Tony Griffith

Support Engineer at Microsoft

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Current
  • Support Engineer at Microsoft
  • .NET Consultant at The Allstate Corporation
  • President at http://www.msg-time.com (Sole Proprietorship)
Past
  • Systems Developer at Fidelity National Information Services
  • .NET Consultant at DCS Information Services
  • Systems Engineer at Matria Healthcare Inc.
  • Software Developer at BlueFishTv.com
Education
  • Kansas State University
Connections
61 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Tony Griffith’s Summary

My work related experience is centered heavily around .NET technologies and applications. Languages used are C# and VB.

Over the years I've been exposed to a broad array of programming languages and technologies.

These include: C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Networking and Administration, Microsoft and *Nix based OS, DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

I would like to keep growing in my experiences and application of concepts and solutions for business needs. I would love to be an application architect one day.

Tony Griffith’s Specialties:

Application Architecture, Design, Implementation, and Support.

Database Architecture, Design, Implementation, and Support.

Web Services and SOA


Tony Griffith’s Experience

  • Support Engineer

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    July 2008Present (2 months)

    Provide solutions to users and developers of microsoft technologies. Specifically dealing with technologies falling under the Distributed Services paradigms. These technologies include, Web Services, WCF, COM, COM+, Remoting, MSMQ, and others involved under Microsoft technologies and distributed development.

  • .NET Consultant

    The Allstate Corporation

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

    August 2007Present (1 year 1 month)

    Develop, enhance, and maintain reporting and review systems for the Texas claims departments. Web-based reporting tools provide statistical tracking of claim process quality, accuracy, and provide analytics for improvement of claims processes.

    Maintain and develop web systems for forecasting and providing trend analysis for production of policies for 1200+ regional Allstate Agents.

    Technologies Used: ASP.NET, C#, SQL SERVER 2000/2005, T-SQL

  • President

    http://www.msg-time.com (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

    April 2006Present (2 years 5 months)

    Develop, maintain, implement, and enhance web application for audio recording, upload, and sharing services. Extensive use of web services and partner API's to facilitate users' abilities to share their created audio online.

    Technology Used: PHP 5, partner API's, JAVA, XML, VoiceXML, REST, DHTML, MySQL 5, OOP and Procedural/Functional Methodologies

    Self Administered using IIS 6.0 and windows server 2003.

  • Systems Developer

    Fidelity National Information Services

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2008July 2008 (3 months)

    Framework development for flood certifcation and processing system. Document generation abilities added to the flood framework for processing of various document types (PDF, text docs, html, xml and etc...).

    Technologies Used: .Net 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, PdfSharp, C#, VB, SQL Server 2005, Team Foundation Server.

  • .NET Consultant

    DCS Information Services

    (Information Services industry)

    January 2008May 2008 (5 months)

    Enhance, Develop, Research, and Maintain Data Broker Information systems for dealings with major credit bureaus and financial institutions. Creation of business objects and data contracts by use of WCF and XML within the .NET Platform. Perform unit tests on new system components. Incorporate agile and XP principles in our development process, such as User Stories.

    Technologies used: .Net 3.5, C#, VB.NET, WCF, .NET Serialization, NUnit, SVN, SQL Sever 2005/2008, IIS 7, Windows server 2008

  • Systems Engineer

    Matria Healthcare Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MATR; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    September 2006August 2007 (1 year)

    Develop, maintain, and implement enterprise business systems. Use of enterprise web services and architectures. maintain and enhance business systems used within the Dallas office.

    Technology Used: VS 2005, SQL SERVER 2005, C#.NET, XML, SOAP, OOP Methodologies, T-SQL

  • Software Developer

    BlueFishTv.com

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

    January 2006September 2006 (9 months)

    Maintain, Develop, and Enhance in-house business systems that drove sales, shipping, administration, accounting and other functions of the organization.

    .NET, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000 and VS 2003 were the technology used.

    Data mining and Reporting done with heavy SQL and use of Crystal Reports.


Tony Griffith’s Education

  • Kansas State University

    Dual B.S., Management Information Systems/Management, 20012005

    Activities and Societies:
    KSU Football 01-05, MIS Club 04-05, BIG XII Commissioner's honor roll 02-04

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