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Wade A. Reynolds
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Xcedex, Inc.
- Engaged in a three-month contract with Xcedex working directly with the CTO and VP of Engineering to restructure their existing application framework, databases, and assist with the design and implementation of their application code named Nomad. The functional application was completed during this time.
- Participated in two Dev Jam meetings in which we collaboratively designed the Nomad application. There were physical, face-to-face meetings held in Wayzata, MN and in Galveston, TX.
- Helped formalize their software engineering practices including introducing them to modeling technologies and automated software builds.
- The technologies used on this project included Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Embarcadero E/R Studio 7.5, ASP.NET, C#, DevExpress DXperience ASP.NET components, RedGate SQL Toolbelt (mainly SQL Compare 8 and the SQL Comparison SDK 7), Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7, the ASP.NET membership provider, the ASP.NET SQL Server Session State Provider, Apache log4net and other third-party components.
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Hyper9, Inc.
- After the InovaWave reset, the company’s name changed to Hyper9 and the company’s direction was completely refocused on server virtualization management. I participated at the founding meeting for Hyper9 and significantly contributed to the overall product direction.
- Worked closely with the product management and marketing teams on product direction, planning, assignment and execution of tasks.
- Planned, designed, developed, and tested the Hyper9 WMI Enablement Tool, a desktop app that determines which Windows virtual machines allow remote WMI access and for those that do not, determines and reports the reason(s) why WMI cannot be accessed remotely. This tool boosts the successfulness of Hyper9’s primary product.
- Integrated VMware’s VIM API (VI SDK) into the Hyper9 product suite.
- Managed their Subversion source code control system and automated software build system until a full time admin was hired.
- Work closely with the data collection team. Built the prototype data collection service that seeded the data collection subsystem.
- Designed and implemented the virtualization entity identification subsystem for the product.
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InovaWave, Inc.
- Worked closely with the Chief Software Engineer and VP of Engineering regarding the InovaWave product offerings and their relationship to the server virtualization industry.
- Created and manage the company's web presence.
- Developed secure web applications that supported business functions including ecommerce service integration, Salesforce.com integration, electronic forms processes, secure trial software download web app, and a software edition calculator for the InovaWave software. Used ASP.NET, C# 2.0, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.
- Managed web analytics and integration with other web-based tools including Google Analytics and Salesforce.com.
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Surgient, Inc. as Infrastructure Architect, Technology Group
- Created the Reference Architecture for Surgient’s hosted data centers.
- Unified the direction of Surgient’s Data Center Operations Team and Software Engineering Team by eliminating the technical disparities between the two groups by creating the Reference Architecture.
- Performed research and testing in new technologies.
- Work with Surgient Marketing and Schwartz Communications (PR firm) to provide technical leadership and perspectives in the virtualization industry.
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Surgient, Inc. as Senior Architect, Professional Services
- Performed a pivotal role in transitioning clients from the pre-sales cycle into the professional services implementation cycle.
- Designed the technical layout of all client implementations.
- Designed and approved all product and system customizations.
- Worked very closely with project managers and project tech leads to ensure customer success.
- Continuously mentored Professional Services, Software Infrastructure, and technical Support teams.
- Actively collaborated with the Engineering and Product Team to ensure company success.
- Awarded Surgient’s Pinnacle Award in Q1, 2006.
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Surgient, Inc. as Senior Consultant, Professional Services
- Project technical lead responsible for implementing Surgient solutions for enterprise clients.
- Lead the successful completion of the company’s largest and most technically advanced client implementations.
- Mentored growing Professional Services technical staff.
- Awarded membership in Surgient’s President’s Club, 2004.
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Surgient, Inc. as Consultant, Professional Services
- Successfully implemented the Surgient solution for enterprise clients.
- Designed and implemented customer-specific product customizations for the Surgient software products.
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SCP Pool Corp. (POOLCORP)
- Helped to found and provided aggressive technical leadership in the company’s internal Solution Development team after converting my original short-term contact web development position into a full-time development position.
- Designed, implemented, and administered Knowledge Pool, the company’s 2.0 centralized intranet portal supporting over 1000 unique int’l users daily using VB6, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5, Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
- Performed business and technical analysis against the company’s internal processes including the areas of HR, Marketing, Sales (CRM).
- Successfully championed and implemented an early-adoption enterprise server virtualization project using VMware ESX Server to drive down server expenditure and operating costs and to simplify disaster recovery processes.
- Administered four mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server 2000 hosts totaling over 30 production databases.
- Designed, implemented and supported a custom ERP database system, a financial data warehouse, and an enterprise application framework.
- Performed system integration architecture and implementation across legacy Unix and Windows systems.
- Architected, designed, and implemented the company’s first production Intranet portal web application using VB6, ASP, NT4, IIS 4, and Microsoft SQL Server 7.
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G.E. Capital ITS
- Held the roles of Customer Engineer, Software Engineer, and Consultant.
- Performed software and network troubleshooting and consulting for the Saint Charles Parish School District, Saint Charles Parish Sheriff’s Dept., the Federal Reserve bank in New Orleans, and US Naval bases in New Orleans.
- Performed on-site diagnosis and repair of enterprise server systems.
- Performed warranty repair of PC desktops, laptops, servers, and printers.
