Darren Bowen

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WFC; Banking industry

January 2010 – January 2011 (1 year 1 month) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Analyze and reverse engineer the current software design and architecture for broker licensing workflow in retirement technology services that is Microsoft Classic ASP, VB Script, Javascript and CSS with Oracle 10g backend. Full SDLC, Agile development method, architect and develop a new version of the original requirements and functionally using Microsoft C#.NET, ASP.NET, 3.5 Framework, Javascript, CSS, retaining the original Oracle backend database schema and to optimize the new application with a new security model and branding using the enterprise security and branding frameworks.

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry

May 2009 – September 2009 (5 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsibility for the migration of SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 for The US Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Stability (TARP); a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions in order to strengthen its financial sector. It is the largest component of the government's measures in 2008 to address the subprime mortgage crisis.

My role on the team was to provide the design and administration of the security model using Microsoft Active Directory allowing user level security in MOSS 07, implementing the site branding, design, usability, utilizing SharePoint themes, master pages and CSS; using the SharePoint feature mechanism for deployment of the branding solution and the development and migration of new and existing InfoPath 07 forms from Sharepoint 2003 into MOSS 2007 where various data integration approaches were used such as XML, SharePoint Lists and Web Services.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

May 2008 – April 2009 (1 year) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

AvidXchange uses the Agile development method with Rally software to manage the development processes. This role had strong use of SQL Server 2005, Reporting Services 2005/08 and C#.NET 2005/08. I worked closely with client implementation specialists and gathered client requirements to ensure particular business rules were respected for some diverse account system configurations. I would also develop and deploy the C# DLL interfaces to provide common files formats such as CSV, XML, DBF and TXT for EDI from the AvidXchange data warehouse into common accounting systems such as MRI, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains). In some instances custom XSLT transformations were created for simple business process exports using Mapforce.

SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 was used exclusively to create or enhance custom reporting solutions for clients. Efforts were initiated to enhanced previously designed reports to make them more robust by embracing the use of SQL Server Stored Procedures and/or Views within the report. In some rare cases reports were designed with the objective to provide quick EDI solutions to extract data into clients accounting systems. 

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Maritime industry

May 2007 – March 2008 (11 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsibility was held for a variety of projects and roles ranging from requirement gathering with the client to architectural design and development including production deployment and ongoing maintenance.

Projects included web-based and mobile applications that were built on various .NET frameworks and provided the APMT Shipping Terminals software tools for the daily management of health and safety, container management, payroll, cargo operations and electronic vendor  invoicing.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry

December 2005 – May 2007 (1 year 6 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Developed in part and continue to supported a web-based Bank back office application providing clients additional account management tools, trade transaction and commission management using SQL Reporting Services for executive reporting.

I also developed a commission reconciliation tool using VB.NET 2005 and SQL 2000 that allows automatic and manual reconciliation of representative commission payments to trades. This provided a more efficient manner to apply monthly payments to accounts and reduce the manpower used in current manual process.

Additionally I was charged with developing and enhancing several internal utility applications and introduced the Microsoft One Click technology for deploying desktop applications real-time over the network/internet.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WFC; Banking industry

May 2005 – December 2005 (8 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Supported data management processes to extract data from internal CIB systems using TSQL, stored procedures, and data transformation services (DTS) to load the data into the FACS data warehouse.

While working with the FACS group I provided system analysis and process workarounds to overcome original architectural complexities and inaccuracies in existing stored procedures that supported the product hierarchy processing events for CIB systems such as Phase3, Calypso, and OPICS.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

March 2004 – May 2005 (1 year 3 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Operating in an entrepreneurial environment, I was responsible for maintaining a wide range of customers by providing support for the Microsoft Business Solution product base. This involved generating proposals for business process improvement and providing cost estimates for such projects as the customization of Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains), Microsoft Business Portal and the creation of unique web based applications that interface with the customers back office systems.

Customized development of Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) accounting modules using C#.net, VB.Net, GP Dexterity and customizing SQL Server database tables to support the clients implementation of the product; installation, configuration, and customization of Sharepoint (Business Portal) that was integrated into Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)

Depending on the scale of the project, a team consisting of project management, Great Plains consultants, installation consultants and developers were deployed; however, with small projects I would manage the entire process myself.

The technologies used to accomplish client requirements were diverse and technically challenging with complex solutions to obtain a customer’s ultimate vision.

