John Minadeo

Current

• Programmer Analyst at Insurance.com

Past

• Application Developer Lead at Progressive Insurance
• Web Application Developer at DrTango
• Consultant at Spellbuddy.com

• Sr. Systems Analyst at Netforce Development Inc.

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Education

• Electronic Technical Institute
• Cleveland State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

John Minadeo’s Summary

Experienced application developer that has been working in software development for the past 11 years with a strong focus on database and back-end architecture and data transformations in Microsoft centric environments and strong familiarity with their tools.

John Minadeo’s Specialties:

C/C++, C#, ASP 3, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, HTML, javascript, T-SQL, unit testing, perl. Some java.

John Minadeo’s Experience

• Programmer Analyst

  Insurance.com

  (Insurance industry)

  January 2008 — Present (11 months)

  Hired to fill a senior level developer position in the expanding Communication business unit. Primary responsibilities include design and implementation of various forms of customer contact primarily email. Maintained and enhanced the stand alone custom email queuing and sending services written in C#. Also maintained the email content testing system for use by the QA department. Additional responsibilities included enhancing the Quoting Interview application to support and modify queuing logic for the various customer contact types. All development used formal development procedures such as design documentation and implementation plans, design and code reviews, and included the creation of new and maintaining of existing application unit tests using the Nunit testing framework. Also aided in the development of stored procedures and data structures to accommodate new functionality to the system.

• Application Developer Lead

  Progressive Insurance

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

  December 2003 — November 2007 (4 years)

  Hired in to the Server Based Rating Platform Team to develop and maintain apps and online services to facilitate the selling of vehicle insurance, primarily in the agent channel. App development used C++ with the STL as well as some COM components. Created and maintained tools to support internal processes. Participated in creating the new motorcycle product for use with Progressive’s Comparison Rater initiative piloted with Harley-Davidson/Buell in Florida, then deployed for all quoting states. Joined the Agency Tools Team in late 2005 where I developed and maintained various tools to support IT, as well as help with platform development such as optimizing in-house rule engine and converting the code-base from VS 2003 to VS 2005 in prep for moving to a new server OS environment. Lastly, I was the Technical Lead on the Automated Testing application to support our 70+ in-house QA analysts, as well as consult to the Enterprise Tools Team on automated testing efforts for use company wide.

• Web Application Developer

  DrTango

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  January 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 10 months)

  Developed XML based replacement for the general payment server involving MS SQL Server 2000, in a load balanced clustered environment. Participated in the process to add multiple language capabilities to the flagship product. Documented existing procedures and internally developed components. Participated in switching T1 providers for both the site connectivity and the VoIP phone system. Participated in the design and implementation of the network after a second remote site was added. Administered multiple MS SQL Servers, and load balanced IIS clusters as well as internal development IIS servers. Created documentation for developer’s of the application as well as documented the various components that make up the application. Re-Developed HTML Newsletter mailer in C# .NET.

• Consultant

  Spellbuddy.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2002 — March 2003 (9 months)

  Designed and developed XML based website to showcase the client’s products. The site features an easily maintained news system, secure software delivery system, customizable user forums, as well as xml driven emailing subsystem. Database design in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 environment. Produced in-house Visual Basic 6 and C#.NET tools to update content as well as aid in development of XML systems. Additionally wrote data import and export tools in C# .NET.

• Sr. Systems Analyst

  Netforce Development Inc.

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

  February 1996 — October 2002 (6 years 9 months)

  The company was relatively small (15-18 employees) and most of my duties were that of a Senior Systems Analyst, though technical policy also fell on my shoulders. Duties included SQL server design and administration, internet application development (business to business web sites) using MS active server pages 3.0 with some COM business object development for larger applications. Additionally did system administration on Exchange Server, DNS Server, IIS, and SQL Server.

John Minadeo’s Education

• Electronic Technical Institute

  Associates of Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering, 1994 — 1996

• Cleveland State University

  Core Education, Computer Science, 1993 — 1994

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John Minadeo’s Websites:

• My Company

John Minadeo’s Groups:

•    Progressive Insurance Employee & Alumni Group

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