Michael Herrington      Addison, TX           mherrington@gmail.com

Summary:    An accomplished, full-stack .NET Software Engineer for successful companies.

Education:   The University of Texas at Austin - Bachelors in Computer Science   (2006)

Expertise:

•          Languages:  C# 4.5, SQL, ASP.NET Razor, JavaScript, SASS, CSS3, HTML5, DOM, XML, XAML,XSL,                            UML, Java, C++, C, VB.NET, VB6

•          Frameworks:  .NET 4.5, Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC/Webforms, Angular/jQuery, MS-Test, N-Unit, LINQ,                             Ninject, WinForms, Ruby, Compass, WPF, Ajax, Omniture, Google Analytics, Elastic Search, Redis

•          Applications:  VS2013 (Resharper), SSMS 2014, Chrome Debugger, Firefox Dev Tools, IIS, LinqPad, PowerShell,                             Virtual Servers, SSH, Telnet, Notepad++, Sublime, AWS, Bash, VirtualBox, HipChat, Hangout, IE8

•          Management tools:  Team Foundation Server, Git (GitHub), Version1, Trello, TeamCity, Octopus, Roundhouse,               CruiseControl, Subversion, Projectlocker, SharePoint, Redmine, Trac, Bugzilla, Confluence, Crucible

•          Platforms:  Windows Server, Windows 8, XP, Red-Hat, Ubuntu, VMWare, ESX Linux, Virtual Machines,                             Infragistics, Telerik, Dart

Other:

•          Pluralsight (Training site) member, avid user and love it!  Also have attended .NET User Group meetings.

•          MS Programming Experience: 14 yrs. professionally.  19 total yrs.  (was a hobbyist at age 15)

•          Self-sufficient by solving any underlying problems in OS, network, and hardware.

•          Elected team lead developer on software engineering team at University of Texas.

Experience:

RealPage – Sr. Software Engineer    (Contract)                                                              (Dec 2015 – Apr 2016)

•          www.realpage.com is a medium-size company that runs Lease Management software for rentals .

•          Worked with a large team of about 20 people to manage insurance for apartments.

•          Introduced new framework to fix some serious problems in current architecture using SOLID.

•          Learned why and how their business works and what generates value.

•          Attended many meetings to follow SCRUM methodology.

•          Interacted with many developers, BA, and QA in all time-zones in US and with India team.

•          Designed new tables in SQL DB, (TFS) to help support new functionality and data models.

•          Received job offer, but declined due to noisy office.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, VS2015, TFS, Lync, Windows Server, SSMS, .NET 4.5, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework 6.1, SSRS, Ajax, JavaScript, Jquery, Chrome, Notepad++, Simple Injector, AutoMapper

ACH Processing – Software Engineer    (Contract)                                                             (Dec 2014 – Jun 2015)

•          www.achprocessing.com is a small payment processing company providing a low cost payment solution.

•          Deployed an entire new version of the system to replace the current production system.

•          Worked daily with the CEO/President and another developer to discuss the progress and design specs.

•          Learned how ACH type payment processing works from the CEO and white papers.

•          Developed new WCF Webservice API for our customers to automate our system.

•          Created new features, boosted performance and fixed existing bugs in ASP.NET pages and Windows Services.

•          Modified SQL Server DB stored procs, created views, altered schemas, and updated SSRS report builders.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, VS2013, TFS, Windows 8 and Windows Server, SSMS, .NET 4.5, C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework 6.1, SSRS, Ajax, JavaScript, Jquery, Chrome, Notepad++

 DealerTrack, Inc. – Software Engineer    (Full-time role)                                                    (Nov 2013 – Oct 2014)

•          www.dealertrack.com is a large software company that offers website services for Car dealerships.

•          Fixed bugs and added features on their very large scale platform, using SCRUM methodology.

•          Developed on production SQL Server Databases, altered schemas, CRUD operations, etc.

•          Utilized Agile process with a Scrum master on our Team.

