David LaLande

4022 Greystone Dr., Austin, TX 78731

212-203-5744

 david.lalande@gmail.com

 linkedin.com/in/dlalande

20+ years of experience in software development with over 15 years in hands-on, technical lead positions. Responsible for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, UI prototyping, business and database component analysis and design, coding, testing, and integration. Managed development teams of various sizes, including project planning, scheduling, and resource allocation, often reporting directly to C-level management. Acted as architect and technical lead in both large firms and small startups on mission critical enterprise projects in various industries; Real estate financial services, casual gaming, social web analytics, financial management, e-commerce, b2b produce echanges, time and expense tracking, and electronic medical records.

Programming:

·               Proficient in: C#, .Net Framework 2-4.6, SQL, Windows Azure, ASP.Net, MVC3-5 Web API, REST, Agile (SCRUM), JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, XML, WCF

·               Familiar with: WinRT, Razor, jQuery, XAML, SilverLight, ASP.Net Master Pages, MDX, VB.Net, C++, Java, Basic, PL/SQL

Software:

·               Proficient in:  Visual Studio 2005-2015, TFS, NuGet, TeamCity, Octopus, PostMan, Fiddler, GIT, SVN, VSS, SQL Management Studio, MSSQL Server 6.5-7.0 + 2000-2014, SSRS, SSAS, Sybase, Aqua Data Studio, New Relic, Jira, Confluence, Quality Center by HP, ReSharper, Devexpress, Infragistics, MSOffice, MSIIS 4.0-7.5

·               Familiar with: NServiceBus, CC.Net, Unity3d, LightSwitch, Oracle, SSIS, Photoshop, Active Directory, MTS, CDO/SMTP, MySql, HL7

Amherst Holdings, LLC (http://www.amherst.com)

Austin, TX

Principal Software Engineer

2/2014 - Present

·   Created and ran a new development operations team, bringing SQL scripts into source control via SQL Projects, build automation via TeamCity, NuGet and symbol source package management, and deployment automation using Octopus and Powershell. 

·   Created a Unified Authentication Platform consisting of a custom Secure Token Server (STS) and Client SDK in order to upgrade legacy in-house web and WPF ClickOnce deployed applications to claims based authentication using tokens.  The STS supports multiple token features, including tokens with configurable idle timeouts, one time use tokens, configurable access and refresh tokens, and token revocation.  The STS is designed to be extended thru abstract interfaces and is currently using Active Directory as the user profile manager.

·   Created a field service application for our property management subsidiary using a custom Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution in concert with a custom RESTful web service using Web API for powering the mobile inspector application running native in IOS.  The mobile application allows our home inspectors to quickly document the inspected areas of a home, including taking photos and videos, capturing measurements and notes, as well as allowing them to order products and services to get the home up to a leasable state.  The solution also involves a custom token-based authentication to secure the data traffic over the public Internet as well as a custom reusable MSSQL database-based file management system that integrates with CRM.

·   Created a property reporting and analytics engine used by Citibank to evaluate and risk assess portfolios of properties which Citibank has providing the capital to purchase to external borrowers.  The system consists of a client portal where property data can be uploaded in Excel/CSV format.  Once loaded the service processes each property by looking at the home’s indicatives (number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, square footage, age of property, etc), related comparable homes, demographics of its geographic location, public record transactions, and lien data.  This process produces a snapshot report which gives the properties and the portfolio as a whole a set of quality and risk scores, based on configurable client logic.

·   Created a web service to provide our trading partners a way to submit bond position information and receive a value at risk calculation for each bond leveraging the fixed income analytics system Yieldbook.

Arkadium (http://www.arkadium.com/)

New York, NY

Director of Engineering

2/2013 – 12/2013

·   Product owner and architect for the Arkadium Connect Platform, a collection of backend gaming services supporting leaderboards, achievements, in app purchases, game cloud storage, player matching, asynchronous multiplayer, etc.  Platform supports hundreds of games being played by millions of users across many high traffic client distribution channels, including CNN, LA Times, The Washington Post, Discovery Channel, TLC, HSN, National Geographic, AARP, PCH as well as games played on Facebook, IOS, Android, and Windows 8 (desktop and phone).  Currently migrating platform services from on premise servers to Windows Azure to provide better elasticity and scalability, including, when needed, refactoring SQL relational storage to use Azure NOSQL table storage.

