Andrew Badera

Andrew Badera

.NET, SharePoint and Web 2.0 API consultant

Albany, New York Area

Current
  • Organizer at Tech Valley Code Camp 2009.1
  • CTO at Change Round-Up
  • President/Owner at Higher Efficiency, Inc.
Past

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Education
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Queensbury HS
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Andrew Badera’s Summary

Since 1996 I have had the pleasure of working with small businesses and international corporations alike, helping them achieve their goals in getting the most out of their technology infrastructure. I've designed and implemented aspects of enterprise systems for major F100 corporations. I also spent over three years as webmaster and technical lead of one of Gannett's larger newspaper websites, seeing 8 million page views and hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month.

I am active in the Tech Valley and New York City technology and startup communities, as well as the global technology community. I participate in various user groups, listservs and well-known technology and news forums, as part of my efforts to keep abreast of the fast moving tech world.

My technical expertise is available on a consulting basis.

Andrew Badera’s Specialties:

Business analysis, mobile devices, cloud computing, C#, Java, Python, PHP, SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), Windows Mobile, WCF, .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, .NET Compact Framework, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ASP.NET, distributed computing, Agile, Google App Engine (GAE), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, social networking and social media, seed funding and venture capital fundraising processes.

Andrew Badera’s Experience

  • Organizer

    Tech Valley Code Camp 2009.1

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

    Working to bring Code Camp back to Tech Valley in coordination with local collegiate fall semesters. Seeking a venue for ~150 attendees. Expecting sessions on Team Foundation Server, C# 3.0/3.5, WCF, SQL Server 2008, IIS 7, Windows Server 2008, and more!

  • CTO

    Change Round-Up

    (Internet industry)

    March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

    Change Round-Up helps raise money for charities by utilizing an enterprise-grade service oriented architecture (SOA) to create a virtual spare change jar for merchants, allowing shopping cart, billing and subscription customers the opportunity to "round up" their purchase amounts, and give the difference to their charity of choice.

    • Role spans technical, managerial and entrepreneurial aspects.
    • Oversaw migrations from .NET 1.1 to 2.0, 2.0 to 3.5. Introduced WS-* and OASIS standards. Introduced cloud computing.
    • Implemented services, service call code blocks and widgets in ASP.NET, C#, WCF, Python, PHP, Ruby
    • Researched, made contact and met with angel, venture capital and conventional investment firms as part of funding process. Participated in investor presentations.
    • Worked with various ecommerce and shopping cart entities to implement the CRU SOA.
    • Researched and implemented general backup and specific business process resumption & disaster mitigation practices.

  • President/Owner

    Higher Efficiency, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    1996 — Present (13 years)

    Higher Efficiency, Inc. solves complex business problems through innovative use of technology. Higher Efficiency, Inc. can help your business develop a comprehensive, web and mobile integrated technology platform, taking cost-effective advantage of the wide range of hardware and software available in today's marketplace.

    Technologies & platforms supported:
    • Microsoft .NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 - C#, ASP.NET
    • Mobile - PDAs/Smartphones, Tablets, Kiosks, Windows Mobile
    • SQL Server 2005, 2008, MySQL 5.x, PostgreSQL, DB2
    • Windows Server 2003, 2008
    • SharePoint/MOSS 2007
    • Java
    • Python
    • PHP, Drupal, PHPNuke
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS - EC2, S3)
    • Google App Engine (GAE)
    • Service Oriented Architectures (SOA; SOAP, REST, WS-*, OASIS)
    • AJAX
    • OAuth, OpenID
    • Facebook API
    • Twitter API
    • Business process management (BPM)
    • Ecommerce

  • Senior Consultant

    Infusion Development

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    November 2008 — May 2009 (7 months)

    Worked to deploy and customize a number of Microsoft-centric enterprise-level product suites and platforms including SharePoint/MOSS 2007, Win32, Office/VSTO and ActiveDirectory (LDAP).

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Davis Vision, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

    September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)

    Integrated third party insurance claims management application with legacy mainframe and .NET remoting systems. Worked to abstract enterprise service architecture away from disparate data and various clients. Worked to improve implementation of best current practices.

