Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D.
904 Crescent Pkwy
DeLand, FL 32724

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 CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AS OF 4/13/2009


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EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE:

Ø      Position as Lead / Senior Developer, Development Manager, or Chief Technology Officer.  Immediate desire is to remain in Central Florida, preferably in the Lake Mary area. Will consider contract work.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Visual Studio.Net:    Have developed Web Services, ASP.NET, and C# middleware components on the .NET platform since the inception of the first BETA in July 2000, with a focus on the ability to re-engineer, rewrite or extend existing technology. Experience heading up a team development environment on major .NET projects. Was lead programmer and chief architect on a jointly funded project with Microsoft in developing cutting – edge .NET – based middleware and front end web – based software for the banking and financial industry using IFX XML standards.  Weeks of “in the trenches” experience in testing and optimization of .NET applications at the Microsoft Testing Labs in Charlotte, NC. Work with XSD Schema, SOAP Webservices, Windows Services, .NET Remoting and SOAP Extensions, custom serialization classes, encryption and compression for distributed applications. Developed ASP.NET e-procurement sites with complex middleware integration involving Windows Services and custom programming tasks such as dynamic – in-memory generation of Excel Workbooks and charts that stream to the client browser, use of the Remoting infrastructure and in-memory Data Caching technologies. Experienced in converting C++ applications to managed code. Currently working  with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), WIndows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Workflow (WF) C# 3.0, and LINQ.  Experienced with code generation of DAL, BLL and entity component layers for .NET, such as NetTiers with CodeSmith Templates as well as the use of NHIbernate with Fluent.NHibernate, LINQ TO SQL, and Entity Framework.

MS SQL Server: (2000/2005/2008)SQL Service Manager, Enterprise Manager, BCP, ISQL. Tables, Rules, Triggers, Views, stored procedures, most DBA functions. Custom MSDE Distributions. Design and normalization of databases.  English Query, SQLXML, Analysis Services (OLAP), Heterogeneous Queries. XMLHTTP queries, URL Addressable Queries. Native XML input / output. SQL Notification Services, SQL Reporting Services and SQLXML 3.0. Experience working with SQL Server 2005 including ServiceBroker and CLR-Integration C# stored procedures.

SQL Server Notification Services: Developed advanced workflow – based event notification applications using this new application platform to notify subscribers via email, Messenger, and PDA / cell phone for subscribed business events.

Windows 2008 Server and Windows Vista:  COM+, ADSI, DNS, Windows Media Server, IIS 7.0, Message Queue(MSMQ) , Exchange Server, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Queued Components. Experienced in setting up, testing and deploying Network Load Balancing in a multi-server web farm production environment. Currently working with Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Server 2008. Experienced in setting up VMWare and VPC virtual machines.

XML and Webservices: Work with  XML development tools such as Xml Spy. Remote Scripting, MSXML 3.0/4.0 Parsers, XML DOM, SAX, XSLT, XPATH, SOAP. Early adopter of WS-Security W3C Recommendation and WSE toolkit for XML Signature, authorization, attachments and routing of XML Webservices. Extensive experience with XPath and XSLT, both in database operations and web – based applications.

Web Design, Installation, Maintenance, Development: Web-Oracle and Web-SQL Server Integration, Microsoft IIS 6.0 and 7.0. JavaScript, ASP, DHTML, ODBC driver configuration, OLE DB Providers. Experienced in cross-browser web site development utilizing Expression Web, Co-developer and architect of www.eggheadcafe.com public developer portal website. Experience with XML Schema, WS-Security and XML Signature.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Partner, eggheadcafe.com  2001 - Present: Founding partner and engineer at eggheadcafe.com, a highly successful developer-oriented web site since July 2000, with over 20 million page views per month. Development, Search Engine Optimization, and content.

Recent Positions (contract and permanent):

CIBER INC., Orlando FL April  2007 – April 2009: Consultant: Developed SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Web and Middleware applications for several Fortune 500 clients. WCF Web Services, ASP.NET MVC Framework, SQL Server and Oracle back-ends.

Created SOA Enterprise Application Middleware and database access layers, Windows Mobile MVC Service layer and middleware applications for a Fortune 500 clientele.

Volo Communications, Altamonte Springs, FL: November, 2004 – Feb 2007: Senior Enterprise Software Architect . Develop softswitch and VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) SIP switching and routing technology. Architecture is mostly C# with some C++ managed code wrappers of telephony and codec APIs.

·         Wrote SmartDispatcher multithreaded C# Windows Service that processes 2000 MSMQ messages per second and can be reconfigured while running.

