Andrew Siemer

Current

• Web Operations Manager at Lamps Plus

Past

• Principal Architect/Engineer at OTX Research
• Author at Packt Publishing
• Software Engineer at Plastic Dress Up (trophy parts manufacturer)

• Software Engineer at Callaway Golf
• Software Engineer at Sound Technologies
• Manager, Business Systems Development at Guidance Software
• Software Engineer at Intermix Media, FOX Interactive
• Senior Web Developer to VP of Operations at Point Vantage
• Owner at Drew's Web Services
• Software Engineer at The Grantsmanship Center
• Software Engineer, DBA at Some Dude's Web Site Design
• Grunt at US ARMY

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Education

• ITT Tech
• Santa Monica College

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Websites

• My Website

Andrew Siemer’s Summary

Since 1998 I have been a software engineer/architect that specializes in database driven web applications primarily focused on social networking and ecommerce platforms. My technology focus has revolved around Microsoft offerings. Currently this equates to ASP.NET, C#, AJAX, and SQL Server.

Andrew Siemer’s Specialties:

I have worked at all levels of this industry: DBA, business analyst, programmer, lead programmer, architect, manager, director, CTO, instructor, author.

Andrew Siemer’s Experience

• Web Operations Manager

  Lamps Plus

  (Privately Held; Retail industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Taking the build and deployment automation to the next level. Implementing continuous integration. Fine tuning the agile process. Automating the QA groups testing capabilities. Introducing new ideas and development techniques such as DDD, TDD, nTier, ASP.NET MVC, etc. Code reviews. Mentoring.

• Principal Architect/Engineer

  OTX Research

  (Privately Held; Market Research industry)

  November 2007 — September 2009 (1 year 11 months)

  Helping to select a team of extremely talented engineers in the newly formed Engineering/R&D department. Setting up a TDD/DDD/CI development environment with all the latest and greatest open source gadgetry (Subversion, CruiseControl.net, StructureMap, NAnt, NUnit, Rhino Mocks, etc.). Building a new "smart router" capable of routing survey respondents intelligently to better the user experience and over all profitability of the system.

• Author

  Packt Publishing

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Author of the book ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking (http://www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-3-5-Social-Networking-Enterprise-ready/dp/1847194788/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225408005&sr=8-1).

• Software Engineer

  Plastic Dress Up (trophy parts manufacturer)

  (Wholesale industry)

  June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Consulting with this company to handle various software projects
  • Searchable product catalog distributed on CD
  • Coupon management web site
  • Webservice that interacts with a zip code search engine (COM object) and returns customers withint a certain radius from the specified zip code

• Software Engineer

  Callaway Golf

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ELY; Sporting Goods industry)

  June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

  Rebuilding the Callaway Connect B2B site which allows Callaway Golf's vendors to purchase goods for their stores.

• Software Engineer

  Sound Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)

  I am part of a team of developers that is tasked with re-writing the acquisition portion of Sound Vet's primary product offering. I was tasked with designing and building the data access layer. This is to consist of a repository on top of two distinct data access technologies, NHibernate and ADO.NET. This app is windows based and will use a SQL Server 2005 backend.

• Manager, Business Systems Development

  Guidance Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; guid; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Originally started consulting with this company as a software engineer to get some internal projects moving along (workflow engine, online training site). About a month into the position I was hired on as the Manager of the Business Systems Development department. This group was responsible for keeping the databases, web sites, and ERP systems running as well as developing any other internal business oriented projects. I managed software engineers, web developers, dba's, business analysts, and tech support staff. I also provided my design and development skills frequently and taught many classes on web development, ASP.NET, C#, OOP, and application architecture.

• Software Engineer

  Intermix Media, FOX Interactive

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

  January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

  Documented existing SNAP (Social Networking Application Platform) applications (American Idol, Fox Sports) to get ready for the next version WEB 2.0 API. Created bounce processing tool for MSN/Hotmail JMR complaint loop back (C#). Worked directly with the CTO and other high level company officers to maximize the effectiveness of targeted email campaigns in order to significantly increase the traffic for Intermix’s many ecommerce and community sites through optimization of their many proprietary mailing applications (Perl, C#, SQL, ColdFusion). Maximized the efficiency of proprietary mailing applications to handle 20-30 million emails sent each day (Perl, C#, ColdFusion). Built an application to keep tabs on the status of all the servers in the mailing farm (C#). Analyzed and documented the entire mailing infrastructure encompassing Boston, San Jose, Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles.

• Senior Web Developer to VP of Operations

  Point Vantage

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

  January 2005 — January 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Initially hired as the Senior Developer over a team of two ASP/C# developers, I was quickly promoted to Director of IT over the IS and IT departments with a staff of 7. Later promoted to the VP of Operations over the IT, IS, QA, and Fulfillment departments. In charge of strategic planning, infrastructure, and development. Selected, placed, subcontracted, and managed programmers, DBAs, network engineers, and other supporting technical staff. Led all development efforts for the Challenger One family of companies (Challenger One, Point Vantage, Color Laboratories, and JDI Technologies). Integrated our e-commerce platform with Great Plains using MS eConnect and C#. Developed the first Customer Loyalty Program to enhance the existing customer relationship and make better use of internal marketing efforts (www.bointz.com). Managed the integration of the Intermix ink brands on to our e-commerce platform (www.allyoucanink.com, www.premiumink.com, www.2for1inkjet.com, etc.).

• Owner

  Drew's Web Services

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — January 2006 (6 years 1 month)

• Software Engineer

  The Grantsmanship Center

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

  June 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  Led an IT team (2 developers) responsible for the daily maintenance of the network (Cisco, IOS, Linksys, Xincom), user’s systems, and servers (mixed Linux and Windows environment) - (mDaemon, Mail Marshall, Active Directory, Bind and Windows DNS, ISA, IIS, SQL Server 7/2000). Also responsible for all systems architectural aspects from design to development programming in various languages (VB, VBA, ASP [vbscript, c#, vb.net], ColdFusion, JavaScript, PERL, CSS, DHTML, SQL, T-SQL, UML) and general site administration for www.tgci.com, www.tgcialumni.com, www.grantdomain.com, www.tgcigrantproposals.com, and the staff and information management portal. Currently rebuilding the company’s web presence with a brandable interface (see www.tgcialumni.com and compare with www.grantdomain.com) and object oriented backend to provide various price structures for new and existing TGCI customers.

• Software Engineer, DBA

  Some Dude's Web Site Design

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2002 — June 2003 (11 months)

  Part of a team of consultants that produce dynamically driven web based data applications as well as many forms of multimedia generally written in Cold Fusion, Flash, or Director. I am usually responsible for the bottom up design and implementation of all databases (SQL Server, Access) as well as back end programming. I have also been responsible for the administration of this company’s web server (IIS, email) as well as other networking & computer issues. The company’s site is www.somedude.com. An example site that was built with them is www.martindalecommercial.com.

• Grunt

  US ARMY

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  July 1994 — July 1998 (4 years 1 month)

  2nd Ranger Battalion, 14th MI LRRS

Andrew Siemer’s Education

• ITT Tech

  2000 — 2002

• Santa Monica College

  AA , Computer Science / General Education , 2009

Additional Information

Andrew Siemer’s Websites:

• My Website

Andrew Siemer’s Interests:

Kids (I am a father of 6 - ages 3-9), computers, technology, programming, application architecture and design, database design, asp.net, C#, SQL, AJAX, XML, animals, making things work

Andrew Siemer’s Groups:

•    eOffice
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    NetSquared
•    LinkedSEO
•    End to End Web Developers

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