Peter BrombergDescription: MCP-Logo-C-758568

904 Crescent Pkwy.
Deland, FL 32724
pbromberg@gmail.com

 

 

Objective

 

 

Full-time position in Software Development as Team Lead / Senior Developer, utilizing Microsoft .NET Technologies. Must remain in Orlando Area. Telecommute possible. Little Travel.

 

Technical skills

 

 

Languages

·      Proficient in: C#,  T-SQL, Javascript, HTML5

·      Familiar with: Java, C/C++

Software & Technologies

·      Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, SQLite, Oracle, Mongodb, NoSQL Databases

·      Platforms: Microsoft Windows

·      Other: Expression Blend, Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Silverlight

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Postgraduate Degree 
  • 20+ years of experience in IT field.
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • Visual Studio .Net  C# Development since 2000
  • Microsoft Windows and Office Systems
  • Relational Database Systems (Oracle, SQL Server, Informix)
  • NoSQL Database Development - MongoDb
  • Microsoft Message Queue - MSMQ
  • Team Foundation Server
    SVN Source control
  • Expert in UX "User experience" -- encompassing all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products. 
  • Design Patterns
  • Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation – WPF / Silverlight
  • Microsoft Windows Communications Foundation - WCF
  • SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Framework Development
  • Stored Procedures, Index tuning, Database design
  • ASP .NET Web Development
  • TCPIP Communications Programming
  • Microsoft Practices and Patterns Enterprise Libraries
  • Working with and engineering APIs – JSON, WCF, XML
  • Web Development with jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5
  • ODBC, OLEDB and .NET Data Providers, ADO .NET

 

Experience

 

 

Partner, eggheadcafe.com  2001 - Present: Founding partner and engineer at eggheadcafe.com, a highly successful developer-oriented web site since July 2000, with as many as 20 million page views per month. Development, Search Engine Optimization, and content.

Volusia County Clerk’s Office  Apr 2009 – Dec 2010 – Consultant developing Informix-based .NET API and Web Applications with .NET 3.5, Windows Services, middleware, Entity ORMs

CIBER INC., Orlando FL April  2007 – April 2009: Consultant: Developed SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Web and Middleware applications for several Fortune 500 clients. WCF Web Services, ASP.NET MVC Framework, SQL Server and Oracle back-ends.

Created SOA Enterprise Application Middleware and database access layers, Windows Mobile MVC Service layer and middleware applications for a Fortune 500 clientele.

Volo Communications, Altamonte Springs, FL: November, 2004 – Feb 2007: Senior Enterprise Software Architect . Develop softswitch and VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) SIP switching and routing technology. Architecture is mostly C# with some C++ managed code wrappers of telephony and codec APIs.

·         Wrote SmartDispatcher multithreaded C# Windows Service that processes 2000 MSMQ messages per second and can be reconfigured while running.

·         Developed Managed C++ wrappers for G.729 and ILBC codecs as well as managed C# streaming “plug-in” DirectX Audio capture and playback classes that can be hosted in a web page.

·         Developed "click-to-call" webservice API and web sites to enable architecture and implementation of unique VOIP-based telephony applications.

ASPSoft, Inc., Orlando FL:  Jan. 2004 –November 2004. Senior Consultant / Developer at this cutting – edge, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer consulting firm. 

·         Architected .NET Remoting – based infrastructure and Windows Forms GUI modules for extensive Healthcare – oriented applications, web – based ASP.NET modules for trans-institution hospital staff extranets.

·         Implemented innovative custom transport – level binary DataSet serialization and compression to conserve bandwidth.

Gartner Group, Maitland FL: January 2003 – April 2003: Senior Developer. Contract position to develop a complete, pluggable .NET web – based reporting infrastructure for Gartner’s TVO (Total Value of Opportunity) software suite. Design, spec, architecture, coding and testing. Project was completed on time and under budget.

·         Extensive use of C# and strongly – typed custom reporting classes making use of Xml classes.

Go Co-op.com, Maitland, FL: July 2002 – January 2003. Principal Software Architect. Contract position developing and architecting .NET Platform web – based e-procurement applications for the hospitality industry using Webservices, XML, Remoting and Windows Services as a lead programmer on a small, high – powered .NET development team.

·         Helped convert classic ASP application with 1200 table multi-server database back-end  to .NET platform for major scalability and throughput enhancement.

Fiserv CBS, Inc, Maitland, FL:  August 2000 – June 2002. Senior Programmer / Analyst:

·         Responsible for co-development of the web-based retail banking application. 

·         Primary responsibility of coding the Internet Explorer 5.5 DHTML – based user interface utilizing advanced DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript and SQL Server 2000 XML data interchange.

·         Creation of middleware Windows DNA – based COM+ components and server – based COM+ components talking to AS400 based DB2 host and Data Queues in a load-balanced, multi-server web farm environment. This is the most advanced web – based financial application in the industry.

