Edward Galt7309 Gammwell Dr.Cincinnati, Oh 45230 [Send email to request phone number] 78-2711 Summary
Strong development experience using .NET (VB/.NET and C#), ASP, SQL, COM, MTS,
JAVA, JSP, Struts, Spring, Tiles, Cold Fusion to develop highly complex, business
rule based, large scale e-Commerce and business transaction applications and
components including integrating with SOA systems. Skilled in International
Development. Combined business experience and enterprise application development
has given him a unique skill-set to create, diagnose and resolve enterprise
application development issues. His experience has allowed him to define clear
strategies to progress with application development, and incorporating the latest
technology with companies such as International Paper and Lexis Nexis. Creative,
socially adept, technically skilled internet application developer with 15+ years
experience programming, installing and supporting personal computer network
systems and managing staff. Experience in designing, creating, managing and
diagnosing LAN and WAN application systems including web farms, co-locations and
data replication.
Work ExperienceSr. Engineer, Implementation and Deployment Manager12/2009 to
Present
Hired on as an Implementation and Deployment Manager and Sr. Engineer.
Designed and created build and deployment processes for Cold Fusion applications
using ANT. Created testing process using MXUnit for testing products before
builds. Designed and implemented development, testing and staging systems for
internal development and testing before deployment. Designed and implemented
deployment processes for moving product to production. Created data replication
system for up-to-the-minute data replication for LAN and WAN systems for
production systems that are co-located. All systems running Windows 2003 Server
and SQL 2005 Data Systems. Locked down production and moved all development
internally. Secured and managed systems for 24/7 uptime. I also serve as a Sr.
Engineer completing requested development work on the applications. Applications
built using Cold Fusion 8/.NET/JAVA. Sr. Engineer12/2008 - Present Great
American Insurance Contracted to assist with development of new line of
business application. System built using Java, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle
including internal core system components and XML.Sr. Engineer4/2007 –
6/2008§ Hired full time at LexisNexis and just completed development on Release 1
of the WORLDS LARGEST PATENT SEARCH ENGINE. This patent search engine has all 97
authorities and searches in access of 66 million documents in under 10 seconds.
Architected and developed all new functionality at LexisNexis for this
application. Interacted with all groups to complete first phase of development.
(www.lexisnexis.com/totalpatent) (This is a continuation of the previous
position)
Tech Arch/ Sr Developer2/2005 - 3/2007 PDR Inc. - Lexis Nexis, Cincinnati,
OH§ Contracted to Lexis Nexis and flown to Amsterdam, Netherlands to assist in
assessment and redevelopment of website to be moved to web farm. Assisted in
debugging of system for better operation, redesign of infrastructure, web and
database servers, and designed and assisted in re-write of application to move
into a scalable format for web farm use. The application was built using VB.NET,
C++, C#, SQL2000 and OpenText Server. Because of the business requirements of
the current infrastructure, the application was converted and re-written in JAVA,
using Spring, Struts, Tiles and AJAX. Contracted to Lexis Nexis to develop
European Sales tool to assist sales group with international sales of legal
products. Designed and created prototype .NET application with custom framework
designed for enterprise wide use. The design allows for a scalable
application(s), reuse of code components, and the ability to reduce code time
development and increase profit for internal development groups. The application
is designed using GAC for rapid development paths, and a custom Master template
web system for quick reuse and development of web systems. Designed and
implemented Security Validation system included in trial-use systems to comply
with new federal requirements for public record use verification.
Software Developer2/2004 - 1/2005 Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions, Mason,
OH§ Assisted with the design and development of enterprise leasing management
software developed in Cold Fusion to convert to .NET. Software developed in C#.
Designed and created asp.net pages and components, classes. Designed and created
components included in the CUSTOM Framework created for the application.
Sr. Software Engineer4/2003 - 1/2004 K-Force, Cincinnati, OH§ Contracted to
Fortune 500 company to develop highly complex web enabled sales plan scenario
tool using .NET. Gathered requirements, defined initial design, developed
application/database and created all required documentation. Application using
SQL 2000, ASP.net and VB.net.
Technical Architect Sr. Developer11/2001 - 8/2002 xpedx.com/ International
Paper, Cincinnati, Ohio§ Technical Architect /Sr. Developer for Paper
Distribution website (B to B). Developed and directed development for web, COM
and data conversion tools using SQL, VB and ASP. Brought in to redesign 'proof
of concept' into viable enterprise scalable application. Addressed and corrected
major network infrastructure issues to eliminate poor performance on website.
Reconfigured and stabilized current system and planned application move into
.NET. Brought site from $12 million income prediction to $134 million within 6
months and stabilized environment for continued growth. Implemented Rational
Suite (Clear Case/Quest/Vignette/NetDeploy) for contained development
environment.
Senior Software Engineer1/2001 - 6/2001 Bravanta.com, San Francisco,
CA§ Design, develop and assist of ASP application using SQL, COM+ and ASP. Also
lead effort to completely document process and procedures for software program
management. Designed objects with XML to create robust bulk email systems.
Created objects for external LDAP authentication. Assisted with re-configuration
of systems for better/stable operation. Influenced creation of special
"Stability/Scalability" team to develop a more robust/stronger system.
Software Engineer12/2000 - 1/2001 Maxim Group, ALL Over, Ohio, South
Carolina§ Contracted to a large B to B web based middle-tear supplier company.
Designing and implementing a long awaited reporting system with the capabilities
to generate dynamic reports from customer data. This reporting system has the
ability to create dynamic reports from customer data, set security levels for
creation, administration and viewing of reports, create timed reports
automatically sent to specified users, and the storage of historical reports.
The system is designed in a Three-tier environment, using Visual Basic, COM,
XML, ASP, Oracle, Oracle Discoverer and Crystal Reports
E-Commerce/IT Manager1/2000 - 10/2000 PROTOCOL Corporation, Cincinnati,
Ohio§ Manager of total solution e-commerce development team, from design
inception to testing and production reporting directly to the CTO. Developed team
to enable multiple e-commerce product development. In charge of Network
infrastructure, hiring Network, System and Database Administrators to implement
and maintain company's infrastructure to assure 24/7 access to web applications
for public and private use. Integrated Site Commerce, Lawson ERP, KANA, SilkNet
and custom warehousing system to complete a corporate high level e-commerce
integrated system. This is a large scale e-Comm solution provider that also
provides procurement services and order processing and fulfillment. Use of COM,
MTS and SQL7 for high scale application development. Used VB to develop NT
Services to process many levels of information including credit card transaction
processing.
Director Of Technology6/1998 - 1/2000 Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP/Dinset
Technologies, Cincinnati, Ohio§ Designed, created and implemented new Intranet
site for large corporate law firm. Designed and implemented Database/Web
applications for portable data entry and report creation from any location.
Created Personnel, Bio management, Attorney and Paralegal evaluation systems and
much more. Completed firm’s first extranet system for secure client access to
case management (currently produces a substantial income for the firm). Developed
corporate data management system for intranet/extranet use, including document
scanning and storage via SQL backend - completely changing the administrative
work to a more productive and cost efficient system. Internet site -
WWW.DINSHOHL.COM rated 30th of 250 top Law Web Sites. Developed using Cold
Fusion, Active Server Pages with controls, Access and SQL. NT Servers running
IIS.
SR. Field Eng.1/1996 - 1/1998 Vanstar Corporation, Cincinnati,
Ohio§ Contracted to Procter & Gamble World Headquarters Technical Installation
Mgr/Functional Support Group.
General Manager10/1994 - 1/1996 Marshall Corporation, Cincinnati,
Ohio§ General Manager, 3- store computer re-seller
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