Ben Pierce

Objective

A challenging position which will allow me to grow as a senior developer while expanding my knowledge of .Net programming practices.

Skills

C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Web Services(SOAP, Rest, WebAPI),Visual Basic .Net, Visual Basic 6.0, .Net Core, .Net 6, Azure Devops, Dapper, Entity Framework, Nhibernate, NServiceBus, RabbitMQ, Microsoft Test Manager, Moq, NUnit, Java, JUnit, Maven, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, ColdFusion, SQL Server T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, Object Oriented Development Methods, Agile/Scrum, TFS, GIT

Employment

Jack In The Box Restaurants

Senior Software Developer June 2020-Present

-Fixed major defects in legacy sales forecasting application

-Created DevOps pipelines for legacy applications

-Responsible for maintaining a Back Office system using Distributed System architecture, MSMQ, and NServiceBus

-Mentored other application developers on C#, Devops, and Agile(Taught classes on own time).

Mitchell International

Senior Software Engineer November 2012-May 2020

-Created ASP.Net application for completing HR performance reviews.

-Met very tight deadlines and received very positive feedback from senior management on the application.

-Performed analysis of NetSuite web services and wrote WCF wrapper service around them.

- Created JBoss CrossFire Java web services as part of a code migration from WebLogic server to JBoss server.

- Migrated Enterprise Java Beans code from WebLogic to JBoss platform.

- Maintain legacy billing system written in C#/ASP.Net.

- Created Billing Reporting SSRS interface.

- Created payment lockbox application in NetSuite using JavaScript.

- Wrote TypeScript scripts used to produce NetSuite invoices.

- Acted as Team Build/Deploy master creating automated C#/TypeScript builds/deployments in TFS.

- Developed Odata web service used to collect information about monthly billing processes.

- Built Asp .Net Core Web Api web services used to persist billing data.

- Awarded “Mitchell Engineering Excellence” award at Mitchell developers conference for work in creating ci/cd builds and deploys using TFS for Enterprise Business Technologies department.

- Coded Angular modules for new billing system UI.

Kemper Direct Insurance Company

Claims Software Development Manager/Senior Software Developer January 2002 – November 2012

- Responsible for transitioning a vendor maintained claim system to an in-house development team.

- Developed specifications and coded all major modifications to the claim system while employed as a developer using Visual Basic 6.

- At Kemper I developed code to convert hundreds of claims from two different claim systems that were integrated into our system.

- Promoted to Project Lead in 2004 and managed a team of developers writing various claims interfaces to material damages, medical bill review, and claims information systems.

- This team was also responsible for maintenance and enhancement of all core claim applications.

- Led team through development of a “First Notice of Loss” system using C#.

- During this time led team integrating processing of homeowners, boat and umbrella claims into our system.

- Team was also responsible for management of a check processing application.

- Primary maintenance developer making changes to an online ColdFusion web application using a mix of ColdFusion and ASP.Net technologies.

- Also primary developer responsible for making changes to a VB.Net web based ASP.Net material damages system.

- Primary developer responsible for creating C# based web services from the ground up.

- Implemented “Software Development Life Cycle” practices where none previously existed.

- Have experience using Microsoft Project software to develop project plans and project time lines.

Arrowhead Group/Inspire Insurance Solutions

Senior programmer/analyst, March 1996 – December 2001

- Maintained document-imaging system in Visual Basic. Also wrote programs used to electronically order CLUE reports from a third party using Visual Basic.

- Have made modifications to an automated application system using Visual Basic.

- Created Visual Basic programs used to export and import data from a claims system.

- Responsible for designing, writing and maintaining programs for auto insurance claim system using AS400 COBOL. Converted TAATOOLS RPG programs to AS400 Cobol for use as system utilities.

- Perform analysis of user requirements and write technical specifications based on those requirements.

- Also required to assist in day to day management of AS400 system.

Education

University of California - San Diego Extension 4.0 GPA

C# Programming Certificate with emphasis on web technologies, September 2013

Scaled Agile Academy - Certified Scaled Agile Framework Practitioner

University Of California – San Diego Extension Intermediate Java Course 4.0 grade

University of California at San Diego Extension 4.0 GPA

Visual Basic Programming Certificate

Coleman College, La Mesa, CA.

Computer Information Science Certificate

California State University at Fullerton

Economics Major

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