Work Summary

Andrew M. Badera

Unlisted

Latham, NY

(518)641-1420

andrew@badera.us

 

 

 

Work Summary

Since 1996, occupied various roles in website, web application, mobile device application, database-driven and multimedia-oriented n-tiered software design and development projects.

 

Technical Proficiencies

Language: C#, VB.Net, classic ASP (3.0), VBScript, JavaScript, VB6, ADO/ADO.Net, SQL

DB: MS SQL 7/2000/2005

OS: Windows 3.x/95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, DOS 3.x-6.x

Application: MS Visual Studio, MS Visual Source Safe, SourceGear Vault, IIS4/5/6/7, MS Visio, MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager/Management Studio, MS SQL Server Query Analyzer, RedGate SQL Suite, MS SQL Server Profiler, .NET Memory Profiler, DBGhost, NAnt, nMock, NCover, CruiseControl.NET, NUnit

 

Professional History

September 2006-present Senior Software Engineer

Davis Vision www.davisvision.com

Consulted for seven months before accepting fulltime role. Working to integrate a third party insurance claims management application with legacy systems, and to adapt the software to Davis Vision business rules. Working to abstract service architecture away from disparate underlying data sources and overlaying clients, in part against a data model that is still evolving.

·         Worked to transition company from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0.

·         Worked to implement Test Driven Development environment with NUnit/nMock/NCover.

·         Introduced a wiki to aggregate and share knowledge.

·         Transitioned the development team from NDoc to Sandcastle.

·         Helped revive code review process, review and renew team coding styles/standards.

·         Mentor two mainframe programmers, new hires and a junior .Net developer.

·         Working to introduce and ingrain agile development practices in team behaviors.

·         Built a Continuous Integration server in order to allow regular integration, builds and automated testing of various high-profile, mission-critical projects. System maintains and makes accessible statistics and metrics for reporting.

 

1996-present President/CEO

Higher Efficiency Solutions, Inc.

·         Spring 2007: Signed on with Change Round-Up (www.changeroundup.com) to assume development and maintenance duties on .Net 1.1/SQL Server 2000 website and XML service API. Migrated the company to a new web host and database server. Migrated the codebase to .Net 2.0 and data source to SQL Server 2005. Worked to implement source control, documentation, and bug reporting/defect tracking/project management practices.

·         Fall 2006: Subcontracted to provide a .Net 2.0 order import, processing and export application against DB2 for DHL and HP.

·         Fall 2006, Spring 2007: Provided application development services to a website developer.

·         Spring 2006: Subcontracted to provide SQL Server 2000 and .Net 1.1 services to a large Florida condominium development corporation.

·         Winter 2005/spring 2006: Consulted to research, design and develop a C# Windows Mobile 5.0 IP-based mobile camera for a cellular security startup partnered with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Cingular and Pictometry International Corp.

·         Winter 2005/spring 2006: Consulted to build a brand and interactive PHP-based web presence for a RoHS-compliant printed circuit board (PCB) designer startup.

·         Summer/fall 2005: Subcontracted to consult for a major online retailer of action figures and TV/movie toys based in Los Angeles. Project involved migration of a non-normalized 10,000+ user 5,500+ product database from a homegrown/self-hosted JSP/MySQL solution to a commercial AbleCommerce/ASP.Net hosted ecommerce platform.


February 2006-September 2006 .Net Software Engineering Consultant

Xerox Corporation www.xerox.com

As part of Xerox�s Software Development Infrastructure (SDI) XOS Global Services group, was responsible for feature-based development of multiple .Net 2.0/SQL Server 2005 applications in an agile (Scrum) environment. Member of a group of teams working on a Cycle Time Reduction strategy taking advantage of relational data structures, and performance features of .Net 2.0; reduction was on the order of months, cost savings on the order of millions of dollars.

 

November 2002-December 2005 Technical Lead/Webmaster

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle www.democratandchronicle.com

Worked at a Gannett newspaper as part of the New Media department providing support for a variety of processes involved in both print and online publishing. Initially role consisted of ColdFusion, ASP, Quark XTensions, XML and SQL work to support content management for majority of newspaper website content, as well as to produce press-friendly content for print publishing of specialty and weekly publications. Role grew to include managing several affiliate content and/or cobranded products, including AccuWeather weather pages, AP news, Cars.com, Apartments.com and others.

·         Migrated ASP codebase to ASP.Net.

·         Produced business resumption/disaster mitigation procedures and documentation.

·         Worked with personnel at various local colleges and universities in order to pull campus event data into events system via RSS.

 

October 2001-November 2002 Consulting IT/IS Administrator

Northern Air Systems, Inc. www.northernairtech.com

Originally hired as consultant to produce company�s wireless-integrated web application and presence, role grew to fulltime. Administered and supported the company�s 35 employees and 15+ computers, with one direct report.

 

October 2000-October 2001 Software Engineering Consultant

netsmartz, LLC

Originally a three month subcontract to work on an ASP and SQL Server-driven sales and reporting system for Global Crossing, Inc., extended into year-long position.

 

April 2000-October 2000 Consulting Web/Multimedia Training Analyst

Xerox Corporation

Provided web development and scripting support to the East Coast Operations publishing division. Provided Flash scripting support to multimedia designers, provided Jscript scripting of ASF media to TV/film production crew.

 

August 1999-April 2000 Web Engineer

Meridian Technology Group, Inc.

Web and database developer producing ASP-driven ecommerce, print-on-demand and �paperless� office applications for clients in a variety of industries.

 

May 1999-August 1999 Co-op Web Developer

Adirondack Technologies, Inc.

Co-op web developer � entry-level HTML, ColdFusion, ASP, Photoshop role.

 

 

Education

Member

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

IEEE

A.A.S., Information Technology, May 2006

Tech Valley .Net Users Group

 

Microsoft MVP Nominee 2007 - Visual Developer - Device Application Development

 


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