GRACE SIMMONS

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Sr. Developer Web Application .NET

Individual as well as Team approach to software solutions, application as well as web development meeting the demands for innovation solutions.

Development Methods Tools Technical Qualifications Skills List

Agile Development Methodologies Test Driven Development (TDD) Object-Oriented Design & Development

Frameworks:

.NET 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1

Languages:

VB.NET, 2.0, C# 2.0, C# 2.0, 3.5, 4.0,

Web Server:

IIS 7, IIS 6.0, IIS InterDev

ORM Solutions Object-Relational Mappers: Entity Framework, nHibernate,

Development Tools: Windows 10, CDC WordPress, Visual Studio 2013, 2005, 2008, 2010, Visual Studio 6.0, Dream Weaver CC 2015, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery

DBMS: SQL Server 2008 R2, 2005, 2000, Oracle 9i, 10g, NHibernate, EntiMS Access

Source Control Tools: Cruise Control, Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, SVN, Beyond Compare 4.0

Skills List

Adobe Campaign, Sharepoint Online, Office 365, CDC Wordpress, Percussions, ASP.NET, ASP, ADO, ADO.NET, MS Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, SharePoint DS 2007, SharePoint Server WSS, Dundas Charting, Infragistics, Publisher, Visio, Windows 2000, Windows XP, 2003 OOD, OOP, Creative Suite Web Standards: Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash MX, Web Services, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL, XSLT, XML, Adobe CS3, Crystal Reports IX & XI, SSIS, SSRS Reporting Services, LINQ, AJAX, jQuery, NUnit, Telerik Controls. HTML5, CSS3

Experience Summary

.NET Developer: with experience in all phases of development. Experienced in gathering requirements and frontend, middleware and backend development, with database programming and experienced with testing of applications and objects across all platforms, through all phases of development to testing and staging environments

Experience

Developer Media Support, 10/2015 – 6/2020 Time Solutions, LLC Contractor for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, GA

In the Offices of Resources, (OFR), was responsible for the following :

Digital Signage – Uploaded requested content to the various Lobby Monitors displayed throughout the office with current information.

Publication – OFR Insider – Worked to design and format the Quarterly Newsletter Publication.

As part of a Team, contributed to the Migration efforts of the existing OFR Intranet site into the new template packet 4.0 within the WCMS CDC Wordpress environment.

Attended regular Skype Training meetings to learn the Adobe Campaign

Attend Monthly Travel Meetings to stay informed of changes that may involve future site development changes

Developed new status reporting status for team to report all work performed to direct Supervisor/Team Lead utilizing Sharepoint and Microsoft OneNote sharing.

Major contribution for the new CDC Travel Portal Web Site in all phases from development to design and launching, to include; SiteMap layout, Content management, Development, Quality Assurance, gathering metadata, plain language reviewing

Regular participation in weekly Internet Web Content Management Systems training from the CDC Web Council

Responsible for development, maintenance and upgrade of the new Intranet/Internet site, and as a part of the web development team, worked to created Web pages using the preferred Content and Topic page templates provided to help build the new Intranet site to replace liquid template layout design.

Received extensive WCMS training to preparing for transition Percussion to CDC WordPress environment.

Responsible for 508 compliancy of Adobe PDF as well as Microsoft Word documents utilizing the Accessibility Checker for all documents residing on the CIO/Division/Team Intranet site.

Upgraded the Search Engine Optimization of the sites pages to produce a greater results in the search of internal content relating to various subject matter.

Attended Branch and Division monthly team meetings, via Skype as well as in person, to receive and maintain the new and current related items pertaining to our work order.

As part of a Web Support Team responded to assigned request for updates and changes within the Division offices on the Internal Web site.

Created Monthly and Quarterly Metrics Reports for the Internet and Intraneat site measuring searches to and from the site.

Assisted in developing and Search Dictionary Index and Keyword Search for the Search engine to optimize results returned that pertain to the interest of the users.

Kept annual content reviews of the internet and intranet sites up to date quarterly which involved archiving existing site pages for future reference of design and layouts.

Environment: Adobe Campaign, Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, Dreamweaver CC 2014, Sharepoint Online, Office 365, Microsoft Office 2013, CDC WordPress, Beyond Compare4.0

Web Site Development, 4/2015 – 10/2015 Walker’s Cleaning Service

As a Web Developer, managed the design and creation of a new web site to display services offered and locations services.

The site allows new and existing customers to add testimonials of satisfaction of services rendered

Site would also allow customers to rate recent and past services received.

