About Me
I have 10 years technology experience with a focus on the web and Microsoft development platforms such as .NET, ASP.NET, VBScript, SQL Server and more. I am passionate about technology and enjoy helping people and organizations forge towards success.
Objective
To empower businesses, organizations and individuals with the technology they need to be successful and acheive their goals.
Professional Experience
- Lead Software Engineer
- JamBase, Inc; San Francisco, CA
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Oct 2006 - May 2010
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- Developed an incredibly critical internal suite of applications resulting in a 300% increase in concert event listings as my first project.
- Serving as the sole in-house engineer, I was responsible for leading a team of contract developers to rebuild JamBase.com from scratch in ASP.NET 2.0 using C# and SQL Server.
- Fulfilling multiple roles including server administrator, DBA, architect, developer, writer, tester, trainer and manager, I was responsible for the success of many projects and features that are used by nearly one million public users.
- Conceptualized and developed new technologies that automated or streamlined time consuming processes, many of which were built without direction in my free time.
- Located and managed multiple offshore developers and development teams to successfully build and launch several products.
- Improved and enforced better software development practices including design, specifications, deployment, maintenance, source control, testing and proven software patterns.
- Designed, architected and built a full-text search index using Lucene.NET, a popular open source search framework, to allow for searching artists, venues, locations, festivals, articles, users and more.
- Architected, designed, built and maintained a full ticketing integration that included several 3rd party API’s such as Ticketmaster, Live Nation, TicketsNow plus nearly a dozen more.
- Lead Technology Developer
- Better World Books; San Francisco, CA
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Nov 2004 - Oct 2006
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- Server maintenance
- Ensure that the 15+ GB database is fully functional, data integrity intact, backup schedules in place, scheduled jobs running successfully, data warehouses compiling information correctly, queries are optimized and more.
- Preserve our multiple domain email system using MailEnable. Create and deploy new mailboxes, listserv’s and online web mail access.
- Maintain internal and external DNS and server services such as SQL Agent, indexing, search and full-text catalogs.
- Web Development
- Develop and maintain several dynamic database driven websites including the eCommerce bookstore, internal and external reporting sites, customized UPS portal and more using ASP.NET, X/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, MSSQL Server, web services and SalesForce.com.
- Internal Troubleshooting and Support
- Support and troubleshoot employee computer issues remotely via GoToAssist and other technologies. With a business as 'virtual' as ours, providing support was an issue for the company until I was brought on in November of 2004.
- Development Project Manager
- CreditSoup, Inc.; Madison, SD
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June 2000 - Oct 2004
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- Web Design and Programming
- Design, develop and maintain dynamic database driven websites using Active Server Pages, ASP.NET and MSSQL Server tools (stored procedures, DTS packages and triggers) as well as HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript.
- Sustain professional business relationship with clients to keep information accurate and up to date.
- Creative Director
- Train and manage all company graphic design employees.
- Supervise and organize corporate wide incoming and outgoing creatives (banners, emails, interstitials) for quality assurance.
- Proficiently design creatives (banners, emails, pop ups, splash pages) using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady.
- Project Manager
- Serve on the hiring committee to review resumes and interview potential employees.
- Interact closely with project designers, developers and programmers to deliver the highest quality products and web sites in the industry.
- Analyze and evaluate site usability and customer experience to provide a more intuitive user experience.
- Interact with web hosting clients to enhance, maintain and troubleshoot clients’ web and email hosting services.
- Coordinate with new clients to layout project scope, goals, usability, maintenance schedules, site design and functionality such as content management and reporting.
- Web Developer / Programmer
- Dakoa State University: Digital Dakota Network; Madison, SD
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Sept 1998 - June 2000
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- Assist with development and implementation of the Digital Dakota Network, a statewide government project to connect all K-12 schools and provide them with web space and email accounts.
- Authored a statewide technical manual for guiding users through the following processes on the Citrix Email Client: installation, configuration, logging on and checking email.
Education
- Dakota State University
- Madison, SD
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1998 - 2002
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- Cumulative GPA: 3.12 on a 4.0 scale
- Academic Honors List, (3.5 or above) for three semesters
- SHAPE / FNL Scholarship, 2001 - 2002
- Sarah-n-Dippity Music Scholarship, 1998
- Jan Linde Memorial Scholarship, 1998
- DSU Kingsman Music Scholarship, 1998-2000
- Custer High School
- Custer, SD
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1994 - 1998
Certifications and Continued Education
- Certified SCRUM Master
- Training course from Danube Technologies, 2008
- Leadership Course Graduate
- Madison South Dakota Chamber of Commerce Leadership, 2004
- Designing Attention Grabbing Brochures and Advertisements
- Training Certification, 2001
- Mastering Adobe Photoshop
- Training Certification, 2000