John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)

John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)

IT Consultant w/Fleishman-Hillard at VantageLinks

Greater St. Louis Area

Current
  • Consultant w/Fleishman-Hillard at VantageLinks
  • Owner at CS Media Group (Sole Proprietorship)
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Education
  • St. Louis Community College
  • University of Missouri
  • University City
  • Strayer University

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John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)’s Summary

Senior Software Developer, Analyst, and Technical Lead in a variety of businesses and utilizing a variety of technologies. In addition, gained experience as a DBA and a Systems Administrator. Particularly interested in client/server and relational database design using Oracle, Sybase, and MS-SQL Server. Networking, Data Warehousing and Data Migration projects are particular favorites of mine. Microsoft technologies are my core skill set.

John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)’s Specialties:

ADO, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Access, Active Directory, C#, Crystal Reports, CSS, DB2, FTP, FoxPro, HTML, IIS, Java, JavaScript, Linux, mySQL, ODBC, Oracle, Perl, Photoshop, RSS, SOA, SOAP, SQL Server, SiteMinder, Sybase, SVN, TOAD, VB.NET, VBScript, Visio, Visual Basic (all versions), Visual InterDev, Visual Studio, Web Services, Windows 2003, Windows XP, XML, XSLT

John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)’s Experience

  • Consultant w/Fleishman-Hillard

    VantageLinks

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2008 — Present (9 months)

    As a consultant at Fleishman-Hillard, I am tasked with development of web-based solutions in .NET, troubleshooting of existing applications, and maintenance of applications written in .NET.

  • Owner

    CS Media Group (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1995 — Present (14 years 2 months)

    Development of highly-functional web sites for small companies. Full life-cycle implementation.

  • Senior Software Developer w/Keefe Commissary

    NetEffects

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

    February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

    As a Senior Developer at Keefe Commissary, my duties included all aspects of the development life cycle. I created detailed design documentation, designed and implemented database tables on DB2, and developed web-based and windows-based applications in C#.

    The most-recent project entails developing a C# web service to front-end a third party cash card service being accessed via TCP sockets. The application is being called by a C++ GUI app. and it also interacts with a DB2 backend database. Full life cycle analysis, development, testing and implementation tasks are part of the project.

    Another project entailed development of a C# web service to interact with a partner’s web service as an interface between it and an existing Keefe application. The application was necessary because the partner could not comply with existing application interface protocols. This application was strictly a go-between and included DB2 interaction.

  • Technical Lead w/SBTV.com

    Technology Partners

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

    September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)

    At SBTV.com, my duties are to troubleshoot infrastructure issues and assist in the improvement of the infrastructure; implement a standardized process for developing, testing and implementing applications/products; develop applications, web sites, and web services in C#/ASP.NET 2.0; mentor junior developers and other team members; work with the CTO to make strategic decisions concerning the direction of all aspects of the IT department.

  • Project Engineer w/AG Edwards

    Technology Partners

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AGE; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)

    Develop guidelines for the implementation of .NET applications from project start through all environments (DEV, IT, UA, PROD). Work with development team members to help them adhere to guidelines at each phase throughout the project. Help address promotion issues determined to be covered by the Software Infrastructure Engineering department of AG Edwards.

  • Technical Lead w/DITCO

    The Newberry Group

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

    January 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 7 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at DITCO, Scott Air Force Base) My duties at DITCO are to facilitate programming solutions in VB, ASP, JavaScript, PL/SQL, TOAD, and any other applicable technology necessary to solve business problems. Major accomplishment in the past year has been the implementation of automated filing into a document imaging system. This automation saved over 2300 man-hours per year. The technologies involved were Visual Basic and ASP applications. In addition, I performed all required database design and implementation work.

  • Software Engineer w/321 Studios

    NetEffects

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

    October 2003 — January 2004 (4 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at 321 Studios) My primary duties were to integrate a third-party ASP.NET-based forum application with the existing 321 Studios licensing web site. This included making code changes and creating new ASP and ASP.NET pages, making modification to existing SQL scripts and creating new ones, setting the new system up on the production servers, and the creation of testing and implementation documentation. I also coded a proof of concept concerning Phase II of the project, which was to integrate an internal version of the ASP.NET-based forum with Active Directory.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Teralogix

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

    July 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 4 months)

    Primary duties were to develop and support existing systems for AAQ subsidiaries, including DealerHQ (an online lead tracking system for car dealers), CAC (an extended warranty provider), and most recently for SIMON (a new product being developed and marketed by Teralogix). In addition to team-specific duties, as a Senior Software Engineer, I provided technical assistance to other developers within Teralogix, which included mentoring junior developers.

  • Senior Web Application Developer w/Drone and Mueller

    Analysts International

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2000 — July 2001 (11 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at Drone and Mueller) Primary duties were to design and develop corporate and internal dynamic web sites/applications for DMA clients, assist the Internet Division head in department technology and infrastructure planning, assist other developers in their development and learning efforts.

