Eric Swanson's Résumé

Objective:

Multi-faceted, innovative architect and senior software engineer with excellent communication and presentation skills seeking to obtain a challenging enterprise architecture position.

Work:

• Enterprise Architect — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (Healthcare)
  
Phoenix, AZ
January 2008 – Current

• Chosen as a founding member of the company's Enterprise Architecture Solutions department as a representative for E-Business Technologies in IT.
  
• Key resource during 2009 strategic planning, representing multiple business departments to aid project sponsors in developing their project charter, communicating cross-department project overlaps, and gathering high-level IT estimates.
  
• Worked with multiple business departments to develop multi-year roadmaps, helping establish a strategic vision for the future.
  
• Developed a new, customer-centric view of products & services using customer personas and roadmaps.
  
• Consultant to IT for Team Foundation Server 2008 planning and migration from VSS and TFS 2005.
  


• Senior Programmer — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (Healthcare)
  
Phoenix, AZ
June 2006 – January 2008 (Windows 2000/2003, SQL Server 2000, and IIS 5/6)

• Led the team with an ASP.NET 2.0 conversion plan.
  
• Architected a 2007 AzBlue.com end-to-end redesign.
  
• Completed more than 50 hours of leadership and management training.
  
• Re-engineered public web security authentication for increased centralization, security and performance.
  
• Increased measurable code outputs to become the second most productive programmer in a team of nine at closing open development tickets within the first six months.
  
• Assumed responsibility for high-profile internal web application spanning multiple technologies, including ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, Java Applets, Centrifuge Business Rules, XSL, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, VBScript, and web services.
  
• Led the team's migration from SmartCVS to VSS 2005 (v8).
  
• Successfully reduced new website product offering build times from hours to just minutes.
  


• Senior Software Engineer — The Alexander Group, Inc. (Management Consulting)
  
Scottsdale, AZ
March 2000 – June 2006 (Windows XP/2000/2003, SQL Server 2000/2005, and IIS 5/6)

• Represented AGI as the primary security solutions expert for several international projects, including top-tier companies in the banking and software industries.
  
• Spear-headed .NET migrations of existing international software for 2004 re-release using VB.NET/ADO.NET, including rewriting existing COM objects in C#.
  
• Led .NET 2.0 research, education, and development.
  
• Designed and managed some of the team's most profitable service offerings; corresponding with each client's Executive and IT staff to gather and process millions of transactional records and provide secure sales benchmarking and forecasting internet reports to their company's executives.
  
• Engineered internationally released enterprise and custom sales and marketing management software for delivery in a web-enabled, cross-browser, and cross-platform environment, requiring skill sets throughout the software development life cycle.
  
• Individually managed several end-to-end custom projects, handling user needs analysis, functional specifications, application architecture/data schema design, object and relational data modeling, N-tier implementation, documentation, QA, and support.
  


• Senior Consultant — ZTMC (Internet Marketing Management)
  
Scottsdale, AZ
March 2001 – January 2004 (Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000, and IIS 5)

• Directed migration of existing website to cheaper hosting in a .NET environment.
  
• Leveraged the company's e-Channel to streamline sales processes by automating the company's client application process, customer service, and sales follow-ups in a secure environment.
  
• Provided clients with online account management software, including credit status reports.
  
• Developed online company sales reports for the management team.
  


• Department Webmaster — Intel (Chip Manufacturing)
  
Chandler, AZ
September 1999 – March 2000 (Windows NT and IIS 4)

• Managed the ATM-O department's Intranet website and its 13 sub-divisions.
  
• Identified opportunities to drive efficiencies within the department, utilizing the web as a channel for communication, marketing, and team collaboration.
  
• Trained and managed sub-division developers.
  


• Executive Director — College Multisport Association (Non-Profit College Multisport Athletics)
  
United States
May 1999 – 2005 (Linux, MySQL, and Apache)

• Re-branded the organization "Collegiate Triathlon Association" to support the multi-sport community as a whole, including re-branding its services and the organization's websites.
  
• Founded and established the organization as a network of national collegiate triathlon teams and clubs across the nation. Leveraged extensive communication skills to develop common team approach.
  
• Garnered sponsorship and launched a Championships Campaign to host National and Regional events while launching an aggressive growth plan.
  
• Developed architectural model for, designed, and implemented a web portal for college triathlon, CollegeMultisport.org (*Decommissioned).
  
• Successfully merged and transitioned the association and its members as a division under USA Triathlon in 2005.
  

Experience:

Education:

• Western International University, 2006–
  
- Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Business; Minor in E-Business


• Arizona State University, 1997–2000
  
- Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science; Minor in Nutrition


• Rio Salado Community College, 1996–1997
  

Achievements:

• Manning Publishing Book Reviews
  
• Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action
  
• LINQ in Action
  


• Addison-Wesley Publishing Book Reviews
  
• The Old New Thing
  


• Application Development
  
• Created a unique RSA encryption web authentication module that included client-side JavaScript encryption and server-side decryption in C#.
  
• Developed a custom C# API to validate, transform, and securely upload daily transaction files to SalesForce.com's XML-RPC API, targeted for Java clients.
  
• Engineered and directed AGI's largest on-going software solution for thousands of international survey participants on a daily basis.
  
• Successfully designed and implemented several of the most complex database schemas, queries and related web reports that AGI Software Services has to offer.
  
• Reputation for rapid development with emphasis on code reuse, modularity, readability, and documentation.
  


• Systems Development
  
• Built an IIS 5.5 server in parallel with Zope Application and ColdFusion MX servers complete with the ability to run ASP.NET/ASP, JSP, PHP, Java, Python, and Perl with SQL Server 2000 and MySQL support on a single Windows 2000 machine for internal developer experimentation at AGI.