Contact:

Charles Shane Corrallo, scorrallo@gmail.com, 832.451.0407

 

Summary:

Sr. Application Development Manager / Sr. Software Architect / Managing Software Engineer

Proven experience in managing, developing and deploying custom software solutions focused on Microsoft .NET full stack technologies, languages, and platforms. Results-oriented, high-energy, hands-on team leader who emphasizes team collaboration, adaptability, problem solving, and conflict resolution with recent accomplishments in the Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Logistics, and Transportation industries. Depth of functional management skills provides additional capabilities in resource management, project delivery, and P&L components.

 

Management Skills

v      Ability to communicate effectively and clearly with all levels of organization.

v      Demonstrated capacity to implement innovative business solutions.

v      Significant experience with service oriented architectures and Internet driven services.

v      Hands-on experience with a broad range of object oriented development platforms.

v      Outstanding leadership abilities and ability to coordinate and direct all phases of projects.

v      History of managing, motivating, and leading project teams with diverse disciplines.

v      Capable of understanding and identifying current industry trends.

v      Adept at managing client expectations and controlling project scope and deliverables.

v      Consistently reviews employee performance and needs to encourage excellence.

v      Strong documentation, proposal, and presentation skills.

v      Practiced at translating technical concepts and details to non-technical audiences.

v      Experienced with managing multiple partners and vendor relationships.

v      Able to quickly review and assess potential partners, technologies and solutions.

v      Proficient with industry best practices and software design methodologies.

v      Committed to professional excellence, team building, and goal fulfillment.

 

Agile Skills:

v      Delivering production ready versions of software in two or four week cycles (sprints/iterations).

v      Managing SDLC with core Scrum principals and a mix of XP (extreme programming) and DevOps.

v      Implementing CI (continuous integration) and TDD (test driven development).

v      Using build and test automation to facilitate daily integration.

v      Simultaneous and continuous delivery of products with Development and Release branch isolation.

v      Use of ‘Fail Fast, Fail Often’ philosophy to increase incremental value and optimize release quality.

v      Using 360 review processes to align development output with business and user initiatives.

 

Technical Skills

.Net 1.0 to 4.5 (10+ yrs.); C# 1.0 to 6.0 (10+ yrs.); VB.NET 7.0 to 14.0 (6 yrs.); WPF Avalon to 4.0 (6 yrs.); Windows Forms (10 yrs.); WCF Astoria to 4.0 (7 yrs.); TFS and TFVC (7 yrs.); ASP .NET 1.1 to 4.6 (10+ yrs.); ASP .NET MVC (5 yrs.); ASP.NET WEB API (3 yrs.); RESTful Services (5 yrs.); ASP.NET Web Sockets (3 yrs.); XML/XSD (5 yrs.); Silverlight 2.0 to 4.0 (5 yrs.); MVVM (3 yrs.); LINQ (5 yrs.); Multi-Threading (7 yrs.); TPL (3 yrs.); PLINQ (3 yrs.);  UML (5 yrs.); JQuery (5 yrs.); JSON (3 yrs.); JSCRIPT (7 yrs.); AngularJS (3 yrs.); Bootstrap (3 yrs.); SQL Server (7 yrs.); T-SQL (5 yrs.); Entity Framework (5 yrs.); NOSQL (2 yrs.); JAVA (4 yrs.); C++ (5 yrs.); ANSI C (5 yrs.); SOA (5 yrs.); SAAS (7 yrs.); PKI X509 (5 yrs.); Cloud AZURE/AWS (2 yrs.); AGILE Scrum, XP, DEVOPS (7 yrs.); SOLID (2 yrs.); GRASP (1 yr.).

 

 

Work Summary:

Application Engineering Manager, Omron, Houston TX: 2012-2016

Team Lead; Architect, Shipcom Wireless, Houston TX: 2008-2012

Director Software Eng., Smith Datacom, Houston TX: 2002-2008

VP Infrastructure Mgt., Iconnix Corp, Houston TX: 1999-2001

VP Infrastructure Mgt., Enterprise Works, Houston TX: 1996-1999

Director of Application Engineering, Smith & Assoc., Houston TX: 1994-1996

 

Work Details:

Software Engineering Manager at Omron Oilfield and Marine:

 

Responsibilities:

Responsible for overall strategy and management of the R&D development team. This included building a development team skilled in both front-end and back-end programmers around the .NET framework to enable soft real-time data acquisition, automation, and control interfacing to the Omron Rig Control Systems.

 

Roles:

Software Engineering Manager (30%), Sr. Architect (20%), Lead Developer (50%)

 

Project Accomplishments:

·               [Industry: Oil and Gas] Pro Torque - a real time data acquisition and data analytics platform for directional drilling licensed by Shell Oil Company and deployed by H&P. Platform including a minimum of 5ms response times for data logging and data acquisition of over 1,000 data points collected from rig control systems. The platform is comprised of .NET 4.5 components written in C♯ with heavy use of the Task Parallel Libraries (TPL), sparse file systems, and event driven programming. The front-end consists of a series of WPF charting and dashboard widgets, and a metadata layer created with the Entity Framework and SQL Server 2014. Distributed under a SAAS model, the platform resulted in 15%-35% increase in ROP, licensing revenue of over three million dollars annually, and is currently the only Windows based platform authorized by Shell. The development adhered to SOLID object-oriented design patterns and managed with AGILE (Expert Programming) practices TFS and TFVC and a continuous integration approach.

