Senior .NET Developer, Messaging and SOA expert, Azure aficionado

Responsible for Consumer Platform design and implementation (Canada and international
markets). Architected and later supervised the (hands-on) implementation of the ATIS platform
(Alberta Tourism Information Services), a service-oriented custom B2C solution for Travel
Alberta deployed and running in Azure.
* Worked with the leadership team (VPs) to achieve corporate goals
* Hired and managed the development team
* Mentored team members, helping with process and professional growth
* Developed and executed the strategy to move off on-premises into the Azure cloud.
* Implemented both cloud-first and lift-and-shift migrations of the existing systems,
transforming Sitecore CMS into Azure-based solutions with Azure Cloud Services, WebApp,
Blob and Queue, Storage, Azure Redis, VMs, Elasticsearch, Azure SQL and RavenDB.
* Architected and implemented services and REST APIs with NServiceBus

Worked on Print Audit Secure product and was responsible for tasks from gathering requirements
to a working prototype. While doing so, I introduced agile methodology (Scrum), Test-Driven
Development and automation to the development team while actively engaging with the
stakeholders using an iterative approach to improve the organization's general functionality,
establishing processes.
* .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.0
* ASP.NET MVC for Web UI and REST APIs
* SQL Server

Researched, designed, and implemented S.O.A.-based backend solution for messaging using
BizTalk 2009 and custom Enterprise Service Bus implementation comprised of custom pipelines,
orchestrations, WCF services, canonical schemas, and custom .NET components. Architected and
implemented a custom BizTalk solution, allowing BizTalk to become a mapping between thousands
of integrating parties with unique schemas required to collaborate in the procurement space.
The result required no BizTalk application redeployment for further integrations on-boarding.
* Successful projects in production/maintenance developed using Behavior-Driven Development
and iterative process with different timelines and constant changes.
* Analysis of the existing legacy core applications and application of Domain-Driven Design
to break down and re-architect those properly to meet the business need to grow and
evolve.
* Re-architecture of the legacy core business backend system and implementation with a
proper object-oriented solution, leveraging SOA and pluggable design using WCF.
* Designed and implemented security enhancements for delivery subsystem (RosettaNet),
implementing 2-way authentication and secure server-side logging with Aspect-Oriented
Programming, .NET obfuscation, and secure connectivity using certificates.
* Transformed the team in 9 months to deliver low to no defect results within nine months;
using Test/Behavior-Driven Development and agile methodologies, the team has become a
fully pair-programming team.
* Full automation with CI on the build server using MSBuild and NAnt.
* Introduced Domain-Driven design and NHibernate into the projects that required domain
abstractions.
* Assisted team in achieving full automation using build scripts and installer scripts
(WIX).
* Was in charge of driving the changes and adoption of various development techniques such
as SOLID. Principles, Design-by-Contract, Mocking and interaction-testing, refactoring
(ReSharper), domain modelling.
* Worked closely with different departments to ensure the success of the project.
* Worked closely with the stakeholder to identify the requirements.
* Orchestrated concurrent development on several Cortex subsystems.
* Coordinated planning and migration from desktop application to Silverlight 4 application.

Responsibilities included analysis, design, and implementation of external applications and
systems while providing an internal framework to the development team-introduced innovative
coding approaches such as TDD among developers to improve delivered projects' quality and
maintainability.
* Series of successful projects for clients such as Bank of America, LaSalle Bank, Sick
Kids Hospital, Imperial Tobacco, Irving Oil, Blakes Cassels, Kraft, Towers Perrin,
WaterMark, etc.
* Took a significant role in design and implementation of PenForms tool, electronic filing.
* Designed, built, and maintained two generations of Sunwapta Framework - a layered
architecture framework for rapid development using .NET 2.0 and 3.5 with ASP.NET. This
work included standardization on Dependency Injection container and Inversion of Control,
Model-View-Presenter implementation to decouple logic from UI in ASP.NET in the days of
WebForms.
* Initial assessment and implementation of the desktop tool using WPF technology.
* Architected and implemented multi-lingual support for Canadian and USA projects.
* Drove the adoption of agile methodologies and agile development.

I was involved in developing several web-based applications for mobile platforms for
Coca-Cola, Sports Channel, Partner Communications, etc.
* SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access
* ASP.NET with C# back and front ends (SSR.)
* Client-side development with HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Taught the following programming courses:
* Assembly 80x86
* C/C++ language
* Data Structures
* Web development with Active Server Pages (classic ASP) and HTML/JavaScript