Olayiwola (Layi) Babalola

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SUMMARY

Mr. Babalola has 17 years of development experience in addition to a solid background in application development, testing and design. He specializes in the design, development, delivery, and management of Enterprise applications built on the Microsoft platform. He is capable of working independently, or as part of a team, and has experience in analyzing existing applications and providing accurate estimates for enhancements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Development Tools

Angular JS, C#/VB .NET, MVC, WebAPI, WCF, LINQ, SSIS, SSRS, AJAX, XML, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, WPF, Bootstrap, K2 Blackpearl, iOS, Android, HTML, T-SQL

Enterprise Solutions

Microsoft Windows IIS, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Microservices, Docker

Architecture

Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft Entity Framework

Infrastructure

Microsoft Windows, Cloud

Databases

SQL Server, Oracle

Project Management and Design

MS Project, Team Systems, Enterprise Architect

EXPERIENCE

Gainwell Technologies, 1/2022 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

Technical Environment: BizTalk, Webservices, SOAP, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, Automapper, HTML, T-SQL

Layi Babalola worked on the Ohio FI DDI Project, a .NET WCF Webservices application providing healthcare integration functionality. He helped implemented needed enhancements in the SOAP IVR Webservices module, which consumed claims requests and returned properly mapped responses. He was responsible for use cases involving BizTalk SOAP objects covering Prior Auth, Dental, Institutional, and Professional Claims. He also implemented validation and error handling strategies across several edge cases.

AvidXchange, Houston, TX 7/2021 – 1/2022

Senior Software Engineer

Technical Environment: Webservices, Azure, Azure SQL and CosmosDB, MVC, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, .NET Core, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, jQuery, Agile: SCRUM, HTML, T-SQL

AvidXchange is a leader in automating invoice and payment processes for mid-market businesses and one of the fastest growing tech companies in the US.

Layi Babalola worked as a Senior Software Engineer on the AvidSuite product, a .NET web application. His duties involved adding features to the application, including the enhancement of workflow-based business logic, stored procedure backend updates, security enhancements via cross site scripting attack prevention, and malicious file upload mitigation.

Spencer Spirit Holdings, Houston, TX 4/2020 – 7/2021

Development Lead

Technical Environment: Webservices, Azure, MVC, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, C#.NET, ASP.NET, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, jQuery, Agile: SCRUM

Spencer Spirit Holdings, Inc., is a lifestyle retail company that operates two unique, national brands, Spencer's and Spirit Halloween, throughout the United States, Canada and online.

Spencer's is the mall destination for entertainment, excitement and fun. For over 65 years they have been offering unique product for the lifestyle of our core 18-24 year old guests, who are high energy, technologically savvy, edgy, demanding, independent and always inspired by humor and irreverence.

Layi Babalola worked as a Development Lead on the Spirit Hallowen Ecommerce Integration platform responsible for managing inventory, store layouts, and integration with Amazon.com. As a full stack developer, he helped build out and improve the WPF front end, inventory management application, rearchitected the middle-tier webservices, and helped develop a strategy for managing technical debt via .NET Core and Entity Framework.

Robert Half Technologies, Houston, TX 2/2019 – 4/2020

Consultant

RPC, Inc., Houston, TX 2/2019 – 4/2020

Development Lead

Technical Environment: Azure, MVC, Entity Framework, React, .NET Core, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, ServiceNow, Agile: SCRUM, HTML, T-SQL

RPC, Inc. is an oil and gas services company that provides a broad range of specialized oilfield services and equipment to independent and major oilfield companies engaged in the exploration, production and development of oil and gas properties throughout the United States and in selected international markets.

Layi Babalola worked as an Application Developer across various products and technologies. He was instrumental in assisting with the technology modernization effort for internal web applications. His daily activities involved building web applications with WebAPI, React, Entity Framework, and .NET Core.

HP Enterprise/DXC Technology, Houston, TX 1/2018 – 2/2019

K2 Blackpearl Application Architect

Technical Environment: K2 Blackpearl, Azure, MVC, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, C#.NET, ASP.NET, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, jQuery, Agile: SCRUM, HTML, T-SQL

DXC Technology is an American multinational end-to-end IT services company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia. DXC provides information technology and consulting services to businesses and governments.