 

·               [Industry: Oil and Gas] PAP (Precise Automation Platform), drilling automation APIs developed for Schlumberger to provide an abstraction layer between low-level rig automation controls and third party automation interfaces. Customer requirements specified a completely decoupled client model with no dependencies on external libraries or interfaces. The platform uses self-hosted ASP.NET 4.5 Web APIs written in C♯ that expose REST services and enforce strict compliance with XML Schemas modeled for each tool on the rigs. End to end data encryption includes PKI components using a self-signed pinned certificate approach instead of traditional chain validation.  The meta-data and data access layers use the Entity Framework with SQL Server 2014. Client-side browser prototype templates provide examples of platform consumption to the customer using AngularJS, Bootstrap, and Java script exchanging XML with strict XSD validation. Soft real time data monitoring in the sub 50ms range (to allow for proactive control and response) is implemented using a Publish and Subscribe model written with ASP .NET Web Sockets The development adhered to SOLID object-oriented design patterns and managed with AGILE (Expert Programming) practices using TFS and TFVC in a continuous integration approach.

 

·               [Industry: Oil and Gas] Rigipedia, an event and alarm correlation platform for Weatherford International to allow real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance of onshore rigs. The solution is created using ASP.NET MVC components written in C♯. Specific requirements for cloud based management of document repositories with strict adherence to business workflows for the editing, approval, and distribution of rig troubleshooting and maintenance procedures is achieved using Windows Workflow Foundation, SQL Server replication, and a scalable web application hosted via Azure. The development adhered to GRASP object-oriented design patterns and managed with AGILE (SCRUM) practices using TFS and TFVC and a simultaneous release approach. Developed in one year, and deployed internationally to rigs in the Weatherford fleet it has earned over five hundred thousand in direct integration revenue and continues to create revenue under a SAAS model.

 

Team Lead and .NET Software Architect at Shipcom Wireless

Responsibilities:

Responsible for UX/UI development, team mentoring, and TFS/TFVC administration for real-time asset and transport visibility solutions in the Healthcare and Logistics verticals. Also responsible for PKI component development and backend web service development.

 

Roles:

Developer training and mentoring (25%), UX architecture design (25%), UI Lead Developer (50%)

 

·               [Industry: Healthcare] Department of Veterans Affairs Vet-Fed Asset Visibility. Develop a web visualization framework using ASP .NET 3.5 MVC written in C♯ using RTLS and passive RFID backend systems to create soft real time visibility of mobile hospital assets and patient flow across VA hospitals in the US. The system displayed assets and patients in the hospital on Ajax enabled web forms represented as icons and avatars on hospital floor plans to allow real-time tracking of locations, waiting times, and staff availability. Creation of on-demand reporting to allow quick searches based on critical criteria to find specific assets, patients, and staff within the hospital boundaries. Led a team of developers in the on-going enhancement and rollout of the solution eventually receiving an award of $20+ million in revenue under the VA VISN 10 program. Agile Scrum used for daily planning, issue tracking, and release management.

 

·               [Industry: Healthcare] US Surgeon General’s automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) project. Created a UI framework written in C♯ using .NET 3.5 Silverlight 2.0/3.0 and MVVM to allow floor plan visualization for mobile assets, ER tray inventory preparation, and real time location of patients and staff. Work directly with Chief Architect in the design and development of REST and SOAP based web services using WCF implemented for storage and retrieval of asset locations from backend systems. Custom reporting system designed using LINQ to SQL allowed ad hoc reporting using ASP .NET web forms on the front end. Created a continuous integration and release management system using TFS/TFVC to maintain versioned releases, issue tracking, and service pack development. The solution resulted in over $1.5 million in development revenue and release of the company’s first real time visibility platform used in the development of Vet-Fed VISN 10 components (later winning an award for over $20 million in development programs).

 

·               [Industry: Logistics] US Navy spare parts program under NAVSEA. Led development of UI framework written in C♯ using .NET 2.0, Silverlight 2.0, Google Maps, SOAP based web services, and SQL Server 2008 R2 to provide global in-transit visibility for over $22 million in spare parts as they travelled from ports in Louisiana to international destinations. Spare parts were fitted with RFID tags, and then loaded into shipping containers were RFID readers would inventory the parts to ensure accurate manifests prior to shipping. GPS tags on the containers allowed global real time tracking of the containers (and contained assets) and used to predict transit times and current locations. Development of the framework allowed visualization of the containers, inventories of the parts, and transit information all integrated with Google Maps.