·   Created a new elastically scalable event-based analytics platform for tracking game events in the cloud.  Built SDK’s for use in Windows Store Applications (Windows8 and WinRT), Flash, and Unity3d.  SDKs provides offline and batching support as well as automatic event data enrichment of environmental data including unique user id, device id, location, screen resolution, screen orientation, game play begin and end timings, game level progress and score, as well as advertisement and in app purchase tracking.  Analytics system supports ad-hoc custom events with custom payloads as well.  Built RESTFul ingress web service using MVC4 Web API, hosted in Windows Azure compute services, with custom performance counters and diagnostic logging, using Windows Azure blob storage.  HD Insight cluster uses Azure Storage Vault to run map-reduce jobs across blob storage to provide BI insights.

·   Created new cloud and claims based access control service (secure token service) to provide authorization tokens for use with next generation of Connect platform services.  Access Control Service (ACS) is a RESTFul web service built using MVC4 Web API and Thinktecture Identity Model packages, hosted in Windows Azure compute services.  ACS integrates with 3^rd party identity providers, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Live to convert authorization token issued by 3^rd party identity providers into native authorization token representing in JSON Web Token format (JWT) as well as access to user profile information.

·   Built Battleship-like multiplayer touch-friendly game in 2 days for company-wide game jam using C# and XAML for Window 8 platform.

The Echo System ( http://www.theechosystem.com/ )

New York, NY

Vice President, Engineering

12/2011 – 12/2012

·   Replaced exiting CTO/Founder on executive team, managing a team of five developers and one graphic artist.  Oversaw complete rewrite of codebase, including personally coding daily, as well as established full software development lifecycle best practices, including integrated source control, managed work items in TFS, automated unit testing, continuous integration, and fully functional staging environment for manual and regression testing of production release candidates.  Established a new development team culture which used cross training, code reviews, deployment and outage post-mortems to promote team cohesion and sense of product ownership. Worked with executive team on company business plan, marketing and sales strategy, hiring and retention plan, and infrastructure budget.

·   Created a suite of elastic RESTful services with associated client Javascript library (similar to Google Analytics API) for e-commerce clients to install on their websites to track visitor’s site-side behavior (site visits, page views, purchases) as well as social behavior (Facebook/Twitter/Email sharing, social referrals, referral purchases, advertisement impressions/click-thru/campaign and funnel analysis) in order to help clients determine their return on social marketing investments and the quality of their social engagement practices.  Our script was installed on a number of high volume e-commerce websites (TagHeuer.com, Finishline.com, Dermstore.com, Blush.com, Totsy.com, and Grandparents.com to name a few) which collectively brought over 10 million unique visitors per month, with peaks of over 10,000 requests per minute.  Services were built on a combination of managed dedicated and cloud co-located servers using ASP.Net MVC3 controller actions in C#, using a IoC repository design pattern to allow for mocking and unit testing.  Used Team City for CI and unit testing in VS2010, integrated TFS source control, as well as automated branch management and labeling.

·   Created client reporting dashboard for visualizing client web traffic (similar to Google analytics) in ASP.Net MVC3 using C#, Razor, HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap.  Site designed to provide modern user interaction using latest Ajax coding techniques and jQuery unobtrusive data validation library.  Site connected directly to SSAS using MDX queries to get data for visualization and MSSQL 2012 for account/user management tables.

·   Created OLTP database to store web traffic events and OLAP data warehouse to process data in order to calculate a daily social influence score for each unique shopper for each of our e-commerce clients as well as provide dashboard with aggregated data for visualization.  Data tables were optimized on OLTP server for high volume data insertion and minimum storage with table sizes in the billions.  Created ETL processes using SSIS to scrub, transform, and move data into a star schema designed data warehouse.  Created data cubes using SSAS to provide business insight into the data and provide near-real-time visualization in client dashboard.

·   Responsible for internal office infrastructure (servers, network, routers, active directory, backups, disaster recovery, etc.)  Once, I actually repaired the condensation reservoir pump on HVAC unit in office to keep the ceiling from leaking.

AllianceBernstein ( http://www.alliancebernstein.com/ )

New York, NY

Vice President, Senior Developer

Equity Investment Management Technology (EIMT)

08/2004 – 11/2011

·   Created the Guarantee Aggregation, Tracking, and Expensing System (GATES) for our Defined Contribution team in order to support a new Secured Retirement Strategies product which adds insured guarantees to target date funds managed in our client’s customized retirement plans.  GATES was designed to process millions of participant contributions during each nightly batch cycle within a tight 4 hour window, while reading and writing to a billion record transaction table using < 50ms read queries in order to complete on time. GATES uses the following technology: C#, VS2008/VS2010, Windows Services with performance counter instrumentation, .Net Remoting for remote control of windows services, Team Project using TFS Source Control, work item tracking, CI and build and unit testing automation, MSSQL 2005