Environment: .NET 4.5 MVC5 Razor Engine, jQuery, C# Entity Framework,

Enterprise Web Developer, 9/2014 – 4/10/2015 3iPeople- State of GA DJJ Decatur, GA

Solo as well as team development in a mixed environment of Classic ASP as well as .NET 3.5

Involved in new development to extend the current programs in place.

Maintenance, enhancement of existing systems as assigned by lead developer.

Responsible for end to end development to include front end design middle tier coding, database procedures.

Created business objects, stored procedures, SSIS packages for importing external data

Creation and modification of existing and new reports.

Environment: .NET 3.5 VB.NET, Classic ASP, Visual Studio 2008, 2005, JavaScript, HTML, SQL Server 2008, 2005, VSS,

Web Developer, 9/2012 – 9/2014 New Life Ministries Atlanta, GA

Responsible for maintenance, modification, design and upgrade of the organization’s web site.

Making upgrades to include addition of Responsive Web Design, Social Media integration

Utilizing some of the latest tools in front end web design that included Adobe Creative Suite CS3 tools:

Responsible for the Creation, Design, Modification and Maintenance of the organization’s web site. Used tools that included Adobe Creative Suite CS3 tools:

Environment: Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, Dreamweaver Photoshop, JavaScript, Ext JS, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3

Web Developer, 03/2012 – 09/2012 Chickasaw Industries - Contractor for OSELS Division – CDC, Atlanta, GA

In the Center of Surveillance Epidemiology, Laboratory Science (CSELS) was responsible for the following:

updating content as requested including assuring content complies with Section 508 Compliancy Standards

Publishing new/ updated content to the Intranet site as requested

Environment: Adobe CS5.5 Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ASP jQuery, JavaScript

.NET Web Application Developer, 11/2010 – 02/2012 BBDO Atlanta Atlanta, GA

As a part of the Development Team was responsible for the following:

Agile Environment – Team Development

For system and program specifications received from supervisor, developed, maintained and supported web sites for large communication giant for creation of Online-Banner Ads and Radio Ads by Company Administrators, Approvers and Authorized Users

Created the source code and objects necessary to satisfy the intent of the specifications

Participated in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle

Adhered to departmental Software Development Life Cycle practices and procedures

Participated in setting organizational Web development strategies

Ensured security of all web sites and related applications

Designed, coded, tested, documented and deployed web applications and sites using Agile methodologies and tools

Worked independently in the absence of a database administrator to design, document, develop, and update databases as they related to web applications

Configured test environment, prepared & documented test cases for system testing

Debugged and fixed code based upon test results; provided proof of correctness to supervisor

Diagnosed and used troubleshooting for problems with existing web applications and sites

Conducted research into current and emerging web technologies in support of Web development efforts

Environment: .NET 3.5, C# 2008, AJAX, JQuery, NUnit, NHibernate, JavaScript, CSS, ADO.NET, VS.NET 2008, SQL 2008 R2, SQL 2005, SSRS

Lead .NET Developer, 07/2007 – 04/2009 TEK Systems - Contractor for the Centers foor Disease Control and Prevention – CDC, Atlanta, GA

In the Management Analysis Services Office (MASO), involved in all phases of development to include:

Migration of classic ASP application to .NET 2.0, using Visual Basic 2008

Involved in maintaining, upgrading and deployment of several ASP.NET 1.0 and 2.0 applications utilizing; VB 2008, VB.NET 2003, and reports, created in Crystal Reports 9

Completion of Data Migration of all SQL 2000 databases to SQL 2005 including tables, stored procedures, functions, views

Gathered Business Rules and Project Requirements from Project Leads. All phases of development that included 70% coding and 30% design on front end and backend

Database programming that involved altering and creating tables, stored procedures and views

Testing of applications and objects across all platforms, through all phases from development to testing and staging environments, prior to deploying to the Production Database and Web Server environments

Environment: .NET 2.0 Visual Basic 2005, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, HTML coding, ADO.NET, VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2000, SQL 2005, Crystal Reports IX

As a .NET Developer NCPHI National Center for Public Health Informatics Division – CDC

As a part of the Informatics Support Development Team, supporting the Emergency Operations Center’s, provided support for the Director’s Emergency Operation Center Preparedness Team responsible for the following:

Contributed individually on projects as well as team development, responsible for the development, implementation, and support of applications used to assist public health response activities

Designed and programmed ASP.NET 2.0 web applications and services efficiently using .NET languages, C# and VB on existing projects

Upgraded existing .NET 2.0 projects as well as converting Access applications to the .NET 2.0 Environment

