Owner, Infinity Enterprise Solutions
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Consultant - Software Development at Global Payments
- Owner - Software Development Consultant at Infinity Enterprise Solutions
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- Employee - Software Development at Orasi Software
- Consultant - Software Development at Global Payments
- Consultant - Software Development at IT Age Corporation
- Employee - Software Architect at I-Media
- Employee - QA Analyst, Junior Programmer at Goldleaf Technologies
- Employee - Webmaster, Technical Support at DSS Online
- Education
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- Valdosta State University
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Chris Ames’s Summary
I love all aspects of the SDLC. From vision-casting and requirements gathering to spit, polish, and deploy to production. Documentation doesn't scare me and neither does getting my hands dirty in the code.
Chris Ames’s Specialties:
Microsoft .Net, C#, Asp.net, SQL Server, Visio, Visual Studio, technical documentation, requirements harvesting. Minor work with: Silverlight, XAML, BizTalk.
Chris Ames’s Experience
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Consultant - Software Development
Global Payments
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
Worked daily in all aspects of the SDLC as development team lead, architect, and senior programmer.
Migrated large scale, enterprise web app from Classic ASP/VB6/COM+ to ASP.net 3.5.
Maintained and enhanced ASP.net and C#.net web applications actively used in a production environment.
Worked with product owners to evaluate requirements, based on federal regulations and credit card industry standards, to assess and document impact to existing mission-critical applications.
Wrote technical design documents for .Net 2.0 and BizTalk 2006 solutions based on requirement documents.
Part of a team that implemented a comprehensive .Net 2.0 and BizTalk solution to receive and queue data from various internal systems via UI, flat file, and web services, to send queued data in cycles via flat file to Discover Card, and to reconcile all queued data responses upon receipt of a single end-of-day flat file.
Facilitated meetings with product managers and developers to find common ground and establish end user requirements.
Assisted in prototyping new projects for feasibility in .Net 3.5.
Took ownership of the build, deployment, and release process for mission critical applications.
Migrated several existing web apps from .Net 1.0 and 1.1 to .Net 2.0.
Upgraded existing C#.net 1.1 application to .Net 2.0, bringing it into compliance with a new American Express web service. -
Owner - Software Development Consultant
Infinity Enterprise Solutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Co-owner with Todd Erickson.
Responsible for business administration, sales proposals, statement of work generation, software architecture and development consultation.
Converted an existing Flash website to Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 (http://www.vsrnet.com). -
Employee - Software Development
Orasi Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years )
Part of a team that designed and implemented IdeaScope.com, a web-based customer feedback management application written on Microsoft's .Net 1.1 framework.
Key member of the product design team responsible for collaborating on all product features.
Designed screen mock-ups of proposed features in order to evaluate feasibility and customer impact, in an effort to enlist inter-departmental support before any code was written.
Executed the build and deployment process from development to QA and every major system version upgrade from QA to the live production servers.
Critical review of customer experience across almost 3 versions of a growing software application.
Senior .Net developer responsible for daily design and implementation of application code using VB.net, ASP.net, XML, Sql Server 2000, SQL, Web Services, and Photoshop. -
Consultant - Software Development
Global Payments
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
On a large team I was responsible for various parts of gathering requirements, writing functional and technical designs, and programming/implementation of an enterprise level Windows DNA system to automate the enrollment of new merchant accounts with the major credit card acquirers (Visa, MC, Discover, AmEx).
Implemented workflow-based GUI infrastructure to drive users through the system, dynamically selecting the "next page" based on the user's company, department, permissions, and previously entered data.
Designed and Implemented a messaging server responsible for polling an external system via DCOM and XML for changes to order shipping information, determining if any changes to the order and shipping information has occurred, and sending notification emails to the appropriate sales representatives.
Designed and implemented a dynamic GUI filtering system to allow end-users to create on-the-fly and predefined filters to easily sort through paginated search results. -
Consultant - Software Development
IT Age Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Implemented a C# .net web service which was responsible for sending and receiving order information between a sales client written in Java, and an offsite Oracle database which contained order fulfillment data. It included an audit logging feature which could be enabled to collect historical data about service requests.
Worked on various Web 1.0 e-commerce websites. Extended base functionality of Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition. Extended the Commerce Server Site Manager to support customization to Site Server for usability. Created new Site Server Pipeline for the purchasing of Gift Certificates via the web.
Integrated existing Commerce Server B2C sites with third party system to share lead and order activity data based on launch of major Internet marketing campaign. Core functionality involved COM components, Site Server Micropipes, SMTP and CDONTS.
Developed interfaces and XML-enabled classes in VB 6.0 and COM for web-based HR application service provider. -
Employee - Software Architect
I-Media
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
System architect and lead developer. Provided all corporate technical direction rooted in Microsoft technologies such as Classic ASP, VB6, SQL Server 7.
Object oriented design and implementation of a retail Point of Sale system. Architecture required a core set of business rules to be re-used within multiple deployment environments such as CD, standalone PC (kiosk), and the Internet.
Architected and developed a reusable template for multiple websites utilizing similar technologies and formats. Architecture consisted of reusable ASP scripts, COM objects, and database schemas.
Website development and graphic design.
Acting development manager for 3 months. -
Employee - QA Analyst, Junior Programmer
Goldleaf Technologies
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Maintained and developed ActiveX Components (Servers) with Visual Basic 5.0.
Internal development QA. Expedited the quality checking process to meet product release goals for IVR system.
Designed themes for internet/intranet banking UIs.
Developed in-house code monitoring utility to provide statistical project data.
Debugged existing ASP code to bring web applications into compliance with IE4 and Netscape 4.
Researched web interface security solutions including soft and hard tokens, biometrics, SSL, MS Certificate Server, and smart card modules.
Prototyped administration interface for internet banking application.
Developed internet banking customized theme methodology.
Responsible for quality assurance and stress testing of financial software on the WinNT and SQL Server platforms.
Developed in-house web use-case testing.
Trained internal employees, focusing on and including IIS 3.0, SQL Server 6.5, Windows NT 4.0, and QA testing methods. -
Employee - Webmaster, Technical Support
DSS Online
(Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years )
Designed and maintained the corporate web presence, as well as departmental Intranet.
Designed and implemented various web 1.0 brochure-ware web sites for local businesses.
Internal training of a technical support staff.
Third-level support for Internet access related issues.
Chris Ames’s Education
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Valdosta State University
1993 — 1998
