Kingsley Tagbo

Current

• Principal Software Developer / Web Architect at Exacticity Inc.
• Owner / Coach / Mentor at IT-CAREER-COACH.NET

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Everbank
• C# .NET Software Consultant at CDI Information Services
• .NET Software Consultant at Adaptive Solutions Group

• C# .NET Software Consultant at A.G.Edwards
• C# .NET Software Consultant at Maritz Loyalty Marketing
• .NET Software Consultant at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
• Microsoft .NET Software Engineer at Travel Guard International
• .NET Software Engineer at Noel Group
• Information Technology Director at Ozark Electronics Inc.
• Consultant/Application Developer at StafTek Services
• Consultant/Application Developer at Search Engine
• Process & Technology Manager at Procter & Gamble

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Kingsley Tagbo’s Summary

Do you need help with a .NET project? Contact me to discuss your project. I'm an independent, freelance Microsoft Certified ASP.NET, C# and Visual Basic.NET Developer with over 7 Years of strong .NET development experience and over 10 years of total software development experience.

I can take up your project from scratch, analyze and document your project requirements, architect, design, code, test and deliver your web or windows software projects on time and under budget using:

C# or Visual Basic.NET for your ASP.NET Websites and .NET Applications
SOAP, WPF, WCF, WF, XAML, LINQ, XML and Web Services for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects SQL Server for your Database Design and Development needs.

I also have extensive experience working in teams on enterprise software projects, optimizing web applications for scalability and performance, using Test Driven Development and Unit Testing tools like NUnit and Source Code Management Software including Rational, SVN and Visual SourceSafe.

I am also available as a Software Development Coach or Mentor for organizations or teams who need to master modern Software Development or Business Analysis best practices, or who want to increase their software development performance and productivity levels.

Visit http://www.DOTNETSMART.COM for more information about my Software Development Services.

Kingsley Tagbo’s Specialties:

C#, VB.NET
NUnit
NAnt
CruiseControl.NET
Microsoft FxCop
MS Visual Studio 2005/2008
Databases: MS SQL Server 2005, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Svcs
Frameworks: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft Enterprise Library, Web Service, Software Factory
Bug Tracking / WorkItem Tracking: Rational Clearquest
Languages: C#, Visual Basic.NET, HTML, JAVA
Source Control: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Rational ClearCase,Subversion
SDLC: RUP, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Microsoft Project

Kingsley Tagbo’s Experience

• Principal Software Developer / Web Architect

  Exacticity Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Exacticity is a software development firm committed to cost effective delivery of quality software development services that effectively meet your business needs.
  
  Exacticity's expertise is in custom Web 2.0 software development solutions with heavy emphasis on ASP.NET 2.0 & 3.5, C#, VB.NET & SQL Server 2005.
  
  Exacticity delivers end to end business software solutions including requirements gathering or analysis, design, coding, testing.
  
  Using Agile, Iterative software development practices, Exacticity delivers unit-tested, secure, reliable, maintainable, high performing software development services based on Microsoft .NET Technology.
  
  Exacticity's Projects:
  Exacticity specializes in custom software development with some or all of the following:
  Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Ajax, ADO.Net, SQL Server / T-SQL, Visual Studio.NET, SourceSafe, Subversion, Vault, IT Business Analysis, Software Project Management.

• Owner / Coach / Mentor

  IT-CAREER-COACH.NET

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  IT-CAREER-COACH.NET is a service that helps companies turn their development teams into high performance teams. We provide coaching for your team through:
  
  1. Analysis of your team’s current practices and level of performance
  2. Training and Mentoring on Agile Practices
  3. Group Coaching
  4. One-on-one Coaching
  5. Coaching for IT managers and Business Analysts
  
  The specific services provided are tailored to the specific needs of your development team, and are geared to take any team to the next level of performance and productivity.
  
  Our career coaching for individuals helps IT personnel:
  
  1. Find their ideal career in the IT industry.
  2. Gain new IT skills or update current skills to keep up with changes in the industry.
  3. Get unstuck from their current situation and move into more challenging roles.
  4. Successfully navigate a career transition into a computer programming or business analyst position.
  
  Learn more at: http://www.it-career-coach.net

• Senior Software Engineer

  Everbank

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  September 2007 — January 2008 (5 months)

  Mentored software development team members on SQL Server Reporting Services, source code control and management, agile software development practices, application design and architecture practices and Microsoft .NET framework software development best practices.
  
