.Net Core Software Engineering

Thomas Mitchell Franey

Princeton, TX *****

Goal: To continue my career as a Microsoft stack software architect to deliver the best standards and coding practices for large scale enterprise systems. Dedicated to delivering high performance and quality using state of the art technologies.

Summary:

•22 years Development, Architecture and Software Conversion in .NET/Microsoft development using C# 8 - 13, VB.net, C/C++, Python, Node.JS (Express), and some F#; Net 8, .net 7, .net core 3.3, framework 4.8 & 4.5. 24 years in RDBMS development including SQL Server 2008-2022, MySQL, PL-SQL, PostgreSQL, and Azure SQL. Also experienced in NoSQL including MongoDB.

•Engineering Quality ASP.NET Web-Forms with Angular 16+, React, Redux, Ajax and jQuery, Angular / MVC / API (or mobile SQLite) web application suites, PHP/MySQL (WAMP), Node.JS, HTML/CSS with both TypeScript and JavaScript.

•Conversion of legacy apps into .Net Core and cloud-based Microservices utilizing Azure containers, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and serverless functions.

•Modern front end techniques using Bootstrap, Materials, State handling, SignalR consuming and responsive GUI using SPA styling.

•Experienced in application engineering within the Financial, HealthCare, Government and Oil Industries for full stack cloud and internal stacks. Banking Core Modernization was a strong point.

•Engineered SOA based systems using REST.API, background services, SOAP, and GraphQL.

•Strong Multithreading based development using Threads, Workers, Tasks, and TPL (Parallel Core Technologies)

•Successful delivery of enterprise software from inception to production within waterfall, LEAN, six sigma and AGILE environments using Azure or Jenkins CI/CD.

•Proven track record of improving software with best architectural standards and practices.

•Responsible for leading high-performance development teams for enterprise size projects including mentoring, code reviewing, and project planning.

•Highly experienced in delivering software in a test-driven environment (TDD) using the dependency injection framework (.NET) or Unity Framework.

Automated Testing including Jasmine.

Education

University of central England from Birmingham, Singapore 8/01/1998 – 3/01/2001

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science in Business IT with honors (3.3 GPA)

• Minor in Business IT in applications development including project management.

Experience

Jack henry (KForce) Remote 6/1/2024 – 2/28/2025

Role: Lead / Senior Staff Engineer/Architect (Contract)

• Development and Architecting of the Next generation in banking core software using .net 8.0, Python, Go, React, Google Cloud and SOAP service implementations.

• Working within GCP environment, developing new Apis and modernizing legacy services.

• Maintaining the proper domain areas in banking accounts, credits, wires, and proxy (API gateway) servers.

. Code reviewing, Mentoring and collaborating with teams to bring in new architecture and best standards.

. Benchmarking and testing code upgrades which brought increased performance and scalability while upgrading legacy services with newer techniques including caching, properly disposing transient objects, and enhancing EF code.

. Setting up discussions and meetings to propose proper implementation of microservice standards to older monolithic code.

. Contributed the refactoring of individual services utilizing concurrency methods in both C# and GO

. Development of utility (internal) applications for support using Python, Kamel, and configuration management.

Hallmark Healthcare Solutions. Remote 10/1/2023 – 2/18/2024

Role: Lead .NET Engineer / Software Architect

• Development of the next generation of the medical and healthcare systems.

• Working within the Azure environment, developing as a full stack Microsoft expert using React, Angular 16, Python, Node.JS (Express and Nest.JS) & C# (.NET 4.7 & .Net 6). Utilizing Azure’s containers, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, and some Kafka for CQSR standards.

. Code review and working with offshore teams.

. Fixing on-going bugs or firefighting issues during the first phase of pre-production development.

. Contributing best practices to new code through collaboration, white-paper, and prototype demonstrations.

. Frontend development for all domains using modern Angular/React technologies including RXJS (Subscription library), SignalR, Redux State Management, local browser storages using ngRX and Material/CSS 3/ HTML 5.

. Working with code-first entity framework core to backend Azure SQL.

. UiPath Studio introduction to HR web form.

Insight Global remote/Plano, TX 11/26/2018 – 7/20/2023

Role: Lead Software Engineer (Python, .NET Microsoft stack & Node.JS stack)

• Maintenance and new client backend application development using .Net 8.0, .Net 7.0, .Net Core 3.3, SQL Server 2016/2022 and Framework 4.7 using best standards in S.O.L.I.D and modern architecture methodologies. Also developed individual services using Python, Go, Node.JS Express.

. Client Industries include financial, healthcare, and government contracting.

. Front end development using React, Angular 16,14, and 12. Also developed in Asp.NET, MVC. Full implementation of JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, and HTML 5/CSS 3.

. Leadership role in mentoring, code reviewing, story assignment and architecture planning.

• Code analysis of older applications for better performance and issue handling.

• Developing full stack API systems with Azure CI/CD and microservice hosting.

• Bug analysis and unit testing (TDD).

. Software/ system design and documentation from start to finish.

. Worked with latest tools like SignalR, RabbitMQ, Cosmos DB, NoSQL, Kafka, Azure functions, OpenAI, Kubernetes, ngRX, and 3rd party UI tools like Infragistics and Telerik.

. For Bell Flight, the development of large data set of AI tools to analyze testing components using Go and .NET.

Infosys Ltd. Client: Charles Schwab Plano, TX 3/8/2018 – 11/10/2018

Role: Technology Lead in Development & Support - .NET Core 3.3 / .NET 4.8 / Angular (dev-ops/scrum)

• Development and agile-based maintenance on both C#. NET and Node.JS server backends.

