Aaron Reed

Current

• VP, Employer Relations at Neumont University

Past

• Author at O'Reilly & Associates
• Author/Writer at Sys-Con Media
• Development Manager / Development Lead at LocalVoice

• Development Manager / Development Lead at Ingenix
• Sr. Software Engineer / VP of development at Personal Touch Systems

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Aaron Reed’s Summary

Director of Development, Personal Touch Systems
Development Manager, Ingenix
Director of Development, LocalVoice
Associate VP, Employer Relations, Northface University

Aaron Reed’s Specialties:

Software architecure, engineering, development and testing in multiple languages includeding .NET (VB and C#), C++, MFC, Java, VB6, Python, Delphi, SQL, TSQL, XML, XSLT, Sql Server 2000, Oracle, and others.

Aaron Reed’s Experience

• VP, Employer Relations

  Neumont University

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Taught .NET technologies including Windows Applications, ASP.NET, Web Services, Windows Services, XML, ADO.NET, and more. Developed curriculum for .NET courses preparing students for .NET certification. Managed up to 6 other instructors and assisted in curriculum preparation and other matters. Managed an internal development project called Genos which is an extensive and dynamic data driven ASP.NET application using .NET Remoting and web services. Managed up to 12 developers on the Genos project as well as working on it myself.

• Author

  O'Reilly & Associates

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

  Author of Learning XNA 3.0 (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-XNA-3-0-Game-Development/dp/0596521952) book on Video Game Development in XNA. Writing a book was a great experience but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to everybody. (my wife didn't know I was still living at home for most of 2008)

• Author/Writer

  Sys-Con Media

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  I have written a number of articles for DotNet Developer Journal on topics related to development in the .NET world.

• Development Manager / Development Lead

  LocalVoice

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed a team and lead development of conversion of a VB 6 application to a C#/VB.NET framework. Conversion included migration of code, re-evaluation and re-design of software architecture, database architecture and network infrastructure. Extensive management skills used as well as intensive .NET, XSL/XSLT, XML, SQL Server, and VB 6. Projects completed consistently on time or ahead of schedule with results meeting or exceeding expectations.

• Development Manager / Development Lead

  Ingenix

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; UNH; Computer Software industry)

  September 1998 — August 2003 (5 years)

  Supervised and led a team of up to 10 developers working on client-server database application. 5+ years with extensive work on C/C++, MFC, Visual C++, Oracle, ODBC, SQL, ATL. 3 years with experience in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, TCP/IP, and VB. Worked with a large and complex billing system which integrated to other systems. Implemented database driven product using Oracle w/ProC. Developed an abstract 4GL SQL builder. Supervised all GUI development as well as web-based development. Worked extensively with design team to design screens, business logic as well as database design. Helped develop SDLC.

• Sr. Software Engineer / VP of development

  Personal Touch Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 3 months)

  Led development of ProfitMaker™ software. Oversaw the design and implementation of the system. Developed the application using MFC, ODBC, COM, SQL, ActiveX and Btrieve. Also involved in database layout and design