·         Developed Managed C++ wrappers for G.729 and ILBC codecs as well as managed C# streaming “plug-in” DirectX Audio capture and playback classes that can be hosted in a web page.

·         Developed "click-to-call" webservice API and web sites to enable architecture and implementation of unique VOIP-based telephony applications.

ASPSoft, Inc., Orlando FL:  Jan. 2004 –November 2004. Senior Consultant / Developer at this cutting – edge, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer consulting firm. 

·         Architected .NET Remoting – based infrastructure and Windows Forms GUI modules for extensive Healthcare – oriented applications, web – based ASP.NET modules for trans-institution hospital staff extranets.

·         Implemented innovative custom transport – level binary DataSet serialization and compression to conserve bandwidth.

Gartner Group, Maitland FL: January 2003 – April 2003: Senior Developer. Contract position to develop a complete, pluggable .NET web – based reporting infrastructure for Gartner’s TVO (Total Value of Opportunity) software suite. Design, spec, architecture, coding and testing. Project was completed on time and under budget.

·         Extensive use of C# and strongly – typed custom reporting classes making use of Xml classes.

Go Co-op.com, Maitland, FL:July 2002 – January 2003. Principal Software Architect. Contract position developing and architecting .NET Platform web – based e-procurement applications for the hospitality industry using Webservices, XML, Remoting and Windows Services as a lead programmer on a small, high – powered .NET development team.

·         Helped convert classic ASP application with 1200 table multi-server database back-end  to .NET platform for major scalability and throughput enhancement.

Fiserv CBS, Inc, Maitland, FL: August 2000 – June 2002. Senior Programmer / Analyst:

·         Responsible for co-development of the web-based retail banking application. 

·         Primary responsibility of coding the Internet Explorer 5.5 DHTML – based user interface utilizing advanced DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript and SQL Server 2000 XML data interchange.

·         Creation of middleware Windows DNA – based COM+ components and server – based COM+ components talking to AS400 based DB2 host and Data Queues in a load-balanced, multi-server web farm environment. This is the most advanced web – based financial application in the industry.

Realtime Publishers, Inc: Staff Author. Have authored custom articles on various technology and development subjects for this premier vanity publishing company:

Prentice Hall: Technical Editor on several .NET related books, including the Deitel Series.

Manning Publishers: Technical Editor on book “C# In Depth” by Jon Skeet

Technologies Used:

C#.NET:  Extensive experience in writing Middleware Database Components, Windows Services, TCP Socket, FTP and HTTP classes, Web Services and Business Rule implementation, as well as in converting legacy COM – based components and code into .NET OOP-oriented classes and structures.  Worked with Mobile Internet Toolkit to provide Web – based UI compatible with over 40 different devices from PDA’s to cellphones.

Experience in converting COM+ Visual Basic code to C# System.EnterpriseServices code, Message Queue, Queued Components, Windows Services, Web Services and Business Rule implementation, and .NET Remoting Framework implementations. Experienced with WSE (Web Services Enahncements) in message-level SOAP Authentication, XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption and Message Routing.

Ø      Primary Architect of .NET Framework - based Communicator architecture, which proved out at Microsoft Labs to be up to 10 times faster than any previous COM –based implementation.

Ø      Architected, designed and developed advanced CompressedDataSet technology which allows for the remoting of large .NET ADO DataSets in a highly compressed state in-memory, with over 90% bandwidth savings.

Ø      Developed Internet Explorer Browser ActiveX Picture Transmit Control to capture screen pictures or signatures (for banking transactions) on client from Windows clipboard, convert to JPEG with Intel JPEG C Library, send over the wire to server and saved to database. Control automatically downloads and installs in client browser over the Internet.

Ø      Developed PABZlib COM wrapper component to Zlib C Library to enable client-side browser compression of XML and other documents up to 95%, send over the Internet via HTTP, decompress at server. Optional recompression of server results and transmission / decompression at client all in a single function call. Component auto-installs via Internet CAB download in client’s browser. Also developed .NET free-threaded version of component: “PABNZlibHelper” with built-in COM Interop.

Ø       Developed SessMgr COM Server Component utilizing SQL Server 2000 to enable Session State management on a web server farm, eliminating need for ASP Session object and speeding up performance of large web – based applications hosted on multiple servers in a web farm environment.

