Sr Software Engineer at The TriZetto Group
Phoenix, Arizona Area
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- Sr Software Engineer at The TriZetto Group
- Software Engineer at JDA Software
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- Software Engineer at Why Go Solo
- Software Engineer at ITaxGroup
- Software Engineer at InfoImage
- Education
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- Mississippi State University
- Vicksburg High School
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Terry Donaghe’s Summary
I am currently looking for a challenging senior software engineering position, preferably coding c# against .NET 3.5.
I’m a software engineer living in Phoenix, AZ. My passion is getting software components to talk to each other and to expose business data in every usable way. Currently I’m obsessed with WCF and enabling SOA with Microsoft technology.
Since 1996 I have been writing software for Microsoft Windows. From Visual Basic 4 up through Visual Studio 2008 and c#, I’ve seen and done it (almost) all.
I have been writing code in c# against the .NET framework since the pre-beta bits were released in 2000. With each iteration I’ve become more and more excited with the new features. I love how c# is becoming more like a dynamic language while still keeping true to its roots. Linq, lambda operators and similar features scratch a deep-set geeky itch for me.
I am also a huge fan of the Agile development process as well as Test Driven Development (TDD). I think that these two evolving methodologies represent the “right” way to develop world-class software in the 21st century.
While the bulk of my career has been writing server side components, I am also a competent web developer. I taught myself Ruby and Ruby on Rails a couple of years ago because I loved the Rails framework and way of developing web applications.
I am thrilled to see Microsoft’s work on the new ASP.NET MVC framework which is very similar. I have been following MVC pretty closely over the last year or so and I hope to be involved in some real world applications utilizing it as soon as it is released.
I am currently looking for exciting .NET development opportunities.
Terry Donaghe’s Specialties:
c#, wcf, 3.5, .net, sql server, oracle, mysql, ruby, database design, debugging, ruby on rails, object oriented design and analysis, linq, mvc, ajax, agile, tdd
Terry Donaghe’s Experience
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Sr Software Engineer
The TriZetto Group
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Software Engineer
JDA Software
(Public Company; JDAS; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)
Key member of the team which created a core component of JDA's .NET Portfolio Enabled software. This product is a Registry of information used by most of the company's other applications to store and retrieve data used by Retail companies to track, market and sell merchandise.
Was hired just a few months after development began and was primarily utilized as a server/mid-tier level developer creating code and components used by the team creating the Web Forms front-end. Worked on this product from almost creation all the way to deployment and continue working on it in a maintenance mode.
Also largely responsible for a very important XML based .NET import application that our customers use to feed data into our Registry database.
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Software Engineer
Why Go Solo
(Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)
Helped write the core Ruby on Rails code for this internet startup. Primarily worked in the models and views of the Profiles page.
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Software Engineer
ITaxGroup
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Was the sole server-side developer for a SqlServer web-based application used by large companies to track eligibility of employees for Federal Tax credits based on hiring people previously on welfare or in prison.
Took over development started by the architect of the application and extended his work, adding lots of new functionality and fixing numerous bugs. Saw the application sold and installed at numerous customer sites.
Within a month of Visual Studio .NET coming out, I worked with a web developer and rewrote the bulk of the application in C# utilizing ASP.NET -
Software Engineer
InfoImage
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 1999 — October 2000 (1 year )
Was a key member of Repository team for InfoImage's VB based Freedom software portal software. This team created a repository of objects used by every other component developed at the company. Our software sat at the very bottom of a huge tree of dependencies.
Worked on this team from its inception through delivery and into maintenance. I was partly responsible for institution of code reviews and mentoring meetings. I handled some training for other teams to learn how to use our components. I also worked closely with the documentation and testing teams since our software was ubiquitously used throughout the application.
Most of the data that we used was represented internally in the application as XML and saved in SqlServer databases. I helped in design, architecture and coding of the components.
As much as was possible with VB at the time, this application was OO architected and coded. We pushed VB basically up to and maybe beyond its limits.
Terry Donaghe’s Education
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Mississippi State University
BA , Communications , 1987 — 1993
3 years of electrical engineering courses including math through Def Eq II and 3 semesters of physics.
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Vicksburg High School
1985 — 1987
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Terry Donaghe’s Interests:
c#, .NET Platform, Linq, Ruby On Rails, software development, new technology, ubiquitous computing, philosophy, aikido, learning, reading
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