June 2002 – March 2004 (1 year 10 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Partner / Component Based Pricing Site
The partner site supported the remarketing side of the business and provided support to external partners. The site was developed to provide real-time bidding on products, utilized the FedEx API to monitor and track products that have been dispatched, that were in transit or delivered, and provided the partner an inspection and approval process to accept the products. A backend account management tool and functionality was also provided.

Commercial B2C and B2B Site
A highly complex and customizable B2B, B2C suite of tools designed to create dynamic and brand aware web sites for business partners. It was built with an integrated promotion engine and product catalogue system that supported dynamic promotion controls supporting dynamic and diverse product lines enabling cross sell and up sell support via various channels such as eBay and Yahoo! Auctions.

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry

April 2002 – June 2002 (3 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area

Classified project supporting and developing portal components using Plumtree Portal technologies.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; DUK; Utilities industry

August 2001 – June 2002 (11 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Designed and developed components (gadgets) for the Plumtree portal architecture that consumed data feeds obtained from various Duke Energy partnerships utilizing various sources and methods such as text files, screen scraping and XML delivery utilizing WDDX.

Stock Pricing Portfolios
This component was created to provide Duke Energy corporate customers the ability to create and maintain multiple stock portfolios and maintain selected or custom stock symbols. These stocks were displayed to the user and provided the ability to create and set upper, lower, and percent change alerts by e-mail, cell phone or pager.

Weather Forecast, Links and Alerts
The weather component was developed as a remote gadget and provided customers with the option to receive weather alerts, weather images and forecasts by e-mail, cell phone or pager.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

March 2001 – June 2001 (4 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Web based intranet application for Bank of America (Business Lending Technology) delivering asset and collateral file transfer systems across the bank.

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TREE; Financial Services industry

May 2000 – February 2001 (10 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

As a member of a sixteen-person team I helped develop the new Lending tree Lend-X technology for various credit product lines. This was to enable the company to offer the load processing solutions as an online loan exchange to other traditional lenders such as Bank Of America, Citizens Bank, Sallie Mae, and Freddie Mac (Wendover Financial Services). In my role I was charged with enhancing the interface to support customer data assembly such as pre-population from third party systems and unique branding requirements for new and current clients.

July 1999 – April 2000 (10 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Teamvest provided an integrated web environment for the 401k on-line solution via the Internet to mutual fund selections, investment advisory services, and participant record keeping / administration services.

While with Teamvest I architected and developed the first US 401k transactional web-based defined contribution application utilizing DCOM with Visual Basic 6.0. The application interfaced with customer legacy account data from commercial software Trustmark 6.19 (BTrieve) and utilized third party ActiveX components.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

January 1999 – July 1999 (7 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Positioned with General Bank Training Development Services, I consulted on developing web based training applications and banking associate help support systems.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

September 1997 – December 1998 (1 year 4 months) Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Alternate Allocation System
An intranet site that interfaced with internal bank data and utilized custom Visual FoxPro DCOM components, Active Server Pages (ASP), ADO, JavaScript, and HTML, MS Visual Interdev and FrontPage to deliver the application to regional management across the country. This intranet application was to update, review and calculate alternate allocation information for the NationsBank / Bank of America bad debt reserve model.

Federal Government Shared National Credit Process
This application helped integrate and maintain customer data provided by the Federal Government with internal customer data. Reporting processes and data maintenance was returned using an ASCII format.

Intranet Security System
An intranet security system that administered the user rights by hierarchy and was maintained via a web-based or desktop application.

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

October 1996 – September 1997 (1 year) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I created a student book ordering system for the Duke University Bookstore using Microsoft Access that extracted student data and related course data from the University mainframe to help staff with student order tracking and course information. I also developed internal and external internet sites for Duke University departments which included Counseling & Psychological Services, Washington Duke Inn, OIT Solutions, Physical & Occupational Therapy, and Alumni & Development.

Transitioned and rewrote (in part) five financial reporting applications written in CA Clipper and FoxPro 2.x into one Visual FoxPro 3.0 application and also developed an organizational telephone and contact application.

February 1995 – November 1996 (1 year 10 months) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Developed and implemented a multi-user credit control application for Kodak Processing Labs for the purpose of customer communication, customer contacts scheduling, and letter generation using an object orientated development tool called Visual FoxPro 3.0.

Conducted database administration and support for the application and continued development of the application project with add-on and application enhancements. Steps were also taken to upgrade the project into an Application Framework, thus making the application more robust and giving more flexibility and ease for further upgrades.