 

Sprint PCS, Maitland, FL.: December 1999 – August 2000. Software Engineer IV:  Responsible for maintenance and full lifecycle development of web – based collaboration, intranet and internet database – enabled enterprise applications for a variety of business processes including call center applications, intranet – based web reporting, and content delivery systems. Business process analysis, requirements documents, project plans. Web Application stress testing. Consultation with department heads; recommendation, design, development and implementation of software solutions. ·         Developed complete cross-browser compliant company intranet with Windows DNA based collaboration and database-enabled content management. DHTML, ASP, COM, VBScript, JavaScript, XML utilizing both SQL Server and Oracle data stores. ·         Co-Developed N-Tier Web Reporting Management system for generation, caching, and display – on – demand of general business reports from Oracle data store in both Active Reports and Crystal Reports formats in the client web browser.·         Developed custom web – based business components for use of developer group and other departments including Base DLL registry, HTML Component, Discussion Forum, Management Alerts with email notification, Employee Lookup Directory with email and paging links, and company-wide quarterly “Scorecard”  web-based employee evaluation survey application.·         Deployed proof-of-concept COM+ Windows DNA solutions on Windows 2000 Advanced server utilizing the latest features of Exchange 2000, IIS 5.0, Message Queue, SQL Server 2000 HTTP/XML queries, and Biztalk Server 2000 with SOAP / XML, Web Services and Digital Dashboard Web Parts. Used Visual Studio 7.0 PDC Developer Preview to develop web forms, web services, and web components utilizing C#, ASP+ and ADO+ with DataReaders and Datasets.

MEDai, Inc., Orlando, FL:  Mar 1999 – Nov. 1999. Manager of Development: Responsible for full life cycle development of N-Tier client/server COM / DCOM and Internet – enabled database applications at this cutting – edge medical artificial intelligence firm. Responsibilities included: gathering user requirements; writing user requirements documents; creating application process flow diagrams; creating UML data models; development of user interfaces, middle-tier business objects and database processes; testing, implementation and maintenance of all business systems. Developed a series of B2B projects to convert and upgrade legacy systems from Windows to web enabled, multi-tier application systems utilizing Windows NT 4.0, VB 6.0, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS), Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 (MTS), DCOM, IE 5.0, Netscape Navigator and an Oracle 8i data warehouse (200 GB). Developed Intranet – enabled Exchange Server/ Outlook applications. Responsibility for maintenance and development of corporate intranet and public corporate web site(s), as well as client extranet applications.

·         Developed online COM – based asynchronous stock pricing components for “AI Trader” artificial intelligence proprietary trading system. Component capable of asynchronously downloading and converting 4,000 individual stock issues with 260 days historical data each in 10 minutes or less. Experience in working with and using neural network programming tools to develop custom business intelligence analytical solution applications.

EDUCATION:

B. A.   Economics, Columbia Pacific University, 1987
Ph.D.  Economics, Columbia Pacific University, 1990
Numerous Company and Industry – based training courses

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:

“A Study of Associations Between Solar and Economic Data”, April, 1990 (148pp + source code): Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of Doctoral Degree requirements to Columbia Pacific University (Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Gould, Assistant Director, Lubin Graduate School of Business, PACE University, NY). Research paper included development of and source code for Fast Fourier Transforms and Autocorrelation Analysis methods on daily Ottawa 10cm Solar Flux readings (NOAA) from 1947 through 1990, correlated with corresponding interest rate and stock index data, as well as computer analyses of GOES satellite minute-by-minute solar activity readings correlated with corresponding real-time commodity futures trading data. Paper included multi-year interest rate and stock index forecasts through 1996 based on associative model which correctly predicted the long-term decline in global interest rates, based on solar cycles.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

·         10/26/2002 Article, “Overhead of COM+ Services in the .NET Platform” Published at eggheadcafe.com
·         9/29/2002 Article, “Serialize / Deserialize .NET Classes to SQL Server” Published at eggheadcafe.com
·         9/7/2002  Article, “Custom Forms Authentication in ASP.NET”  Published by Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance site.
·         9/16/2000 Article on .NET:  “Got Interface?” Published by Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance.
·         Numerous additional articles, book reviews and features can be viewed online at the developer web site I conceived, designed and co-host at http://www.eggheadcafe.com.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, TRAINING AND AWARDS:

Microsoft Global MVP Summit, Seattle WA, Mar 2009
.NET Code Camp Conference, Orlando, FL 2006, 2007
Microsoft Global MVP Summit Conference, 2006, 2007
Presentation to the Orlando .NET User Group on SQLite and ADO.NET, 2004
VSLive 2004, Orlando FL
Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004, San Diego CA
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Developer - Most Valuable Professional
MCSD Courses and tests in Visual Studio.NET Web Development. MCP Certification qualified.
February 2002: Microsoft .NET platform in-house training
May 2002: Microsoft Testing Labs, Charlotte NC – direct MS training / testing
May 2000: Microsoft Tech – Ed Conference, Orlando
July 2000: Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, Orlando FL