Jim T.

Jim T.

Senior Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, United States of America
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About Me

I am a seasoned Full Stack Developer with 15+ years of extensive industry expertise in C# and the Microsoft stack. I have technical proficiency in the delivery of high-value software solutions through the leveraging of good architectural practices and dependency injection for the production of highly testable code on all projects. I am keen on unit testing and the maintenance of a high level of coverage on solutions for clients.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Full Stack Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Excessively Productive LLC
Excessively Productive LLC
Owner/Software Developer
2018 - Present (6 years)
Pittsburgh, United States
  • Developed and provided technical support for different .NET applications for a variety of private-sector clients.

  • Engineered a C# API to communicate with cryptographically-secured SOAP endpoints operated by the Internal Revenue Service for the submission of Affordable Care Act forms.

  • Successfully wrote a 50+ page SharePoint 2010 security best practices and governance guide for a financial sector client based on research from published materials; customizing the information to the client's needs.

Leidos
Leidos
Software Developer
2014 - 2018 (4 years)
Alexandria, VA, United States
  • Worked on the development of C#, Web API, MVC, ASP.NET, WPF, and other applications to support various government clients.

  • Successfully led research activities and wrote strategy documentation related to security and software migrations on projects.

  • Actively participated in and contributed to a whitepaper on the migration of legacy COBOL applications to .NET for Leidos.

NTT Data
NTT Data
Technical Specialist
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Chicago, IL, United States
  • Offered technical leadership and expertise for the development of web parts in C# to augment customized SharePoint portals for the client.

  • Provided technical consultancy as the lead contact for a a large SharePoint 2010 portal project.

  • Efficiently designed a SharePoint training curriculum and delivered training to end-users and the client's offshore team.

Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin
Software Developer
2008 - 2013 (5 years)
Rockville, MD, United States
  • Efficiently iterated the design for a new database structure and developed many of the web service methods for a centralized user account management system.

  • Created an AngularJS 1.5 single-page application to house archived data that was extracted from a legacy CRM system and stored as JSON.

  • Provided guidance for the design and development of an extensive WPF/MVVM application to track the location and maintenance history of physical assets, based on a pluggable architecture that allows customers to write custom reports without a full deployment of the application.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton
SharePoint Developer
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
Herndon, VA, United States
  • Offered technical expertise for the development of customized SharePoint portals through master page and CSS modifications for BAH.

  • Developed custom SharePoint parts for BAH's portal using C#.

  • Efficiently wrote an AJAX component to autocomplete text field input on the portal using values from a SharePoint list.

MEDRAD, INC [now part of Bayer]
MEDRAD, INC [now part of Bayer]
SharePoint Developer
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
Indianola, PA, United States
  • Provided technical consultancy for C# development and SharePoint customization during the transition from a legacy portal platform to SharePoint 2003.

  • Utilized new tools for the modernization and clean up of SQL and C# code from legacy sources.

  • Provided support for general troubleshooting of technical problems experienced by users on the new SharePoint platform.

University of Pittsburgh Medical School
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Lead Software Analyst
2003 - 2005 (2 years)
Pittsburgh, United States
  • Maintained and expanded ASP.Classic and ASP.NET-based online courseware application for the Medical School.

  • Regularly analyzed, troubleshot and resolved technical support issues on the online courseware application.

  • Introduced bug tracking and single-step deployments to the project.

University of Pittsburgh Computing Services and Systems Development
University of Pittsburgh Computing Services and Systems Development
Student Web Developer
2000 - 2003 (3 years)
Pittsburgh, United States
  • Developed and maintained web applications for student course schedules and grades.

  • Built a web page that produces printable schedule of classes for students.

  • Provided support for troubleshooting and bug fixing on student related web applications.

Portfolio

Sole Developer - Convert Cyrillic
Sole Developer - Convert Cyrillic

Developed the website as a tool for translators, library catalogers, and students of the Russian language. It is one of the most popular sites for converting Cyrillic encodings. The website enables the conversion/translation of KOI-8, 1251, Library of Congress, Unicode, and phonetic Cyrillic all at once. It also has a bulk dictionary lookup feature.

Sole Developer - Foldout
Sole Developer - Foldout

Foldout is a single-pane outliner for Windows users and it provides extensive keyboard commands that make outlining a fast-paced and smooth experience for users. Foldout is available in a portable and installer version. The solution was developed to help users organize their thoughts and also to serve as a replacement for the great program Ecco Pro.

Sole Developer - Dextrous
Sole Developer - Dextrous

A new tool that helps users organize their tasks and ideas. It has powerful virtual index cards for Windows that users can customize. It comes with a personalized issue tracker, a supercharged to-do list, a structured approach to taking notes, versatile index and flash cards, and a tool to order blocks of text—all in one solution. Wrote Dextrous to as a tool for researchers who are writing large papers and have to keep track of ideas and references.

Education

Education
Microsoft Specialist: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Microsoft
2013 - 2013
Education
Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
ISC2
2012 - 2016 (4 years)
Education
PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures
Princeton University
2005 - 2011 (6 years)
Education
BSc. Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
1998 - 2003 (5 years)
Education
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) SharePoint 2010 Application Development
Microsoft
2011
Education
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) SharePoint 2010 Configuring
Microsoft
2012
Education
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) SharePoint Developer 2010
Microsoft
2014