Resume Friday April 13,2012 8:45 AM

Andrew Hodgson

Executive Summary:

I am a highly experienced professional software developer and architect with over twelve years of experience. I bring to the table a solid history of architecting, producing and leading full-cycle commercial and enterprise-scale applications to successful completions.

Core Technical Skills:

•	Public Facing commercial high volume enterprise web and smart client development
•	Expert .NET development and Architecture (since beta). 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, & 4.0
•	C#, MVC , ASP.NET, LINQ, AJAX, JQuery web development
•	Extensive WPF, Silverlight, and Win-form smart client development
•	Database Design and Architecture with SQL Server 2000-2008 R2 and Oracle
•	WCF, MSMQ, TCP with Extensive Multi-threaded client and server development
•	OOP, XML,XSL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, SOAP, XPATH, XSLT, DOM, HTML, UML ,ORM
•	ORM Framework, code generation using VS2010 Templates, MyGeneration,  & Code Smith
•	Windows Workflow (WWF) with SharePoint &  BizTalk, MS Team foundation
•	CRM & CMS development with Dojo, DNN (Dot Net Nuke), and custom frameworks

Professional Skills:

•	Over seven years of commercial software and public website development
•	Software Architect and Application Development
•	Excellent Communication, Risk, Expectation, and Scope Management Skills
•	Project Budgeting, Financial and Contingency Planning
•	Thorough Employee Hiring and Team Building
•	Numerous Full Life Cycle Enterprise Application Project Experience

Companies:

May 2011 to March 2012

Shipinsur.com
(Principal Architect & Developer)	•	Designed and developed a commercial multi-tenant ASP.NET 4.0 public facing website www.shipinsur.com. This site was architected to allow multiple customers to host a branded version of a cargo insurance certificate application. The application’s database is developed in MSSQL 2008 R2 using .NET entity framework as data access layer. The site allows multiple tenants to configure and administer users and security policies. Web UI was developed as a SPA (single-page application) using JQuery.


Nov 2010 to May 2011

Overwatch, Inc.
(Senior .NET Consultant)
	•	Provided expert WCF & WPF consultation on large .NET smart client application that is being used by the U.S. Military. Tasks included modifying the application’s WPF single thread communication of WCF services to asynchronous communication. Increased application’s SQL Server 2008 database’s performance by recommending and implementing best practices.

Nov 2009 to Oct 2010

Neudesic, LCC
(Senior II .NET Consultant)
	•	Lead a team that developed www.pinotspalette.com public web site and internal franchise management system using .NET 4 entity framework, MVC 2.0, AJAX with JQuery, and SQL Server 2008 2

•	Architected and developed GameStop’s Loyalty Website using .NET MVC 2.0, JQuery, and Microsoft’s Enterprise library application blocks for a large publicly traded corporation. This application connected to many different data sources using WCF services.



June 2009 to October 2009

Ford Motor Co.
(Senior .NET Architect & Consultant)

	•	Provided expert .NET Architecture and technical consultation to Ford's www.syncmyride.com public website and Sync installation production of vehicles.
•	Consulted team and provided Threat Modeling and performance enhancements for syncmyride.com. This included better security for online transactions using credit card and PayPal. Enhanced overall web performance by implementing industry standard client and server side caching techniques.
•	Written, Designed, Proposed, and development a new multithreaded window's service that successfully fixed the assembly line production issues.


May 2005 to June 2009

Cochrane Consulting, Inc.
(Senior Architect  & Developer)

	•	WPF and Win-form Smart Client Applications using custom "One Click" deployment to multiple users
•	Developed several ASP.NET and C# applications for clients in the aviation, advertising, telecomm, oil supply, and legal fields managing, architecting and developing several ASP.NET and windows applications
•	Utilized the latest in Microsoft development technologies including
ASP.NET C# AJAX, Silverlight and MVC Web applications
•	WCF and Web Services using compression and encrypted custom bindings
•	Lead, built and managed a team in designing and developing an Inventory system that utilized RFID technologies. The application is being used to track the inventory of a large oil supply company. This application was also designed to be sold commercially allowing end users to write to the documented API to integrate their existing infrastructures.


April 2002 to May 2005

Perfect Stop, Inc.
(Senior Architect & Developer)

	•	Responsible for company’s core product development and management
•	Responsible for gathering requirements and interfacing with the company investors and partners
•	Lead, managed, and built a successful programming team responsible for developing a high volume transaction system connecting thousands of users to purchase fuel and services via web and win form applications using .NET C# and SQL Server 2000.
•	Participated as a member of the senior management team responsible for business development and management
•	DBA in MS SQL 2000 database that contained over 300 tables
•	Architected a redundant, clustered & load balanced hosted solution for the system



Dell, Inc.

Provided expert consultation and hot fixes for the world’s largest direct shipping application using Microsoft DNA technologies. Application is the largest implementation of MSMQ at the time. Developed and designed an architecture that wrapped existing state-full components that could only run one facility per machine and re-architect it into a loosely coupled highly scalable stateless application using MSMQ, and internet technologies such as SOAP an XML. Developed a resource dispenser used in MTS for MSMQ. Optimized an existing web service that provided rate information using Prolog for shipping enterprise wide.

Continental Airlines, Inc.

This reservation application received first place in the worldwide open application contest presented by Microsoft. This application was the World’s largest implementation of MTS at the time. Developed a high-volume point of sale and accounting system used in a multi-user environment at airports. This application exploited the new technologies of MTS, Visual Basic, and SQL Server 7.0 that allowed for both conventional client/server and web-based solutions. Coordinated development using Visual Basic to develop a flexible application framework that used a snap-in architecture that allowed components to be inserted or removed at run time to eliminate the need for hard references between components and would allow the most component reuse between applications for further development. Designed and developed multiple ActiveX server components/controls allowing scalable transaction based functionality for an airport reservation system.

Previous Clients/Companies

•	Duke Energy, Inc.
•	Altra Energy
•	Harris County District Clerks Office
•	M.D. Anderson Hospital
•	Dealer Solutions, Inc.
•	SBPA


Patents :	•	Partnered in developing a business process patent for a general aviation commerce solution

Education:	•	University of Houston, Texas
References:	•	Available upon request