    • Helped revive code review process, review and renew team's C# and SQL coding styles/standards.
    • Worked to implement Test Driven Development (TDD) in C#.
    • Worked to introduce and educate about Scrum and Agile.
    • Introduced a PHP wiki to aggregate and share knowledge.
    • Began “Lunch.NET,” a lunch-time get-together of .NET development groups and testing, release and other groups the .NET team interacts with. This helps promote a culture of community, and aids to build the team.
    • Mentored transitional mainframe programmers, new hires and junior developers.
    • Interviewed candidates for development, DBA and QA roles.
    • Maintained and extended enterprise ASP.NET and C# web and remoting service architecture (SOA).

  • Organizer

    Tech Valley Code Camp 2008.1

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2008 — April 2008 (1 month)

    With the participation of members of Tech Valley .NET User's Group (TVUG), and a number of local and national sponsors, brought Microsoft Code Camp to Tech Valley. Camp had 60 attendees, with 12 sessions covering topics from WCF to XNA, from Windows Workflow to unit testing and mocks, in both C# and VB.NET.

  • .NET Software Engineering Consultant

    Xerox

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)

    As part of Xerox Global Services' Software Development Initiative, performed requirements analysis, system design and implementation of a SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET, C# (.NET 2.0) sales cycle time reduction application, with projected cost savings on the order of millions of dollars annually, and time reduction on the order of months per lead/sale turnaround. Development took place adhering to the Scrum development methodology.

  • Webmaster/Technical Lead

    Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (Gannett Co., Inc.)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GCI; Newspapers industry)

    November 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 2 months)

    Worked at a Gannett newspaper providing technical and administrative services, and insight on a variety of processes involved in both print and online publishing. Initially role consisted of technical ColdFusion, ASP, QuarkXTensions, MySQL, XML and SQL Server work to support CMS for majority of newspaper and Insider 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 online classified advertising and obituaries system, AccuWeather weather pages, AP news, Cars.com, Apartments.com and others. Role included oversight, training and support of personnel, both internal and extra-departmental, in the use of various publishing and content tools.

    • Migrated from ASP3.0 to ASP.NET using VB.NET and C#.
    • Migrated from Access 2000 to SQL Server 2000
    • Used XML to transport data between editing, staging and production environments.

  • IT/IS Administrator

    Northern Air Technology

    (Machinery industry)

    October 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 2 months)

    Originally hired as consultant to produce company’s wireless-integrated web application and presence, role grew to fulltime, on-site. Administered and supported the company’s 35 employees and 15+ computers, with one direct report. Large part of time was spent working with out-of-state providers of custom software and hardware interfaces used to control shop tools, and with wireless vendor. Technologies and applications utilized include Java, MS SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, PHP, Access, QuickBooks, Excel, SQL, ASP, C#.

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    netsmartz, LLC

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 1 month)

    Originally a three month subcontract to work on a large circuit (OC3, DS9, etc.) order and disconnect sales and reporting system for Global Crossing, Inc., extended into a year-long position. Other projects included a web-based DB management interface, a Macromedia Flash "Generator" online proposal generator, and general ecommerce. Technologies utilized included VB6, VB COM, T-SQL, Windows NT4/2000, SQL Server 7/2000, and ASP.

  • Web Training/Multimedia Analyst

    Xerox

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Services industry)

    April 2000 — October 2000 (7 months)

    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 as part of digitizing existing archives and producing new training and corporate relations/internal broadcast/webcast content. Carried out JavaScript, HTML and VB6 work to produce assessment tests for new technicians.

  • Web Engineer

    Meridian Technology Group

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1999 — April 2000 (9 months)

    Web developer producing ecommerce, print-on-demand and ”paperless” office applications for clients in a variety of industries. Utilized ASP, VB6, VB COM, Access and SQL Server 7.

  • Extrusion Technician

    Precision Extrusion

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

    1994 — 1997 (3 years)

    Performed manufacturing and QA duties at a medical device manufacturer. Visually examined high-precision multi-lumen plastic extrusions and braided material for defects. Performed QA analysis with pin gauges, calipers, roll gauges, video microscopes. Introduced spreadsheets to replace lengthy, error-prone, hard-to-audit scientific calculator processes for statistical QA calculations. Reduced error rates and turnaround times significantly.

Andrew Badera’s Education

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

    AAS , Information Technology , 1997 — 2006

    Attended RIT part-time while working in the field.

    Activities and Societies:
    Reporter Magazine

  • Queensbury HS

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Andrew Badera’s Interests:

Car performance modifications, timed driving events (rally, autocross, 1/4 mile track, etc.), sci fi (books, TV, movie, games), Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PCs, Smartphones)

Andrew Badera’s Honors:

Microsoft MVP nominee (2007) -- Device Application Development

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