Bill Needels

Current

• Sr. Business Applications Developer at Administaff

Past

• Software Engineer at Inspectorate America
• Senior Software Developer at No Limit Systems
• Senior Software Developer at Tekworks, Inc.

• Lead Software Engineer at DecisionOne

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Education

• Texas A&M University
• Stephen F. Austin State University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Bill Needels’s Summary

Bill Needels’s Specialties:

full SDLC to include: requirements development, analysis and design, Test Driven Development, deployment and test procedures, end user support; can talk to humans. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .Net 2.0 Web Development.

Bill Needels’s Experience

• Sr. Business Applications Developer

  Administaff

  (Public Company; ASF; Human Resources industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Developer in the Employee Service Center group. Working in ASP.Net using VB.Net, some C#, SQL Server, XML/XSLT, PDFKit.Net, Web Services and some WCF, LINQ. Recent projects included proof of concept work on SAML and implementation of a library to fill PDFs and use PDFs as the UI for forms entry over the web.

• Software Engineer

  Inspectorate America

  (Privately Held; Accounting industry)

  July 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 3 months)

  Full SDLC web applications development in Visual Studio 6, .Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0 technologies, plus ActiveReports. Major claim to fame was developing, maintaining and enhancing a web-based invoicing application used by all of the U.S. offices at one point, plus offices in the Caribbean. Fielded in 2002, this invoice app is still used by the majority of U.S. offices as of late 2009 (three years after I left the company).

• Senior Software Developer

  No Limit Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Team lead in a modified eXtreme Programming environment, producing custom tax preparation software in Visual C++.

• Senior Software Developer

  Tekworks, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 1999 — February 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Contract work in Visual C++ for Microsoft and other customers. On-campus contract testing work for Microsoft. Performed R&D work on rendering data in MSXML beta for IE 4 using DHTML, XML and XSL. Supporting role in work on proprietary web development framework, writing API documentation and the installer.

• Lead Software Engineer

  DecisionOne

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Bill Needels’s Education

• Texas A&M University

  MCS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1992

• Stephen F. Austin State University

  BS , Computer Science , 1988 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Additional Information

Bill Needels’s Interests:

Game software development, web development, reading, running, minor home improvements

Bill Needels’s Groups:

•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
•    Microsoft Certified Professional Network

Bill Needels’s Contact Settings

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• reference requests
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