H. Alan Stevens

Software Artisan

Knoxville, TN

alan@wildendeavour.com

http://halanstevens.com



Expertise

  • Agile Development Practices
  • Training & Mentoring
  • C#

Professional Experience

Wild Endeavour Incorporated

March 2010 – Present

Chief Technology Officer

  • Company co-founder providing software development consulting,
    training and coaching services.
  • Developed and delivered C# Programming From Scratch course.
  • Acted as team lead and application architect for a WPF application
    and a five developer team.

Interactive Intelligence Incorporated

July 2009 – March 2010

Senior Software Developer

Contributed to a large winforms client for an enterprise VOIP telephony
system.

Independent Consultant

February 2008 – July 2009

Software Artisan

Worked on a series of contracts for clients in a variety of domains.

VisionPace – Kansas City, MO

Developed a web service API for credit card processing using
custom headers for authentication and a SQL Server backend.

Alcoa – Knoxville, TN

Developed a business intelligence application for the corporate
intranet using ASP.NET with an Oracle database accessed through
stored procedures. Managed migration of the development platform
for all applications from Visual Studio 2003 / .NET 1.1 to Visual
Studio 2008 / .NET 3.5.

Intellection Group – Atlanta, GA

Integrated a classic ASP application into an existing Macromedia
Director application through the Internet Explorer ActiveX control.
Built SQL Server English Query model for a law-enforcement database.

QuotePro – Chicago, IL

Reorganized and cleaned up the source tree of a Visual FoxPro
application and imported it to Subversion for version control.

Reinarz & Associates – Edwards, CO

Extended an existing website built with SQL Server and ASP.NET
for an international law firm. Implemented dynamic data filtering
in the administrative interface using Telerik RAD controls. Responsible
for all aspects of feature implementation from writing SQL queries
to page layout using CSS.

DPRA Incorporated

June 2005 – January 2008

Defense Application Developer

Contributed to the development of JFAST, a defense logistics application,
with a team of 15 developers. Enhanced corporate collaboration and productivity
using Team Foundation Server (TFS). Drove the adoption of TFS across
contracts through briefings, training and requirements gathering. Extended
Team foundation server events with custom web services. Customized TFS
Project and work item templates. Built a custom TFS Version control
client for Visual FoxPro.

Young & Mead Consulting, LLC

January 2002 – March 2005

Software Developer & Consultant

Worked with a team of four Visual FoxPro developers and two system
administrators developing and supporting custom business applications.
Supervised other team members when they worked on my client's projects.
Responsible for all aspects of managing client relationships.

Awards & Activities

Education