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Matthew Ricker

Tampa,FL

Summary

Experienced and results-driven technologist in the .NET space. Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills with a focus on building high-performance teams.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Solution Lead

BlueModus
06.2021 - Current


  • Lead and mentor a small agile technical team of Full-Stack Developers, UX/UI Developers, and QA Engineers working together to build and maintain websites, webstores, intranets, and web applications for 7-10 clients simultaneously
  • Heavy focus on C#, JavaScript, Vue, and custom development leveraging content management systems (CMS), including Kentico, Sitecore, Umbraco, and Sitefinity
  • Responsible for the technical vision of client projects, which includes translating the business requirements into technical requirements, breaking apart those requirements into sprints or tickets, pair programming, conducting code reviews, leading demos for clients on completed work, building packages and deploying to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Delegating work, providing estimates, take part in hiring /firing, interviews, and regular 1on1’s with team members
  • 70% leadership and 30% hands on.
  • Recommended new products and services to customers.
  • Created Proof of Concepts for Hitachi using AI tools (azure cognitive forms) to process invoices and purchase orders and turn that into JSON data, and send it to SAP.
  • Multiple IoT projects (Shape Technologies Group & Hitachi) – Integrating IoT data from Data Lakes into internal applications for reporting & visualization
  • Award winning site of the year finalist lexitaslegal.com built on Kentico CMS using .net core
  • Integrated 3rd party APIs for payment processing and secure document uploading. Salesforce & Pardot integration

Senior Application Developer

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
01.2011 - 06.2021
  • Lead architecture, design and development of projects
  • Mentor developers
  • Make decisions on development standards and technologies
  • Hands on technical lead for teams of 3-5 developers
  • Requirements gathering, software demo and presentations
  • Act as Development Manager during leaves of absence
  • Identify and interview candidates for hiring
  • Active day to day software development duties
  • Build 3-5 new MVC web applications per year, ranging from Law Enforcement applications to internal support applications (Benefits, Mugshots, Employee Intranet, Off Duty Jobs, Asset Management, etc.)
  • Focused on hybrid agile development methods, requirement gathering, design and code implementation from start to finish
  • Developed frameworks using OOD, including Dependency Injection and other design patterns
  • Created Multi Agency Data Exchange using RabbitMQ
  • SSIS & Informatica & Microstrategy.

Development Manager

Medarc LLC
01.2011 - 07.2017
  • Lead offshore developers in creating a certified EHR (electronic medical records) software
  • Architect a C# asp.net web forms project using responsive design, RESTful APIs and Telerik controls and hands on development
  • Reporting using Crystal Reports
  • Work with yearly changing requirements from the US Government on healthcare standards
  • HIPAA certified.

Web Developer

Bisk Education
08.2009 - 04.2011
  • Work with a team of developers on a high traffic, high quality website
  • The main focus of work was is lead generation, and support for external applications and web sites
  • Most recent project was to update a classic asp / COM based customer support chat system integrated with Talisma CRM
  • The new system was created with .net 4.0 C#, using jQuery, AJAX, JSONP, COM interop, supported multiple browsers and cross domain chat requests
  • The company website receives several thousand hits a day with continuously increasing traffic
  • The web application is completely data driven, backed by a custom in house content management system, and a production team to run the website using the tools we provided through our admin interface
  • Extensive development using ASP.Net 3.5 and 4.0 using C# and Visual studio 2008 and 2010
  • Working through the SDLC reading and writing requirements as well as, technical specs, and more
  • Areas of focus on the following areas of the web application: Custom Content Management System to dynamically create pages, add content, manage SEO, and more
  • Large SQL Server database with stored procedures, views, and SQL Server agent jobs
  • Timed console applications to read from RSS feeds, import and export data, process leads, distribute email, perform http, XML, and SOAP requests, and more
  • Heavy client side development using JQuery and JavaScript, along with ASP.Net handlers to serve asynchronous content via AJAX in JSON format
  • Created a custom RSS feed based on the new syndication framework
  • Used server side caching, and other page optimization techniques to improve site performance
  • Developed a JavaScript widget to embed on partner websites
  • Created timed SQL server jobs, and SSIS packages.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

Devry University
Orlando, FL

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Team Leadership
  • Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS)
  • Jira, Workday, Salesforce, SAP
  • ASPNET, NET Core, C#, VB
  • SQL Server, Oracle, Informix
  • Angular, Vuejs, React, Blazor
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • SDLC, Agile
  • REST, API, Web Services
  • GIT, TFS, DevOps

Certification

  • MCTS - .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications
  • Kentico Certified Developer
  • ONC-ATCB Certified EHR Software (Electronic Health Records)

Timeline

Sr. Solution Lead

BlueModus
06.2021 - Current

Senior Application Developer

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
01.2011 - 06.2021

Development Manager

Medarc LLC
01.2011 - 07.2017

Web Developer

Bisk Education
08.2009 - 04.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

Devry University

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