Layi Babalola worked as a K2 Blackpearl Application Architect, creating K2 workflow program specs, coding K2 workflow applications, unit testing K2 workflow applications, and preparing required documentation for K2 workflow code reviews.

Chevron, Houston, TX 9/2017 – 1/2018

Cloud Technical Architect (contractor)

Technical Environment: Azure, MVC, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, C#.NET, ASP.NET, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, jQuery, Agile: SCRUM, HTML, T-SQL

Chevron is an American multinational energy corporation, and active in more than 180 countries. They are engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries.

Layi Babalola worked as a web application developer, and was instrumental in the application modernization effort involving a migration away from Excel spreadsheets to manage field events and logistics such as exceptions, work orders, and staffing. He played a large role in designing and building a cloud-based application hosted in Microsoft Azure with an MVC front end and a SQL Server/Entity Framework backend. The major technical achievements included mitigating Entity Framework performance issues such as the n+1 problem, optimizing CRUD logic, and implementing a benchmarking framework. His major stakeholder-facing contributions included translating business entities and use cases to data models and user stories.

Ciber, Greenwood Village, CO 1/2017 – 9/2017

Application Developer (contractor)

Technical Environment: AngularJS 2, Node JS, C#.NET, ASP.NET, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, LINQ, jQuery, Agile: SCRUM

Ciber, Inc. is a global information technology consulting, services and outsourcing company with commercial clients.

Layi Babalola worked as a web application developer, creating solutions for Fortune 500 clients such as Ford Motors, Bank of America and Lowes. He worked on front end, middle tier, and back end application layers utilizing Angular2, WebAPI, and SQL server. His duties involved both feature enhancements to existing applications as well as building complete applications from the ground up.

AVG Antivirus, Atlanta, Georgia 7/2015 – 1/2017

Application Engineer (permanent)

Technical Environment: Angular JS, Node JS, C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, WebAPI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, LINQ, jQuery, Azure, AWS, Sharepoint, Agile: SCRUM

AVG Technologies develops and sells online service solutions and Internet security software worldwide under the AVG branded name. Its product portfolio includes Internet security, PC performance optimization, online backup, identity protection, family safety, mobile control and location services, dynamic secure search, remote control, network auditing, monitoring, and alerting software, as well as virtual private network services. The company also offers software and online services, such as security, online privacy, cloud-based desktop management, mobile security, management and location services, content filtering, remote monitoring, and other products for various desktop and mobile operating systems. Its suite of security and IT management solutions protect against viruses, trojan horses, malware, suspicious code, and other threats; and offer a layered approach to threat detection, including behavioral monitoring, signature-based threat detection, and real-time threat detection with its LinkScanner technology.

Mr. Babalola worked as an Applications Engineer building dahboards, webservices, and monitoring systems in charge of facilitating Dev Ops and other client teams. AVG has client endpoints deployed on millions of devices, so it is crucial that the data they collect and report can be organized and displayed in an easy to understand way. Layi leveraged cloud services to complement AVG’s physical infrastructure. Among these were Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Here he defined build definitions for continiuous integration, created database instances, web service endpoints, queues, and caching strategies.

RealEC/Black Knight Financial Services, Houston, Texas 1/2014 – 7/2015

Applications Architect (permanent)

Technical Environment: C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, SharePoint, WebAPI, Angular, WCF, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, LINQ, Azure, AWS, Agile: SCRUM

RealEC® Technologies, a division of Black Knight Financial Services, provides a suite of Web-based technology solutions designed to support lenders’ loan quality programs, minimize loan repurchase risk and drive efficiencies in the mortgage transaction process. The company supports the top 100 mortgage originators and their business partner network, offering solutions in a hosted environment to deliver maximum operating leverage.

Mr. Babalola worked as a Solutions Architect on the Exchange platform, the largest fully interconnected network of lenders and service providers in the U.S., helping to manage the electronic collaboration of data between multiple parties. This network allows lenders and their choice of service providers to connect and do business electronically through a standards-based platform – streamlining the workflow for ordering, tracking and receiving mortgage products and services.

The technologies comprising this platform include WebAPI, MVC, SQL Server, MSMQ, and Windows Workflow Services.

Accenture/Avanade, Houston, Texas 4/2010 – 1/2014

Senior Consultant

Centerpoint Energy, Houston, Texas/Minneapolis, Minnesota 10/2013 – 1/2014

Senior Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, SharePoint, WebAPI, WCF, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Agile: SCRUM

Centerpoint Energy is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution and competitive natural gas sales and services operations.

