• Lead a team three developers in India in the architecture and development of a web GUI for managing security rights in the Revionics web application.  Responsible for the entire architecture, quality of the result, coordination of the entire team, and timely delivery.  Did half the coding myself.  (MVC 3, C#, nHibernate, Entity Framework, ADO, T-SQL, HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, KnockoutJs, Telerik Kendo Grid, Unity.  Specflow and MOQ for integration testing.)
• In a team of three, in coordination with a second team of three, ported a complex web GUI from ASP.NET to MVC.NET 3.0.  Designed the server-side architecture for the team, including Controller, Orchestrator, Repository, error handling, logging and other infrastructure.  Wrote most of the server-side code and assisted with client-side.   (MVC 3, C#, nHibernate, Entity Framework, ADO, T-SQL, HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, KnockoutJs, Telerik Grid, Unity. Specflow and MOQ for integration testing.)
• Developed a framework for logging web application activity.  (Dependency injection and API interception with Unity.  Plugin architecture with Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).  Database entities and access with Entity Framework and nHibernate (Fluent configuration).  Logging architecture with Microsoft Enterprise Framework.)
• Designed and developed a reusable framework for writing SpecFlow integration tests using Unity, Moq and VSTest.  Wrote a prototype using the same reusable SpecFlow framework that drove automated GUI tests using Selenium.
• Coordinated and helped train a team of seven developers located in India, in daily scrums.  The training part was ongoing, primarily in Agile and general development-related processes, and in the standards of code development quality upheld at Revionics.
• Lots of code reviews, bug triaging and coordination of the team in India.
• Agile development process using TFS for source code control, defect and sprint tracking.
• Special accomplishment:  Took the security rights project from being in jeopardy of missing it's deadline, to making it.  Took the counter-intuitive and risky step of dropping the participating India team from 7 to 3 to help make it happen.

• Worked on several major products:
  • Lead Developer, the ShiftWise Vendor Management System (VMS), a large and complex web application used by hospital administrators and medical staffing agencies.  This ShiftWise VMS wrings time and expense from the process of hiring and placing temporary medical staff in hospitals.
  • Manager, Lead Developer, ShiftWise Partner Integrations (PI), a set of web services and Windows applications enabling automated integrations between the ShiftWise VMS application and ShiftWise' customers' backoffice systems.
  • Senior Developer, ShiftWise TextConnect, enabling nurses to interact with the ShiftWise VMS using cell phone text messaging (SMS).
  • Senior Developer, Other not-yet announced (and therefore confidential) web applications and web services.
• As interim Development Team Manager and the most experienced .NET developer on the team, coordinated and set priorities for the team; helped raise the skills of the developers and improve the quality of output of the software engineering process.
• Designed and implemented web pages and website frameworks, including the presentation (HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, CSS, XML), code-behind/business logic (.NET 4.0, C#), database access/design (SQL Server, T-SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework). Visual Studio, MVC, ASP.NET.
• Set priorities for, designed and implemented web services (.NET 4.0, Windows Communication Foundation, ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSLT, XSD, SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework).
• Designed and implemented multiple Windows applications, some for use by external customers, others as internal tools (.NET 4.0, Windows Workflow Foundation, C#, XML, XSLT, XSD, SQL, LINQ).
• Worked directly with ShiftWise clients to plan and coordinate their side of the development of automated interfaces.
• Source code control systems including Team Foundation Server and Subversion.
• Defect tracking systems including Team Foundation Server and Countersoft Gemini.
• Agile development process involving scrums, sprints and stories.
• Unit tests implemented using Moq, NUnit and MS Test.
• Special accomplishment:  Meeting an urgent deadline, virtually single-handedly implemented a system for handling mission-critical incoming and outgoing (SMS) messages to and from cell phones.   The architecture spanned a web site, three web services, two windows services, and two Sql Server databases.

• Implemented web pages using .NET, ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, SQL.
• Overall functionality was to manage workflow of inspections and tests of turnpike construction. 
• Web pages included the main 'dashboard', code to implement site-wide forms-based roles authorization and page customization, and user/groups management pages.  See a picture of the dashboard page here.

• Enhanced a Java Swing application that enables users to display and edit data contained on Smart Cards. 
• Designed and implemented a user-friendly panel system.  By integrating it snugly and efficiently into the existing code, provided enhanced functionality to both new code and existing code.
• Application configuration files were XML, accessed using Xerces.

• Wrote JSP and Java components of Ford Motor Company's flagship Ford.com website. The code, in the form of a Java Bean, managed site content, scoped to the entire site. The content was stored as XML.  The site was served up to users by JRun and IIS (Windows 2000).   Wrote 'Developer's Guide' documentation.
• Wrote a Java/Swing applet that enabled administrators to edit the XML content using a browser. Used the Java Xerces API for XML manipulation.
• Wrote a Macromedia Flash binary SWF file preprocessor, in Java.
• Wrote thorough and professionally-styled User and Developer Guide documentation for the Ford.com software.
• Special accomplishment:  The Ford.com code was virtually flawless on first release.

