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• Built custom OpenAI API-backed tooling for analyzing and documenting complete C#, VB.NET, and VB6 dental and insurance software codebases, with source context, structured technical documentation, and human review checkpoints.
• Architect machine-intelligence and LLM-assisted engineering workflows using OpenAI-compatible APIs and LM Studio APIs, prompt systems, semantic search, and reviewed output for legacy-to-modern code translation, source analysis, documentation, and developer productivity.
• Built an Angular/TypeScript AI documentation review application for an Info724 client, enabling users to step through AI-generated documentation for existing codebases with source context and quality checkpoints.
• Deploy and manage embedding models with Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry), using Azure AI Search for semantic retrieval.
• Use Azure SQL across development, testing, staging, and production, with Azure Blob Storage and Azure Virtual Machines.
• Provided Info724 client support with ethical Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-ready web guidance that favors accurate, useful, source-backed content over manipulative ranking tactics.
• Rebuilt a dental insurance contract-management platform using ASP.NET Core, C#, TypeScript, EF Core, Razor Pages, and SQL Server while preserving complex legacy business behavior.
• Created automated comparison screens, parity checks, and test coverage to validate rebuilt claims-adjudication behavior against the legacy platform before release.
• Maintain and modernize health-insurance systems built on VB.NET Web Forms, ADO.NET, SQL Server, T-SQL, and MySQL data workflows while preserving existing business behavior.
• Build AWS-hosted brokerage commission and operational-reporting workflows using SQL Server transactions, MySQL, Power BI models, DAX, and reporting databases.
• Mentor developers on unit testing, integration testing, SOLID, design patterns, enterprise architecture, maintainable TypeScript/Angular, and code review practices.
• Use Intelligence724.com as public capability-level context for process-first AI integration, code intelligence, legacy modernization, governed knowledge/retrieval, and bounded automation; confidential Info724 systems remain undisclosed.
• Used LM Studio to generate website content and integrated OpenAI and LM Studio APIs into content and documentation workflows, with review for quality and security.
• Created Power BI applications with reporting databases, data models, DAX, and operational reports.

• Built Microsoft Teams file-sharing and collaboration workflows in .NET Core and TypeScript using Microsoft Graph API, OAuth-aware access patterns, and enterprise directory constraints.
• Implemented Azure Blob Storage for checked-in document storage and retrieval, with Azure App Service and Azure SQL supporting development, testing, and staging environments.
• Integrated Mailjet and Mailgun messaging workflows while delivering responsive TypeScript/CSS user interfaces and dependency-injected backend services.
• Used asynchronous C# operations to improve communication with third-party APIs and support concurrent integration work.
• Managed mailing-list hygiene through Mailjet and Mailgun integrations so messaging respected subscriber preferences.
• Built interactive interfaces in CSS and TypeScript and used .NET Core dependency injection for middle-tier and backend boundaries.

• Introduced Agile practices and Azure DevOps workflows to improve team delivery, visibility, branching discipline, and release confidence; used Azure App Service and Azure SQL for development, testing, and staging.
• Restructured legacy software for unit testability, dependency injection, and practical automated testing.
• Guided TypeScript adoption and implemented QUnit-based client-side testing to improve front-end maintainability and quality.
• Created a repository-based strategy spanning Entity Framework, REST services, and ADO.NET while abstracting the underlying technology.
• Participated in Scrum delivery and helped coworkers improve client-side code through TypeScript and QUnit.

• Used Angular extensively on corporate tax accounting software for tax-accounting workflows while providing architecture and debugging expertise across C#, TypeScript, Angular, RxJS, JavaScript, MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Classic ASP, SQL Server, and legacy integration surfaces.
• Used Azure App Service and Azure SQL across development, testing, staging, and production, with Azure Blob Storage.
• Worked with CI/CD pipelines and developed automated integration testing generated from stored procedures to validate thousands of business scenarios before deployment.
• Designed multithreaded document-upload workflows connecting desktop and web applications through background processing, REST APIs, resilient error handling, and maintainable routing strategies.
• Developed REST API endpoints and documentation for external consumers.
• Converted inline SQL to stored procedures and helped migrate legacy database tables to support future product features.
• Improved sitemap, JSON schema, and URL foundations for SEO and helped plan quality improvements for a high-traffic website.
• Identified error-handling improvements for custom Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) workflows.
• Helped design calendars with open-ended periods and blackout capability.
• Demonstrated service-oriented architecture and microservices, helping teams plan more independent delivery and improve Agile practices.
• Used Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.

