Candidates About

 

Tracy Nguyen

PROFILE

 

Results-oriented IT professional with expertise in Cloud/Azure, .NET window, web, and SQL Server Development and with many years of experience in object-oriented application architectural and database design. A self-motivated and innovative thinker, with solid background in both agile and waterfall development methodologies, consistently pursuing new challenges to stretch abilities, to expand knowledge, and to bring greater returns to employers. Strong leadership and proven ability to build strong relationships with teams, managers, and customers. Consistently surpassing client and team expectations.

 

SKILLS

 

Programming Languages:             C#, Asp.NET, Java Script, JQuery, Ajax, Kendo, CSS3, CSS, HTML5, HTML, DHTML, ASP, SAML 2.0, XML, XSLT, VB.NET

 

Development Skills:                       Azure development, Cloud, Visual Studio .NET (2015 and older), MVC, Entity Framework, Responsive Web Design for web and mobile device applications, OSI Soft – PI Server, Application Insights, Data Factory, App Services, Web App, Web Jobs, ResWare, WCF Web Services, WCF RESTful Web Services, WCF Window Services, TFS, NAnt, NUnit, Cruise Control .NET, SOAP UI, Fiddler, Unit Tests, Integration Testing, IIS (all versions), OOP, OOA, Microsoft Framework (4.5.2 and lower) , COM/DCOM, COM+, SOAP

 

Methodologies:                               SDLC, Agile development methodology, Waterfall development methodology

 

Database Systems:                          SQL Azure, SQL Server (2015 and earlier), SQL Server Report Services, Microsoft Access, Excel

 

Operating Systems:                        Window 10, Window 8, Window 2013, Window 2010, Window 7, Window XP, Window 2000 Server and Professional

 

Source Code Controls:                   Team Foundation Server (TFS 2012, TFS 2010), SVN, SharePoint, Visual Source Safe

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Nalco Champion, an Ecolab Company, Sugar Land, TX                                                           03/2015 –Present

Lead IT Developer – Agile/.NET/Cloud/Azure/SQL Server/SQL Azure

Experienced in working with Oil

·         Practice Agile Development methodologies, coordinate, plan, research, develop, test, and improve custom Cloud based web applications for chemical/oil & gas industry

·         Develop user-friendly and high tech web applications for desktop, mobile, and tablet by using Microsoft technologies such as Azure development tools, Visual Studio .NET 2015, Kendo UI, LINQ, SQL Azure, SQL Server, Cloud Services, Web Apps, Web Jobs, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, Share Point, SQL Server, PowerShell

·         Integrate with OSI Soft PI AF Server to obtain data that are sent from customers’ field equipment and present to sales team and customers so that they can graphically see the current conditions or the trend behaviors of their equipment

·         Migrate data from legacy system with on premise database servers to newly developed mobile, tablet, and desktop applications with SQL Azure by using Azure Web Jobs and Data Factory

·         Implement Application Insights to captures custom logs, exceptions, and other information to provide insightful information about the applications and help with trouble shooting issues.

·         Coordinate, plan with Business Function Group (BFG) team, and develop a web base application for sales team to perform Self-Assessment in multiple languages.

·         Work with Oil Field Chemicals (OFC) and WellChem teams to develop web applications so that end users can manage product bulletins, product information guides globally in different languages.

 

 

Stewart Title Company, Houston, TX                                                                                                    10/2006 –03/2015

Senior Developer/Architect - Agile/.NET (Stewart Professional Services)                                                    09/2014 –03/2015

 

·         Lead development effort, design the architecture and database, and implement a high profile project to integrate company’s multiple real estate applications with third party software, ResWare, and to simplify real estate business processes and transactions

·         Create, unit test, QA test, and support services to place complex orders and to import/export large documents for customers using Visual Studio 2013 C#, Service Bus, WCF web services and Restful web, XML.NET Framework 4.5, and SQL Server 2012.

·         Configure and implement application security and communications for different environments – Development, QA, Pre-Production, and Production environments. Coordinate different teams to trouble shoot certificates, security, network, firewall, and other communication issues among servers and services.

·         Interview QA and developer candidates for the team.

 

Senior SureClose and Portal Developer - Agile/.NET (Stewart Professional Services)                             01/2011 –08/2014

 

·         Back to being a senior .NET developer due to company down-sizing and team consolidations

·         Interview candidates for new positions

·         Design, develop, test, deploy, support web application for secure email system used by Stewart corporation and its affiliates on multiple web browsers and multiple mobile platforms

·         Write custom security email application to securely retrieve and display non-Stewart sensitive emails using C#, SAML2.0 for Single Sign-On (SSO) / IDP initiated, and third party software.

·         Play key roles in full development life cycle - design, develop, unit test, integration test, deploy, performance tuning, and support multiple complex web applications with database size over 2TB for real estate and title business in order to electronically manage, organize, and complete real estate and title transactions and documents using MS .NET, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Html, CSS, XML, SQL Server, Active PDF, ABCPDF, and third party software.

·         Develop WCF web services and window Services to store, retrieve, annotate, split, combine, convert, transfer different types of documents such as PDF, FDF, TIF, JPG, etc. and to read and create barcodes to electronically file documents to the appropriate folders.

·         Design SQL Server databases and tables, write stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, indexes, scripts, etc.

·         Take ownership and develop scripts and engines to create, maintain, and improve applications’ automatic builds and continuous integrations using TFS, Cruise Control .NET, Nant, NUnit Framework, and SQL Server

·         Take ownership and convert team’s .NET and legacy applications to the latest versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and SQL Server to keep the applications up-to-date with Microsoft latest technologies.