Mr. Babalola worked as an Architect on the Consumer Web Rebuild Project, a re-engineering effort meant to modernize and update Centerpoint’s customer facing web portal using Sharepoint, MVC, and the .NET Framework 4.5. His duties included prescriptive guidance for exposing the dispirate elements of the enterprise data layer consisting of DB/2, SQL Server, and Web Services. He developed design patterns to abstract these systems into one unified layer exposed through web services. In addition, he provided leadership to the offshore implementation team based in India.

Shell Trading, Houston, Texas 4/2012 – 10/2013

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, SharePoint, K2 Blackpearl, ASP Classic, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Subversion, Agile: SCRUM

Shell Trading conducts a substantial trading-for-profit business, which includes the buying and selling of crude oil, finished products and feedstocks, as well as trading oil futures. As part of the global Shell Trading network, Shell Trading buys and sells more than 5 million barrels of hydrocarbons per day in physical markets, making it one of the largest petroleum supply organizations in North America and the world. Shell Trading also assists its affiliates, including Shell Oil Products US and Motiva Enterprises LLC, in acquiring crude oil supplies and in selling refined products.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer on the MDNavigator web application using .NET 3.5 and K2 Blackpearl for the workflow components. His duty was to design and build the user interface for the web forms, in addition to creating workflows for various counterparty requests. He generated K2 smart objects and created interfaces and concrete classes that would allow them to be consumed within the web application. Mr. Babalola also created stored procedures in SQL Server that would populate the K2 smart objects.

He also worked as an Architect while maintaining and updating the ASP Classic web application used internally to write time and generate reports.

Shell Retail, Houston, Texas 8/2011 – 4/2012

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, WCF, Windows Azure, Android SDK, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, TFS, Agile: SCRUM

Shell Retail’s nearly 14,000 branded gas stations are the most visible presence of Shell in the U.S. to the general public. Shell Oil Products US has a network of about 6,000 branded gasoline stations in the western United States. Motiva Enterprises LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company and Saudi Refining, Inc., refines and markets branded products through nearly 8,000 Shell-branded stations in the eastern and southern United States. According to the Lundberg Survey dated December 2009, Shell ranked number one in total gallons sold and in market share in the Unites States.

Mr. Babalola worked as an Architect on the Shell “Florence” project. The goal was to create a proof of concept/prototype of a “Business Services Layer” that would be hosted in the cloud using Windows Azure.

His main duties included the mobile payment functionality wherein a customer could pay at the pump with their smartphone by tapping an NFC tag. The phone would send a request to the Business Services Layer, which deducts funds from the user’s pre-paid balance, applies any available discounts to roll back the price per gallon, and remotely authorizes the pump at the customer location – all via the Internet.

This framework was built using a mix of various technologies including the Android SDK, WCF, the VeriFone Smart Fuel Controller Interface, and Windows Azure.

In the last phase of the project, Mr. Babalola implemented Loyalty Points Awarding functionality, allowing a customer to earn redeemable points in exchange for purchasing specific items that the business wanted to incentivize. Mr. Babalola built a web service that was able to consume loyalty card swipe requests sent by the WinCor point of sale system. The BSL determined whether or not the customer was a member of the points program, and sent data back to the POS specifying which items in their transaction should award points. After the transaction was complete, the number of points awarded was printed on the receipt, and a digital receipt with points information was pushed to the customer’s smart phone.

By working closely with 3rd party vendors, and investigating undocumented features, Mr. Babalola was able to deliver functionality far beyond initial scope.

Dell, Round Rock, Texas 6/2011 – 8/2011

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, ASP.NET, WCF, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, TFS, Agile: SCRUM

Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. The company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. Dell is listed at number 41 in the Fortune 500 list.

The company sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, and computer peripherals. Dell also sells HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players and other electronics built by other manufacturers. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer on the DellStar Server and DellStar Express solution configuration applications using .NET 3.5, WCF, and Visio components. DellStar gives users the ability to put hardware, software, and service solutions together. His duty was to implement the future state validation strategy by consuming the newly deployed validation service, and convert the local solution object to an object that the remote method can perform validation on. He also frequently communicated with the offshore team to solve problems, in addition to performing maintenance tasks, and fixing defects.

