Michael Howard

**** *** ******* ***, **** #*

Alameda, CA 94501

415-***-****

ad01c3@r.postjobfree.com

Objective:

The skills and experience I have as a full-stack .NET applications developer allow me to create high performance, scalable, robust and productive IT solutions for the realization of your business-critical objectives. An information technology career with an emphasis on strong Agile practices, combined with a business and finance background, instills in me the appreciation for and the means to leverage the benefits of state-of-the-art technologies in achieving your business goals.

Summary:

24+ years experience utilizing the complete Software Development Life Cycle to design, and develop Azure cloud-based and n-tier Microsoft ASP.NET-, .NET CORE Windows-based applications & processes for distributed systems; using skills in: object oriented programming, database programming & administration, networking, security and internet/intranet.

Expertise in developing Azure platform-based processes, Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Portal, Azure DevOps, ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, Razor, CORE Web API, Restful web services, Microservices, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, Windows, Web & Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, Server Components, Windows Services, Nodejs, REST- & JSON-based solutions using Microsoft .NET Frameworks 4.0/4.5, .NET CORE 1.0 – 2.0, C# 4.0/4.5/5.0/6.0/7.0/8.0, COM, GraphQL, DevExpress, Telerik & Syncfusion Controls Suites, MVC & MVVM design patterns, Windows Sockets, Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015/2017/2019/2022, Entity Framework, ADO.NET, XML technologies, SOAP, VB 6.0 & VBScript, Agile, SCRUM, TDD & XP methodologies, CICD. Team Foundation Server, AntHill Pro, Vault Pro and TortoiseSVN source management & deployment platforms.

Expertise in ASP.NET MVC and MVVM-patterned WPF development utilizing IoC containers

(Autofac, Ninject, PRISM & Managed Extensibility Framework(MEF)).

Profound strength in RDBM systems: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012/2014/2017/2019, utilizing T-SQL programming to create all manner of database schema in support of Azure-based, n-tier and MVC-patterned applications: tables (and their corresponding relation, constraint & trigger objects), views, indexes and stored procedures, stand-alone scripted SQL Server Scheduled Jobs as well as general database scalability, tuning and monitoring techniques.

Strong proficiency in Redgate SQL Data Compare tool as well. MySQL.

Expertise in IBM WebSphere MQ Messaging Oriented Middleware (MOM) & MSMQ technologies, including scripted creation of messaging framework objects: enterprise-level queue manager clusters (spanning multiple disparate platforms: Windows, UNIX and AS/400 environments), queue managers, cluster queues, local & remote queues, specialty channels, etc.

Excellent proficiency in multiple database platforms, entity frameworks and specialty data access protocols: Entity Frameworks 5.0/6.0/6.1 (both database-first and code-first approaches), LINQ to Entities, LINQ to DataSet, PLINQ, ADO.NET, ODBC API’s, Microsoft legacy protocols (ADO, RDO, DAO), StarSQL Windows-to-AS400 communication driver, Windows-to-DB2 environment connectivity and communication tools.

Valuable knowledge and experience in several specialty application development areas including concurrent & multithreading programming - leveraging the TPL and legacy threading libraries, parallel programming, PLINQ, asynch/await pattern as well as legacy event- and delegate-based approaches.

Broad expertise in TDD along with the utilization & custom creation of Unit and Performance Testing tools and frameworks, for the reporting and publishing of key application analytics & quality metrics. These include experience with standard unit testing frameworks like NUnit & MSTest as well as custom- built test harnesses. In addition, I have experience with unit testing mocking tools, like Moq and Rhino Mocks.

Effective leadership, communication, and presentation skills aided by marked proficiencies in the following software design tools: IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA) and Rational Application Developer (RAD) to provide thorough & concise, easy to understand UML documentation of software designs, including use case, activity, sequence, class, component and deployment diagrams.

Technical Expertise

Azure platform technologies, Azure Service Bus, Azure Portal & DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service and Docker Container development. Cosmos DB, Azure Redis Cache, Microservices, Azure Event Hub, Azure Resources creation and Key Vaults. GIT Hub source management.

ASP.NET MVC 4.0/5.0, Blazor, Razor, ASP.NET CORE, CORE Web Api, C# 4.0/4.5/5.0/6.0/7.0/8.0, .NET frameworks 4.0/4.5, .NET CORE 1.0 – 2.0, SOA, SOAP, WCF, Team Foundation Server, DevExpress, Telerik & Syncfusion Controls Suites, Entity Frameworks 5.0/6.0/6.1, REST, JQUERY, XML, AngularJS 1.0 & 2.0, GraphQL, Bootstrap, JSON/JSONP, HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, Web Services, Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015, ADO.NET, XML technologies, NUnit, MSTest, Moq, Rhino Mocks, NInject, Autofac, Postman

MS-SQL Server 2005/2008 R2/2012/2014/2018/2019, T-SQL, Redgate SQL Data Compare, MySQL, Cosmos DB.

Bitbucket collaboration & source management, CICD, GIT command line, Team Foundation Server, Vault Source Control, TortoiseSVN, Visual SourceSafe

IBM WebSphere MQ Messaging-Oriented-Middleware, MSMQ and AS/400.

MVC & MVVM design patterns, AntHill Pro, Agile, SCRUM & XP methodologies, UML

IBM Rational Software Architect(RSA) and IBM Rational Application Developer(RAD)

VB 6.0, COM, DCOM, and Visual Interdev 6.0

Education & Training

Bachelor of Science International Business, San Francisco State University.