·         Support/enhance legacy VB applications, ASP web applications, Biztalk applications, and COM objects whenever there are business needs

·         Attend daily standup meetings and participate in code reviews, code refactoring, pair programming.

·         Play the role of QA to write requirements and test steps and to actually test stories developed by other developers since team does not have enough QAs.

 

Team Lead – Agile/.NET (Property Info – a Stewart Title Company)                                                                10/2010 – 12/2010

 

·         Lead the team in effort of practicing agile methodologies, code reviews, unit tests, and help team members with different technical challenges. Report team’s efforts to IT director

·         Develop C# WCF RESTful web services to bridge the communication between iPhone applications and company’s window and web applications with high security and different types of authentication.

·         Wrote secured software to integrate between in-house secure web and window applications with external customers’ applications to electronically sign real estate related documents.

 

Senior Software Developer – Agile/.NET (Stewart Transactions Services)                                                    10/2006 –10/2010

 

·         Practice Agile methodology, design, and develop enterprise web application for title business using C#, HTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Microsoft Framework 3.5

·         Implement several enterprise WCF web services and window services and regular Microsoft web services to integrate with internal and external customers’ applications to handle title related documents and transactions.

·         Implement an in house complex multithreading web applications and web services, using ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSLT to receive, validate, translate, route, documents or orders from one customer’s data format to one or more recipients’ data format. This application functions similar to Biztalk.

·         Develop Biztalk 2006 application to receive, translate, and transfer information and documents from one integrator to another.

·         Participate in peer code review. Write NUnit tests

 

RBC Builder Finance – a Royal Bank of Canada Company, Houston, TX                                    09/2005-08/2006

   Web Application Developer (.NET, SQL Server, VB)

 

·         Design and develop intranet and internet applications to lend money to Homes Builders nationwide using VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000

·         Assist customers, support and trouble shoot existing VB applications and the .NET web applications

·         Develop mobile (Pocket PC) applications using Microsoft .NET Compact Framework for inspectors to use.

·         Train co-workers on mobile application development and mentored them on .NET web application development.

 

 

CYBERTRADER – A Charles Schwab Company, Austin, TX                                                        06/2002-04/2005

Technology Solution Programmer (C++ / Visual Studio6.0 /.NET, SQL Server)

 

·         Develop applications to generate technical analysis charts for futures and currency stock trading business using C# and ASP.NET

·         Research, plan, design, and write applications to implement stock trading indicators and strategies and to load daily and intra-day stock quotes from data vendors.

·         Analyze, design, develop high speed applications to help professional stock traders trade smart and help brokers to assist traders with Stocks, Options, and Futures trading and performed back office tasks and risk management using Visual C++ 6.0, C#, and Object Oriented architecture and design patterns.

·         Implement socket connections and high speed transactions to communicate with different ECNs and Stock Exchanges to place, route, cancel, or refresh orders for traders using C++ and SQL Server 2000

·         Improve data integrity and performance, maintain data replications, and create and schedule DTS packages

·         Create automated .NET application to generate regulatory reports Order Audit Trail System (OATS) and Order Tracking System (OTS) to report Schwab’s and CyberTrader’s orders to NASD and NYSE

·         Migrate applications from Visual C++ 6.0 to C# and .NET platform.

·         Perform peer code review and train new programmers to get up to speed with developing stock trading applications

·         Serve as Vice President of Public Relations for Cyber Toasters, a Toastmaster charter

 

IPS-SENDERO – a Fiserv company, Atlanta, GA                                                                            08/2001-04/2002

Senior Programmer (Visual Studio 6.0, Oracle, OLAP, SQL Server)

 

·         Created financial application software using Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, COM+, MSNQ, XML, SOAP, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, and OLAP to be used by many world-wide financial institutions

·         Wrote Crystal Report 8.5 financial reports

·         Designed application architecture and models using UML and Rational Rose

·         Developed object oriented applications for profitability calculations, risk management, general ledger, products, employees, and organizations management.

 

BORN, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                        06/2000-08/2001

Senior E-Commerce Consultant (Visual Studio, COM/DCOM, COM+, XML, Oracle, SQL Server)

 

·         Serve as project manager to develop in-house projects in which consultants can learn new skills on Microsoft technologies such as Visual Studio .NET, Biztalk, Commerce Server 2000, SQL Server 2000, etc.

·         Write cross-language and multi-currency B2B e-Commerce website to implement pricing logic, secure order transactions, and data transferring across firewalls for client in metal cutting tool industry using VB, COM, DCOM, and COM+, NT Service, ORACLE 8.0 and ORACLE 8i, SOAP, XML

·         Design 3-tier web application and database architecture and functional flow charts for each project.

·         Develop e-Commerce web application for a client company in the bottled water industry using ASP, Visual Basic COM+, XML, SQL Server 2000, SQL Bulk Load, and Site Server 3.0

·         Create formal documents, Statements of Work, and perform time and cost estimation at each phase of the projects to present to client companies.

·         Serve as a founding member of Charity Committee

 

SOUTHERN COMPANY SERVICES, Atlanta, GA                                                                           12/1997-06/2000

Information System Analyst (C++, ASP, VB COM objects, Oracle)

 

·         Design, develop, and test intranet website and window application, Account Validation Modules(AVM), to maintain Accounting System for Southern Company and 11 subsidiary utility companies using ORACLE, ASP, COM

·         Design, develop, and test application to implement merchandise sales order system, automatic data loading system, and file extracting system using C++, ORACLE, PL/SQL, FTP, and SQL Loader

·         Create and monitor integration test, string test, system test, stress test, and user acceptance tests for the applications

 

EDUCATION

 

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY                                                                                                                                                       Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science, Major: Mathematics, Concentration: Computer Science                                                                      December 1996

Major GPA: 3.90, Overall GPA: 3.5