 

·               [Industry: Logistics] Deep Water Horizon oil spill cleanup. Development of back-end tracking components for hand-held devices using .NET 2.0 designed for asset tracking of over ten thousand assets across four states and seventy-three remote facilities. Development of web-based reporting using ASP.NET and Web Forms to report location and status for assets aboard coast-guard skimmers deployed during cleanup phases between command site locations. Worked directly from command facilities in the southeast US coordinating and liaising with BP management and US Coast Guard officials during development of tracking prototypes, creation of proposals, and strategic planning.

Director of Software Engineering at Smith Datacom

Responsibilities:

Directed and managed Software Engineering consulting practice for Smith Datacom, an end-to-end technology consultancy backed by Smith & Associates International.

 

Roles:

Business and Process Mgt. (30%), Business Development (10%), Engagement Mgt. (20%)

Solutions Architect (20%), Software Development (20%)

 

·               [Industry: State Government] Lead technical consultant of Unicourt Systems, an Internet solution to integrate and deploy a statewide criminal and civil records management system for Louisiana Clerks of Court.

 

·               [Industry: Education] Sr. Development Manager during the development of a commercial Enterprise Network Management and Monitoring solution with integrated Call Center and Event Correlation; licensed to Collegis and used as the discovery backbone for mid-sized universities across the southwest region.

 

·               [Industry: Various] Managing Developer responsible for the design and prototyping of the first on-line risk assessment and migration analysis tool for Peregrine Systems which identified and planned for potential complications during migration from Remedy to Peregrine. 

 

Regional VP Infrastructure Management at Iconixx Corp

Responsibilities:

Responsible for staffing, budgeting, practice management, partner development, and software engineers working in the Application Infrastructure Management division of Iconixx, a leading integrator of Customer Relationship Management, Sales Force Automation, and On-Demand wireless middleware applications.

 

Roles:

Business and Process Mgt. (30%), Business Development (30%), Engagement Mgt. (10%)

Solutions Architect (20%), Software Development (10%)

 

·               [Industry: Entertainment] Sr. Manager in charge of the first on-line ticketing and advertising platform for Viacom and Palm Computing.  The application pioneered a number of innovative features including the ability to purchase tickets remotely by credit card on mobile devices or at on-site kiosks, mapping by zip code to the closest theatre, and geographic ad serving. The entire solution premiered showcased in Los Angeles during the opening of The Hollow Man.

 

·               [Industry: Telecom] Sr. Manager for the Sprint ION project. Responsible for back-end and point system integration for billing, customer services, and decision support. This project required the technical management of over 70 engineers with a broad range of technical skill sets, and detailed task management based on specific delivery SLAs.

 

VP Infrastructure Management at Enterprise Works

Responsibilities:

Sr. Practice Manager of a 4+ million dollar business unit focused on network management and call center design and integration for EnterpriseWorks--a system integration company growing from 7 employees to 220 employees with 8 locations across the U.S. and a number of Fortune 500 and industry leading clients and partners.

 

Roles:

Business and Process Mgt. (25%), Partner Development (25%), Engagement Mgt. (25%)

Software Architect (15), Software Development (10%)

 

·               [Industry: Various]  Managed the design, implementation, and integration of enterprise leading call center and network management solutions for key vendors (Peregrine, Remedy, BMC Software, Oracle, and Tivoli) across a variety of industry verticals including: Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Healthcare, Transportation, and Manufacturing. Successfully completed engagements with over 50 industry leading clients including: 3Com, Anadarko Petroleum, BFI, Braun, Enron, Exxon, Mariner Healthcare, National Oilwell, Reliant Energy, Presbyterian Healthcare, Texas Instruments, Transocean, and Yellow Freight.

 

·               [Industry: Various] Solution architect and Sr. Developer for EnterpriseWorks’ first consulting engagement with Advanced Voice Recognition Incorporated (co-founded by Akeem Olajuwon) to develop one of the earliest Voice Recognition and Response programs on the market.

 

Director of Software Engineering at Smith & Associates

Responsibilities:

Manage the application development, data infrastructure, and information architecture for Smith & Associates, an industry leading semi-conductor broker.

 

Internal projects included:

·               Leading a corporate initiative to migrate away from client-server and telephony based solutions to a pure web-driven application infrastructure.

 

·               Designing and creating an on-line order processing and inventory fulfillment system, which included development of one of the first CGI frameworks used in real-time inventory management (reviewed by editors at O’Reilly).

 

·               Prototyping one of the first Single Administration Managers (SAMs) that simplified administrative operations between SUN’s Solaris, IBM’s AIX, and HP’s HPUX operating systems.

 

·               Launching Smith Market Watch, the first on-line price aggregator and JIT supply chain program for semiconductor brokers and suppliers.

 

 

Education:

Blinn College, Bryan TX, 30 Hours, Applied Engineering

Texas A&M University, College Station, 118 Hours, Computer Science

MCSD (UWP), MSCD (ALM) – In Progress

 

References:

On request