Andrew J. Chinnici : Resume

ASP.Net (C# and VB)
Visual Studio .Net
SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 / 2000
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Test-driven development with NUnit
Regular Expressions
Active Server Pages
Adobe Acrobat with XFDF
Windows XP Media Center

IIS 5.0 / 6.0
HTML
XML
Visual Source Safe
Microsoft Site Server
Website Design
Website Development
Webmastering
Database Administration
Database Design

Woot.com is a novel take on a traditional e-commerce storefront. Selling only one discounted product (thousands of times over) per day, the site has acquired an active community of loyal users who are enticed to visit the site nightly and possibly take advantage of an exceptional deal.
I was invited to join the Woot team in order to help streamline and enhance the existing application to fit the business’s profile as a fun, dynamic, creative retailer.

Through Advanced Resources, a local consulting firm, I took a position at Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news agency, as development lead on a variety of projects meant to enhance the rich-media experience on Reuters.com.
My first task was to rewrite and refactor Reuters Interactive Television (RITV): a .Net web application used to stream news reports and raw video of current world events to Windows XP Media Center PCs.
Next, I completed an enhancement phase for RITV, adding externally managed advertising capabilities (video and banners), a selectable scrolling news ticker ("ticker picker") and a user-managed video queue called "My Newsdesk".
Finally, I implemented a new front-end for Reuters’ primary video outlet on the web: Reuters Television.
Application development was conducted with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, Visual Source Safe, Subversion, NAnt, NUnit and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004/2005. Development languages used were VB, C#, XML and JavaScript (intense).
NOTE: Reuters Interactive Television was selected as a finalist for a Creative Arts Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Achievement for Non-Program Specific Enhanced or Interactive Television for a Channel, Network or Service" category. (More info)

Through Apex Systems, another local consulting firm, I was placed in the intranet development team at RehabCare, a medical nurse staffing and management group located in downtown Clayton, Missouri.
My role at RehabCare was to work with a small team of developers to build an online benefits enrollment and employee intake system. The primary goal of this system is to reduce the constant flow of logical errors and legibility problems that exist on current, hand-written forms. As a solution, we developed a wizard to take the users through the enrollment process step-by-step and validate their input along the way.
Throughout the development process our team adhered to the Extreme Programming methodology, starting with simple user stories, weekly iterations (to present all progress and get real-time feedback from end-users), pair-programming techniques and test-driven development to build robust, stable, reusable components.
Development for this application was conducted with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, Visual Source Safe, SQL Server 2000, NAnt and NUnit. Development languages used were C#, SQL, XML, and JavaScript.

Habañero, located on Laclede’s Landing in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, is a web design and development firm focused on enterprise-sized web applications.
My role at Habañero was to work in a pool of developers on client-based ASP, C# .Net and SQL Server 2000 web development projects. Projects were queued and scheduled to allow developers to focus most of their time on a single project until it was completed. Developers were expected to report all billable hours in a time tracking suite called Track-It.
In this position I worked on a wide variety of projects. After starting with traditional VBScript and SQL Server based ASP applications (Errand Solutions, Nu-Era, various private intranet projects for CCA), I eventually transitioned to C# .Net full time and completed the donation system for Concordia Seminary, Panera Bread's online bagel ordering website, the data access front-end to Liz Claiborne Flooring's LizMatch system and most of the gMedPlace.com network.
Development on these sites was conducted with Microsoft Visual Studio 2002 and 2003, Visual Source Safe and SQL Server 2000. Development languages used were C#, VB, SQL, XML, VBScript and JavaScript.

Through Acumen Consulting, a small consulting firm and internet access provider, I conducted client work at Imagery Marketing Consultants, an advertising firm focused on the rent-to-own industry and was expanding into the web development and hosting business to meet the needs of their growing client base.
My role at Imagery was as the resident technical guru. I was responsible for maintaining and backing up a Windows 2000 web server and domain controller, a Mac OS X development server as well as all of the company’s workstations. I controled domains, DNS, POP3 and SMTP servers for Imagery and each of their web hosting clients. All extensive HTML work and any applications needed were written by or came through me.
Through Imagery, I’ve worked on websites for the Franklin County, Illinois Tourism Bureau, Rend Lake Recreation Complex, Quality Rentals and Staton’s Rent-to-Own. For Rent One, I wrote a corporate intranet as well as implemented a Perl application, Endymion MailMan, for users to check POP3 mailboxes via the web.