• Provide long-term architecture, modernization, and support for VisiShipTMS.com and related Transportation Management Technologies platforms used in logistics, TMS, and 3PL workflows.
• Architect, deploy, and support service-oriented Transportation Management Systems covering freight workflows, shipment lifecycle visibility, routing logic, and cross-platform business-rule execution.
• Use Azure App Service and Azure SQL across development, testing, staging, and production, with Azure Blob Storage.
• Support configurable integration patterns, custom authorization/security components, SQL Server-backed transactional reliability, and operational logistics workflows.
• Built interoperable desktop/web workflows using JavaScript, TypeScript, RESTful ASP.NET services, MVC controllers, C# repositories, Microsoft claims-based security, SSO-style patterns, and SQL Server stored procedures while mentoring developers on testability and maintainable design.
• Designed configurable JavaScript/TypeScript integration patterns for third-party libraries, user settings, administration, presentation, and performance needs.
• Built authentication and authorization around Microsoft claims-based security and the existing database structure.
• Connected desktop programs, web services, and cross-site workflows through single-login interoperability.
• Mentored developers in C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Agile methods, design patterns, and Microsoft tools.

• Led an Agile Scrum team building enterprise logistics solutions with ASP.NET MVC 5, EF6, design patterns, repository/adapters, dependency injection, and automated unit tests.
• Used Azure App Service and Azure SQL for development, testing, and staging, with Azure Virtual Machines for demos and presentations.
• Advanced TDD, BDD/Gherkin-style thinking, peer programming, structured code review policies, and maintainable SOLID architecture.
• Broke TFS work items into Gherkin scenarios and wrote test descriptions before implementing behavior.
• Used pairing and a code-review check-in policy to maintain consistent, testable code.

• Migrated the Motozuma/BoostUp fintech savings platform, in the Quicken Loans context, from VB.NET Web Forms to a multi-tier C# MVC architecture on Windows Azure with SQL Azure.
• Integrated US Bank and Authorize.Net payment APIs while improving reliability, scalability, testability, and stakeholder-driven delivery.
• Added automated tests while moving the platform to a multi-tier C# MVC architecture.
• Worked in weekly and monthly Agile sprints, using end-user feedback and stakeholder plans to guide product changes.

• Built a stock-trading application for banking clients using C#, SQL, XAML/WPF, Prism, Unity Framework, Scrum, and high-performance UI/data patterns.
• Used Azure App Service and Azure SQL for staging and testing environments.
• Mentored an international team on automated testing, testable code patterns, technical specifications, and performance-sensitive application behavior.
• Optimized C#, SQL, and user-interface behavior for performance-sensitive stock-trading workflows.
• Participated in Scrum, planning, client, and management discussions across an international team.

• Delivered enterprise systems for equipment issue tracking and employee profile management using AJAX, WCF, layered architecture, and SQL Server stored procedures.
• Used Azure Blob Storage for image and document storage in client delivery.
• Collaborated with client teams to build maintainable applications with strong separation of concerns and durable data-access patterns.
• Used peer review, paired programming, and code examples to keep implementations consistent for the client developers maintaining them.
• Worked with clients on international employee-profile management and equipment issue-reporting systems.

• Developed enterprise management software for merchants, publishers, fulfillment providers, order workflows, e-commerce, inventory, and high-traffic client websites.
• Modernized a C# codebase from ASP.NET 2.0 to 3.5; improved SQL Server capabilities, caching, DAL patterns, layered models, helper components, and reusable UI elements.
• Replaced obsolete methods and introduced lambda expressions during the ASP.NET 2.0-to-3.5 modernization.
• Expanded a T-SQL API used by client websites and delivered custom applications from client project plans.
• Created reusable CSS/HTML templates, user controls, and custom control classes.

• Built applications for the City of Chicago and Chicago Airport System using ASP.NET, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Created database objects including views, triggers, stored procedures, and secure XML-processing workflows while working with sensitive data under DHS airport-clearance constraints.
• Built compiled controls with embedded resources and libraries for reuse across applications.
• Used transactions, typed datasets, and web services; supported Oracle PL/SQL migration to ASP.NET.
• Integrated HTML and CSS into distributable controls while handling confidential operational data.

Consulting & Early Career ? Software Developer | Mar 2001 - Jul 2008 | Chicago, IL

AmericanEagle.com ? Software Developer / Graphic Editor / HTML Specialist | Apr 1999 - May 2001 | Park Ridge, IL

• Delivered e-commerce and data-driven web systems using ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, HTML, MySQL, SQL Server, Visual Basic, template optimization, SEO collaboration, and cross-browser UI production.
• Built early web applications, reusable dynamic content, navigation, image optimization, and high-performance production HTML.
• Collaborated with SEO professionals on data-driven e-commerce sites and cross-browser Ajax interfaces.
• Maintained ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, Visual Basic, MySQL, and SQL Server applications, improving speed, compatibility, and maintainability.
• Converted Photoshop designs into optimized HTML/CSS and images, including icons, buttons, navigation, headers, and footers.