James Smith
JR
Suffolk, Virginia 23434
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Objective
Seasoned software developer (25 years) looking to make a contribution as senior technical developer in a growing company.
Work Experience
Senior Content Developer
05/22/2012 – 4/2020 Liberty Tax Service, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Work on the team that design and develop Next Generation (NG) to do tax preparation software as multi -tier web base application with SQL databases. The application final brand name for the franchisee is “Phoenix” but the online version multiple brand names (Liberty Online, eSmartTax, etc.). Work on “TaxReturn” model, federal and states model developed in C#. These models where designed to work with any GUI interface. The models represented their respective forms with calculations. We also, design the web view model pages with json files.
Senior Software Developer
12/2002 – 04/2010 Liberty Tax Service, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Help maintained an application that managed business logic for the company using Visual Basic 6, Maintained a patching process that use Wise installation package for the application that managed our business logic using Visual Build Professional as the automation process. Developed and maintained web pages for in house banking system and check verification process using 2003 VB .Net. The check verification application was a visual basic 6 application was being run multiple times to answer incoming calls; I then developed it into a multi-thread application using 2003 VB .Net. Designed and developed a system that receive a fax from a faxing service and then process each fax by scanning the information from the fax using lead tools libraries. Then enter the information into our database so that we could provide information to our web team using web service developed in VB .Net .Learned and trained several people on an application developed by Microsoft for doing tax content and forms development for the tax business plus improving and maintaining the application using unmanaged C++. Developed and maintain an automated build process for our tax content development which consists of 47 taxing authorities using Visual Build Professional. Developed and designed desktop applications to post information to SharePoint website by using SharePoint web services in 2008 C# .Net with SQL 2008 server backend. Project Leader
3/1997 - 5/2002 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Virginia Beach VA,
• ·Multi-faceted responsibilities, coordinating and managing the development and maintenance of 105 state tax preparation applications- written in C. Technical leader in developing a form tracking database system using a three-tier architectural design with a Visual Basic front end with a SQL server backend.
·Maintain and develop state tax print modules using MS Visual C++ 6.0.
·Developed 1300 different state and federal forms for use in 45 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Developed COM object used by 3000 field offices to track taxpayer statistics.
Programmer/Analyst III
11/1992 - 4/1997 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Virginia Beach VA,
• ·Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications. Devised, tested, and implemented efficient and cost effective application program solutions. Developed and maintain state tax preparation software, written in C, which was used by over 15,000 Jackson Hewitt franchisee’s employees. Developed a bug tracking system, written in Delphi, for our software analyst’s group.
Education
10/1990 Computer Dynamics Institute, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Vocational
• Micro-computer Specialist
Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, Virginia
• Some College Coursework Completed
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Strayer University, Chesapeake, Virginia
• 2002-2003
Skills
C C# C++ Delphi 1.0 MS Access 2000 MS SQL Server 2000 MS Visual SourceSafe VB Net Visual Build Professional SQL Server 2005 Team Foundation