Sheldon Cohen

Current

Software Engineer at Independent Contractor & Consultant

Past

IT Director at PassportMD
Owner at DogByte Solutions
Corporate Applications Manager at Vision Care Holdings

Programmer at Via-Cell

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Education

Florida Atlantic University
Worcester State College
Quinsigamond Community College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sheldon Cohen’s Summary

Seasoned Application Developer/Architect with extensive experience with web based programs.

Sheldon Cohen’s Specialties:

Software:
.Net, C#, LINQ, LAMP, PHP, Java, Database design, SQL, T-SQL, OOP, UML, DTS
Design:
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PhotoShop, Flash, AJAX
Healthcare:
(HIPAA)
Interoperability CCR (Continuity of Care Record) & CCD (Continuity of Care Document)
Other:
Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, PPC Campaigns, Soap / XML Web Services, Overall Project Management
CMS/CRM:
Sales Force, DotNetNuke, Joomla, Wordpress

Sheldon Cohen’s Experience

Software Engineer

Independent Contractor & Consultant

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — Present (10 years )

Acquired vast experience with enterprise, large scale, mobile and legacy development. Expert in C# (Beta 1.0 to 3.5), .NET, and T-SQL with database analysis and design, results-driven, customer-focused, articulate and analytical Senior Software Engineer who can
think "out of the box".
IT Director

PassportMD

(Privately Held; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

August 2008 — 2009 (1 year )

PassportMD, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, is a leading provider in the consumer-directed healthcare and personal health records (PHR) industry. PassportMD helps individuals keep track of all facets of their family's health and wellness including personal health records and documentation, doctor communication, pharmacy and expenses.
Owner

DogByte Solutions

(Internet industry)

January 1999 — 2008 (9 years )

Working with small to medium companies:

Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
Full Life Cycle Software Development
Database and Application Support
Data Gathering & Creating Specification Documentation
Project Management

http://www.dogbytesolutions.com
Corporate Applications Manager

Vision Care Holdings

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

February 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 6 months)

Found innovative ways to share real-time data across multiple platforms and develop data warehousing for medium sized company.

Duties included; Crystal Reports, developing and maintaining c# applications both Windows and asp.net based, heavy database development, SharePoint 2003 corporate portal creation and business analysis.

Management responsibilities include setting project schedules and priorities, overseeing outside vendors and creating project specifications. Test and deploy software and monitor progress of existing systems.

Multi-tasking, multi-hat position that required equal amounts of technical and managerial skills. The manager must plan and execute long-term projects, and react quickly to short-term requests from the executive team and board. Included hands-on development, technical writing, and management of personnel.

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Programmer

Via-Cell

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

June 2003 — December 2003 (7 months)

Programming and system architect for Online banking application that ran on a Java enabled Cell Phone.

During the course of my employment, I was involved in creating server based software which would connect the phone application to financial institutions using Web Services and soap/xml messaging. Was also responsible for developing the online management system which card holders used to manage their cards, transfer funds and update their phone settings.

Technologies used: Java, J2ME, c#, mySql, MS SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript, Soap Web Services
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