CHRISTOPHER L. HAMMONS

3004 Canyon Rd

Chaska, MN   55318

(952) 201-7096

chris@communitychoicellc.com

www.communitychoicellc.com

 

CAREER SUMMARY

An entrepreneurial minded software engineer with extensive experience in Microsoft tools especially VB 6.0, VB.NET, ASP and vbScript.  Worked in law enforcement, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications industries.  Acted as a software consultant and project lead.  Specialty is configuration management.

 

Ideal position is a key member of a development team in an organization that is committed to improving or automating work flows between business owners, support, development, quality and deployment teams.

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Years of experience in:

  • VB                          5
  • VB.NET                 2
  • C/C++                    7

 

  • ASP                  2
  • ASP.NET         1
  • Java                  1

 

  • SQL Server        8
  • Oracle                5

 

 

Development Skills: Visual Studio, VB, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, vbScript, XML, XPATH, XSLT, Web Services, HTTP, DevXpress, Verity, LDAP, MQ Series, VC++, MFC, Java, jScript, IBM C-Set, Borland C, SCO C, Visual Interdev, Pascal, Perl, VXRexx, LEADTOOLS

 

Database Skills:  SQL Server, Oracle, Access, Btrieve, DB/2, dBASE, ERWin

 

Version Control and Build Tools: VSS, Perforce, Cruise Control, My Generation, nAnt, CCC / Harvest, PVCS and Configuration Builder

 

Process / Methodologies / Testing & Deployment Tools:  SCRUM, nUnit, FIT, Fitness, Install Shield, Wise, JUnit, Telnet, pcAnywhere, RTPatch, Virtual PC, XcelleNet

 

Platforms:  COM, dotNET, Windows, DOS, Solaris, Unix, OS/2, Telxon (Embedded System)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Community Choice, LLC                                                     11/2004 – Present

PO Box 15,  Chaska, MN 55318

 

Independent Consultant

 

Boston Scientific                                                                         1/2008 – 1/2008

TCGRx                                                                                       1/2008 – 1/2008

 

 

Masys Positron 911                                                                 11/2004 – 12/2007

·         Senior team member of 20 person, 12 developer satellite office.

·         Developed Records Management and other software for law enforcement agencies.

·         Maintained and enhanced massive proprietary framework written in VB6, VB.NET, MS SQL Server.

·         Rich Screens generated with My Generation and XML, DevXpress and custom controls.

·         Generated data objects and many base classes using Object-Relational Mapping, My Generation and XML.

·         Exported XML and performed multilevel validation before sending to Web Service.

·         Mastered the National Incident Based Report System (NIBRS), a comprehensive set of rules for exporting crime statistics to the FBI.

·         Improved the development processes by implementing SCRUM, Cruise Control, Perforce, nUnit, test driven development, FIT and Fitness automated testing on Virtual PC environments, continuous builds, continuously releasable source code mainline, and pair programming.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

Community Choice, LLC                                                                (Continued)

 

Thomson West Publishing                                                            2/2006 – 8/2006

·         Sole developer for resource allocation and forecasting web based reporting system.

·         Programmatically generated Excel spreadsheets in ASP and vbscript with both SQL Server and Oracle data sources.

·         Impressed client with significant performance gains on some reports.

 

 

Best Buy Enterprise                                                          11/2000 – 4/2004

7601 Penn Ave S.   Richfield, MN 55423

 

At Best Buy I had three different positions starting as a Project Lead and ending with Senior Developer.  A brief summary follows.

 

Senior Developer in the Software Engineering Center of Excellence   2/2003 – 4/2004

 

·         Developer of several Telxon handheld barcode scanner related efforts using MS Visual C++ 6.0, Retek data, MS SQL Server stored procedures, Wise installer, telenet, ASP.NET, MQ Series, web services, LDAP security and wireless label printer hardware.

·         Primary Visual C++ subject matter expert in the Best Buy Center of Excellence.

·         Worked to migrate an NT application and database server to Win2k.

·         Wrote several corporate and store intranet applications in ASP, vbScript and ASP.NET

·         Developed MS SQL Server stored procedures for enterprise wide applications.

·         Developed MS Access application and some MS Office automation.

