Philip Laureano

Current

• Author/Open Source Developer at LinFu

Past

• Senior Software Developer at AskMeNow
• Software Developer at stag Philippines, Inc.
• Logistics Analyst at Mars

• Contractor at SYS Technologies
• PICK Basic Developer at Input1 LLC
• Visual Basic Developer at TeleTech

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Education

• De La Salle University
• De La Salle University

Recommended

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Connections

10 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Philip Laureano’s Summary

Senior software developer, C# junkie, and all-around .NET programming enthusiast interested in finding the simplest solutions for the most complex of problems. Particularly interested in low-level component development, software architectures, and mentoring junior developers. Intensely passionate about writing high-quality software, and spends endless hours of free time in the pursuit of his craft.

For him, programming isn't a job; it's a way of life.

Philip Laureano’s Specialties:

Refactoring, Object-oriented design, AOP, Parsers, IL, Architectures, Mentoring, TDD

Philip Laureano’s Experience

• Author/Open Source Developer

  LinFu

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year)

  The LinFu? Framework is a set of libraries that extend the CLR by adding the following language features:
  
  * Aspect-Oriented Programming
  * Dynamic Proxies
  * Late Binding
  * Mixins
  * Universal Event Handling
  * Closures with Lambda Arguments
  * Duck Typing
  * Design by Contract
  
  For more information, you can read the articles posted at this link:
  
  http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/LinFuPart1.asp

• Senior Software Developer

  AskMeNow

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

  May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

  Responsible for developing the SMS-based text parsing engine for answering end-user questions from the company knowledge base. Also responsible for developing the company’s in-house employee management system. Tools and development environments used: Java (using NetBeans 3.0), Apache Tomcat, .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and SQL Server 2000.

• Software Developer

  stag Philippines, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — November 2004 (6 months)

  Served as the developer that was responsible for developing Microsoft Ink-based applications for Stag’s Health Billing System, HDSI. Tools and development environments used: VB.NET, Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server 2000, .NET Remoting, and Microsoft Ink for the Tablet PC.

• Logistics Analyst

  Mars

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Food Production industry)

  July 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 4 months)

  -Increased Efficiency by 900% by automating all employee reports to Excel VBA. Implemented a Custom Spreadsheet/Code Generation application that dynamically generated both an Excel spreadsheet and its underlying VBA Code from MS Access.
  
  -Created a custom database schema generation tool that generated databases in 3rd Normal Form using Visual C++ and ADOX. Successfully updated, maintained, and optimized existing code and acted as user support.
  
  -Designed user interfaces using VBA, VB, and Visual C++ (using MFC).
  Created a server side disk-monitoring tool using the Win32API that exported its results into the Excel file format.
  
  -Designed, implemented, tested, and created a cross-platform integration tool using Excel VBA that interfaced with the Mars, Inc, Corporate Mainframe.

• Contractor

  SYS Technologies

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SYS; Computer Software industry)

  December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)

  -Designed the Material Condition Assessment Ranking System (using MS Access, Visual Basic, Excel, and VBA) that automatically assessed the condition of hardware on each of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet’s ships, including the USS Carrier KittyHawk, and the USS Carrier Kennedy. The system maintained a database of well over 100,000 items, from missile launchers to radar antennas, totalling assets well into the billions of dollars.
  
  -Created a trouble-ticket reporting system using MS Outlook VBA, Microsoft Access, charting tools in MS Excel, and created document genration tools in MS Word. Wrote documentation for both developers and users.
  
  -Served as on-site, on-base technical support. Saved USN’s Code 4Y23 millions of dollars by redesigning their systems into more efficient models. Cost of proposal before modification: $8 million. After modification: $20,000.

• PICK Basic Developer

  Input1 LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  July 2000 — December 2000 (6 months)

  Created financial reports using Advanced Revelation, a PICK Basic derived language. Created custom export tools which exported to Excel, Access, and FoxPro Databases.

• Visual Basic Developer

  TeleTech

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TTEC; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  September 1999 — July 2000 (11 months)

  Created a call center performance analysis tool which monitored, recorded, and reported on the performance of 300+ employees for AT&T’s WorldNet Service™ Call Center using MS Access, Excel, Excel VBA, and SQL Server.
  Drastically increased work efficiency by 4800% (read: 48x) by automating all reports into Excel. Cut paper costs by 800% by replacing the call center’s Quality Assurance Tool (called NICE™) with an Excel front-end.
  Designed custom tools that boosted the call center’s defined measures of quality (DMOQ) from 70% to 100%. Created custom import tools that interfaced with AT&T’s real time call analysis tool called Lucent CentreVu Supervisor™.

Philip Laureano’s Education

• De La Salle University

  Master's in Computer Science, 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• De La Salle University

  Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Majoring in Computer Applications, 2003 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  CSB Debate Society, Computer Business Association

Additional Information

Philip Laureano’s Websites:

• My Blog

Philip Laureano’s Interests:

programming, C#, VB.NET, ildasm, ilasm, design, oop, .NET, abraham maslow, alternative rock, apathy, arminvanbuuren, atheism, buddhism, burritos, chocolate, computers, existentialism, life, meditation, movies, music, nachos, nietzsche, nihilism, philosophy, programming, psychology, reading, religion, rock, sarcasm, scifi, tao, tiesto, torrent, trance, writing

Philip Laureano’s Groups:

•    Codeproject

Philip Laureano’s Honors:

CodeProject MVP, 2008

Philip Laureano’s Contact Settings

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