Andrew Strackbein
Midlothian,VA
Summary
Dedicated .Net developer with 8 years of experience contributing to .NET/ASP/C#/JS projects. Solution oriented. Demonstrated willingness to shift specialties and gain comprehensive knowledge of available tools to suggest appropriate solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Software Developer
VisualZen Inc
Norfolk, VA
02.2016 - 09.2021
- Redesigned three VisualZen SaaS projects. 80% front end for all projects (JS/jQuery/ASP/React), 20% back end (.NET ASP). Demonstrated very low error/defect rate. Added high quality mobile functionality, accessibility, and language translation. Very successful project resulting in several new client onboardings and a a large increase in our package prices.
- Worked closely with Operations Team to prioritize tasks, request info, explain steps to reproduce, manage blocked tasks, and pushing resolved tasks/bugs/features to a pre-production environment for further review
- Maintained VZ Orientation Software SaaS package: A control panel for admins and a portal for users that performs many technical functions including secure user data management and storage, custom admin CMS, forms, reporting, messaging, permissions, footprints and analytics, higher education specific workflow templates, dataset management, and schematizing of user types
- Brainstormed and designed data structures, APIs, UX/UI enhancements, and data access optimizations
- Wrote unit tests so other developers would not break my front end best practices
- Loading time optimizations (back and front end)
- Use of pre-compiler (SASS) to programmatically reduce upkeep required of CSS code
- Used SQL Server Management Studio, IIS, SQL, and stored procedures to instantiate data for new clients
- used stored procedures to offload some code into the dbs
- Some minor DB normalization was required when new clients or tables encountered data redundancies
- Used SELECTs, INSERTs, JOINs, and other common SQL commands
- Created implementation/usage manual
- Clients and coworkers commented on the excellence of my largest project (a major version increase to VZO)
- Developed a custom client-side validation system with jQuery
- Developed a library of front end components to improve developer workflow
- Addition of a mobile responsive dataview
- Addition of stateless "context aware" UI components in the CMS to allow user to add a variety of component types without worrying about functionality or appearance
- Tool that allows clients to update branding on their own
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements.
- Translated customer requirements into written use cases.
- Designed intuitive graphical user interfaces to improve user experience.
- Developed software for desktop and mobile operating systems.
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
State Content Developer
Liberty Tax Services
Virginia Beach, VA
06.2011 - 02.2016
- worked in an .NET C# environment to help build ViewModels for new tax prep project.
- update business logic for new tax years
- proprietary ticketing system experience
- ensure user data is validated to match XML schemas
- monitor data for fraudulent activity
- Automated batch e-file testing process with Python
- Used Excel pivot tables to organize and present large sets of data
Education
BS - Computer Science
Christopher Newport University
Skills
Project Management
Technical design documentation
Technical Support
SQL integration
Strong front end design skills
Certification
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
08-2022
Software Developer
VisualZen Inc
02.2016 - 09.2021
State Content Developer
Liberty Tax Services
06.2011 - 02.2016
BS - Computer Science
Christopher Newport University