  Re-architected EverBank’s ASP.NET 1.1 Currency and Metals Trading Application for .NET Framework 3.5 using XAML, LINQ, WPF and WCF.
  
  Code reviewed .NET framework software applications, optimized several online banking stored procedures and ASP.NET web applications for higher performance and reliability.

• C# .NET Software Consultant

  CDI Information Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CDI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

  Architected and developed Web Services for Video feed used by Bud.TV (http://www.bud.tv) flash players.
  
  Developed Secure Web Services Authentication Layer for authenticating requests for Video feed using SOAP Headers and SOAP Extensions.
  
  Architected and developed the ASP.NET 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) for Bud.TV (http://www.bud.tv). The Content Management System was developed in C# 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, MasterPages, Full HTML Editor and several ASP.NET User Controls and Server Controls.
  
  Architected and developed a data access layer for updating, deleting and editing Video Series and Video Episodes.
  
  Designed and Developed ASP.NET 2.0 pages for managing Video Streaming Feed Links, Content and Download Links used in Bud.Tv (http://www.bud.tv). Implemented ObjectDatasources, business entities and list object collections.
  
  Designed and Developed Custom Paging for the Video Content Management System used in Bud.TV (http://www.bud.tv).

• .NET Software Consultant

  Adaptive Solutions Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2006 — March 2007 (5 months)

  Designed and developed Purchase Order Automation Email Notification solutions using ASP.NET and SQL Server.
  
  Architected performance tuning and scalability solutions for ASP.NET
  Portals supporting Manufacturing, Return Material Authorization (RMA), Shipping business processes using C# and VB.NET.
  
  Re-architected ASP.NET and SQL Server Business Applications Software Platform for better scalability, maintainability and reliability.
  
  Migrated several SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Reports to Reporting Services 2005 Environment.

• C# .NET Software Consultant

  A.G.Edwards

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  March 2006 — October 2006 (8 months)

  C# Software Engineer at A.G. Edwards's Software Infrastructure Engineering (SIE) Group.
  
  Designed, Architected and Developed an Enterprise Security Framework(Design Patterns and UML Design for Enterprise Security Framework) for A.G. Edwards using C# and ASP.NET.
  
  Designed and Developed SOAP Filters, SOAP Extensions and Web Services for Enterprise Security Framework.
  
  Designed and Developed Test Cases and NUnit Tests for Enterprise Security Framework Classes.
  
  Designed and Developed several Stored Procedures, XML Web Services Data Access Layer for an Enterprise Software Lifecycle Release Management System.
  
  Designed and Developed C# Web Services and Web Methods for Automated Check-ins of Source Code into Rational ClearCase using .NET Framework and .NET Web Services.
  
  Managed Source Code Release to Development and Production with Rational ClearCase, Cruise Control and Cockpit.
  
  Conducted Developer Mentoring on ASP.NET, SQL Server, Web Services and C#.

• C# .NET Software Consultant

  Maritz Loyalty Marketing

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Technical Lead for a team of 4 developers supporting and developing Online Banking Applications in C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server applications for 3 Banks including one multi-lingual application.
  
  Consulted on Several Enterprise Rewards / Loyalty Management Web Applications for Fortune 500 Corporations and Banks including: WellsFargo, USBank, Bank Of America.
  
  Developed Enterprise SQL Server databases, stored procedures and DTS packages for migrating millions of customer transactions.
  
  Designed several data management processes for loading of millions of records into new tables, created and optimized DTS packages, created and optimized indexes and tables.
  
  Created and reviewed several DTS packages, Stored Procedures and Tables for importing and exporting large amounts of text files for Quarterly Statements, Orders, Rewards data.
  
  Reviewed several different DTS packages, stored procedures and C# Classes for Code Quality Control Review.

• .NET Software Consultant

  Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BUD; Consumer Goods industry)

  October 2003 — May 2004 (8 months)

  Implemented a load balanced ASP.NET Web Services/Web Application to provide online access to ordering, purchasing, inventory and marketing data from IBM DB2 (IBM iSeries - AS400) and Oracle data warehouses for a distribution and marketing team (over $100 million in merchandise).
  
  Implemented Web Services using several objects that created PL/SQL and AS400 statements for line charts, bar charts and server controls.
  
  Used Advantage2E (Synon - AS400), SQLPlus(Oracle 8i) and BusinessObjects5.1 to analyze sales and ordering information for various marketing and promotional catalog items.
  