•          Technologies:  MS Stack, VS2012, SQL Server 08 (SSMS), .NET 4.5, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Elastic, Redis, Git (BASH), XSL, SASS, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, DOM, GitHub, Crucible, TeamCity, Octopus, Omniture

Tenduit, Inc. – Senior .NET Software Engineer (Contractor)                                                (Mar 2011 - Oct 2013)

•          www.tenduit.com is a small start-up software company that develops recovery software for servers in data-centers.

•          Lead development of Client GUI and one of three developers for the entire .NET product line.

•          Built integrated licensing system, both server side web service as well as ASP.NET client system.

•          Technologies:  MS Stack, VS2008, .NET, C#, ASP.NET, IIS, SQL Server, WinForms, Web Services, Subversion, Telerik, Dart SSH, AWS VMs, Projectlocker, ESX Linux, Java, C++, C, VPN, VNC, IPMI

Allen Technologies, Inc. – Senior .NET Software Engineer  (Full-time role)                            (Oct 2008 - Feb 2011)

•          www.allentek.com is a services company in the hospitality industry in which I worked under CTO, Jeff Cartwright.

•          Lead the VigoPC team which delivered production software in over 8 hospitals across the nation (over 2000 PC systems running Windows OS + our software suite).

•          Specialized in rich client-side development (WPF) for the “VigoPC”, which was the system that ran inside our hospital rooms.  It provided TV, health education videos, entertainment and notifications for patients.

•          Worked on-site at 3 hospitals in states of CA and MA to get user feedback, verify system quality and promote good PR with our clients.

•          Rescued the company because they had sold a product that did not exist.  I worked overtime to complete an entire product suite in the course of a couple months to meet their deadline.  I had only one other developer assisting.

•          Designed TV Tuner software that controlled TV tuners as well as video processing.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, Visual Studio, .NET, C#, WPF, WinForms, Web Services, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Subversion, DirectShow/DirectX, FOG, Redmine, Bugzilla, IIS, VPN, VNC, RPC

National Financial Partners – Junior .NET Software Engineer  (Contractor)                           (Jan 2007 - Oct 2008)

•          www.nfp.com is a financial company that uses internal IT solutions for the medium of creating business accounts.  Their IT is responsible for creating solutions to support and maintain their business.

•          Jumped into their largest project that was near delivery and quickly ramped up to become part of the delivery team.  This project was the replacement of an old classic ASP application that was responsible for 80% of overall business. (IRA, Roth, Mutual funds, etc.)

•          Solved advanced debugging problems and huge memory leaks with profiler.

•          Optimized web app, by adding caching, and shrinking view-state thus making load acceptable.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, Visual Studio, .NET 2, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, IIS, MyGeneration (ORM), Team foundation server, CruiseControl, Server Composite controls, MS unit testing

InReach – Junior .NET Software Engineer  (Contract-to-hire)                                                 (Jan 2006 - Dec 2007)

•          www.inreach.com is a continuing education company that specializes in delivering education content for verticals such as Engineering, Financial, Healthcare, and Legal.

•          Developed on their main web application, added features, fixed bugs and optimized.

•          Introduced new systems to their process.  Swapped our source code system.  Added unit testing.

•          Introduced some slick caching systems into app while re-factored convoluted thrashing code.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, Visual Studio,  SQL Server, IIS, .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Subversion, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, Firebug.

Overwatch Systems – Entry .NET Software Engineer  (Full-time role)                                   (Feb 2000- Dec 2006)

•          www.overwatch.com is a military intelligence company that contracts with DoD.  Maintained a secret security clearance and adhered to company CMMI level 4 processes.

•          Developed a C# desktop application framework/dashboard which won a contract from the Army (DCGS) of which they planned to use our framework as their application base.

•          Programmed C++ for GIS 2d/3d mapping, intelligent event analysis tools, USGS data importing, JTMK, ESRI, and CPP-Unit.  Also developed for FCS (Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon) a very large Linux project in C++/Java.

•          Developed an ASP.NET web UI for our entity editor.  Levels consisted of SQL DB, C# (ASP), XML, XSL, CSS, DHTML.

•          Technologies: MS Stack, Visual Studio, .NET, C#, nUnit tests/code coverage, SQL Server, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, CSS, DHTML,  VB6, C++, Java, Virtual Machines, ORM, RPC