Habañero, located on Laclede’s Landing in downtown St. Louis, is a web design and development firm focused on enterprise-sized web applications.
My role at Habañero was to work in a pool of developers on client-based ASP / SQL Server 2000 web development projects. Upon receiving a project, project managers would come to the development team to see who was available to do the work based on skill sets and expertise. Developers were expected to report and respond to bugs listed in Rational’s ClearQuest bug tracking system before project completion.
In this position, I worked on a wide variety of projects. For ProSource and Carpet One I did extensive customization on an ASP testing application called eWebQuiz for an education / certification mod to their existing intranet. I wrote web polling software for the St. Louis American website. For Slumberjack.com I reorganized their product listing pages and wrote a search application to find sleeping bags rated to handle specific temperatures. For LaBarge.com I used Microsoft Site Server to store user profiles, maintain mailing lists for several newsletters as well as pull real-time stock quotes from the American Stock Exchange’s website to be displayed on their Investor Relations page.
Development on these sites was conducted with Microsoft Interdev, Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe, SQL Server 7.5 / 2000 and Microsoft Site Server. Development languages used were ASP, SQL, XML, VBScript and JavaScript.

My second internship brought me to Primary Network once again after spending over a year there as a support technician. In 1999, Primary Network was the largest local internet service provider in the St. Louis area with over 50,000 dial-up accounts.
My role at Primary was to work in a team of a half-dozen developers on small projects for an ASP / SQL Server 7.5-based corporate intranet. This intranet was a mission critical resource that encompassed every aspect of the company’s operation, from setting up new accounts, to billing, to logging technical support calls, to filling in employee timesheets.
Most of the projects I was involved with were variations of database management basics: list items, view item, add item, edit item, delete item. For this, I used Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe and SQL Server 7.5, all under Windows 2000 workstation and server platforms. During the Mpower transition, I assisted other developers in porting Mpower’s Oracle customer and billing database into the existing intranet.

My first internship was with the Nonqualified Plans division of General American Life Insurance. Nonqualified plans allowed employers to reward or compensate their executive employees with deferred compensation life insurance policies based on the stock market that operated similarly to 401k programs.
My role was to support and expand the Nonqualified Plan Services website; a slow, bulky Win-CGI program, written in Visual Basic 5, based on a SQL Server 6.5 database of over 150 related tables. Over a number of weeks I ported this application to ASP and Visual SourceSafe, improving performance on the 133MHz Pentium web server two fold. I stayed busy working on various independent projects such as adding SSL security to the ASP application, a site redesign, converting many of the application’s SQL statements to stored procedures and developing a departmental intranet.

For two years I participated in Fontbonne’s work-study program as a computer lab assistant. CLAs were responsible for the maintenance and operation of the network and all workstations (Win 95, NT, 2k, Mac OS 8, 9) across the campus. Assistants also were required to help students use course-related software such as Microsoft Office, Mathematica, and MiniTab as well as internet software.

As a support technician, I took support calls from end users with little to no technical skills and walked them through solutions over the phone. These calls would deal with every conceivable support issue ranging from simple password changes to reloading TCP/IP stacks to manually editing modem initialization and connect strings on all major operating systems (Win *, Mac OS *, X11 Linux). If an acceptable resolution could not be achieved over the phone, it was not unusual to ask the user to bring their hardware to the office so that we could work on it.
As lead support technician, it was my responsibility to take higher-level support calls that standard technicians were not able to handle, as well as open and close the support offices on weekends.

Graduated with the Class of 2001 as a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Designed and implemented http://www.forum2010.org/ as a senior development project

Graduated with the Class of 1996
Areas of special study included computer science, mathematics, physics and theatre (acting and technical)

Donated web development services to and frequent entrant of the Fast Forward Film Festival in Chicago, IL
Certified Google Answers contractor
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Andrew J. Chinnici

Andrew J. Chinnici

ajc@andrewjchinnici.com

Professional Skills

Work Experience

Woot, Inc.

Reuters

RehabCare Group

Habañero Web Professionals

Imagery Marketing Consultants

Habañero Web Professionals

Primary Network / Mpower Communications

General American Life Insurance

Fontbonne University

Primary Network

Education

Fontbonne University

Webster Groves High School

Miscellaneous

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