Clint Simon (me@clintsimon.com)
- Highly motivated individual with deep technology understanding, capable of learning and digesting new technologies rapidly.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly in a team environment with team members of various technical skill levels.
- 12 years of industry experience analyzing business problems, formulating solutions and executing on those solutions to produce high value results delivered on time and on budget.
- Strong leadership skills related to execution, mentorship and team building.
- Object oriented programming in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET XML Web Services (8 years each). Strong object oriented pattern-based design and development skills acquired from real world application deployments.
- 8 Years experience with SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services (2001, 2003 & 2007). Web Part Development, Site Template Customization, Custom Publishing Solutions, Custom Content Management Solutions, Custom workflow development.
- Strong background in interactive user experience implementation using client side technologies such as JavaScript, Ajax, JQuery and the ASP.NET Ajax framework.
- 10 years of experience with SQL Server database design, development, deployment and maintenance. Complex stored procedure development, Data Warehousing, Data Analysis, high performance/uptime systems.
- References available upon request.
Ascentium
Solution Architect / Technology Lead & Associate Partner – August 2004 to Present
- Technology discipline lead for the Portal & Collaboration practice responsible for people development, resourcing, recruiting, and technology leadership.
- Functions as foremost expert and mentor with regard to WSS & MOSS custom application development.
- Technical lead responsible for solution architecture and development execution on high profile deliverables for internal Microsoft clients and Microsoft Partner engagements.
- Companywide leadership role regarding SharePoint technologies. Advocated SharePoint platform by conducting training and mentorship across 200+ employees.
- Released Rapid Tools for SharePoint as an open source project (http://rapid-tools.googlecode.com). Rapid Tools for SharePoint is a set of developer productivity tools aimed at making the SharePoint platform more accessible to custom application developers. This includes a tool called SPDeploy which compiles a Visual Studio Project to a SharePoint solution package (wsp). This allows for the use of isolated development environments, automated deployment, continuous integration and unified source control. SPDeploy is used by Ascentium (and others) as a core development tool supporting custom application development projects on the SharePoint platform.
- Developed a custom content management solution called Rapid WCM (RWCM). RWCM is based on WSS and supports many of the features of MOSS ECM such as inline content editing, custom field controls, page templates, pages libraries and aggregation. RWCM is a lightweight alternate to MOSS ECM which Ascentium markets as an entry level CMS system.
- Contributed to Ascentium win for Microsoft Information Worker Solutions, Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year in 2008 (http://tinyurl.com/3pzukp). This is a global award from Microsoft recognizing achievement in technical implementation and overall business value delivered on the SharePoint platform.
- Lead the technology team delivering the public presence we site for Frontier Bank (http://www.frontierbank.com). This site earned Ascentium a place on the Q2 2009 Forrester Wave for Interactive Marketing Agencies (http://tinyurl.com/mkdbgg).
Hunt Interactive
Technology Lead – April 2000 to August 2004
- Technical lead responsible for solution architecture and development execution on a variety of solutions: Productivity Portals, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Business Automation.
- Acts as mentor to junior developers to provide guidance on emerging technologies and best practices.
- Responsible for providing technical support to sales and marketing efforts including project planning, new technology evaluation and technology recommendations.
Brightstar Information Technology Group
Senior Developer & Technology Lead – December 1997 to April 2000
- Acted as team lead working closely with graphic design staff, project managers and clients to produce numerous successful solutions focused on e-commerce, content management, data collection and automated content delivery.
- Designed, developed and deployed a content management solution capable of managing hundreds of web site instances each with a customizable templates. Supports rich content including images, streaming media and formatted text. Developed custom content insertion ActiveX control allowing the site administrator to format and upload content with minimal HTML awareness.
- Designed and developed a custom online real estate exposure and purchase solution. Project includes flexible object oriented framework built to support hundreds of thousands of real estate listings on a nation-wide basis. Online purchase process includes submissions of all documents necessary to place an offer on a home. Customizable content delivery for promotion of listings based on user preferences and online usage habits.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with option in Telecommunications
Completed projects of interest:
- Web-based transportation information system able to deliver data on location, speed and direction of city buses, trains, taxicabs, etc. Engineered infrastructure to transmit GPS data from a mobile unit to a central server location where relevant data could be retrieved from bus stops, dispatch centers or any HTTP enabled client.
- Developed circuitry and modeling software to digitally simulate vacuum tube acoustic properties.
Completed Courses of interest:
C Data Structures, Object Oriented C++ Design, Technical Writing, Operating Systems