·   Completely redesigned the pre-trade compliance engine used by the Passive trading team and created a Smartclient desktop application called Passport for running compliance checks on trading baskets. Reduced time to run pre-trade compliance on large baskets (6000+ trades) from multi-day execution times to less than 2 minutes by using dynamic LINQ queries on an in-memory data cache. Passport uses the following technology: C#, Winform Smartclient using ClickOnce deployment and Devexpress controls, WCF, LINQ, RegEx, Expression Trees. Windows Service for data object caching and in-memory rule checking. SVN used for version control, VS2008/VS2010, Sybase 12, Oracle

·   Created a desktop application called ABConsole which hosts many related core business applications in one shell using the plug-in architecture of the Smartclient Software Factory. This application is deployed to every desktop in the firm. ABConsole uses the following technology: C#, Smartclient Software Factory/CAB Winform Smartclient using Devexpress controls, Custom real-time Push event and messaging architecture using web services and .Net remoting, VS2005/2008 VSS for source control, CruiseControl.Net for CI and build Automation

·   Created a custom, firm-wide application workflow infrastructure called the Application Workflow Service (AWS). The AWS services provide the foundation for many firm-wide workflow applications, including the firm’s online request and procurement system (eRequest), the IT department’s production change management system (ChangeControl), and the legal and compliance department’s task management system (CTMS); all of which were prototyped and incubated by my development team. AWS uses the following technology: C#, Load balanced ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX), Winform Smartclient Admin tool using No Touch deployment hosted in IIS, VS2005/VS2008, VSS for source control, CruiseControl.Net for CI and build Automation, Biztalk Orchestrations, MSSQL 2000/2005

·   Created a .Net port of the widely used Java-based open-source scheduling service called Quartz, extending it to include dynamic discovery and execution of web methods using WSDL and in-memory compilation techniques. Quartz.Net uses the following technology: C#, Windows Services, VS2005/VS2008, VSS for source control, MSSQL 2000/2005

·   Created a new tool called Pathfinder to help the Defined Contribution research team track multiple glidepaths for target-date funds in customized retirement strategies for clients. Pathfinder uses the following technology: C#, Winform Smartclient using ClickOnce deployment and Devexpress controls, ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX), ASP.Net Master Pages for user reports, Team Project using TFS Source Control, work item tracking, CI and build and unit testing automation, VS2008, MSSQL 2005

·   Managed six senior developers in the Transaction Management Services team in the EIMT group. Lead the team’s effort to retire legacy transaction routing applications with new Global Transaction Manager (GTM) web service, moving the Growth, Value, FX, and Derivative trades from portfolio optimization application to all of the firm’s many internal order management systems (Longview, Minerva, FXCM). GTM uses the following technology: C#, VS2010, SVN for source control, WCF and ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX), ASP.Net Master Pages for web service support tools, Windows Services with performance counter instrumentation, Unit testing with mock data access layers to simulate 3^rd party databases, Team City for continuous integration and build management, service connects to MSSQL 2005/2008R2, Sybase 12 and Oracle databases.

·   Created a new tool called Account Information Exchange (AIX) for portfolio managers and traders to visualize account holdings, allowing users to create custom pivots and drill-down views and share them with other users. AIX uses the following technology: C#, Winform Smartclient using ClickOnce deployment and Devexpress controls, VS2010, OLAP database design using snowflake schema, WCF with bi-direction communication, Team Project using TFS Source Control, work item tracking, CI and build and unit testing automation, MSSQL 2005

·   Ported spreadsheet-based management of Defined Benefit plans in our London office to a database solution for the EIMT Research team. This solution uses yield curves for zero coupon swaps and historic real price indexes to project future liabilities for pension plans to help manage the appropriate mix of return seeking assets to liability driven investments in order to improve the plan’s funded ratio. This project used the following: Visual Studio 2011 LightSwitch for rapid UI prototyping, Team Project using TFS Source Control, VS2008, SQL Server 2008R2 Database Project with external dbschema database references, Report Server Project (SSRS), Integration Services Project (SSIS), Database Unit Test Project, C# Library for custom database unit testing TestCondition class, MSSQL 2008R2

Buy.com ( www.buy.com ) \ Buyservices.com ( www.buyservices.com/clients.asp )

Aliso Viejo, CA

Senior Application Engineer

11/2001-08/2004

·   Acted as senior developer/architect on major enterprise websites, primarily for the second largest online retailer, Buy.com. Buy.com has over 6 million users placing, during peak hours, an average of 10-20 orders a minute, with an average order size of $130, in which Buy.com grosses over $1 million a day in booked revenue from about 8000 orders, resulting in 30,000 – 50,000 backend transactions from a selection of over 1 million products, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During holiday season, those numbers can and have doubled and tripled.