Shell Trading, Houston, Texas 8/2010 – 6/2011

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, ASP.NET, SharePoint, K2 Blackpearl, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Subversion, Agile: SCRUM

Shell Trading conducts a substantial trading-for-profit business, which includes the buying and selling of crude oil, finished products and feedstocks, as well as trading oil futures. As part of the global Shell Trading network, Shell Trading buys and sells more than 5 million barrels of hydrocarbons per day in physical markets, making it one of the largest petroleum supply organizations in North America and the world. Shell Trading also assists its affiliates, including Shell Oil Products US and Motiva Enterprises LLC, in acquiring crude oil supplies and in selling refined products.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer on the MDNavigator web application using .NET 3.5 and K2 Blackpearl for the workflow components. His duty was to design and build the user interface for the web forms, in addition to creating workflows for various counterparty requests. He generated K2 smart objects and created interfaces and concrete classes that would allow them to be consumed within the web application. Mr. Babalola also created stored procedures in SQL Server that would populate the K2 smart objects.

UPS, Baltimore, Maryland 4/2010 – 8/2010

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Team System, Model-View-ViewModel Pattern, Agile: SCRUM

UPS is a global company with one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world. We have become the world's largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer on the UPS WorldShip C++ to .NET Re-engineering Initiative.

His duty was to design, develop, and test custom frameworks, interfaces, and implementations for WorldShip 14 redesign with an eye toward establishing frameworks and patterns for future iterations of WorldShip.

These included:

UI Validation framework, allowing for the validation of Goods and Commodity data input by the end user.

XML-driven Required Fields framework, allowing for the styling of labels of required fields within the view(s).

Action Items: Research usage/implementation of legacy/present day UI Validation and Required Fields Manager. Research Shipment Application Framework. Design algorithm/methodologies to consume SAF proxies and validate all necessary data and to ingest required fields xml and style uielements appropriately. Implement design in loosely coupled, encapsulated, and pluggable manner.

Sogeti, Houston, Texas 3/2007 – 2/2010

Consultant

Sava Senior Care, Houston, Texas 12/2008 – 2/2010

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Team System, Model-View-ViewModel Pattern

Sava is one of the largest providers of short-term and long-term health care services in the United States. Through their affiliated entities, Sava provides services through skilled nursing facilities across the country.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer adding features to Sava’s internal web application, SavaCentral (.NET, SQL Server), their facility-facing resident management software, CareCentral (.NET, WPF, SQL Server), and the various SQL based implementations (stored procedures, SSRS, SSIS, etc.).

His main area of focus was CareCentral, a WPF application deployed at kiosks throughout Sava’s facilities. He updated/redesigned the user interface/XAML, created new dialogs and user controls, extended the business logic, and created/modified SSRS reports for display within the WPF application.

In addition to this, he added additional features to the applications, and responded to end user feedback.

HP, Houston, Texas 10/2008 – 12/2008

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, AJAX, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Team System

HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products.

Mr. Babalola worked as a developer converting a Lotus Notes Order Approval Application to a web based .NET application.

His main areas of focus were the database design, UI, and business logic. This included creation of normalized data entities, stored procedures, and aspx pages.

Schlumberger, Houston, Texas 04/2008 – 10/2008

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Model-View-Presenter Pattern

Schlumberger is the world's largest oilfield services corporation operating in approximately 80 countries, with about 87,000 employees. Schlumberger supplies products and services such as seismic acquisition and processing, formation evaluation, well testing and directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, artificial lift, well completions and consulting, and software and information management. Schlumberger also provides similar products and services for the groundwater industry. Schlumberger is a Fortune Global 500 company.

Mr. Babalola worked as a technical writer creating documentation for the Ocean Application Framework, a set of APIs allowing developers to focus on the business logic of their exploration and production applications rather than the infrastructure. The framework provides a common architecture, allowing for graphical windows, process managers, unit/coordinate system services, and federated data access.

His main areas of focus were the creation of the Quick Start Guide and Developer’s Guide, in addition to example code illustrating usage of all classes, interfaces, and objects.

