
Database Analyst III at HAPPY Software, Inc. and Owner at SmartBrother Software
Albany, New York Area

Database Analyst III at HAPPY Software, Inc. and Owner at SmartBrother Software
Albany, New York Area
Experienced software developer with extensive background in client/server application technologies.
.NET Framework, ADO, ASP, C/C++/C#, ColdFusion, COM (C++ and VB), FileMaker Pro v6 - v9, Fortran, FoxPro, HTML, Java, JSP, LISP, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, T-SQL, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Visual Max Frame (Visual FoxPro application development framework)
(Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
- Coordinated migration for all of our websites to a new hosting provider, which included upgrading PHP 4.xx to 5.1.6 and MySQL 3.xx to 5.0.45.
- Re-architected and maintained FileMaker C++ plug-in (FileBooks Link) for communicating customer and financial data to QuickBooks. This plug-in works for all versions of QuickBooks, whereas all previous versions did not.
- Redeveloped data auditing and event auditing components used to track changes to sensitive data in our applications.
- Developed various FileMaker C++ plug-ins to aide in the processing of client data when importing into our software upon initial deployment or upgrade.
- Rebuilt bar code reader plug-in which now uses a third party C# assembly to perform the actual bar code processing.
(Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — Present (8 years 11 months)
SmartBrother Software develops and hosts various websites and web-based services.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)
April 2003 — April 2007 (4 years 1 month)
- Defined and documented software development guidelines.
- Manager/Lead developer of our Remote Distribution application that printed all customer payroll checks, 1099s, claim payments, certificates of insurance as well as all other proprietary correspondence.
- Lead developer on Claims Management application, our in-house claims processing application which included gathering Customer, Vendor and Adjuster information as well as processing Bills (after being reviewed by a third party) from various Vendors (ie. doctors) in addition to producing the Checks that would be issued as payment to these Vendors for services rendered.
- Manager/Lead developer of Visual FoxPro framework architecture and development.
- Manager/Lead developer of our Account program which manages all of our customer payroll information. Also wrote the “import” which pulled over all the data from the old FoxPro 2.6 payroll system into our SQL database through the Account business object.
(Internet industry)
October 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 2 months)
- Managed the design, engineering, and production of multiple NT4 hosting domains as well as their migration to Windows2000 domains.
- Responsible for hardware and software maintenance including security patch installation and configuration, as well as employee and customer notification.
- In total, responsible for 6-8 load-balanced Win2K web servers, 5 MSSQL servers, 2 Windows Media servers, 1 Steel-Belted RADIUS server and 1 NetApp filer.
- Designed and implemented process to import phone system data from Paradox into a MSSQL Server database, integrating it with our intranet for Tech Support.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 1 month)
- Managed 3-person group for production of a print on demand media portal. Included developing encryption and security components in C++ COM as well as ActiveX MSSQL DTS packages executed via admin web interface.
- Developed co-brandable e-commerce solutions for clients using both customer-defined and Application Service Provider (ASP) deployment models.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 10 months)
- Developed numerous database driven websites along with web-based content management tools using ASP, ColdFusion, and MSSQL 6.5/7.0.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — August 1996 (3 months)
Computer Science, Cognitive Science 1996 — 1999
Recipient of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Scholarship
Computer Science 1994 — 1996
Successful Participant in the 1996 Mathematical Contest in Modeling