Responsible for the Design of User Interfaces, Creation of Business and Data Objects, and all front and back end development of Applications

Created tables and stored procedures and provided application and operational support to a facility running 365 days and 24/7

Created and maintained several SharePoint collaborative sites for team Collaboration and Document Workspaces that contained: Document Libraries, Lists, Sub sites, and Web Part Pages. Such SharePoint sites would include various data sources as Databases via Web Services, Excel Spreadsheets and XML files

Environment: .NET 2.0 Visual Basic 2005, C# 2005, Access 2003, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, HTML coding, ADO.NET, VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2000, SQL 2005, SharePoint Designer 2007, Adobe CS3, Crystal Reports XI, SharePoint MOSS 2007, Web Services, XML

ASP.NET Application Developer, 11/2006 – 04/2007 Emergint Technologies, Inc - Contractor for National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)

– Northrop Grumman Atlanta, GA

As a part of the Internet Development Team was responsible for the following:

Worked on multiple projects; was responsible for developing SQL Server databases, creating stored procedures, developing ASP.NET pages using Visual Basic.NET 2002, 2003, testing all pages across a variety or workstation configurations and printers for accuracy and legibility, monitoring performance of the application once in production mode and refine utilities as necessary

Maintained legacy ASP applications; using IIS Visual InterDev. Performed 70% coding with 30% design and analysis, gathered requirements on multiple small Web Projects

Analysis skills used to gather analysis of assigned individual tasks within a project. Used and created various tools and customized User Controls and Web components

Used an understanding of software development processes and N- tier architecture in a structured environment; work under tight schedules to meet deadlines

Environment: .NET 1.1, Visual Basic 2002, 2003. ASP, VBScript, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, HTML coding; Web technology and coding in .NET Framework 1.x, VB.NET, ASP. NET, ADO.NET, VS.NET 2002/3, ASP, VB, VBScript, IIS, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Interdev, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, Dundas Chart Tool

.NET Developer, 03/2006 – 08/2006 Userthink, Inc. Peachtree City, GA

Conversion of a call center green screen application with Cobol back end, to a n-tier architecture Windows Application; developed in Visual Studio 2005 .NET 2.0 Framework, C# 2005 IDE front end using Application Blocks, with Oracle 9i database back-end via Web Services with Data Access Objects, Custom User Controls, Web Methods, stored procedures, views, triggers, PL/SQL, Infragistics Controls, ADO.NET

Agile Scrum Methodology

Environment: .NET 2.0, Visual Studio Team 2005. C# 2005 Wins Forms, ADO.NET 2.0 Web Services, Infragistics Net Advantage 2006, Team Foundation Server, Oracle 9i, Stored Procedures

.NET Programmer, 02/2005 - 03/2006 SDS International, Inc. Atlanta, GA

Agile Scrum Methodology

Assigned various projects to include: Multimedia online computer based training for the Department of Defense, with training courses, student – grade tracking, book order, change requests. Applications designed in 3-tier Architecture with business objects and ADO.NET. Tools utilized in creating ASP.NET apps included Visual Studio.NET using C# and SQL 2000 stored in Visual SourceSafe, Macromedia Flash MX, ActionScript2.0, JavaScript and XML.

Course content was implemented by converting Adobe FrameMaker documents to XML.

Responsible for the design, coding, database programming, stored procedures and deployment from testing to the production environment

Environment: Visual Studio Enterprise 2003 ASP.NET 1.1, C# 2003 Web Applications, SQL Server 2000, Flash MX, Adobe Frame Maker, Action Script 2.0, XML, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, ADO.NET

.NET Programmer, 06/2003 - 08/2004 Herzing College Atlanta, GA

Created Access and SQL databases, ASP.NET Web Forms and Applications using Visual Basic.NET and C#; connected to SQL databases, using stored procedures, for use by Faculty, Administration and Staff, for referrals and student data tracking

Environment: Visual Studio.NET 2002, 2003, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET

Data Processing Manager, 08/1998 - 04/2001 Market Tracks Atlanta, GA

Hired as a Data Entry Operator; later promoted to DP Manager.

Trained and managed one to six data entry operators. Processed 1500 – 2000 forms per day as required meeting deadlines, for speed with 95 % accuracy

Provided daily reports to department managers

Performed Quality Control on multiple Access Database; created tables, forms, queries and reports

Environment: Microsoft Access, FoxPro

Education and Certifications

B.S. in Computer Information Systems, Herzing College, Atlanta, GA

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