Daniel Bullington

Current

Senior Applications Developer/Technical Lead at VHDA

Past

Senior Software Engineer at SnagAJob.com
Managing Consultant at TCSC
Consultant at Keane

Software Engineer at Government Retirement and Benefits
Programmer/Analyst Intern at Bond International Software

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Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Longwood University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Daniel Bullington’s Summary

I aim to serve in the role of architecting and developing scalable, high quality software applications, built on proven technologies, patterns, and practices preferably using Agile/Scrum/XP/Iterative software methodologies. Aside from solving challenging business problems using technology, I value opportunities to mentor others in software engineering, development automation, and software quality; all of which I am quite passionate about. I am also a competent leader of development projects.

Daniel Bullington’s Specialties:

Software Development, Software Design, Software Architecture, Development Automation, Software Quality, Mentoring/Training

Daniel Bullington’s Experience

Senior Applications Developer/Technical Lead

VHDA

(Non-Profit; Financial Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Serve as an authoritative senior development resource for technologies such as SharePoint/WSS/MOSS, Visual Studio Team Suite, Team Foundation Server, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, software testing, Agile/Scrum/XP, automation and deployment, and more.
Senior Software Engineer

SnagAJob.com

(Internet industry)

September 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Served as senior member of team of engineers to design and develop large public facing web applications. Implemented three tier design using AJAX, WCF, NHibernate, Spring, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and other technologies. Led software engineering quality efforts to increase testing and coverage metrics across the board, plus incorporating an automated build environment which resulted in introspection into the critical lifeblood of the development lifecycle. Assisted in the definition of standards, guidelines, and processes.
Managing Consultant

TCSC

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

September 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 1 month)

Served as technical leader and assisted in the design and developing various enterprise applications for a variety of consulting clients centered around Microsoft technologies (.NET, ASP.NET, SQL, SOA, SCA, C#, WCF, BizTalk, etc.) and using Agile practices.
Consultant

Keane

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; KEA; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — September 2004 (6 months)

Served as engineering team member and assisted in the design and development of two high profile mutual fund adjudication applications for a Fortune 200 investment company using ASP.NET, Oracle, and Web Sphere MQ.
Software Engineer

Government Retirement and Benefits

(Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 8 months)

Co-developer of complete rewrite of legacy web application using VB.NET and ASP.NET. Integrated the web application with the federal retirement calculations desktop application using HTTP and XML to send messages and documents between the applications.
Implemented a provider model to allow for a dynamic pluggable data layer. Realized a one million dollar revenue increase for company due to the brilliant design. Allowed two week turnaround for one-off clients versus three months. Interfaced with large government payroll Oracle 8i/9i or SQL Server 2000 databases. Implemented licensing system using XML and DSA message signing.

Principle designer/developer of another web application that allowed for WYSIWYG PDF document creation, editing, and saving via the web. Document metadata storage was realized using an Oracle 8i/9i database. Written in VB.NET and ASP.NET; leveraged a third party PDF rendering component, XML, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Programmer/Analyst Intern

Bond International Software

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — January 2001 (9 months)

Contributed to WinNT/SCO-UNIX server bug-fix development using ANSI C. Contributed to Win32 client bug-fix development using C++ and MFC. Interfaced Win32 client to Lotus Notes using VC++, COM, and the Lotus C API. Contributed to bug-fix development using Java. Moved applets and servlets from IIS to Apache.

Daniel Bullington’s Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Masters , Information Technology , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

Focus on: Technical Leadership, Software Engineering, Design & Quality, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, and Information Security
Longwood University

Bachelor's of Science , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002

I completed my undergraduate degree in three years.

Activities and Societies:

ACM

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Daniel Bullington’s Interests:

Spending time with my family, computers and technology, going to the gym, taking black and white photos with my Pentax K1000 SLR, Big-80's music, shooting craps, cooking, electronics, foosball, and writing.