John Rudy

Current

• Software Development Team Lead at RJ2 Technologies

Past

• Part-Time Technical Instructor at Computer Systems Institute
• Technical Trainer at Absolute Solutions, Inc
• Software Developer at RJ2 & Associates

• Webmaster at The Morning Call
• Network Administrator / Tech Support at Chena Software

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Education

• Allentown Business School

Recommended

1 person has recommended John

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website
• My StackOverflow Profile

John Rudy’s Summary

Software architect and developer specializing in Microsoft technologies, notably .NET and Microsoft's server platforms (SQL, CRM, etc).

I appreciate the consideration, but I AM CURRENTLY NOT LOOKING FOR NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. I am very happily spoken for!

John Rudy’s Specialties:

.NET, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, ASP.NET, application architecture, SQL Server, n-tier architecture, XML web services

John Rudy’s Experience

• Software Development Team Lead

  RJ2 Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — Present (5 years)

  Software development team lead for consulting company in Chicago's NW suburbs. Responsible for internal and client custom software strategy, application architecture and design, designing new frameworks to simplify development and developing standards for development.
  
  Notable accomplishments:
  * Designed and developed internal frameworks saving dozens of man hours on many software projects
  * Initiated and enforced software development standards and practices, including use of revision control and tracking software
  * Designed and maintain automated software build system using CruiseControl.NET, NAnt and Visual Source Safe
  * Designed and developed RJ2 Sports, a commercial service application for youth sports team management
  * Designed and developed new recruiting software for RJ2 & Associates
  * Designed and developed a variety of line-of-business software for clients, including content/document management, customer relationship management and financial planning software.

• Part-Time Technical Instructor

  Computer Systems Institute

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  Instructed evening classes on Microsoft .NET technologies: C#, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, Windows Forms and data access (ADO.NET)

• Technical Trainer

  Absolute Solutions, Inc

  (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

  June 2001 — July 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  Instructed Microsoft Official Curriculum and Microsoft Learning courses on .NET, C#, VB, ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server, CMS, SharePoint, Project Server and more.

• Software Developer

  RJ2 & Associates

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Designed and developed software for RJ2 and RJ2's clients. Technologies used:
  * Java (J2SE), including JDBC, Servlets
  * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
  * Microsoft SQL Server 7.0/2000
  
  Primary accomplishments:
  * Designed and developed document management system for clients using J2SE
  * Designed and developed recruiting software for RJ2 & Associates using Visual Basic and SQL Server
  * Designed and developed RJ2 & Associates web site features to allow end users to enter their own resumes and automatically populate the internal system

• Webmaster

  The Morning Call

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TRB; Newspapers industry)

  August 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for daily output of newspaper to the web site. Controlled, customized and managed highly-automated system for content management and publishing. Tracked visitor statistics. Maintained web server software. Remote maintenance of web server hardware and software was required.

• Network Administrator / Tech Support

  Chena Software

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1996 — March 1997 (10 months)

  Administered Novell NetWare 3.2 network. Set up user accounts and access control. Performed technical support for InfoDepot customers. Designed and developed Chena Software's web site.

John Rudy’s Education

• Allentown Business School

  (Diploma) , PC/LAN , 1996 — 1997

Additional Information

John Rudy’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website
• My StackOverflow Profile

John Rudy’s Interests:

new technology, .NET, C#, software architecture, software engineering, software design, theater, books, films, music, cigars, cocoa, Mac OS X, objective-C

John Rudy’s Honors:

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (.NET, VB6)
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Trainer (2002 - 2004)

John Rudy’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch