Chuck Player

Current

• Application Developer at Bank of America

Past

• SCM Team Lead at EquiFirst
• Build Manager at Access CoverageCorp
• Senior Consultant at Titan Technology Partners

• Consultant at PRIMA Consulting

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Education

• Winthrop University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Chuck Player’s Summary

I am a skilled team leader and application developer with over ten years of experience in software development. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated excellent problem solving skills and an ability for rapidly learning new technologies, programming languages, and development methodologies. I am looking for a position that will challenge me and allow me to continue to improve myself with a fun, close-knit group of professionals.

Chuck Player’s Specialties:

• Software Development Technical Analysis and Strategic Planning
• Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies
• Business Value Analysis and Strategic Planning
• Project oversight and estimating.
• Requirements development and management.
• User Interface Design.
• Software Configuration and Deployment.

Chuck Player’s Experience

• Application Developer

  Bank of America

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

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  • Release Engineer for StarTeam source control environment.
  • Designed UI utilizing ASP.NET 3.5 MasterPage for new web application.
  • Developed ASP.NET application that allowed users to search for loans, create new loans, and upload loan documents using Aspose’s tools for PDF generation and manipulation.
  • Troubleshooting and refactoring of existing VB scripts to generate documents for various accounting systems.

• SCM Team Lead

  EquiFirst

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 10 months)

  • Supported .NET 3.5 WinForms Tax processing application (including C# code changes, Stored Procedure editing, data manipulation, and debugging).
  • Developed ASP.NET application for tracking report modification requests for the MIS team.
  • Developed ASP.NET application for uploading output from various systems to a centralized database via DTS packages.
  • As build manager, duties included troubleshooting compile issues for the various ASP.NET applications.
  • Key participant in major software acquisition. Responsibilities included technology evaluation and hardware planning.
  • Identified, documented, and implemented patterns for SCM process improvement.
  • In charge of SCM tool evaluation and deployment, process automation, and process improvement.
  • Reduced number of unnecessary migrations.
  • Key member of Software Change Control Board.
  • Key team member for planning software migration to .NET framework 2.0 and Windows Server 2003.

• Build Manager

  Access CoverageCorp

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — June 2005 (4 years 4 months)

  • Managed all support for two legacy ASP applications. Activities included debugging and correcting ASP code, VB 6 COM+ objects, and Stored Procedures.
  • Team lead for defining and coding the UI layer for the web application during the ASP to ASP.NET conversion.
  • Automated key elements of the build process to reduce build time and improve application reliability.
  • Streamlined the source control environment (StarTeam) to reduce conflicts and improve organization.
  • Worked closely with the QA manager to establish a process for tracking defects and change requests that resulted in major reductions in time to resolution.
  • Redesigned the UI to improve the user experience and reduce time required to complete a transaction.
  • Redesigned the marketing site to accurately reflect the business offerings of Access CoverageCorp.

• Senior Consultant

  Titan Technology Partners

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  • Senior Lotus Notes developer with experience creating custom solutions including:
  o Sales Force Automation
  o Web enabled Lotus Notes applications
  o New employee equipment requisition application
  o Project tracking application
  • Web UI developer for shipping and logistics application
  • Web UI developer for investment group marketing site utilizing Flash
  • Development lead for custom Content Management System

• Consultant

  PRIMA Consulting

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 3 months)

  • Project lead for Lotus Notes custom application development. Applications developed include:
  o Sales Force Automation
  o Time Tracking
  o Change Management
  o Defect Tracking
  o Order Tracking
  o Expense Tracking
  o New employee equipment requisition
  • Lotus Notes development team member. Applications include:
  o Sales Force Automation
  o Change Management
  o Expense Tracking

Chuck Player’s Education

• Winthrop University

  BFA , Graphic Design , 1989 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Sigma
  Resident Assistant