development (Java), Parallel Computing, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Natural Language Processing

Relevant Experience

Web Developer at Optionsoft Inc August 2014 - Present

* Lead Front-end Web Developer on project to rebuild existing CRM application. Built the prototype from scratch myself, one of the main drivers/motivators for management to back project. Extensive use of C# MVC, Razor views, a full JQuery framework I made myself.

* Main expert in company of REST/Http based webservices. Proficient in Web.API

* Worked on their legacy CRM application, designing new features and maintaining the system. I was required to work in ASP.Net web forms with a T-SQL Server backend. I completely redid the frontend that once could only work in IE6 compatibility view to work in modern web. Replaced any Active X controls in the system and updated IE specific javascript calls.

* Worked in their web portal, fixed critical bugs and updated interface. Worked in C#, MVC and Entity Framework, along with adding responsive frontend to their applications in bootstrap.

* Improved existing eContracting portal that could only rate one product, I refactored it to be able to rate and contract any product available in their integrations, something only their flagship product could do before.

Sterling Insurance Company Cobleskill, NY July 2013 – August 2014 App d eveloper

* Helped develop the company’s new Asp.Net website, back-end was mostly in visual basic with a MySQL server, and plenty of front-end javascript design.

* Helped redesign outdated code, and built many pages, reports and applications from scratch.

Computer Science Senior Thesis Union College September 2012-March 2013 Thesis: Translating Cellular Automata into music, to determine if the results are conventionally musical. The temporal nature of CAs and their complex patterns make them susceptible to musical notation. I wrote modules to translate from visual to the auditory, exploring CA programs such as Golly and researching CA rules that would be appropriate for musical output. For this project, I created a script in Perl that translated the system we created in CA form into a midi file. We made sure to make a system that could be easily modifiable to add features as we saw fit, this created a system that had the capability of producing many sounds that a human being is capable of. Research with Math Department at Union College June 2011-September 2012 Research A ssistant

* Researched better ways to remove artifacts from ultrasound images for the purposes of improving cancer diagnoses.

* Used Matlab to implement the equations we were deriving. Examined many algorithms and tested them for errors, space complexity/quickness, and their usefulness for our purposes. Also used research to find better algorithms for denoising images. Relevant Skills

Technical Skills: C#, Asp.NET, JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Razor Views, Web.API, MVC5, Entity Framework, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, AngularJS, CSS, HTML5, Java, Python, C++, Matlab, GIT Repository, SVN, Perl, Object Oriented Programming, Unit testing, Test-driven dev, Working in Agile Environment

Personal Hobbies: Collecting music, movies, novels, playing guitar

Personal Traits: Creative problem solver, Fast learner