  Used Microsoft® Exception Blocks to provide real-time error notification services for both the web application and web services.
  
  Created visual basic .net custom controls and components to provide customized error reporting, menu navigation (xsl and xml menu server control), web charts and data access.

• Microsoft .NET Software Engineer

  Travel Guard International

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

• .NET Software Engineer

  Noel Group

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

  January 2003 — June 2003 (6 months)

  As senior member of an ASP.NET web engineering team for an E-Commerce firm.
  
  Architected an Affiliate Marketing E-Commerce web site using VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML and SQL Server. The affiliate marketing site extended the online marketing presence of the firm and enabled it to boost revenue.
  Implemented a role-based security system for the ASP.NET web site using the Common Language Runtime (CLR) Security System with VB.NET.
  
  Implemented Site Personalization and Role-Based-Personalization for the ASP.NET Affiliate Marketing E-Commerce Web Site, allowing the site to change Cascading Style Sheets to match the CSS of the various clients.
  
  Designed and developed management reports using ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET
  
  Created an ASP.NET web-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool for sales people who were using Excel spreadsheets. This consolidated data in a central database accessible to other enterprise systems and saved up to 64 hours per month.

• Information Technology Director

  Ozark Electronics Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed a team of programmers and a team of database administrators.
  Led the team to complete several projects including the development and implementation of a Warehouse Management System that saved $50,000+ in project costs and was instrumental in retaining an account worth $2.7 million.
  
  Designed architecture for an application to track the support calls handled by the programming team.
  
  Implemented a scalable Customer Support Site using ASP, VBScript and SQL Server 2000.
  Conducted the performance appraisals for the software group and quantitatively increased productivity of the team.
  
  Trained and mentored Programmers on skill development and Software Project Management.
  
  Established the software development life cycle and Visual Basic coding standards.
  Architected and implemented ASP Applications using ASP, VBScript and SQL.
  Promoted the use of modeling tools, source code control, controlled release cycles, and development/QA/Production environments.

• Consultant/Application Developer

  StafTek Services

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)

  Responsible for Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA application development, COM/DCOM Programming, Database development and optimization with Microsoft Access.
  
  Upgraded Access 95 database for the Financial Costing Group to Access 97. Developed a Client Front End for the Database. Optimized the Costing Group database, and developed a multi-user version to handle locking conflicts.
  
  Designed and Developed a Microsoft Access 97 Split database for tracking laboratory data.
  
  Upgraded the Machinery Tracking Database to Access 97.
  
  Developed Visual Basic Classes and Class collections for a database application used to track Technician Test Results & Data.
  
  Designed and developed a Document Management System (DMS) using Microsoft Access 2000 and Visual Basic for the purpose of automating and tracking the company’s paper processes.
  
  Designed an Object Model specifically for the DMS system. Used Classes and Custom Event Sources and Sinks extensively in implementation of the system.

• Consultant/Application Developer

  Search Engine

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

  June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  Supervised Data Warehouse development. Performed validation and Transformation of data both for populating the warehouse and for retrieval of data on client request.
  
  Developed Stored Procedures and DTS Packages.Data Retrieval from Oracle into SQL Server 7 and 2000 using DTS packages.
  
  Built an automation component using third-party Visual Basic Tool (Automate) to automate and provide a non-monitored connection to AS400 servers to query and download data periodically.
  
  Converted numerous macros to Visual basic code, optimized queries and developed complex reports to present information to customers.
  
  Queried and Retrieved Data From SQL Server 7.0 database with a Microsoft Access connection, and built Visual Basic code for processing and analyzing retrieved data.
  
  Designed and Developed a 3-Tier Web application for a business-to-business e-commerce firm to provide Equipment Parts information to customers and their suppliers in form of an Online catalog of parts and equipment.

• Process & Technology Manager

  Procter & Gamble

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PG; Consumer Goods industry)

  April 1997 — March 1998 (1 year)

  Managed a team of engineers and analysts to improve manufacturing process capability, efficiency, quality and reliability of production systems.
  
  Implemented and improved Data Analysis systems for Data Collection, Statistical Analysis and Reporting using Microsft Office Solutions.
  
  Training Obtained: Process Management Training, Leadership Training, Logical & Problem Solving Training, Process Control Training, High Performance Work System Training, Statistical Process Control Set-up & Usage Training

Additional Information

Kingsley Tagbo’s Websites:

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Kingsley Tagbo’s Interests:

Software Development Coaching, Software Developer Mentoring