Shell Oil Products, Houston, Texas 08/2007 – 04/2008

Consultant

Technical Environment: C#.NET, AJAX, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Team System

Shell's lubricants business, SOPUS Products, in the United States represents a significant portion of the Shell Group global lubricants business and ranks as a leader in the U.S. lubricants industry, which includes fast lubes, automotive/consumer products, and transport and industrial offerings to consumer and business customers. In addition to owning and operating ten blending and packaging facilities across the U.S., the Shell lubricants portfolio of well-known brands includes Pennzoil, Quaker State, Rotella T, Black Magic, Slick 50, Rain-X and Fix-A-Flat.

Mr. Babalola worked with a large team consisting of developers, analysts, and testers whose goal was to deliver the latest iteration of a large scale, enterprise-class application. The application utilized various technologies including C#.NET and AJAX for the front end, with a combination of SQL Server and SAP for the back end.

His main areas of focus were the implementation of the file upload/download modules, correcting system defects, user interface enhancements, and the creation of technical specs for newly added functionality.

Suez Energy, Houston, Texas 07/2007 – 08/2007

Consultant

Technical Environment: Microsoft SQL Server, Analysis Services (OLAP), Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Team System

SUEZ is an international industrial and services Group, designs sustainable and innovative solutions in the management of public utilities as a partner of public authorities, businesses and individuals in electricity, as, energy services, water and waste management.

Mr. Babalola worked alongside the Business Intelligence service group, building production level enterprise data warehouses, utilizing SQL Server 2000/2005, SSIS, and Analysis Services (OLAP). In addition, he created several stored procedures, scripts, and DTS packages in order to facilitate data continuity and migration.

His main area of focus was the rationalization of three separate accounts payable systems into one catch-all system for data cube analysis by the internal procurement group.

Spectra Energy, Houston, Texas 06/2007 – 07/2007

Consultant

Technical Environment: Casahl ecKnowledge, Nintex Workflow, Infopath, SharePoint, Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server, Visio

Spectra Energy Corp (Spectra Energy) owns and operates a large and diversified portfolio of natural gas related energy assets, operating in the areas of transmission and storage, distribution and gathering and processing. Based in Houston, Texas, Spectra Energy provides transportation and storage of natural gas to customers in various regions of the Eastern and Southeastern United States, the Maritimes Provinces and the Pacific Northwest in the United States and Canada and in the province of Ontario in Canada.

Mr. Babalola worked on a team of 10 developers and analysts on a migration project to convert key Spectra applications from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Utilizing a SCRUM process, Mr. Babalola worked with Director and Manager level stakeholders to gather requirements and design functionality to port.

His specific area of functionality focused on badge requests. When a user requests a badge access, all location managers are notified via email, and any one of them can approve or deny the request

Part of creating functionality involved researching a 3rd part tool from Casahl called ecKnowledge. This is a migration application that allows one to convert Notes forms to InfoPath forms, including both presentation and back end data. Mr. Babalola also developed an interface between his site and the Spectra HR system.

Associated Transport Line, Houston, Texas 03/2007 – 06/2007

Consultant

Technical Environment: Intersystems Cache, C#.NET

Associated Transport Line is a break-bulk cargo shipping company with a fleet of vessels offering scheduled service worldwide.

Mr. Babalola assisted in the re-engineering of business application modules. These application modules included Contact Management, Quotes, Bookings, Documentation, and Operations.

Mr. Babalola’s responsibilities included developing a framework to utilize the Cache object database as a backend, rewriting contact management and quotation tracking modules, and creating a project management system to allow quotes to be associated with documents and emails stored in shared folders.

Hewitt Associates, Houston, Texas 09/2006 – 03/2007

Programmer Analyst

Technical Environment: IBM Mainframe, SQL, SAS

Mr. Babalola’s responsibilities included:

Created, modified, and maintained batch jobs utilizing SAS.

Programmed and tested batch system to meet client needs while providing technology support

Used in-house software to build batch jobs and support the production environment

Resolved programming defects and errors

Used production scheduling software to monitor and adjust production schedule

O’Conner & Associates, Houston, Texas 01/2005 – 09/2006

Developer

Technical Environment: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005

O’Connor & Associates provides customers with a service to protest tax rates and assessments on an annual basis. Mr. Babalola assisted in the development of an application which tracked potential clients. He was responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the application. In addition, he determined timelines for enhancement requests and served as a mentor to other developers. In addition, Mr. Babalola maintained an internal CRM and implemented new features utilizing ASP .NET and VB .NET.

EDUCATION

University of Houston, Houston, TX

B.B.A. Management Information Systems

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