Diego Orofino
New York, NY ***09
Mobile: 347-***-****
E-mail: ********@*****.***
Objective
A resourceful and results-driven manager with multiple successes within the sphere of information technology, technical management, and web development. Proven abilities and expertise within software engineering. Able to design and implement software programs relating to financial applications. Capable of providing innovative architecture and creative solutions to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Possessing strong leadership and communication skills to effectively manage teams.
Professional experience
11/11– present Synapse Research Systems LLC. New York, NY
http://www.synapsers.com
Senior Software Engineer - Contractor
Synapse Research Systems is a specialist software house delivering high-end software and consulting solutions to all sectors, with particular focus on E-commerce, Government, Finance and Healthcare
Technologies: C#, SQL 2015, Bootstrap, JQuery, HTML5, Azure
Develop a platform to invoice and bill PEO clients for payroll services, data compilation, risk management, finance and taxation, and W-2 hosted in Azure.
Lead the engineering of a platform which identifies the hottest-selling products at the lowest prices targeted toward personal shopping, gift, and impulse purchases.
Deliver high-end software and consulting solutions to multiple sectors, including e-Commerce, Government, Finance, and Healthcare.
Established innovative QR code technologies that serve as a bridge between global marketing campaigns and social networking to provide an intuitive, integrated, and trackable offline experience. Accessible through the Facebook platform as a native application which integrates social media into QR code generation and administration.
Responsible for the design and architecture of an environment allowing users easier methods of job searching and calculating length between jobs.
02/09 – 11/11 Echelon, Inc. New York, NY
http://www.echelonrs.com
CEO & Co-Founder
Conceived, envisioned and led development of a social graph analytic platform, that allows marketer and brands to understand the social network user’s patterns and lifestyles in ways never thought possible before.
Technologies: C#, SQL 2008, JQuery, WPF, REST, XML, Crystal Report
Coordinated development of a Social Graph analytic platform and translated data on the Open Graph platform utilizing the latest features of Facebook API, and Microsoft .NET 4.0.
Led a mixed technology team of 10 programmers and technical leads, including back-end, Flash and front-end developers
Recruited and managed an in-house team of developers, administering strategic direction and planning.
Designed data models and established coding standards and extensible architectures.
Facilitated the product development life cycle and developed a web-based business intelligence analytic tool.
11/06 – 02/09 Mr Youth LLP. New York, NY
http://www.mryouth.com
Technology Director/Architect
Design and architecture of Mr.Youth's main Portal Web Application.
RepNation is Mr.Youth's main line of business, is an application that connects its 70k+ end-users to various marketing and advertising opportunities.
Technologies: C#, SQL 2008, JQuery, REST, XML, FBML
Architected a thread-based e-mail system that allows users to communicate with each other and their campaign managers.
Replaced the existing search algorithm to take advantage of lambda functions to allow structured and serializable search criteria to be used.
Designed data models, tables, views, stored procs and UDF’s to meet business and coding requirements.
Performed various database optimizations to improve query times. Managed database rollouts to production servers. Technologies used, Sql Server 2005, Linq to Sql, ASP.Net, C#, AJAX Toolkit
Developed multiple Facebook Applications for Staple, Microsoft, Nike, Sheraton Hotel.
09/03 – 11/06 Channel Intelligence. Orlando, FL
http://www.channelintelligence.com
Senior Program Manager / Senior Software Engineer
Led an agile development team consisting of Software Engineers and Sales Engineers that delivered custom software solutions on time and within budget. Worked with Sales to explore potential client projects, scope and price projects, and manage/allocate resources for multiple simultaneous projects. Assist Sales in shortening the sale cycle by providing technical advice, presentations, and strategies as needed. Collaborate with product development, operations, and support teams on projects that will migrate into standard offerings within the company's ship vehicles. Provide team vision/cohesion for solutions and architecture.
Designed and managed the implementation of a data scraping process to automatic gather specific data content from any given website.
Lead the implementation of the Single Sing On (SSO) component to allow other key applications to authenticate through a centralize login.
Designed and implemented the current Portal GUI interface using Master Pages and Themes to allow users rearrange the objects in the portal dashboard.
Developed the components that govern the import/export of data from numerous sources. (ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 Windows Forms, XML, Excel, JavaScript, HTML, and SQL Server 2005).
Designed AJAX enabled real-time product details updating for a backend monitor system using C#, .NET in a SQL2005 Server. This system I developed use object oriented design principles. The system utilized the latest .NET technologies C#, ASP, XML Web Services, Services and User Defined Attributes using Reflection.
Also serve as consultant, trainer and advisor on all matters .NET related, including ASP.NET, XML Web Services. NET and application architecture.
02/03 – 09/03 Disney Internet Group. Orlando, FL
http://www.disneyworld.com
Senior Manager, Product/Web Development
As a Director of Product Development, I was in charge of creating the new online portal call “Magical Gathering Planner”. I first designed the architecture and wrote a 150 page design spec, then worked with the other 11 cast members to implement my design.
Coordinate efforts of designers, content providers, developers, programmers, database administrators, and quality assurance engineers. Ensure compliance with document requirements and processes.
Responsible for streamlining production process, including building content deployment tool that allows non-technical audience to update website content.
Developed and maintained Disney's websites, Disneyworld.com, DisneyCruise.com. Included brainstorming new features and the maintenance of existing ones.
