Tony Griffith

Current

• Sr. Support Engineer at Microsoft
• Founder, CEO at Inspirenic Corporation

Past

• .NET Consultant at The Allstate Corporation
• Systems Developer at Fidelity National Information Services
• .NET Consultant at DCS Information Services

• Systems Engineer at Matria Healthcare Inc.
• Software Developer at BlueFishTv.com

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Education

• Kansas State University

Connections

75 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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

• Sr. Support Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  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.

• Founder, CEO

  Inspirenic Corporation

  (Information Services industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  Develop, maintain, implement, and enhance distributed applications focused on content maintenance and content delivery.
  
  -- Current Offerings --
  
  - http://www.micnote.com
  - Technology Used: PHP 5, partner API's, JAVA, XML, VoiceXML, REST, AJAX, DHTML, MySQL 5, OOP and Procedural/Functional Methodologies, IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003.

• .NET Consultant

  The Allstate Corporation

  (Public Company; ALL; Insurance industry)

  August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  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

• Systems Developer

  Fidelity National Information Services

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

  May 2008 — July 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 2008 — May 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 2006 — August 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 2006 — September 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 , 2001 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

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