·   Created an object model for representing all business objects in the system using C# and Microsoft.Net. (Order, OrderLine, Shipment, Product, Shopper, Gift Card, etc.)  This business layer forms the foundation for backend order processing for Buy.com and ASP.Net code powering Buymusic.com, Swell.com , shop.MTV.com, shop.VH1.com, and shop.CMT.com.

·   Created a framework for third-party integration and data trading using secure web services, SSL Certificates, XML, SOAP, and FTP. Using this framework, I’ve built services that communicate with international shipping partners, distributors, record labels, promotional reward companies, gift card processors, and financial institutions.

·   Created a framework for E-commerce backend order processing. The framework abstracts process multithreading, process control, process monitoring, and event logging for maximum reuse and enforcement of best practices.

·   Created a workflow system used to control, monitor, and schedule all backend order processing (Credit card authorization, fraud screening, multi-distributor sourcing, EDI/XML product catalog, purchase order, shipment record communication, credit card and gift card billing, order cancellations, and order RMA).

·   Create an online DRM license server for delivering rights for digital media to shoppers of Buymusic.com using Windows Media 9 SDK.

Buyproduce, Inc. ( www.buyproduce.com )

Irvine, CA

Senior Application Developer / Architect

02/2001 – 11/2001

·   Acted as team lead in a group of five developers; including project planning, scheduling, and resource allocation, reporting directly to CIO.

·   As architect, designed newest version of company's only web application; an Internet based purchase order and company management application for the produce industry based on HTML, JavaScript, ASP, COM+, XML, Active Directory, and a MSSQL database.

·   As architect, designed, coded, and implemented UI framework for the web application's presentation layer; including context-sensitive pop-up menus and help system, persistent user customizable look and feel, and robust error trapping and messaging.

·   As architect, designed, coded, and implemented backend data trading using BizTalk for b2b data collaboration and forecasting analytics.

Equative.com ( www.equative.com )

Irvine, CA

Senior Development Manager / Architect

03/2000 - 02/2001

·   Managed product development department consisting of twenty-five developers; including project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and establishing business processes and coding conventions, reporting directly to CTO and CEO.

·   As architect, designed newest version of TimeLedger.com; an Internet based time and expense tracking application based on HTML, JavaScript, ASP, COM, XML, and a MSSQL database.

·   As architect, designed, coded and implemented a Palm OS application, interface, and HotSync protocol using PumaTech’s Satellite Forms to integrate with TimeLedger.com.

·   As architect, designed, coded and implemented an interface to a telephone entry module for customers to place time and expense entries into TimeLedger.com over the telephone.

·   As architect, designed, coded and implemented an off-line version of TimeLedger.com which could HotSync with the Palm application as well as the website.

·   As architect, designed, coded and implemented an interface engine for third party software to collaborate with TimeLedger.com.

General Medical Applications ( http://www.gmed.com/ )

Santa Ana, CA

Director of Product Development

09/1997 - 03/2000

·   Managed product development department consisting of five developers; including project planning, scheduling, and resource allocation, reporting directly to CEO.

·   Designed, coded and implemented gCare™; an Internet/Intranet based electronic medical record software system using ActiveX controls embedded in HTML, JavaScript, ASP, XML, and a MSSQL database.

·   Designed, coded and implemented an automated document generator and report writer to integrate with gCare™ and endoscope imaging systems.

·   Designed, coded and implemented an interface engine for third party software to collaborate with gCare™ including integrating for practice management systems for trading patient data using HL7 and ActiveX For Healthcare.

·   Acted as customer liaison; including system demonstration, integration, installation and training.

Quality Systems, Inc. ( www.qsii.com )

Tustin, CA

Programmer / System Analyst

09/1993 - 04/1997

·   Designed, coded and implemented electronic claims submission module for clinical practice management software.

·   Designed, coded and implemented mapping scheme for retrieval of data from legacy system into electronic claims module.

·   Designed web site and researched web technologies to establish company's presence on the Internet.

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA

B.S. Information And Computer Science

09/1993 - 06/1997

·   Major GPA : 3.75

·   Overall GPA : 3.30

·   Minor in Psychology.

·   Worked as head tutor for Intro to CS for non-majors class.

·   Gave weekly lectures to discussion group of 30+ students.

·   Developed lesson plans and graded projects for discussion group.

·   Ran computer lab and managed tutors assigned to the lab.

·   Awarded Deans Honor List twice.

·   Degree awarded with a Specialization in Computer Systems.