John Allen

Current

• Software Consultant at ettain group

Past

• Systems Developer at The Lash Group
• Software Developer at Time Warner Cable
• Software Consultant at Logical Advantage

• Systems Developer at MassMutual Settlement Solutions
• Web Application Developer at American Wholsale Insurance Group
• Systems Developer at Merchandising Corporation of America
• Web Application Developer at Petit Industries
• Systems Developer at PCMall
• Programmer Analyst at iBenefits/UltraLink
• Configuration Management Specialist at Mitchell International
• Underwriting Support Specialist at Unum

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John Allen’s Summary

Application and web developer in a variety of industries

John Allen’s Specialties:

C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript/AJAX, WinForms, .Net Framework (v1, 1.1 & 2.0), MSSQL, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript

John Allen’s Experience

• Software Consultant

  ettain group

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

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Systems Developer

  The Lash Group

  (Public Company; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)

  Windows application development; member of a team developing a core application.

• Software Developer

  Time Warner Cable

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWC; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2007 — September 2007 (8 months)

  Project Summary: This project was a complete redesign of existing legacy applications (ASP, MS Access, SQL Server) onto a WinForms/ASP.net 2.0 platform with a SQL Server 2005 back end. The applications include project management, customer contact management, employee job assignments and HR functionality.. The application was designed with a completely object oriented middle-tier that serializes and deserializes data into xml which is passed to and from the database through a web service.
  
  Responsibility Summary: As the senior member of the small (3 developers) team I operated as the team lead facilitating work-flow as well as guiding the direction of the project and was an integral part of the requirements gathering phase. I also performed my regular duties as a full-time developer and architect working on all tiers of the application.

• Software Consultant

  Logical Advantage

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Systems Developer

  MassMutual Settlement Solutions

  (Financial Services industry)

  April 2006 — February 2007 (11 months)

  Project Summary: A large scale rewrite of multiple existing applications combining them into one pluggable architecture/application. The application has been converted to and is now developed .Net 2.0. It is a C#/WinForms application leveraging object oriented principals, design patterns and an MVC approach. The data layer utilizes an ORM (object relational mapping) tool that is connected with an MSSQL 2000 back end.
  
  Responsibility Summary: Lead developer working closely with an architect, two other developers, a BA/Project Manager and a QA person.

• Web Application Developer

  American Wholsale Insurance Group

  (Insurance industry)

  December 2005 — April 2006 (5 months)

  Project Summary: This project was a ground up rewrite of an existing WinForms/Oracle application. The application was multi-tiered and developed on an ASP.net 1.1 platform with a SQL Server 2000 back end.
  
  Responsibility Summary: I worked as a member of a small team developing, enhancing and maintaining this application. I was involved in development of all tiers of this application as well as developing reports with MS Reporting Services.

• Systems Developer

  Merchandising Corporation of America

  (Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)

  Project Summary: This project was a complete redesign of existing legacy applications (ASP, MS Access, SQL Server) onto a WinForms/ASP.net 2.0 platform with a SQL Server 2005 back end. The applications include project management, customer contact management, employee job assignments and HR functionality.. The application was designed with a completely object oriented middle-tier that serializes and deserializes data into xml which is passed to and from the database through a web service.
  
  Responsibility Summary: As the senior member of the small (3 developers) team I operated as the team lead facilitating work-flow as well as guiding the direction of the project and was an integral part of the requirements gathering phase. I also performed my regular duties as a full-time developer and architect working on all tiers of the application.

• Web Application Developer

  Petit Industries

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Machinery industry)

  July 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  Project Summary: This project was an internal administration application for quoting customers, processing orders and managing customer contact information. A branch of the application included the company’s public website.
  
  Responsibility Summary: Responsible for the development of the entire project. This included specifications, design, implementation and testing. The application is a quote and order generator as well as a customer management tool. It was developed with an ASP.Net front-end with a C# middle-tier and an XML back-end all developed with MS Visual Studio. The public website was developed on the same platform and tied into the back-end for data submittal via web services. The websites front-end was developed in ASP.Net and used XSL-T for display.

• Systems Developer

  PCMall

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  * Project Summary: This project was a large internal CRM application developed for use by sales staff of 800+.
  *Responsibility Summary: A primary job responsibility was development on the middle-tier (Data Access Layer and Business Object Layer). The middle tier was developed in VB6 using the COM+ plus platform including Message Queues. Other responsibilities included SQL Server development including table design, stored procedure authoring, T-SQL, triggers and DTS. Also supported the front-end developer with interface development in WinForms.

• Programmer Analyst

  iBenefits/UltraLink

  (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

  November 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  Wrote system for scheduling and processing of data transformation and migration routines. Data transformation expert – Produced data-feeds (Payroll, Carrier, HRIS, TPA) using DataJunction (VBA)/Crystal Reports.

• Configuration Management Specialist

  Mitchell International

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Configuration Management – Duties included software builds and source code repository management (Visual Source Safe).
  
  Web-Site development – Developed department level CM (configuration management) website using DHTML/JavaScript.
  
  Database application development – Developed and maintained MS Access database (VBA) for management of internal software licensing and use.

• Underwriting Support Specialist

  Unum

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UNM; Insurance industry)

  July 1993 — August 1998 (5 years 2 months)

  Underwriter Support – Supported a team of Underwriters by organizing and retrieving prospects and renewals.
  
  Electronic data imports – Lead support person for importing all incoming electronic group underwriting censuses.