
Director/Architect Product Development at First Advantage Hiring Mangement Systems
Portland, Maine Area

Director/Architect Product Development at First Advantage Hiring Mangement Systems
Portland, Maine Area
Software application developer focusing on Microsoft technologies such as ASP.Net and SQL Server. I have experience ranging from successful small software startups to Fortune 500 IT organizations.
Microsoft.NET framework (C#, VB.NET), Microsoft Visual Studio/Interdev (VB6, ASP, C++), JavaScript, VBScript, Windows Scripting Host, ADSI/WMI, C, Perl, Ruby, Python
Microsoft SQL Server
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FADV; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Hiring Management System (HMS) is an enterprise-grade Applicant Tracking System (ATS) product developed by First Advantage. HMS is the nexus of client facing services provided by First Advantage, such as background screening, assessment delivery, job cross-posting, etc.
As the Director of Product Development, I lead a team of software development and architecture professionals in the creation and hosting of enterprise-class HR software services.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FADV; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 1 month)
As the senior developer, I was responsible for the full software development life-cycle of the product, to include requirements analysis, design, and hands-on coding. In addition to developing the core software product, I was also a decision maker in the architecture and maintenance of HMS’s Application Service Provider (ASP) framework. The ASP framework consists of our datacenter operations, networking and security for the HMS product.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TPC; Insurance industry)
November 1999 — September 2003 (3 years 11 months)
The Travelers Atlas3 and Web Portal Framework applications are the foundation of a highly secure and scalable Personal Lines (PL) insurance policy rating and issuance system. As lead systems engineer, I participated in the full life cycle development and production deployment of this 15000 user multi-tier web application. The system is front-ended by web farms of Windows 2000 Advanced web servers complemented by Microsoft SQL 2000 database clusters and IBM Websphere-MQ acting as a gateway to an IBM z90/DB2 Mainframe environment.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 1997 — March 1999 (1 year 6 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Food & Beverages industry)
April 1994 — October 1997 (3 years 7 months)
1988 — 1992
1984 — 1988