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Education
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Software
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James Waddell

Senior Software Lead
Irving,TX

Summary

Talent Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in .Net programming and SQL Server. Self-directed leader with expertise in Project Management and Agile Management. Talented at cultivating collaborative and supportive team environment.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Software Developer

RollKall Technologies
03.2021 - Current
  • Trained new developers and programmers on existing standards and developed new standards on unit testing and scalability.
  • Overhauled the support structure to improve CX-Support relations,
    decreasing the time-to-fix for support inquiries by 100%
  • Worked on an Agile team with several individuals with a product-led focus on delivering new features and improving the product while meeting deadlines.
  • Developed several .Net solutions over the past three years to implement several new features for our application, as well as improving quality and addressing software issues that bring the system to current standards.

Senior Software Lead

Car Capital Corp
09.2020 - 03.2021
  • Managed team of eight individuals in startup environment with goal of having live loan management platform in four months.
  • Used Azure DevOps and the Azure platform to manage deployment of various software systems while managing and handling the various configuration and scripting of the entire deployment architecture.
  • Documented and guided the development of the platform from start to finish, coming upon the end of the development cycle in early January.
  • Used various software technologies and languages as a senior software developer, ranging from C#, .Net, .Net Core, Razor Pages, MVC Razor, Sql Server 2019, Jquery, and Node.js.
  • Managed the entire team remotely over a four month period, doing reviews, giving guidance, and fixing anything that wasn't quite up to evolving standard, as well as taking upon many other roles from Project Manager to Team Lead.

Senior Software Developer

Supreme Lending
02.2019 - 09.2020

Maintained and developed solutions for real estate loan operations across the continental US using .NET in an agile-managed team.

Brought in logging, code improvements, and developed standards for a system previously managed by another company.

Primarily used Azure DevOps as a platform for team organization, source control, repository management, build pipelines, and deployment pipelines with git-integration.

Also handled a variety of tasks involving production support, including finding and fixing software defects reported by the clients and customers at Supreme Lending.

Senior Software Developer

Brock Solutions
02.2013 - 02.2019

Developed and maintained software for logistics operations across multiple different airports in the continental US and Canada using various languages using .Net, .Net MVC, C#, C++, Sql Server (2010 - 2017), and various scripting languages (JS, VBScript, PERL, Ruby, Python, JQuery)

Developed and modified reports, sortation algorithms, and web-based interfaces to explore and correct problem areas in a baggage sortation system.

Used TFS and git-based repository handling.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Information Technology

University Of North Texas
Denton, TX
01.2009 - 12.2013

Associate of Applied Science - Software Development

Richland College
Dallas, TX
05.2007 - 05.2009

Skills

    Net development

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Accomplishments

Fort Lauderdale Terminal 3, (2014-2016) Deployed, customized, and developed several custom aspects of the baggage handling system for Fort Lauderdale Terminal 3 for JetBlue airlines while working with ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Python, XML, and PERL.

DFW Terminal B, (2016-2018) Implemented a newer version of our software using integrations with ETL and data modeling. Used C# and ASP.NET for front-end, SQL Server and Entity Framework for the back-end, Pentaho for ETL, and WCF services to communicate the system’s web based framework with off-the-shelf vendor software.

Employee Maintenance System, (2019) Modifying and improving the existing EMS to improve error handling and customize it to fit the needs of Supreme Lending’s infrastructure. Worked with jquery, MVC, Entity Framework, and .NET. Integrated the system with its two wcf services that handle authentication and communication with the Encompass loan origination system. Managed tasks, repositories, and build and deployment pipelines for the development and production environment using Azure DevOps.

Mail Logging Application, (2020) - Modified an existing system that uses a core React framework to use integration with our Decisions platform using RabbitMQ and MassTransit.

Internal Messaging Platform (RollKall API Platform), (2021-2022) - Used Azure Service Bus to add internal messaging and queing between a multitude of different external messaging services including Firebase, Mandrill's Email platform, and our integrated mobile communications platform.

Web API Overhaul (RollKall API Platform), (2022-Ongoing) - Internal project to improve our reporting systems, API performance, and scalability in our .Net 4.8 framework. Added several features including officer scheduling, new reports, improved officer metrics, logging, and improved query performance.

Software

C#

SQL Server

Net Core

Net

MVC

Jquery

React

NodeJS

C

Entity Framework

Data Warehousing / ETL

ViewJS

Azure DevOps

DataDog

Visual Studio

GIT

SSRS

LaunchDarkly

Dapper

XUnit

Moq

Interests

Robotics

Arduino Programming

Travel

Timeline

Senior Software Developer

RollKall Technologies
03.2021 - Current

Senior Software Lead

Car Capital Corp
09.2020 - 03.2021

Senior Software Developer

Supreme Lending
02.2019 - 09.2020

Senior Software Developer

Brock Solutions
02.2013 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Information Technology

University Of North Texas
01.2009 - 12.2013

Associate of Applied Science - Software Development

Richland College
05.2007 - 05.2009
James WaddellSenior Software Lead