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CHRISTOPHER L. HAMMONS (952) 201-7096 |
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CAREER SUMMARY |
An entrepreneurial minded software engineer with extensive experience in Microsoft tools especially VB 6.0, VB.NET, ASP and vbScript. Worked in law enforcement, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications industries. Acted as a software consultant and project lead. Specialty is configuration management. Ideal position is a key member of a development team in an organization that is committed to improving or automating work flows between business owners, support, development, quality and deployment teams. |
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY |
Years of experience in:
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Development
Skills: Database Skills: SQL Server, Oracle, Access, Btrieve, DB/2, dBASE, ERWin Version Control and Build Tools: VSS, Perforce, Cruise Control, My Generation, nAnt, CCC / Harvest, PVCS and Configuration Builder Process / Methodologies / Testing & Deployment Tools: SCRUM, nUnit, FIT, Fitness, Install Shield, Wise, JUnit, Telnet, pcAnywhere, RTPatch, Virtual PC, XcelleNet Platforms: COM, dotNET (2.0, 3.0, 3.5), Windows, Unix, Telxon (Embedded System) |
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE |
Community
Choice, LLC 11/2004
– Present
Independent Consultant United Health Group 4/2008
- Present · Fully accountable for stability and enhancement of entire learning management web site applications and servers for all employees using ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, VBA, vbScript, JavaScript, XML, Stored Procedures, SQL Server, Visual Interdev and Visual Studio. · Integrated web site applications with Office applications Outlook, Excel, and Access. · Found innovative solutions to long standing problems resulting in much quicker development and automation of manual tasks. (Removed need for Excel on server and automated HTTP download and import of Excel file) · Identified issues, communicated recommendations, and implemented solutions to improve database and server performance. · Accountable for testing strategy and working within change management guidelines for implementing changes to database and website applications. TCGRx 1/2008
– 1/2008 |
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) |
Community
Choice, LLC (Continued)
Masys Positron 911 11/2004
– 12/2007 · Senior team member of 20 person, 12 developer satellite office. · Developed Records Management and other software for law enforcement agencies. · Maintained and enhanced massive proprietary framework written in VB6, VB.NET, MS SQL Server. · Rich Screens generated with My Generation and XML, DevXpress and custom controls. · Generated data objects and many base classes using Object-Relational Mapping, My Generation and XML. · Exported XML and performed multilevel validation before sending to Web Service. · Mastered the National Incident Based Report System (NIBRS), a comprehensive set of rules for exporting crime statistics to the FBI. · Improved the development processes by implementing SCRUM, Cruise Control, Perforce, nUnit, test driven development, FIT and Fitness automated testing on Virtual PC environments, continuous builds, continuously releasable source code mainline, and pair programming. |
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Thomson West Publishing 2/2006
– 8/2006 · Sole developer for resource allocation and forecasting web based reporting system. · Programmatically generated Excel spreadsheets in ASP and vbscript with both SQL Server and Oracle data sources. · Impressed client with significant performance gains on some reports. |
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Best Buy
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Developer
on the bestbuy.com Stabilization Team. 1/2002
– 1/2003 · Responsible for ensuring 24/7 operation of the bestbuy.com websites. · Primary point person for all Verity search engine issues and order fulfillment. · Fixed and enhanced Visual Basic, ASP and SQL stored procedures. |
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) |
Project lead in the Release Management department, bestbuy.com. 11/2000 – 1/2002 · Responsible for implementation of CCC / Harvest version 5, an advanced configuration management and workflow modeling tool. · Coordinated and documented change process flows of many groups including Release Management, Build and Deployment, Quality Assurance, ePublishing, Development and the business teams. · Designed, documented and helped code forms and processes in HTML, VBScript, Java Script, Java, Perl and Oracle Triggers. · Created training program and presented to developers and other users. |
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Net Perceptions, Inc. 7/1999
– 10/2000
Senior Software Engineer at a real-time personalization and precision marketing software company. · Coded server side Java modules for an e-commerce personalization manager and real time marketing tool. Made extensive use of XML to translate business rules into executable Java code. Target platforms were Solaris or NT and MS SQL Server or Oracle. · Wrote NT installation package extending Install Shield with Visual C++. |
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BORN Information Services 6/1994
– 6/1999 Consultant for a company known for the most sophisticated staff in the region. Several miscellaneous clients 3/1998
– 6/1999 · Extended Visual Basic using COM and Visual C++ among other projects. · VSS expert. |
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Cenex / Land O Lakes 4/1996
– 3/1998 ·
Developed POS software with a scalable (Access
or SQL Server) three-tier architecture multiple SDI framework; a precursor to
the “component-based, scalable, logical architecture” or CSLA authored by |
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Deluxe Corporation 6/1994
– 6/1996 · Developed OS/2 applications in C, VXRexx and DB/2 for a Plant Order Management System (POMS) which eliminated redundant data entry and other manual tasks. |
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Funco, Inc. 9/1993 - 6/1994 System Management Software, Inc. 8/1992 - 9/1993 |
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EDUCATION |
FastTrac I – “New Venture” Business Training B.S. in Computer Science University of |
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OTHER |
In May 2008, received the
YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolos Community Hero Award for in part helping out
with |
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