Dear Hiring Manager:

I have the technical skills of an experienced heads down programmer, the ingenuity and resourcefulness of an accomplished creative problem solver, and the soft people skills to work with audiences with a variety of technical backgrounds. Whether you call that ‘Solutions Architect’ or ‘Technical Program Manager’ just call me.

I’ve worked with stakeholders and analysts to craft system designs and associated time/effort estimates. I’ve socialized, evangelized, and materialized the larger technology roadmap. I’ve refined requirements into functional specifications consumable by Dev & QA and then worked with those departments to ensure the vision is faithfully translated to code and performs as advertised.

I am a Developer through and through. I have the technical creds that only come from having written code and a lot of it. I relish getting down into the deepest of details. But I clean up well and will impress you with my PowerPoint presentations and boardroom polish.

I love learning, being challenged and having fun at work. This makes me a pleasure to be around. Currently I am searching for my next engagement where I hope to make use of my skills and experience in a fun, new, challenging way. Let’s talk.

Thank you for reading.

Sincerely,

Don Sutton

Don Sutton, Technical Program Manager

Solution Architect (systems design)

Technical Product Manager

Senior Programmer (C#, VB.NET, javascript, Perl)

AWS Certified (cloud) Solution Architect

Business Intelligence consultant/developer

Database Designer

SQL SQL SQL

Mobile Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solutions Architect, Synchronoss Technologies Inc. (AT&T, Amazon, Direct TV)

Designed third generation communications activation platform

Wrote smart/configurable Holiday Exception behavior tool

Built small business verification API

Designed DB integrated event campaign email software tool

2010 - 2016

BI Consultant/Developer, 110 Consulting (Microsoft)

Consulted/educated Microsoft marketing departments on streamlining and optimizing data collection/storage best practices

Designed, planned, wrote, and oversaw development of massive time saving data transformer tool that enabled worldwide access to critical revenue based KPIs and metrics

Identified, prioritized, and resolved project/system issues to customer satisfaction

Serviced adhoc reporting/research requests

2007 - 2010

Mobile Developer, Dexterra (Shell, Motorola, Dell, Vodafone, Telstra, Quantas, GM)

Designed, wrote, and delivered mobile applications for wireless devices (PDAs, Smart Phones, tablet PC, laptops) using VB.NET/C # for Windows, RIM, and Symbian operating systems

Designed and coded 2,000 hand mobile/Pocket PC Bluetooth Printing solution

Internationalized .NET/tablet app for distribution in Europe

Conceived and implemented complete (rig) parts/maintenance ruggedized Pocket PC app

Periodically served as customer and employee software/platform instructor

2004 - 2007

Consultant/Developer, Nine Lives Consulting (Event1, TecShack, CerikaCorp, RS Medical)

Architected and coded Diaries.NET, a centralized .NET class library exposing proprietary core business rules, note-taking, editing and storing functionality (RS Medical)

Developed specifications for and wrote a custom integration solution between Timberline, an accounting system and YPS, a HR/payroll system (Event 1)

Designed and coded the VB.NET interfaces and data tier (ADO.NET) for a customer E-Commerce / Inventory / Accounting environment with ASP.NET web access (Tech Shack)

Programmed Visual Basic 6.0, Active X COM objects, ADO 2.5, and MS t-SQL to design and code a system of cost capturing and reporting applications (Cerika Corp.)

2001 - 2004

Systems/Applications Programmer, Shelter Products Inc.

1998 - 2001

Board Member, Students Book Corporation

1996 - 1998

Systems Analyst, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University

1994 - 1998

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Programming: javascript, VB.NET, C#, t-SQL, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, Perl, COBOL, VBA

Data/Access: ADO, COM, DCOM, OLE-DB, DAO, ODBC, JDBC, Crystal

Databases: MS SQL Server, Pervasive SQL, Sybase SQL, Access, Oracle, mySQL, noSQL

Business Intelligence: SQL, t-SQL, SQL Server Integrated Services (SSIS), DTS, SQL Server

Reporting Services (SSRS), Excel, VBA, Crystal, etc.2

Amazon Web Services (AWS): IAM, EC2, S3, EFS, EBS, RDS, VPC, SQS, SNS, SES, SWF, etc.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Washington State University, Pullman WA

Bachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems

Amazon

AWS Certified (cloud) Solutions Architect Associate

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

COMPANIES FOR WHICH I’VE WRITTEN/DESIGNED/ARCHITECTED SOFTWARE

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