Michael West

Dynamic Architecture Manager at Cigna HealthSpring with extensive expertise in C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. Proven track record in leading teams to enhance system designs and ensure security compliance. Adept at mentoring developers and driving process improvements, fostering collaboration to achieve project success.

• Cigna HealthSpring, 02/15, Present, Nashville, TN, Architecture Manager, Serve as the manager of a team of architects responsible for providing support to all development teams; the team provides designs for ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server based systems across the enterprise; conducts code reviews for all development teams; prepares teams for security review compliance; provides guidance on data federation strategies.
• TradeWeb Markets LLC, 04/06, 01/15, Nashville, TN, Vice President of Development, Served as one of the architects of a large retail bond trading system written in C#/C++/SQL Server; designed and built various sub-systems including authentication, order management, session management, distributed caching, bond descriptive data, various high speed data feeds, in memory WCF database servers; often tasked with researching and in some cases integrating third-party products such as caching servers, .NET controls, various open source frameworks; interfaced with product management to make sure specifications are correct and complete; worked with QA and support team to implement load tests for various parts of the system.
• Private Business Inc. formerly Goldleaf Technologies, Inc., 04/05, 2006, Nashville, TN, Vice President of Product Development, Hired, trained, and mentored all developers, quality assurance personnel, as well as technical writers; served as the lead architect for all development projects; performed research and development to enable the development team to solve problems in the most technically sound way possible; responsible for implementing and constantly improving the development process; was the primary liaison between development and product management for three major products; provided tools such as code generators, code templates, and technical specification templates for the developers to improve their efficiency; served as the database administrator for all production databases; maintained project schedules for all development projects in the electronic payment processing division of the company; created system prototypes to be used by the developers to implement particular sub systems.
• Global Trade Technologies, Inc., 12/00, 04/05, Nashville, TN, Director of Development, Built a team of developers that created a large scale B2B/web fixed income trading system for the brokerage industry; created an overall enterprise architecture including design philosophies, coding standards and naming conventions; provided training and mentoring to all developers at GTT; performed as a member of the Microsoft Strategic Design Review Council for C# version 2.0 providing input to the Microsoft .NET development team in the areas of the C# language, ASP.NET, .NET SQL Server integration, general performance issues, Web Services; maintained the production hardware and software environment in an offsite hosting facility; served as a windows system administrator for the production and development networks; served as the main liaison between the business analysts, QA, and development groups, designed and wrote middle tier and web code using C# and the .NET framework; served as the SQL Server database administrator architecting all new data structures and performing administrative tasks.
• EHC.com/HCA, 08/00, 12/00, Nashville, TN, Senior Applications Engineer, Designed and constructed an extremely large corporate intranet application that conditionally rendered HTML via XML/XSL transformations based on database driven user permissions; implemented various XML/XSL transformations resulting in HTML/DHTML output for hospital web sites; implemented middle-tier database access components in Visual Basic.
• J. C. Bradford & Co., 11/96, 07/00, Nashville, TN, Senior Programmer / Analyst, Designed and implemented n-tier portfolio/contact management system using Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, ADO, RDS, and SQL Server that supported 2000 retail brokers and sales assistants; served as the lead database administrator for large portfolio management databases; created various SQL Server 7.0 data warehouses to consolidate archived data for live system used by all retail brokers; created an automated report delivery system for 90 branch offices utilizing digital DCL and visual basic.

• Served as Chief Information officer for $1.5b company in the music business. Managed all aspects of technology including communications, infrastructure, security, software development, and IT operations.
• Serve as Architecture Manager for a large healthcare insurance company, managing a team of architects that provide oversight over all development operations. The team provides services such as system and database design, code and security reviews and enterprise services implementations used by various development teams.
• Served as a member of the Microsoft Strategic Design Review Council for C#, assimilating and providing input to the .NET framework development team in the areas of the C# language, ASP.NET, Visual Studio IDE, WCF, and general performance issues.
• Served as the chief architect and manager for a team of 10 developers and 7 quality assurance analysts building large electronic payments system software for the banking industry using C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
• Served as the chief architect of a team of 10 developers that designed and built a large enterprise-scale web/B2B fixed income trading system for the brokerage industry using the Microsoft .NET framework.
• Designed, implemented and maintained an enterprise-scale production .NET environment in a hosted data center to support large numbers of web users and various high speed data feeds.
• Architected comprehensive development framework using .NET and SQL Server providing rapid development of well performing systems that are in many cases self-maintaining.
• Served as lead database administrator for a 30-50 GB SQL Server 6.5 and later a SQL Server 7.0 database supporting 2000 users.

• C#
• JavaScript
• Windows Server
• ASP.NET 3,4,4.5
• JQuery
• SQL Server 2008/2012
• MS Visual Studio 2013/2015
• ExtJS
• Oracle 11g
• Team Foundation Server
• WCF
• PL/SQL