Experienced Technical Architect, Developer, and Team Leader with over eighteen years of experience working in product development, consulting, and custom software development organizations.

Experience

Principal Software Architect / Wizard Software, Chicago | 2018 - present

Achievements

• Modernized legacy thick client applications by transitioning from FileMaker to C# and ASP.NET Core, resulting in compliance with Section 508/WCAG accessibility requirements.
• Pioneered Cloud Computing and PaaS (Azure Web App Services) usage as a deployment target for mission critical applications, improving reliability and horizontal scaling.
• Improved release reliability by documenting and standardizing CI/CD processes across teams, reducing deployment failures and inconsistencies.
• Enhanced application authentication for multiple applications by implementing a federation gateway to centralize customer configuration, reducing customer SSO setup time from days to hours.
• Simplified user sign-in process by implementing OIDC flows across multiple applications, improving user experience and reducing support requests.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage development team.
• Set strategic and technical product direction.
• Coordinate work and manage workloads.
• Track and measure team progress to company goals.
• Mentor and guide team members.

Solutions Architect / Netrix LLC, Chicago | 2013 - 2018

Achievements

• Improved standardization and efficiency by implementing unified DevOps workflows, resulting in faster deployments and fewer errors.
• Delivered multiple successful projects by leading teams with balanced hands-on work and delegation, achieving all business objectives.
• Modernized legacy Real Estate website using current development practices, improving performance and user engagement.
• Supported successful on-premises to AWS migration by managing critical application transitions, enhancing scalability and reliability.
• Expanded cloud adoption in the practice area by advocating for and supporting cloud-based solutions, creating more agile operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement solutions to meet client needs.
• Organize and lead requirements gathering and business analysis meetings.
• Mentor and guide team members.

IT Specialist and Software Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago | 2007 - 2013

Achievements

• Improved hosting capabilities by architecting and implementing a large-scale infrastructure upgrade, resulting in enhanced network, storage, and compute resources.
• Enabled successful relocation by contributing key technical expertise to migration from on-premises to managed colocation facility, resulting in improved operational efficiency.
• Accelerated company growth by pioneering web-based product development while supporting existing thick client applications, resulting in expanded market reach.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, maintenance, and support of hosting infrastructure.
• Lead software development of internal systems.

Skills

I have deep knowledge of the following technologies:

• C#, Typescript, and Javascript.
• ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET WebApi, ASP.NET MVC.
• Entity Framework, Linq, and SQL.
• Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, and SQLite.
• Vue, Pinia, NodeJS, and Vite.
• HTML and CSS/SCSS.

I have worked with these technologies:

• Avalonia, UWP, WPF, Windows Forms.
• XNA, Monogame, and PhaserJS.
• Angular, React, Aurelia, KnockoutJS, jQuery.
• Visual Basic, starting with v4, the 16 bit version.
• Java, Go, Php, ColdFusion, C++, Assembler, Python, R, FileMaker Pro.

Open Source Work

I maintain several open source projects and have made contributions to many others. All can be viewed here: https://github.com/fuzzzerd.

FMData

A simple and flexible FileMaker Data API Client for .NET. Use FMData to integrate your FileMaker data into .NET websites and applications.

https://github.com/fuzzzerd/fmdata

Time2Temp

A simple Barbecue or Smoking Time and Temperature Cheat Sheet.

https://github.com/fuzzzerd/time2temp

SharpFM

SharpFM is a cross-platform app for copying FileMaker clipboard objects to XML snippets and converting XML snippets back to FileMaker clipboard objects. It aims to offer a FileMaker developers an additional tool for storing, sharing, changing, and replicating FileMaker Scripts, Database Schema, and Layout objects.

https://github.com/fuzzzerd/SharpFM

QuickText.app

Quick text parts for your sharing needs.

https://github.com/fuzzzerd/quicktext