CHRISTOPHER L. HAMMONS

3004 Canyon Rd

Chaska, MN   55318

(952) 201-7096

chris@communitychoicellc.com

www.communitychoicellc.com

 

CAREER SUMMARY

An entrepreneurial minded software engineer with extensive experience in Microsoft tools especially VB.NET, ASP.NET and VB6.  Worked in energy, health care, 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.

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Years of experience in:

  • VB                          5
  • VB.NET                 3
  • C/C++                    7

 

  • ASP                  2
  • ASP.NET         1
  • Java                  1

 

  • CSharp (C#)      < 1
  • SQL Server        9
  • Oracle                5

 

Development Skills: Visual Studio (2003, 2005 and 2008), VB, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, vbScript, CSharp (C#) XML, XPATH, XSLT, Web Services, HTTP, DevXpress, Verity, LDAP, MQ Series, C/C++, MFC, Java, jScript, Perl, VXRexx, LEADTOOLS

 

Database Skills:  SQL Server, Oracle, Access, DBText, Btrieve, DB/2, dBASE, ERWin

 

Version Control and Build Tools: VSS, Perforce, Team Foundation Server, 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)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Community Choice, LLC                                                     11/2004 – Present

PO Box 15,  Chaska, MN 55318

 

Independent Consultant

 

Centerpoint Energy (CNP)                                                            8/2008 - Present

·         Made critical enhancements to customer facing web site supporting 3 million customers using VS2003, VB.Net and ASP.Net.

·         Helped speed conversion of 1400+ Lotus Notes applications to SQL Server, VS2005, VB.Net and CSharp.

·         Impressed client with clear and detailed change management and design documentation exceeding Sarbanes Oxley requirements.

·         Implemented web security for Inmagic databases (DBText/WebPubPro) with IIS, Active Directory and Windows Authentication.

·         Created friendly install and user guides.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

Community Choice, LLC                                                                (Continued)

 

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.

 

Boston Scientific                                                                         1/2008 – 1/2008

TCGRx                                                                                       1/2008 – 1/2008

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Best Buy Enterprise                                                          11/2000 – 4/2004

7601 Penn Ave S.   Richfield, MN 55423

 

At Best Buy I had three different positions starting as a Project Lead and ending with Senior Developer.  A brief summary follows.

 

Senior Developer in the Software Engineering Center of Excellence   2/2003 – 4/2004

 

·         Developer of several Telxon handheld barcode scanner related efforts using MS Visual C++ 6.0, Retek data, MS SQL Server stored procedures, Wise installer, telenet, ASP.NET, MQ Series, web services, LDAP security and wireless label printer hardware.

·         Primary Visual C++ subject matter expert in the Best Buy Center of Excellence.

·         Completed many POS, Intranet applications including an Access electronic trade-in and a VB.Net gift registry.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Net Perceptions, Inc.                                                        7/1999 – 10/2000

7700 France Ave S.   Edina, MN 55435

 

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++.

 

 

BORN Information Services                                                 6/1994 – 6/1999

294 East Grove Lane, Suite 100   Wayzata, Minnesota   55391

 

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.

 

 

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 Rockford Lhotka.

 

 

Deluxe Corporation                                                                     6/1994 – 6/1996

·      Developed a Plant Order Management System (POMS) in C and OS/2.

 

 

Funco, Inc.                                                                           9/1993 - 6/1994

System Management Software, Inc.                                   8/1992 - 9/1993

 

EDUCATION

University of St. Thomas                                                   9/2004 – 10/2004

University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology                     9/1987 - 6/1992

University of Wisconsin                                                       9/1986 - 6/1987

OTHER

In May 2008, received the YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolos Community Hero Award for in part helping out with Camp Icaghowan’s Winter camping program.  I also founded and operate  www.godscountrycanoeing.com