2/00 – 2/03 Avero Inc. New York, NY
http://www.averoinc.com
VP of Product Development
Managed projects coordinating software engineers, graphic designers, product managers, QA engineers and content engineers. Responsibilities included writing requirements documents and specifications for developers, scheduling resources, project timelines, writing code, overseeing production, and content development and usability.
Worked closely with both the CEO and head of marketing to design and build a new corporate web site directed at brand recognition and product differentiation.
Solely responsible for developing an internal reporting system to integrate the company’s accounting system with the web based product line. Wrote ASP.NET pages in Visual InterDev 6.0, hosted in IIS 4.0, to deliver XML based content (both local content and dynamic data retrieved via XML-RPC).
Utilized JSPs/JavaBeans/EJBs hosted in BEA Weblogic 5.1, and Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris 8 to enhance the current product offering with a suite of tools aimed at tracking customer usage.
Responsible for data modeling, PL/SQL scripting, and application tuning (creating indexes, rewriting queries, selectively de-normalizing tables).
Integrated Company’s flagship product, Slingshot with numerous wireless devices.
Senior Manager, Web Development
Lead team of developers whose goal was to facilitate a company name change and product launch.
Worked closely with both Public Relations team and Marketing team to facilitate the company naming process.
Responsible for all aspects of user interaction relating to all of the companies product lines.
5/99 – 2/00 American Express Publishing New York, NY
http://www.amexpub.com
Senior Web Manager
Managed the Internet network infrastructure and software development.
Designing a real time update process for Food & Wine Magazine and Travel and Leisure Magazine web site using latest technologies available.
Manager of the Development department, project lead manager, supervising a group of developers.
Designed and developed Internet database applications in ASP, JavaScript, DHTML and SQL Server 7. Also utilized IIS, Interdev and Visual SourceSafe.
10/98 – 5/99 Liveperson Inc New York, NY
http://www.liveperson.com
Senior ASP/Software Engineer
Liveperson is based on an outsourced application environment, so the customer is actually connecting to the service on a server hosted by Liveperson.
Developed high-end Customer Service Web Site, using ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Visual Basic, DHTML, SQL, Java. Visual Interdev as a primary Editor.
Creating new techniques for faster and accuracy connection.
Studying the architect code, and developed the future structure code of the application.
Installed and configured SSL, IIS4.0, SQL7, Oracle 8 server.
Related Talents
Creative Leader- Able to analyze problems from many different perspectives and work with others to implement new, creative, and powerful solutions. Gifted at presenting solutions to top-level management in clear business terms.
Technical Writer- Adept at composing documentation and other technical literature aimed at audiences of all skill levels. Can quickly and skillfully compose any needed instructional materials.
Extremely Rapid Learner- Can develop proficiency in new technologies and methods in an extremely short period of time. Highly motivated self-leaner determined to keep abreast of promising new technologies.
Talented Instructor- Accomplished at developing lessons and learning materials to enable learners of all skill levels to rapidly develop new skills and enhance technical knowledge.
Visionary- I WILL MAKE PROFOUND, POSITIVE CHANGES IN ANY ORGANIZATION I WORK WITH. I WILL EXCEED ANY CLIENT’S OR EMPLOYER’S EXPECTATIONS
Education
1998 - Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Buenos Aires, AR
Languages
Fluent English and Spanish, and some Italian.
References
Available upon request.
Skills Chart
(12 years technical + 4 years managerial)
Programming Languages:
Skill Level
Last Used
Experience
C#
Expert
Currently used
12 years
.NET
Expert
Currently used
12 years
ASP
Expert
Currently used
15 years
VB Script/Java Script
Expert
Currently used
13 years
SQL
Expert
Currently used
14 years
Visual Basic
Expert
Currently used
15 years
XML/XSLT
Expert
Currently used
6 years
Crystal Report
Expert
Currently used
6 years
Action Script
Intermediate
1 year
5 years
JSP
Intermediate
2 years
3 years
PL/SQL
Intermediate
1 year
7 years
J2EE
Beginner
2 years
2 years
Developer Tools:
IIS (All Versions)
Expert
Currently used
15 years
Microsoft Visual Studio
Expert
Currently used
15 years
Macromedia Flash /MX
Expert
Currently used
8 years
Macromedia Dreamweaver /MX
Expert
Currently used
8 years
Macromedia Fireworks/ MX
Expert
Currently used
8 years
Microsoft embedded Visual Tools
Intermediate
Currently used
5 years
Database Design:
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, 7.0
Expert
Currently used
10 years
Microsoft SQL Server 2010
Expert
Currently used
3 years
MySQL 3.23, 4.0
Expert
Currently used
7 years
Oracle 8i
Intermediate
Currently used
4 years
Operating Systems:
Windows NT 4.0, 2003, XP, Vista
Expert
Currently used
10 years
Movile PC, Windows CE, AutoPC
Intermediate
Currently used
5 years
RedHat Linux 6, 7, 8, 9
Beginner
Currently used
2 years
Network:
TCP/IP, Firewalls, security and VPN's
Expert
Currently used
10 years
Internet Servers (Apache, BEA Weblogic, IIS)
Expert
Currently used
10 years
Microsoft Domains networks
Expert
Currently used
10 years