 

 

Developer on the bestbuy.com Stabilization Team.                       1/2002 – 1/2003

 

·         Responsible for ensuring 24/7 operation of the bestbuy.com websites.

·         Primary point person for all Verity search engine issues and order fulfillment.

·         Fixed and enhanced Visual Basic, ASP and SQL stored procedures.

 

 

Project lead in the Release Management department, bestbuy.com. 11/2000 – 1/2002

 

·         Responsible for implementation of CCC / Harvest version 5, an advanced configuration management and workflow modeling tool.

·         Coordinated and documented change process flows of many groups including Release Management, Build and Deployment, Quality Assurance, ePublishing, Development and the business teams.

·         Designed, documented and helped code forms and processes in HTML, VBScript, Java Script, Java, Perl and Oracle Triggers.

·         Created training program and presented to developers and other users.

 

 

Net Perceptions, Inc.                                                        7/1999 – 10/2000

7700 France Ave S.   Edina, MN 55435

 

Senior Software Engineer at a real-time personalization and precision marketing software company.

 

·         Coded server side Java modules for an e-commerce personalization manager and real time marketing tool.  Also participated in the product’s design which made extensive use of XML to translate business rules defined by marketers into executable Java code.  Target platforms were Solaris or NT and MS SQL Server or Oracle.

·         Wrote NT installation package for an e-commerce recommendation engine using Install Shield.  This involved seamlessly integrating several external and internal products through OEM interfaces.  Extending Install Shield was necessary using Visual C++.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

BORN Information Services                                                 6/1994 – 6/1999

294 East Grove Lane, Suite 100   Wayzata, Minnesota   55391

 

Consultant for a company known for the most sophisticated staff in the region.

 

Several miscellaneous clients                                                       3/1998 – 6/1999

·         Visual Basic developer for a health care management company.  This client used Oracle to perform advanced data replication.

·         Extended Visual Basic using COM and Visual C++.

·         Used LEADTOOLS and Visual Basic for advanced image processing.

·         Acted as a version control and process management consultant for a health insurance company.  Wrote a “white paper” titled “Visual Source Safe Procedures” and was recognized as a key resource in version control management.

 

 

Cenex / Land O Lakes                                                                 4/1996 – 3/1998

·      Contributed to the development of AgriSource, a POS / Inventory Control and Decision Aid System for Agronomy Centers

·         Project managed by Rockford Lhotka now well known author and Microsoft expert.

·         Developed a scalable (Access or SQL Server) three-tier architecture multiple SDI framework; a precursor to the “component-based, scalable, logical architecture” or CSLA authored by Rocky and popular around town today.

·         Developed Visual C++ 5.0 (MFC) data migration programs from legacy Btrieve data.

 

 

Deluxe Corporation                                                                     6/1994 – 6/1996

·      Developed OS/2 applications in C, VXRexx and DB/2 for a Plant Order Management System (POMS) which eliminated redundant data entry and other manual tasks.

·      Designed and developed programs using client/server methodology that communicated which each other via APPC, semaphores, pipes, queues and shared DB/2 tables.

·         Evaluated Configuration Builder, a system build utility that integrates with Intersolv's version control software, PVCS.  Prepared and presented persuasive demonstrations and training which resulted in Deluxe adopting the utility on a company wide basis.

·         Developed and maintained build scripts using Configuration Builder and PVCS.

 

 

Funco, Inc.                                                                           9/1993 - 6/1994

10120 West 76th Street   Eden Prairie, Minnesota   55344

POS Programmer for a rapidly expanding retailer of new and used video games.

 

System Management Software, Inc.                                   8/1992 - 9/1993

2845 North Hamline Avenue, Suite 231   Saint Paul, Minnesota   55113

Software Engineer for a growing telecommunications software and consulting company.

 

EDUCATION

University of St. Thomas                                                   9/2004 – 10/2004

Minneapolis, Minnesota

FastTrac I – “New Venture” Business Training

 

University of Minnesota                                                      9/1987 - 6/1992

Institute of Technology, Minneapolis, Minnesota

B.S. in Computer Science

 

University of Wisconsin                                                       9/1986 - 6/1987

Eau Claire, Wisconsin