Charles T. Blankenship

MCSD, MCAD.NET, MCP

17203 Glassfield Drive

Huntersville, NC  ostalCode w:st="on">28078ostalCode>

704.896.7733

704.975.7152 (cell)

Analyst/Program Manager Experience

• Extensive experience gathering requirements (one-on-one and JAD sessions).  Capable of mediating meetings and maintaining a productive working environment in said meetings.  Developed methods for conducting JAD sessions using the UI of Visual Studio 2005 IDE to help customer’s visualize their ideas.
• Over 10 years experience converting requirements into detailed design specifications.  These finished specifications include but are not limited to, Entity Relationship Diagrams (physical and logical), Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, and more.  Developed personalized and successful means of accomplishing these tasks.  More importantly, since I am also a software developer, you can rest assured that the developers receiving my designs will not be disappointed in their content or technical accuracy.
• Experienced project manager capable of striking the delicate balance between team motivation, project deadlines and customer expectations. 
• Adept at developing test plans from finished design specifications.  My experience as a lecturer and trainer provides me with a unique insight to the needs of users when training them to test their newly developed systems. 
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively as a team leader of highly accomplished IT Professionals.

Technical Experience

• Information Technology professional with extensive knowledge of n-tier object-oriented web based software systems.
• Accomplished in training IT professionals in the new technologies continuously introduced into the marketplace.
• 10+ years of experience working with object oriented languages (VFP Versions 3.0 through 9.0, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET).
• Accomplished in transforming complex business processes into robust relational database and object-oriented models.
• Experienced migrating entity relation diagrams from logical to physical designs.
• Prolific technical writer as evidenced by my position as editor of The Codebook Newsletter.  I’ve also published several articles in FoxPro Advisor.
• Accomplished web designer (ASP.NET, Fireworks MX 2004, Adobe Photoshop and Flash MX)

Work Experience

Senior Web Developer                                                      2006 to 11/30/2007

Carolina Computer Partners

·         Lead Developer responsible for maintaining commission calculation application for CCP’s largest client, Financial Independence Group.  Responsible for all phases of software development including requirements gathering, analysis, database design, ER to OO mapping, implementation of application frameworks and project management.

Independent Contractor                                                                           2006

North American Training Group

·         Implemented North American Training Group’s training website using ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, Fireworks MX and JavaScript.  This website handles all facets of NATG’s business including online course viewing, online test taking, credit card processing, SSL and much more.  This website also displays their marketing and advertising materials

Director of Software Development                                            2002–2006

            Claims Verification, Inc.

·         Gathered requirements, analyzed business processes and designed object oriented solutions using Visual FoxPro, ASP.NET, VB.NET, The Mere Mortals .NET Framework, MicroFour StrataFrame Framework for .NET, SQL Server 2000 and Fireworks MX in an effort to implement an enterprise wide claims management system.  This system included the entire workflow process of CVI from recording the origination of cases to the accounting module, which included payroll, accounts receivable and cash receipts.  This application also included a web interface that permitted investigators throughout the United States to update their cases and enter their time and reimbursement information via their wireless connections (laptops in their surveillance cars).

·         Supervised and monitored the progress of independent contractors used to augment CVI’s programming staff.

·         Implemented XML Web services whose information was used to imbed case and client information into streaming videos which were subsequently viewed by clients via the web.

Senior Consultant                                                                          1998-2001

GoAmerica Communications Corp./Flash Creative Management, Inc.

·         Developed COM Codebook, a three-tiered object oriented software development framework designed for web development that allows developers to efficiently implement web-based applications for businesses using the following Microsoft technologies, COM, MTS, MSMQ, ASP, SQL Server, Internet Explorer, Visual FoxPro, VBScript, JavaScript and ADO.

·         Technical Lead whose duties included the counseling of IT Professionals in the best and most cost effective way to solve problems using cutting edge technology.

President                                                                                          1996 – 1998

Software Assets of Virginia, Inc. (Independent Consulting Firm)

·         Responsible for the day-to-day operations of software consulting firm.

·         Establish close relationships with management in order to successfully implement IT solutions that meet long-range goals.

·         Analyze/optimize business solutions and implement IT solutions that result in increased operational efficiency of the business

·         Sales and Marketing of IT Solutions to prospective clientele.

Manager of Information Technology                                        1994 – 1996

Norfolk Key and Lock

·         Implementation of the BPCS accounting software on an AS400 platform including but not limited to the following modules, General/Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Purchasing, Payroll and Invoicing.

·         Development of software solutions that permitted the making of electronic keys for the safes used in all McDonalds and Pizza Hut restaurants.

·         Management and Maintenance of a Novell 3.12 LAN.

Object Oriented Programmer                                                      1992 - 1994

Information Technology Solutions

·         Used Upper Case tools (EasyCASE) to process requirements, analyze and design a solution (named EZ-MED) that is used by the Military Sealift Command’s onboard doctors to administer and manage their sick bays. 

·         Developed methodology, which allowed a procedural program, like FoxPro 2.5 to be coded using object-oriented style objects and methods … properties of course had to be implemented using private variables.  This proved to be a handy breakthrough in procedural programming in the sense that it made the code many times more intuitive and maintainable.

Education

            Microsoft Certified Application Developer (VB.NET)

            Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (VFP and SQL Server)

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                        Management Information Systems (major)

                        Accounting (minor)

                        GPA:  3.82

            Microsoft Certifications (complete transcript available upon request)

Microsoft Certified Application Developer Microsoft.NET                Microsoft Certified Solution Developer                  Visual Studio 6.0          

Microsoft Certified Professional                           1999

Additional Experience

            Professional Photographer, Royal Studios

·         Believe it or not this experience proved invaluable when performing graphics web design.  Please feel free to view my latest work at http://www.investigationmanagementassoc.com (newly under construction).

Network Administrator

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Technical Accomplishments

            Software

·         MS Visual FoxPro (Versions 2.5 to 9.0)

·         Flash MX

·         EasyCASE

·         Rational Rose

·         XCase

·         MS Office Product Suite

·         MS SQL Server Versions 6.5 to 2000 (T-SQL)

·         ASP

·         VBScript and JavaScript (familiar not proficient)

·         ASP.NET

·         C#

·         VB.NET

·         The Mere Mortals Software Development Framework

·         Microsoft Front Page 2003

·         Fireworks MX

·         Adobe Photoshop (familiar not proficient)

·         Visual UML (OO Modeling Tool)

·        Authored COM Codebook (3-Tier Software Development Tool – pre .NET technology)\

Professional References

Jerry Snead:                  Instrumentation Specialist                      (provided upon request) 

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Russell Hopkinson:        Director of IT                                          (provided upon request) 

                                    RH Technology Solutions

Richard Thurman:           President                                              (provided upon request) 

                                    Lake Erie Design Services, Inc.

Jimmy Plannett:            Senior Business Systems Analyst           (provided upon request) 

                                    Norwegian Cruise Line

Anthony Somma            Programmer, CCP                                  (provided upon request)                                   

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Charles T. Blankenship
Senior Consultant
Novant Consulting, Inc.
704.975.7152
http://www.novantconsulting.com