Resume - Jason Esser

Jason Esser

Location:	Twin Cities, Minnesota
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Url:	http://lightoffice.com/jason/

Overview

Skills

Employment History

Certifications

Writing Experience

Overview

I specialize in solving a wide variety of business needs by working with stake holders to design and then implement innovative, cost-effective, solutions.

I've designed and programmed systems ranging from retail CD-ROM products to high transaction online billing systems for Fortune 500 companies.

I have been programming and developing systems for large corporations as well as small businesses since 1995.

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Skills

Technologies

.NET Framework
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET AJAX
Entity Framework
LINQ to SQL/Entities
WCF
Web Services
Cryptography (Hashes, Symmetric, and Asymmetric)
ActiveX/COM/DCOM/COM+
Microsoft Access Development

Languages

C#
Visual Basic

Database, Script, and Markup

T-SQL
JavaScript/JScript
VBScript
HTML/CSS/AJAX

Server Platforms

Internet Information Services (IIS)
SQL Server (6.5, 7, 2000, 2005 and 2008)
- Integration Services (SSIS)
- Replication
DB2
IBM MQSeries (including MQAX)

Toolsets

Visual Studio 2008 (and earlier)
Visual Studio Team System 2008
Trac
Subversion
NUnit

Methodologies

Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
- Designing Component Solutions
- Solutions Development Discipline
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Object Oriented Design and Programming
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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Employment History

DataMotion September 2008 through present

Lead Developer

Work as the lead developer for a company specializing in cloud-based secure messaging solutions.

Increased revenue:
- Re-wrote user self registration process to increase security and lower support costs. Effort resulted in significant revenue recovery and subsequent increase.
Improved measurement:
- Designed and implemented a significantly improved message auditing framework.
- Designed and implemented application usage measurement methodology.
System stabilization:
- Initiated and led several efforts to increase system performance and reliability of legacy codebase.
- Initiated and led several efforts to identify and eliminate obsolete features and dead code.
Solutions delivery:
- Work directly with stake holders to define and estimate all engineering projects.
- Maintained monthly release cycle on legacy system.
- Developed ASP.NET MVC project that allowed users to manage mailing campaigns over time.
- Designed and implemented new payment processing and subscription management system.
- Re-architected Outlook plugin and managed file transfer product to be more robust and easier to integrate with customer solutions.
Team leadership:
- Collated ten years of systems documentation and fourteen years of systems development into a two day training course suitable for use outside of Engineering.
- Mentor junior developers both one on one and in group training scenarios to provide support and increase the strength of the team.
- Implemented a set of best practices around team development processes and solutions delivery.

Skills and technologies used: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Authorize.net

Prior to October 2008 DataMotion was named CertifiedMail.com, Inc.

ILOG, Inc. August 2007 through September 2008

Software Engineer

Worked in a research and development capacity to develop new functionalities for new and existing enterprise planning software. This included analyzing, specifying and programming new functionalities. ILOG has since been purchased by IBM.

Worked primarily on web-based supply chain analysis and optimization product that integrates with SAP Netweaver and is in use by a variety of Fortune 500 companies.
Developed significant new functionality that automated and streamlined much of the user input, reporting, and supply chain optimization process. The tool was essentially a wizard that walked a user through the analysis and optimization process. With this enhancement users needed 70% less training. Likewise, this tool reduced user data input requirements by 75%.
Led effort to improve architecture and performance of several elements of the supply chain analysis application and several of its supporting technologies.
Served as lead developer for innovative reporting solutions utilizing Tableau.
Responsible for supply chain licensing system enhancements and maintenance.

Skills and technologies used: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server, Winforms

Lightoffice Technology, Inc. January 2000 through August 2007

Systems Developer

Worked in a consulting role with a variety of companies to build custom applications to meet a variety of needs. Typical roles included supplemental staffing (application analysis, design, and programming), technical project leadership, and mentoring.

Built reddiggulo.us. This site took the most popular news from social bookmarking sites, identified unique stories, and ranked them against each other using a proprietary popularity algorithm. I built this site with C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server 2005.
Built ASPXAuth authentication and authorization application for IIS-based web sites. This application enabled web sites to easily set up and manage user access to their content based on roles and/or user authorization. I built this application for ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 using both VB.NET and C#. This application used SQL Server 2000 or 2005 for data storage and also made extensive use of custom HTTP Modules, HTTP Handlers, .NET custom controls and Cryptography.
Worked as a contract programmer for CenterPoint Energy. I was directly responsible for first stabilizing their online customer account management web site and then re-writing it from the ground up. This system enables their three million customers to manage their account and pay their bills over the Internet. The system itself was built using ASP, MQSeries, DB2, Oracle, and a Novell eDirectory (LDAP) server. I was the primary programmer for the web server code, the interfaces into MQSeries, the queries into Oracle, and the user authorization against eDirectory. This system can be seen at CenterPoint Energy My Account Online.
Mentored and trained the development staff of CenterPoint Energy to support and utilize Internet technologies. This knowledge transfer enabled the company to have a more robust infrastructure while becoming less dependent on outside resources.
Built a custom ordering website for the wholesale business and a CD-ROM version of their wholesale catalog which has enabled customers to cut down on paper as well as get pictures of the various products and plants while in the field.
Worked with a Corporate Payments division in US Bank to translate a set of EDI standards to XML.