• Engineering Web technologies in ASP.NET, HTML 5, CSS 3, Angular 14+, and MVC/MVVM webforms. Some Vue.JS were introduced but I’ve proved that one-way binding in React is worth the better memory management.

• Incorporating and mentoring developers on latest technologies in Tasks (multi-threading) and TPL (library for core based parallel development), LINQ, anonymous function, abstraction of independent functionalities, Json technologies, and API/MVC controller tools. Contributed in teaching these techniques as well as Angular development to increase the skills and employability of the junior developers in Infosys.

• Implementation of QA automation, using Jasmine (Protractor) e2e testing for the QA team within Charles Schwab.

• Responsible of reporting and documentation within scrum meetings

• Participating in interview panels for new talent pooling.

. SSIS and Dynamics 365 component design and testing.

Forms Automated Service Inc. Addison, TX 10/1/2017 – 2/18/2018

Role: Senior Lead .NET Core 2.0 Developer (Agile-ready environment)

• Developing sprints to repair applications and develop new functionality using C# 4.5 API, HTML 5/ CSS 3, Grunt/Angular JS front End with Cordova applications which allowed me to produce mobile applications for Android, IOS, and Windows 8.

• Debugging, Building, and deploying mobile applications using new sprint code as well as upgraded Cordova plugins.

• Incorporating multi-threading in C# API using Thread workers and Tasks. Simulating multi-threading in jQuery Angular using Rx (React) Tools to allow subscriptions and piping promises to any JavaScript event.

• Development of more efficient LINQ-to-SQL Data Entity framework structures to replace older third-party code handling ADO.NET SQL Calls. Includes upgrading that application and stored procedures.

• Re-development of the project management life cycle, development standards documentations, and whitelists /guidelines for deployment to servers and devices.

• Converting of Angular JS to Angular 4.1 using Observables, routers, and Typescript.

• Overseeing and developing releases to GitHub as Sprint milestones proceed.

• Hot fixing breaks in both API .NET and Angular HTML code based on high priority JIRA tickets.

SIMS Inc. Plano, TX 5/15/2016 – 10/1/2017

Role: Lead .NET 4.6 Developer/Engineer with WPF

• Developing and maintaining commercial alarm monitoring software in C# 4.0.

• Integration of Video Camera tech and Digital Alert systems to Main module and dispatch software using WPF and reactive HTML using XAML.

• Maintaining company web page and web services for software upgrades (SimsWare)

• Upgrading SIMS III software into ASP.NET/MVC/Agular 2 web form model for next generation release

• Applying best standards of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery to All web applications.

• Data dashboard implementations within SIMS data analysis packages using quick displays through NG-controllers (Angular 2.2).

• Development, restructuring, and standardizing data objects and common core layers. Using both flat-file and SQL-to-LINQ server technology

• Enhancing SQL procedures and database structures

• Client interactions for testing, requirement gathering, and collaborations.

Franey Solutions –Freelancing Dallas, TX 11/1/2013 – 12/10/2017

Role: Freelance / Professional Consultant as Senior Developer & Systems Architect

• Developed client web applications (MVC/ASP.NET webform) and PHP/MySQL sites that provides solutions quickly for my clients. Also developed C/C++ applications. Also worked with Python and Simple HTML web sites to improve better performance.

Randstad – Bank of America Frisco, TX 11/21/2015 – 5/11/2016

Role: Senior .NET 4.5 Engineer (agile/dev-ops with development/support)

• Converting legacy applications into two .NET 4.5 applications, as one being MVC in which brings latest technology to the system with Azure background.

• Using data entity framework, LINQ, and OOD to enhance mortgage record handling applications. Working on new functionality in data handling and interest calculations.

• As primary lead developer, I’ve developed changes from scope to deployment, under minimum supervision. Lead the testing, QA, deployment, and contingency plan of each release.

• Applied Web Service functioning to client applications using WEB API 2/ SOAP

• Developed Web Service using PHP and CRON jobs. Moved to WCF solution

• Developing WPF Application for desktop version.

Superior group Client: General Dynamics Richardson, TX 11/15/2014 – 6/1/2015

Role: Senior .NET 4.0/C# Government Consultant (development/support)

Viva Inc. Short contract Richardson, TX 4/1/2014 – 6/1/2014

Role: Full stack Senior C#.NET Developer (Level 3 support)

Service King Richardson, TX 9/1/2013 – 11/12/2013

Role: Senior Lead C#.NET 4.5 Developer (non-agile) with MVC and SQL Server 2008

Cardinal Health (Short Contract) Houston, TX 1/24/2013 – 7/15/2013

Role: Lead C#.NET healthcare consultant with MVC/Web Api (agile/scrum/dev-ops development)

Apex Client: bank of America Addison, TX 5/20/2012 – 12/22/2012

Role: Senior full stack C#.NET / SSIS-ETL Consultant (agile/scrum development)

-Improved ETL execution from 23 hours to 7 minutes by grouping all records into a dataset and utilizing SQL internal functions before transforming the data VIA the components.

Raytheon McKinney, TX 12/15/2011 – 5/15/2012

Role: Senior .NET Engineer/ Government Consultant (near agile development)

Bank of America Addison, TX 10/15/2010 – 12/01/2011

Role: Senior C# .NET / SQL Analyst / Quality Performance team (agile/scrum development)

MS State DEQ Jackson, MS 2/01/2008 – 10/01/2010

Role: Senior VB / C# .NET 3.5 Application Developer with SQL Server (agile/scrum development)

Help Card Inc. Springdale, AR 11/10/2006 - 1/19/2008

Role: VB.NET 2.0 Developer with SQL Server (agile-like development)

Americana Corp Alma, AR 3/15/2005 - 10/01/2006

Role: VB.NET 1.1 Developer / Support with SQL Server.

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