Aranscia
Healthcare technology · Unified Platform Technical Lead
Merging five acquired healthcare products into one Azure SaaS platform under HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST and SOC 2, incrementally, with legacy and unified running side by side.
24 engagements · 8 sectors · 1997 to now
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Record Research Inc.
Publishing — chart data · Sole developer and architect
A chart-data archive migrated off SQL Server 7, Classic ASP and Visual FoxPro to Azure SQL and Blazor on App Service, with the FoxPro tools kept running against the new database until replaced.
Mason & Mason / DSM, Inc.
Right-of-way appraisal and eminent domain · Sole developer and architect
Thirteen years as sole developer for a right-of-way appraisal firm: an operating system built inside Lotus Notes, then rebuilt on Silverlight and again on LightSwitch as each was discontinued, ending as Esri-backed cloud sites over SQL Server.
Frasco Inc.
Background screening and investigations · Sole external developer and architect
Self-service ordering for a national background-screening firm, built as ASP.NET Core over an OData layer into the existing Delphi/InterBase back office rather than replacing it.
Coast Asset Management
Fixed-income asset management · Lead developer and rescuer
A fixed-income desk's WinForms and WPF trading tools moved off forty hand-maintained flat files onto Bloomberg BLPAPI, and the 'mouse flicker' fault nobody could solve found inside the vendor's own .NET wrapper.
We Buy Cars / Used Car Club
Used-vehicle wholesale · Sole developer and database rescuer
Broken SQL replication and a leaking data warehouse fixed first, then six years replacing the Access system the floor ran on with a desktop client over a web-service layer.
The Comp Specialists, LLC
Workers' compensation · Interim CTO and lead architect
Treatment pathways that existed only as Visio drawings turned into a subscription product on ASP.NET and Silverlight, with a serial-number scheme that makes every printed copy verifiable.
Cimnet Systems — Engenix
Manufacturing execution software (printed circuit boards) · Software architect — rules engine and data architecture
A manufacturing execution product five years and almost $2 million had failed to produce: a rules engine and relational data architecture in Delphi, prototyped in three days, ready to implement in six months, still sold twenty-five years later.
Electrostar → Tyco Electronics
Printed circuit board manufacturing · Sole developer
A Delphi inventory system built around location rather than quantity, with bar-coded shelving, early RFID tracking and press integration, that saved $15,000 a day in its first week and moved from Windows 95 to Windows 10 with a recompile.
Universal Music Group (via New Reach Consulting)
Music catalogue and rights · Architect and technical lead
Seventeen years through one consultancy. At UMG, a catalogue feed reconciled field by field against the rights database, core queries cut from thirty seconds to under one, and later a festival ticketing and cashless-payment architecture on Azure.
ACD LLC
Cryogenic pumps and turboexpanders · Lead developer
An internal WPF sizing program exposed to customers through a Silverlight front end brokering to a pool of VMs running headless copies, with the calculation code and customer identities never leaving the internal network.
Gamiker
Regulated real-money gaming · Lead architect
A real-money match-3 game with client, rules, RNG and pay tables, and wallet separated so nothing affecting payout runs in the browser, plus the simulation that proved return-to-player to the certification lab.
Nissin Foods
Food manufacturing · Sole developer (software half of a two-firm bid)
Checkweigher readings a noodle plant was discarding captured off serial ports into SQL Server, with real-time control charts for operators and a counting function written inside the Siemens WinCC HMI.
PB Microsavings
Retail payments and micro-savings · CTO
A retail micro-savings platform on ASP.NET MVC and Azure SQL: member site, transaction clearing back end, per-retailer balances and reporting, and Ingenico PIN-pad integration, built from a specification I wrote first.
CAPS Payroll
Entertainment payroll · Sole developer and rescuer
A residuals calculation engine rebuilt from scratch on LightSwitch, Silverlight and SQL Server after both sources of truth for the union rules were found to be wrong.
Deluxe Digital Studios
Film localisation and post-production · Senior developer
A Silverlight subtitle authoring tool over WCF RIA Services, and a GPU encoding pipeline driving the vendor SDK rewritten so a crashed encode can no longer pass as a finished one.
Momentum Investment Services
Investment operations and casino floors · Lead developer
Ten click-once WinForms applications over WCF and SQL Server forming the back office for an investment business in seven countries, plus web reporting and a multi-currency operational system for gambling floors.
bp
Energy — data analytics, trading and shipping · Contract developer, then Data Management Specialist
Two separate roles inside bp: data analytics on the Power Platform from 2021, then a direct six-month appointment in Trading & Shipping created for me rather than posted.
Trulok / Trio Manufacturing
Aerospace fastener measurement · Sole developer
WinForms software over a Solartron Orbit USB probe and a gauge-block catalogue in SQL Server Express, redrawing the client's own engineering drawings live as the operator types.
VectorUSA
Network and infrastructure contracting · Sole developer
A WPF and Silverlight field labour capture system with an approval chain and pay-period rules, replacing an Access front end, and a web-service layer removed when it proved unreliable over the VPN.
ToRemindU / TMail
Mobile messaging · Co-founder and sole developer
A cross-platform reminder and messaging product on iOS, Android, Windows and an Azure back end, built solo as co-founder with the people behind PB Microsavings.
Fox Networks
Broadcast advertising · Developer
A Silverlight application for the advertising side of the network, managing and scheduling the advertisements that go to air.
MySpace
Social media · Senior software developer
Integrating MySpace's .NET estate with WordPress.
John Tesh Media
Entertainment web and streaming · Chief Technology Officer
CTO when John Tesh set up his web presence on Classic ASP, the site that is tesh.com today, and streaming radio for Priscilla Presley presented by a scripted DJ when streaming audio on the web was barely a category.
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