 

Sprint PCS, Maitland, FL.: December 1999 – August 2000. Software Engineer IV:  Responsible for maintenance and full lifecycle development of web – based collaboration, intranet and internet database – enabled enterprise applications for a variety of business processes including call center applications, intranet – based web reporting, and content delivery systems. Business process analysis, requirements documents, project plans. Web Application stress testing. Consultation with department heads; recommendation, design, development and implementation of software solutions. ·         Developed complete cross-browser compliant company intranet with Windows DNA based collaboration and database-enabled content management. DHTML, ASP, COM, VBScript, JavaScript, XML utilizing both SQL Server and Oracle data stores. ·        
Co-Developed N-Tier Web Reporting Management system for generation, caching, and display – on – demand of general business reports from Oracle data store in both Active Reports and Crystal Reports formats in the client web browser.·        
Developed custom web – based business components for use of developer group and other departments including Base DLL registry, HTML Component, Discussion Forum, Management Alerts with email notification, Employee Lookup Directory with email and paging links, and company-wide quarterly “Scorecard”  web-based employee evaluation survey application.·        
Deployed proof-of-concept COM+ Windows DNA solutions on Windows 2000 Advanced server utilizing the latest features of Exchange 2000, IIS 5.0, Message Queue, SQL Server 2000 HTTP/XML queries, and Biztalk Server 2000 with SOAP / XML, Web Services and Digital Dashboard Web Parts.
Used Visual Studio 7.0 PDC Developer Preview to develop web forms, web services, and web components utilizing C#, ASP+ and ADO+ with DataReaders and Datasets.

MEDai, Inc., Orlando, FL:  Mar 1999 – Nov. 1999. Manager of Development: Responsible for full life cycle development of N-Tier client/server COM / DCOM and Internet – enabled database applications at this cutting – edge medical artificial intelligence firm. Responsibilities included: gathering user requirements; writing user requirements documents; creating application process flow diagrams; creating UML data models; development of user interfaces, middle-tier business objects and database processes; testing, implementation and maintenance of all business systems. Developed a series of B2B projects to convert and upgrade legacy systems from Windows to web enabled, multi-tier application systems utilizing Windows NT 4.0, VB 6.0, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS), Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 (MTS), DCOM, IE 5.0, Netscape Navigator and an Oracle 8i data warehouse (200 GB). Developed Intranet – enabled Exchange Server/ Outlook applications. Responsibility for maintenance and development of corporate intranet and public corporate web site(s), as well as client extranet applications.

·   Developed online COM – based asynchronous stock pricing components for “AI Trader” artificial intelligence proprietary trading system. Component capable of asynchronously downloading and converting 4,000 individual stock issues with 260 days historical data each in 10 minutes or less. Experience in working with and using neural network programming tools to develop custom business intelligence analytical solution applications.

Realtime Publishers, Inc: Staff Author. Have authored custom articles on various technology and development subjects for this premier vanity publishing company:

Prentice Hall: Technical Editor on several .NET related books, including the Deitel Series.

Manning Publishers: Technical Editor on book “C# In Depth” by Jon Skeet

Sams Publishers: Technical Editor on Silverlight 4 in Action book by Laurent Bugnion

Education

 

 

 

B. A.   Economics, Columbia Pacific University, 1987
Ph.D.  Economics, Columbia Pacific University, 1990
Numerous Company and Industry – based training courses

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:

“A Study of Associations Between Solar and Economic Data”, April, 1990 (148pp + source code): Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of Doctoral Degree requirements to Columbia Pacific University (Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Gould, Assistant Director, Lubin Graduate School of Business, PACE University, NY). Research paper included development of and source code for Fast Fourier Transforms and Autocorrelation Analysis methods on daily Ottawa 10cm Solar Flux readings (NOAA) from 1947 through 1990, associated with corresponding interest rate and stock index data, as well as computer analyses of GOES satellite minute-by-minute solar activity readings correlated with corresponding real-time commodity futures trading data. Paper included multi-year interest rate and stock index forecasts through 1996 based on associative model which correctly predicted the long-term decline in global interest rates, based on solar cycles.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

·         10/26/2002 Article, “Overhead of COM+ Services in the .NET Platform” Published at eggheadcafe.com
·         9/29/2002 Article, “Serialize / Deserialize .NET Classes to SQL Server” Published at eggheadcafe.com
·         9/7/2002  Article, “Custom Forms Authentication in ASP.NET”  Published by Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance site.
·         9/16/2000 Article on .NET:  “Got Interface?” Published by Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance.
·         Numerous additional articles, book reviews and features can be viewed online at the developer web site I conceived, designed and co-host at http://www.eggheadcafe.com.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, TRAINING AND AWARDS:

Microsoft Global MVP Summit, Seattle WA, Mar 2006 through  2012
.NET Code Camp Conference, Orlando, FL 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011,2012
Presentation to the Orlando .NET User Group on SQLite and ADO.NET, 2004
VSLive 2004, Orlando FL
Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004, San Diego CA
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Developer - Most Valuable Professional
Microsoft Certified Professional
MCSD Courses and tests in Visual Studio.NET Web Development. MCP Certification qualified.
February 2002: Microsoft .NET platform in-house training
May 2002: Microsoft Testing Labs, Charlotte NC – direct MS training / testing
May 2000: Microsoft Tech – Ed Conference, Orlando
July 2000: Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, Orlando FL