Team System MVP and ALM Guy, Developer, Speaker, Author, Mentor, Trainer, and Community Fanatic
Greater Philadelphia Area
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- Software Engineer at RDA Corporation
- Freelance Developer (Self-employed)
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- Senior Software Programmer at SunGard AMS
- Consultant at Refinery, Inc.
- Consultant at SunGard AMS
- Consultant at Digital Commerce Corp.
- Consultant at Professional Web Concepts
- Consultant at ATX Telecommunications
- Consultant at Sofwerks
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Steve Andrews’s Summary
Steve Andrews is a Microsoft Team System MVP and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Most recently, he has been immersed in Visual Studio Team System. Steve is very active in the developer community, and is a frequent speaker, author and trainer. He is currently employed at RDA Corporation in Philadelphia, PA, as a Software Engineer and a team member in their Architectural Guidance evangelism team. Steve is also an MCP, ICSOO, Speaker Liaison for the Philly .NET User Group, and all around .NET fanatic.
Steve Andrews’s Specialties:
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, ALM Architecture ■ Microsoft .NET in VB.NET and C# for ASP.NET, Web Services, Windows Services, Windows Forms, Mobile Devices, VSIP and VSTO ■ Application Architecture and Design Patterns, Application Integration, XML, SOA, SDLC ■ XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript ■ SQL Server 2000 and 2005
Steve Andrews’s Experience
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Software Engineer
RDA Corporation
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
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Freelance Developer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — Present (9 years 2 months)
As a freelance web developer in free time, performed services for various clients ranging from HTML development, to enterprise data-connected .NET application development, to consulting.
■ Designing USL (Universal Scheduling Language) which serves to create a common, public and open standard for business use worldwide to provide a unified system of automation scheduling.
■ Creating an Open Financial eXchange (OFX) server complete with an expression syntax evaluation to enable the dynamic and configurable retrieval of data.
■ Developed a custom Windows Mobile based application designed to track the sugar and starch intake of people with diabetes to predict insulin need. Application interfaced with serial port based hardware.
■ Released several open-source projects including an add-on for Community Server to upload the Windows RSS Feeds to the blogroll list. -
Senior Software Programmer
SunGard AMS
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
March 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 3 months)
Actively involved in building .NET solutions. Design and develop applications for enterprise financial applications and application integration middleware. Analyze and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes and interfaces. Supported the installation and testing of software at client site.
■ Rewrote classic ASP client-reporting application in ASP.NET using VB.NET, AJAX and SQL Server 2005. Resulted in 75% less lines-of-code, and ~50% more features including a robust administration portal.
■ Architected and lead development of a custom middleware application using Windows Services and VB.NET 2005 to orchestrate MBS securities processing among various legacy systems. Solution integrated with flat files, XML, Microsoft Excel, SQL Server and Oracle.
■ Built a prototype in ASP.NET of existing Java middle office financial product. Application connected to WebSphere MQ and Oracle. -
Consultant
Refinery, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2002 — October 2002 (9 months)
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Consultant
SunGard AMS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)
May 2001 — February 2002 (10 months)
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Consultant
Digital Commerce Corp.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)
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Consultant
Professional Web Concepts
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — May 2000 (3 months)
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Consultant
ATX Telecommunications
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)
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Consultant
Sofwerks
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)
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Steve Andrews’s Interests:
.NET, application architecture, enterprise applications, process development, community, technical speaking
Steve Andrews’s Groups:
Philly.Net - Philadelphia's .Net User Group
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devLink Technical Conference member
Steve Andrews’s Honors:
Microsoft MVP - Visual Designer - Team System
MCTS - .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications
MCTS - .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications
IBM Certified Solution Designer - Rational Unified Process V7.0
Steve Andrews’s Contact Settings
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