Experienced, highly skilled custom application developer who has successfully designed and developed a number of strategic enterprise applications as well as 2D and 3D games. Background includes extensive use of Microsoft .Net (and ALT.NET) development tools as well as UNIX, most recently including C#, ASP.NET 3.5 (with AJAX and JSON), SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10i, XML Web Services (ASMX and WCF). Projects include the development of Windows clients (WinForms and WPF), web applications and high-performance C++ UNIX processes for major organizations such as the Department of Defense, Continental Airlines, AMD and the University of Texas system.

• Fanatical about unit tests; cannot work comfortably without them.
  

• Passion to provide maximally effective solutions with minimal code and project impact.
  

• Enthusiastic in pacing with new technologies
  

• Maintains a track record of success in diverse professional environments.
  

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Platforms
DOS, Win 3.1, Win NT, *NIX, Web, Citrix, Win9x, Mac, OS/X, PalmOS
Relational Database (RDBMS)
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, Pervasive.SQL, MySQL, FOCUS, BTrieve API
Application types
Windows Client (WinForms and WPF), Windows Service, Database Engine, Device Driver, ASP.Net, ASP.Net 2.0, Flash, Web Service, Console, DirectX
Frameworks/Technologies
DDE, DirectX, ActiveX, Win32 API, WinForms, MFC, Oracle AQ, Oracle OCI, Multi-threading (POSIX/Win32/.Net), Enterprise Library, DHTML, AJAX, Inter-process communication, ASP.Net AJAX (going back to "Atlas"), JSON, CppUnit, NUnit, Test Driven Development (TDD), XML, Serialization (C++, .Net binary and XML serialization), TCP/IP (sockets), ADO.Net, .Net Framework, Google Earth, Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS), Triggers, stored procedures, UML
Design patterns used on a daily basis on at least one project
Design patterns (GOF), State, Memento, Singleton, Mediator, Iterator, Adapter, Template method, Observer, Facade, Factory Method, Concrete Factory, Abstract Factory, Strategy, Decorator, Composite, Command, Visitor, Dependency Injection, MVC, Model View Presenter, MVVM
Industries
Defense, Financial/Banking, Telecom, Database, Automotive, Airline, Oil, PC Game
Tools
NUnit, NCover, NDepend, NAnt, Resharper, Unity, DevExpress, FXCop, TOAD, Visual, Studio 2008 (and 2010 for fun), Visual Source Safe, PVCS, Rational Suite, Photoshop, Make
Methodologies/Styles
Object Oriented (OO), Test Driven, Functional, Code-generation, Extreme programming (subset), Pair-programming, RAD, Performance profiling, Template meta-programming, Formal QA
Languages
C#, F#, ANSI C/C++, JavaScript, Assembly, Regular expressions, Turbo Pascal, SQL, DOS Batch, ActionScript, Lua, OCaml, LISP (Scheme), Haskell, Delphi, C
Architectures
Client-server, Message passing, N-Tier (Multi-Tier), Service-Oriented (SoA)

Overwatch provides defense industry software. The department I assisted provided a reusable framework employed by a majority of the company's many programs for customers I am told I cannot disclose publicly. You'll just have to call me to find out what I can disclose.
Smart client
Took over leadership of development (80% coding time) of a large, reusable application suite. Performed advanced control implementation on a Windows Smart Client (WinForms and WPF) using C# and .Net 2.0 - .Net 3.5. Specifically relied on MVVM pattern (and data-binding) to minimize code, ensure edge-case coverage and maximize testability.
Tools included Visual Studio 2008, NUnit, NCover, NDepend, NAnt, Resharper, Test Driven .Net, Unity
Web client
Led design and implementation (90% coding time) of a data-centric web application. Design consists of a series of .Net 3.0 WCF web services and modular ASP.Net AJAX web client to consume them. NUnit-based unit and integration test suite accompanies.
ASP.Net application consists of modular Web Parts for maximum user customization and future expandability. Used model-view-presenter approach to keep as much of the UI as testable as possible and preserve separation of concerns.
Implementation process involved writing design documents, coding test-first using Rhino.Mocks and dependency-injection for independent unit-testability.
Innovation
Also won cash prize from an innovation challenge. Brought full internet search capability for data previously accessible only via large Windows Client installation. Data formatted to be highly compatible with Excel for easy number crunching and visualization.
Technologies were C#, ASP.Net 2.0 and Windows Communication Foundation. Designed using TDD, Rhino.Mocks, NUnit.

University of Texas at Austin
Received grant from the University to process citations from all sources into a human-collaborative wiki format. This will allow people to see what works reference a particular work as well as allow academics to comment on the relative strength of the source. Leveraging a cloud approach to scale to the untold size we'll need to essentially process every literary and academic work done by humans. Technologies include F#, C#, Perl, MySQL, and NUnit as usual.
Project Euler
Completed 25 Project Euler problems in F# because I love F#, I love solving challenging problems and I couldn't stop solving the problems until I had the little pyramid by my name. For unit testing I employed xUnit (rather than my usual NUnit) to give it a spin.
Tower Defense Game
Worked with my friends at Powerhouse Animation to create this tower defense game for fun and hopefully profit (result: fun, but no profit). The game has been played more than 250,000 times, which remains fun. Technology was Flash, ActionScript 2.0.
jQuery
jQuery was so interesting to me I made a little bookmarklet to extract the hilarious (to me) pictures from Fark.com to learn it. Also learned about greasemonkey and FireBug in the bargain.
Processing programming language
3D graphics toy projects. Picked up Processing, a Java-based 3D library for fun and profit. Profit? OK, profit was never a consideration; just fun. Refreshed 3D knowledge and made a few little toys from star fields to n-body simulations to fun with springs. Since there was no debugger at all, I created a very simple unit test framework to help me out.
Google Maps
Created Google Maps / Google Earth interface to locate daycare centers from a list of addresses. Geocoded addresses and imported into Google Maps and then Google Earth to pinpoint nearest daycare centers. Imported other pertinent data to pop up for each map location.
Baylor College of Medicine
Provided input on modifications to the R statistical programming language required for medical research demands. Assisted in implementation of required modifications to the R compiler written in C.
Academic
Created distributed computing client and server applications to train neural networks in C++ using socket (TCP) communication.