CEH* Systems Security Course (*Certified Ethical Hacker)

Work Experience

Signant Health (formally Bracket Global) Senior Product Developer April 2015 to Present www.signanthealth.com

Using Azure-based technologies, Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Portal & DevOps, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache, Microservices, Restful web services, ASP.NET MVC 5.0, Blazor, Razor, ASP.NET CORE, .NET CORE 1.0 – 2.0, JQuery, JavaScript, ReactJS, JSON, XML, GraphQL, CORE WebApi, AJAX, Entity Frameworks 6.0/6.1, .NET Framework 4.5/5.0, C# 6.0/7.0/8.0, MVC design pattern, Nodejs, MEF, LINQ, SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014/2017/2019, TSQL programming, Redgate SQL Data Compare, Bitbucket collaboration & source management, CICD, GIT command line.

A primary Developer for the company’s public facing Randomization and Trial Supply Management software product (RTSM).

Principal Developer for the company’s internal applications in support of BSAs in their creation of clients’ STUDIES’ software artifacts and processes (SCW).

Primary Developer of a suite of new Web controls for use in mobile and desktop environments, utilizing AngularJS, jQuery, JavaScript and JSON API’s.

Created an Adhoc Reporting engine for firm’s main suite of web-based applications.

Developed a Reverse Data Synchronization application for synchronizing internal databases.

Maintained the firm’s MEF**-based suite of applications (**Managed Extensibility Framework).

Maintained/developed a web/SOAP based internal replication process that kept a TFS-based defect system in synch with a 3rd Party Defect Tracking Tool (Seapine TestTracker).

Fisher Investments Applications Developer Sept 2014 to April 2015 www.fisherinvestments.com

Using ASP.NET MVC 4.0-5.0, JQuery, JSON, HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS 2.0, Bootstrap, AJAX, Entity Frameworks 6.0, .NET Framework 4.5, C#, MVC design pattern, LINQ, SOA, SQL Server 2008 R2/2012, MySQL

Primary developer of a new ASP.NET MVC-based Task Management application. This tool features Entity Framework-based domain layer, its own dedicated services layer and a front-end web interface utilizing MVC, AJAX, jQuery, JSON and Javascript, to create a reliable, easy-to-use and performant user interface.

Primary architect and developer in the refactoring & migration effort for one of the firm’s key SQL Server databases including schema re-design, T-SQL-based development of new objects and all-around performance tuning.

Wells Fargo Securities Applications Developer Feb 2014 to Aug 2014

www.wellsfargo.com

Using WPF, MVVM, C#, Entity Frameworks 5.0-6.0, DevExpress & SyncFusion WPF Controls Suites, .NET Frameworks 4.0/4.5, SOA, WCF, Prism Framework & Unity Container, Task Parallel & Threading Libraries, LINQ-to-Entities, MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2/2012

Key contributor in the comprehensive refactoring of firm’s legacy Bond Trading & Financial Analytics applications suite into a more contemporary WPF/MVVM-based design utilizing SOA architectural principles, involving thorough re-writes of the UI, presentation, services, repository and domain model layers.

Co-developer of new application suite’s Entity Framework-based repository layer and entities mechanism utilizing a code-first approach in its creation which has resulted in a very light-weight and highly efficient data access & persistence layer.

Key contributor to project’s SQL Server backend redevelopment effort, including new schema design, T-SQL programming, database objects creation and performance tuning.

Created a comprehensive performance & load testing tool for the measuring of application-to-data repository performance & accuracy metrics to assist in the on-going refactoring efforts.

Motion HR Developer Consultant Sept 2012 to Nov 2013

www.motionhr.com

Using ASP.NET MVC 3.0, HTML, CSS, WebAPI, C# 4.0-4.5, WCF, WPF, MVC & MVVM design patterns, SOA, REST, JQUERY, AngularJS 1.0 & 2.0, Bootstrap, JSON, .NET frameworks 4.5-4.5 and SQL Server 2008 R2

Developed & supported .NET-based UI-, SOA-architected- and data-tier applications for this consultancy’s natural resources and energy industries clients.

Developed & enhanced the WebApi & WCF Services tiers for the firsm’s clients’ file replication & synchronization applications.

Created a WPF file replication & synchronization client application interfacing with local and remote WebApi & WCF services.

Created a highly efficient streaming & serialization utility based on data contracts optimized for fast & efficient serialization & transport by utilizing an enhanced binary serialization technology (ProtoBuf-Net).

PMI Mortgage Insurance Company Software Engineer Nov 1998 to Aug 2012

www.pmi-us.com

Using C#3.0-4.0, WPF, WCF, COM, Sockets, MVVM, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Angular 1.0, SOA, WebAPI, WinForms, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 R2, IBM WebSphere MQ MOM, REST-ful Data Services

Developed the key Parallel/Concurrent mechanism for MI rates quoting that all PMI MI transaction processing applications relied upon to provide MI quotes in a highly accurate and SLA-compliant manner.

Designed and developed transaction processing & document management libraries & components in support of company’s applications suite.

Extensive SQL Server Database Development, Scalability, Testing & Tuning experience.

Served as primary administrator and lead developer for PMI’s utilization of IBM WebSphere MQ Messaging-Oriented-Middleware (MOM). This work included creation and maintenance of messaging clusters spanning multiple platforms including WinTel, UNIX and AS/400 environments.

Created, designed, developed and maintained all manner of COM/DCOM & .NET-based server, messaging and database components in support of PMI’s mortgage insurance origination & servicing systems. I also supported the company’s efforts in migrating legacy COM/DCOM-based applications to fully .NET-compliant versions as well.

Developed & maintained WPF-, WinForms- and ASP.NET-based UI layers for company’s internal and externally-facing applications.

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