Candidates About

Edgar Bradley (Brad) Huggins

SUMMARY

Experienced solutions architect and seasoned .NET developer specializing with Microsoft technologies including the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHT

·         Solution Architect and hands-on Software Developer with extensive professional experience with the Microsoft development stack.

·         Experience architecting and leading development of enterprise solutions utilizing the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

·         Experience in establishing enterprise development standards, patterns and best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROVISTA                                                                                                       OCT 2016 - Present

Lead Enterprise Solutions Architect

Transferred from parent company Vizient/VHA

Project – “Cost Analysis Tool”

Architected and led development of an application for customers and internal analysts to compare product pricing and view savings. The application also leveraged a custom implementation of the Levenshtein distance formula to perform textual comparison of product information to determine potential matches. The application was developed with SQL, SQL custom assemblies, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, several multi-threaded console applications for scheduled data processing.

Project – “Complete Enterprise Backoffice Solution for spin-off”

Architected and led development of a secure web-based application hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The application provided line of business functionality such as customer registration and maintenance, supplier and contract maintenance, data load for sales reporting, and revenue and fee-share calculations.  Performed many of the Operations and DevOps functions to establish DEV, TEST, and PROD environment on the Microsoft Azure platform. Established continuous integration pattern and configuration using Visual Studio Online to perform build, execute unit tests, and deploy code to Azure application servers automatically upon code check-in. The application also provided integration with Salesforce via the Salesforce web service API. The application was developed with Azure App Services, Azure Storage (file, blob, and queue), Redis Cache, Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL, SQL custom assemblies, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, OWIN/OAUTH2, vanity URLs with Azure DNS.

Project – “Secure Site and partner portal”

Architected and led development of a secure public-facing, web-based application for customers and partners to login and view various pieces of data. The application was secured with enterprise single sign-on (SSO) and also provided integration with Salesforce for the creation of opportunities and task via the Salesforce web service API. The application was developed with SQL, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, SOAP, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, console applications for scheduled data processing.

Project – “Roster Review”

Architected and led development of an internal application for the membership department to input and review customer roster changes in an effort to ensure clean data and prevent duplicate customer records. The application leveraged a custom implementation of the Levenshtein distance formula to perform textual comparison of customer information to determine existing and potential matches. The application was developed with SQL, SQL custom assemblies, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, console applications for scheduled data processing.

Project – “Fee Share”

Architected and led development of an internal application for the accounting department to calculate revenue to be shared with partners based on legal agreements. Custom calculation rules for each agreement are used to generate payments to a partner based on reported financial data for a specific time period. The application was developed with SQL, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, console applications for scheduled data processing.

VIZIENT, INC (VHA)                                                                                   MAY 2008 – OCT 2016

Solutions Architect

Converted from contractor to full time employee.

Project – “Enterprise development framework and .NET Reference Architecture”

Architected and developed a common .NET application development framework and associated reference architecture which providing base classes and scaffolding for consistent application development for new solutions across the enterprise. The reference architecture promotes separation of concern and unit testing and high levels of code coverage. The reference architecture uses the following technologies: SQL, C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, Unity, Entity Framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Microsoft Unit Testing framework.

Project –"Establish Enterprise Development Standards”

Established C# coding standards for enterprise application development. Established enterprise development standards for branching and merging of source code with TFS. Established Microsoft Entity Framework as enterprise standard for object relational mapper (ORM). Established Microsoft Unity as enterprise standard for dependency injection and inversion of control (DI/IOC). Established Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging as enterprise standard for application logging.    

Project – “Team Foundation Server (TFS) Consolidation and upgrade”

Lead the effort and performed the necessary tasks to consolidate source code for several team project collections hosted on TFS2010 and TFS2012 into a single instance hosted on TFS2013. Also prototyped full continuous integration with TFS2013 by enabling automatic builds and using Microsoft Release Management v1 for automated deployment.

Project – “Online Registration”

Developed a public-facing, web application that allowed new customers to sign-up for membership. The application was developed with ASP.NET MVC, WCF web services, and SQL.

Project – “Cash Entry”

Architected and developed an internal, web-based application for the accounting department allowing for detailed input and allocation of all incoming cash into the enterprise. The application also performed periodic reconciliation of data against an external sales reporting system. Each month, several millions of dollars are input into the application before being passed to the Lawson ERP software. The application was developed with ASP.NET, SOAP web services, HTTP handlers, and SQL.

Project – “Goal Tracker”

Architected and developed an internal, web-based application for the finance department to maintain data and statistics related to corporate goals. Corporate goals and their related statistics are used to determine annual bonus compensation for employees. The application was developed with ASP.NET, SharePoint WebParts, Microsoft Office Chart controls, HTTP handlers, SOAP web services, and SQL. Also created a linear regression trending algorithm allowing prediction of data based on 2 or more existing values.

Technical Summary

C#, Entity Framework (ORM), Unity (DI/IOC), Unit Testing, MVC, WCF, Web API, SQL, TFS, MSMQ, Windows Services, multi-threading, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Bootstrap, jQuery, JSON, REST, Visual Studio IDE, Active Directory, COM/DCOM, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure Active Directory, Azure WebJobs), SaaS, PaaS, Visual Studio Online, SQL Reporting Services, SSIS, Nuget, SharePoint, OWIN, OAuth2, DevOps, Microsoft Unit Testing framework, Microsoft Enterprise Library, Redis Cache, GDI+, Design Patterns, SOLID, Lucid Chart, Agile, SCRUM

CERTIFICATIONS

·         Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)

·         Unified Modeling Language (UML) v2.0

·         MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer)

·         MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

EDUCATION

·         University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)

·         NEO A&M College (Miami, OK)

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

·         Army ROTC Cadet (United States Army)

·         Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)