Skills and technologies used: Please see the skills section.

Shopforschool.com June through December 1999

Manager of Information Systems

Responsible for building applications that were highly scalable with a low cost of ownership for a high traffic web site during the dotcom boom.

Replaced initial need for outside resources by building a team of developers to meet needs of intensive development efforts. Also built smaller team of support personnel to meet the needs of applications, infrastructure, and a national sales force.
Worked extensively with external partners and performance-based affiliate programs. I designed and programmed several proprietary tools and services that identified and linked individual shopping transactions across multiple web sites using ASP, SQL Server 7, Site Server, and COM components written in Visual Basic.
Led a team that developed a low-cost payment service which cut checks to schools based on their share of affiliate revenues.

Skills and technologies used: IIS, MTS, SQL Server 7, Site Server 3 Commerce Edition, Visual Basic, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, CSS, ADO, CDONTS, COM, Office 2000 Web Components

Vida Healthcare September 1998 through June 1999

Senior Developer

Worked within small team to develop healthcare data collection and records management tools using Visual Basic and SQL Server. Vida Healthcare was a spin-off of United Healthcare.

Conducted extensive review of infrastructure, application, database, and development environments. Based on those findings, provided strategic direction for development and infrastructure efforts going forward.
Automated application installation procedures which improved customer service significantly.

Skills and technologies used: IIS, MTS, SQL Server (6.5 and 7), Access, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, CSS, ADO, CDONTS, COM/DCOM, ActiveX

Rainier Technology April 1997 through August 1998

Solutions Developer

Worked as a consultant to develop enterprise solutions for a wide range of clients. Rainier Technology has since been purchased by Compaq and then merged into Hewlett-Packard.

Developed sales force automation system for General Mills using Dynamic HTML, ASP, ActiveX components, and SQL Server. I wrote most of the DHTML and ASP front end. This application increased sales force accountability as well as sales forecasting accuracy. Application was demonstrated by Microsoft at the Internet Explorer 4 launch event. Wrote an article for MIND magazine detailing some of the technology used (see below).
Developed and coded several corporate Intranet sites for General Mills including an interface to Cyberdocs written in ASP.
Coded searchable trial exhibit web site for Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco trial using ASP and Index Server. This site indexed new trial exhibits on a nightly basis for the entire Internet to see. This was one of the first big tobacco lawsuits to go to trial and the site saw significant traffic.
Worked closely with Rainier Sales department to make sales calls and develop proposals. Was able to increase sales into each account I serviced.

Skills and technologies used: IIS, MTS, Index Server, SQL Server 6.5, Site Server 3 Commerce Edition, Visual Basic, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, CSS, ADO, CDO, COM/DCOM, ActiveX

IVI Publishing January 1995 through April 1997

Engineer

Worked as a programmer with a wide range of clients and projects. IVI Publishing developed CD-ROM multimedia health and educational titles for OEM and retail channels and then branched into online publishing. IVI Publishing has since been purchased by WebMD.

Worked with the Mayo Clinic, Hazelden, and the New England Journal of Medicine to publish their content both online and on CD-ROM products.
I wrote a feature called "HealthWatch Server" which linked updated online content directly to static CD-ROM content. I wrote this application in PERL and used Verity as its primary data source. This product was embedded in the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book CD-ROM which sold over one million copies.

Skills and technologies used: Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape Publishing Server, Verity Websearcher, IIS, Visual Basic, ASP, C, Java, JavaScript, PERL, CGI, ColdFusion

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Certifications

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)

Microsoft Certified Professional + Site Building

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Writing Experience

Microsoft Interactive Developer (MIND) magazine

Do Real World Data Analysis With Internet Explorer 4.0 Data Binding

Article covered advanced Data Binding technologies found in Internet Explorer 4.

Microsoft Interactive Developer changed its name to Microsoft Internet Developer in January 1999 and then merged with Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ) in March 2000 to form MSDN Magazine.

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