• Enhanced and maintained the lease and loan sales features of carOrder.com's website.  In addition to the website GUI, this feature used HTTPS to transmit customer applications to banks, and to receive in turn the resulting bank decisions.  This feature added substantially to per-car-sale revenue.  Java, JSP, Javascript, HTTP, SQL, MS SQL Server, Windows 2000.
• Repaired broken Needs Analysis and Car Comparison features on carOrder's website.  Fixed  both the front end web GUI and the back-end scripts that generate the supporting data.  Designed and wrote a WFC application to assist in browsing Jato automobile data.  Reduced to zero the flood of customer complaints about bad data and broken features.  Java, JSP, Javascript, Perl, JDBC, SQL, CORBA, WFC, MS SQL Server, Windows 2000.
• Special accomplishment:   Took the initiative to write a 'Developer's Reference' web page for carOrder developers.  This document vastly reduced  the time required to bring new developers up to speed, as well as served as an ongoing reference for all developers on the team.
• Ported DES-encryption-based software licensing code (see Imagen) from C++ to Java, running on Windows 2000.

• Provided sole development and support for a custom Java/Swing application written for IBM, targeted to Windows 98.  This application filtered a complex file format representing orders for IBM's wide range of products, converting the data into XML and in turn, via XSL, into displayable HTML.  Used JDBC and SQL to access a DB2 database running on an AIX server.  Server scripts written in Perl and SQL.
• Special accomplishment:   Took the initiative to save this part of the IBM contract for Trilogy.

• Using MS VJ++ 6.0 and MS Java SDK 3.1, was the lead and sole developer, designer, tester, and documentation writer for Trilogy Commerce Bridge, a set of Java/COM objects that enable Trilogy and MS Site Server Commerce Edition products to leverage one another's capabilities, running on IIS Windows NT web servers.

• Using C++ and MFC 5.0, the lead and sole developer, designer, tester, documentation writer, build master in:
  • development of HTML invoicing by email for NT Paymaster 2.3.  HTML, WebBrowser ActiveX control, SMTP, MIME, BASE64 encoding.  Here's a review:  http://isp-planet.com/services/billing/ntpaymaster.html.
  • release to market of NT Paymaster 2.0 and all ensuing minor releases.   V2.0 was a major feature upgrade and almost complete GUI and architectural redesign of the previous versions.
  • release to market of NT PayMaster maintenance versions 1.2X.
• Target platforms were Windows NT 3.51/4.0 and Windows 95. NT Paymaster measures customer usage and generates, prints and emails invoices therefrom for companies who offer Internet (ISP) and Intranet (LAN) services and need a flexible way to bill their customers. DAO, ODBC and SQL (against MS Access and SQL Server databases); SMTP;  NT (R)RAS, Citrix, RADIUS, UNET, NT LAN
authentication/event logging systems.
• Ported DES-encryption-based licensing code (see Mouthing Flowers) to C++, running on Windows NT.
• Wrote a Java/COM object and VBScript/ASP code that displayed ISP customer invoices on a website.
• Special accomplishment: Took an unstable product to a respected and solid market position.

• Using C++ and MFC 5.0, was the lead and sole developer in porting MindMirror from DOS to the Windows 95 platform. MindMirror captures real-time electroencephalograph data via the serial port and graphs it in a GUI application. Used Quinn-Curtis graphics library for graphs. Real-time, multithreading.   Telecommuted.

• Using C++ and MFC4.1, wrote code to facilitate localization of Encarta `97 into 5 languages. Target platforms were Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows 3.1 and Win32s.

• Managed team of 7 in code development and release to market of the Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide multimedia CD-ROM title. Technical design and coding, scheduling, risk reduction, hiring, performance reviews and technical documentation.
• Augmented and used core C++/MFC4.0 GUI engine developed under previous Julia project (see below). Target platforms were Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0. The same engine was adopted by another product Microsoft Complete Gardening.
• Special accomplishment:   Saved the project that otherwise was due for cancellation.

• Using C++ and MFC, designed and coded the core GUI engine for Julia Child's Home Cooking With Master Chefs multimedia CD-ROM title. Released to market. Target platforms were Windows 3.1/95 and Windows NT 3.50.
• Special accomplishment:   Took the initiative in a defacto lead role, saving this project from cancellation when the dev lead fell ill.