    Development duties included all aspects of the project process from attending initial meetings with clients to determine requirements, creation of project estimates, creation of the data model and development of the database and all SQL components that interacted with it such as stored procedures and SQL queries, to design, development, and implementation of the entire system. Systems developed have included, HR, FAQ, Administration, e-Commerce ordering including (both direct and indirect), credit card processing, News, Online Survey, Distributor and Rep Locators, Competitive Product Cross Reference, Press Release.

  • Software Engineer w/Navisys

    Technology Partners, Inc.

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

    July 2000 — September 2000 (3 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at Navisys) Responsibilities included maintenance of existing systems, including extensive Transact-SQL work. Existing systems were web-based insurance company applications written in ASP using VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, and Transact-SQL on an IIS and SQL Server platform. Duties also included SQL tuning and database normalization.

  • Software Engineer w/Ameren

    Technology Partners, Inc.

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

    November 1998 — July 2000 (1 year 9 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at Ameren) Primary duties were to develop a corporate Intranet site. Handled all phases of web site creation, including analysis of existing content, scope work, design criteria, configuration of web and database servers, migration of existing content, creation of new dynamic content, testing, and implementation. Also assigned to various other development teams where my duties were creation of VB COM components to communicate with back-end Oracle databases, creation of Visual Basic front-end applications, creation of ASP applications using VBScript, and initial setup and configuration of 12+ web servers. Set up and configured SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 servers and handled database design, implementation, and various database server tuning and configuration issues.

  • Programmer

    Six Flags

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

    1986 — 1998 (12 years)

  • Lead Developer/Analyst w/DITCO

    IITC

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

    June 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 6 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at DITCO) Responsible for design and development of secure and non-secure Intranet and Extranet (www.ditco.disa.mil) web systems, support and maintenance of those same systems, development of back-end Visual Basic applications and database design. Languages used are VBScript, JavaScript and Visual Basic 5.0 and the backend databases are Oracle and Access. Accomplishments include creation of development and migration standards for web applications, establishment of the web infrastructure including hardware and software configuration, and implementation of a web-based document retrieval system. Additional duties included handing out assignments to other team members and mentoring junior developers.

  • Programmer/Analyst w/Maritz

    Analysts International

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

    October 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 9 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at Maritz) Assigned to client-server projects in several different company divisions. Duties consisted of design, development and implementation of client-server applications written in Visual Basic 4.0 using SQL Server and Access back-end databases. Projects implemented include a graphics-based computer training application, an idea tracking system, an automated file transfer and processing system and a web-based scripting system.

    Primary duties on the web-based scripting system were to develop a proof-of-concept for the project, which was done using ASP/VBScript on an IIS 3.0 platform.

    In addition to my other duties, I also performed the role of DBA for other projects and developers, handling things such as database backups, database creation, access control and SQL tuning.

  • Software Developer w/DITCO

    Hawkins, Hamilton and Lloyd

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

    May 1995 — October 1995 (6 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at DITCO) Designed, developed and implemented an application to allow management to evaluate organizational data in order to make corporate decisions. The application gathered data from budgets and time sheets and after consolidating the information, displayed it in the form of reports and graphs. The tools used were Visual Basic 3.0 and FoxPro 2.5. In addition to development, my duties included database design and tuning.

  • Programmer/Analyst w/Anheuser Busch

    PMSI

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1994 — May 1995 (7 months)

    (Consultant - Placed at Anheuser-Busch) Duties included maintenance of online and batch warehouse and inventory systems written in COBOL. Both assigned and self-initiated corrections and enhancements were performed.

  • Programmer Analyst

    Edward Jones

    (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Management industry)

    March 1992 — November 1994 (2 years 9 months)

    Assigned as primary support person responsible for the online broker transaction system; a system used by all branch offices to track securities trades and transfers within Jones accounts. The duties included CICS and COBOL-II development, maintenance and enhancement. JCL coding was also included. Developed new online applications and also developed test plans.

  • Programmer

    Credit Systems

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

    July 1991 — March 1992 (9 months)

  • Programmer Analyst

    AG Edwards

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AGE; Investment Management industry)

    October 1987 — July 1991 (3 years 10 months)

    As a Mainframe COBOL PA at AG Edwards, I developed business applications that dealt with the securities trades process, assisted other developers, created specifications for new applications, and provided production support for the applications in the Trades area of the Systems department.

John Simpson (john@johnasimpson.com)’s Education

  • St. Louis Community College

    Information Technology 1988 — 2007

  • University of Missouri

    Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering August 1985 — June 1987

  • University City

    Diploma , General , 1981 — 1985

  • Strayer University

    Computer Information Systems 2006

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