• Helped architect, write the code and release to market a multimedia screensaver (Jurassic Park, et. al.) configuration application. Also contributed to the multimedia play engine. C++ and the Windows SDK, under Windows 3.1.
• On the Toolbook 3.0 team, developed most of the OLE 1.0 client functionality and became responsible for coding several reusable GUI components including wrapable tool palettes, rulers and special text fields. Released to market. C, Windows SDK,  under Windows 3.1.   (See ToolBook II.)
• Wrote custom user interface modules in C++ for use by programmers writing Windows 3.1 applications. Computed project schedules, designed and wrote complete specifications for the internal architecture and exported API, and wrote final documentation for the finished product. Telecommuted.
• Special accomplishment:   Took the initiative to assist with development tasks in areas owned by product gurus.

• On the Windows 3.1 team, was sole engineer for the 3.1 version of Write. Primary responsibility was incorporating OLE 1.0 functionality.  'C' and the Windows SDK.
• Fixed bugs in other Windows 3.1 applets including File Manager, Packager, Paintbrush, Cardfile, and others.  'C' and the Windows SDK.
• Special accomplishment:   Took the initiative to assist with debugging core components of Windows 3.1, including GDI, User and Kernel. 

• Using Objective-C wrote TimeFlies for NEXTSTEP. TimeFlies is an audio clock/alarm utility application distributed through Internet archive sites.  
• Adapted for TimeFlies some public domain DES-encryption-based licensing code written in C and Objective-C.
• On NEXTSTEP using Objective-C, designed and engineered a system of 3D graphics objects featuring fully functional viewing and modeling transformations, hierarchical modeling and animation, and multiple renderers per scene.
• Wrote an extensive test platform for the 3D graphics library that augments the functionality of Visuals (see below).
• Added Print and miscellaneous GUI functionality to a C and Lisp product called Vista.
• Wrote SwoopnPrint "service" app for NEXTSTEP, licensed code to Paget Press.
• Special accomplishment:   TimeFlies received a positive product review from NeXTWorld magazine.

• A dual technical/management position requiring leadership, planning, team building, staffing, controlling and organizing of internal software development projects. Responsible for productivity and timely completion of quality software products. Also responsible for the corporate group health insurance program.
• Guided a team of engineers in the initial stages of designing a major (proprietary) application and planning the several person-year project to engineer it.
• Lead a team of eight engineers from finished prototype to market release in an 9-month retail software project called Clip-Art Window ShopperT. The product spans across a MS Windows front-end ('C' and the Windows SDK) and a SCO System V UNIX back-end ('C'), communicating via modem. The back-end is connected to an INGRES SQL engine running over a TCP-IP network. The front-end accesses a large custom database. Wrote a majority of the code at both ends, including several utilities used for constructing the custom database.
• Special accomplishment:    Windows Magazine awarded Clip-Art Window Shopper the 'Windows 100' award of 1992.  This award represents the magazine's rating of the product in the top 100 of 5000 software and hardware products.

• In a team of one and one-half, in a lead engineering role, developed another MS Windows product planned for future retail release called Presto 3D T. Wrote, in 'C' against the Windows SDK:
  • 3D graphics renderer using "painter's" hidden surface removal with flat shading using optimizations from topology. Included B-spline surfaces and incorporated BSP tree methodology.
  • Interactive system enabling user to create 3D wire-frame images with mouse and graphical drafting tools.
  • System to automatically convert 3D wire-frame images to polygonal representation.
• Ported a MS Windows VMI bus monitoring product to OS/2 Presentation Manager.

• Converted all of Visuals' (see below) PGA 2D and 3D graphics hardware commands to run in software on EGA/VGA graphics hardware.  DOS.

• `Critical path' development role in retail product release schedule involving a seven-person team.
• Wrote object-oriented, resolution-independent 2D graphics code, including airbrushes, framebuffer manager, and graphics hardware emulator.
• Code written in `C' and 68020 assembler on Regulus UNIX and proprietary graphics hardware.
• Wrote 21-page product design document.

• Ported Visuals (see below) to the SAS Graphical User Interface System.
• Code written in `C' on the Apollo 330 workstation running UNIX BSD 4.2 and Aegis shells, cross-compiling for the PC. Rewrote Visuals' user manual to reflect changes.

• Assembled a local area network (LAN) and a system to digitize and manipulate video microscopic images for display on the LAN in medical school classroom lab sessions.  DOS.
• Wrote a 25 page user manual for the system.

• Wrote approximately 15000 lines of code comprising Visuals, an application that uses interactive 3D graphics animation to reveal meaning in multidimensional statistical data.
• Code written in `C' and 8086 assembler, running under DOS with a Professional Graphics Adapter (PGA). Wrote a 35-page user's manual for Visuals.

• Conducted technical analyses in support of air pollution regulation development under contract to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• Managed preparation of technical business proposals.
• Managed a waste exchange program brokering exchanges of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes between companies in Virginia, North and South Carolina.
• Specialized in risk assessment and decision analysis, particularly with regard to carcinogenic air pollutants.

For details on my work at PES, please see http://www.douglaskent.com/techresume/pes_details.htm.

Last updated:  March 12, 2013