Johnie Karr - Co-Owner, www.LTS.io

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Work Background

CurbioBackend Developer

Jul. 2023 - Dec. 2023RemoteUsing C#, .netCore, Azure Functions, PetaPoco, and EntityFramework, and an Azure SQL backend, I collaborated and worked with a diverse, remote team to continue building and enhancing the api for the Curbio Agent Mobil App. I worked closely with third party partners to integrate into our system, but my largest contribution was the work I did for the Real Time Sales Desk. I used GIT on a daily basis to track my work, and I built out many of the api endpoints in a Postman Collection, which I shared with other developers, QA, and production support.

CI&TSr. Back-End Software Engineer

Oct. 2022 - Jul. 2023RemoteI worked as a Sr. Backend Engineer for a leading financial and mortgage institution. I primarily worked in .net Core writing in C#.

Jack Henry & AssociatesSenior Software Engineer

Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2022Using C# in asp.net framework and asp.net Core, I build APIs to support several services on the Treasury Management team: including ACH Transfers and International Wires. Technologies involved include asp.net framework, asp.net Core, Entity Framework, Dependency Injection, and Azure DevOps.

ScholarRxSenior Software Engineer

Jun. 2017 - Nov. 2021Louisville, Kentucky AreaI started my time at ScholarRx by completing the initial rebuild of the customer service tools using ASP.NET Core (MVC) in C#. I led two other developers in the design and development of the rebuild for the tooling for the editorial team. This was used internally by full-time editorial staff members, and externally (and globally) by part-time and volunteer editorial members. Post-launch I provided on-going support, training, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. The tools for editorial comprised of a .net Core MVC application, several console applications, and .net Core Web API. I worked as the primary back-end developer for the company's newest and highest priority product, RxBricks. My role with RxBricks involved building out the legacy MVP brick management tool (.net Core MVC), and then building out the api layer using .net Core Web API. My responsibilities also included importing the digital version of the text book each year; working closely with the business to gather and tune requirements; working closely with QA to ensure as few bugs went to production as possible; assisting the team with monthly Azure deployments; providing general support and special projects as needed to the editorial team; assisting DevOps with the management of Azure Streaming Services and Azure CDN. Besides Azure Streaming Services and Azure CDN, all projects were built in .net Core with an Azure SQL database, heavy utilization of Entity Framework Core, MVC and Web API, Azure DevOps and full CD/CI.

London Technology ServicesPartner, Co-Founder

Mar. 2015London, KYBuild custom software to meet client needs General computer repair Small network setup VoIP Services Licensing and Hardware Procurement Work with clients in residential and commercial environments Offer general computer/technology related advice/solutions

ISEP: International Student Exchange ProgramsASP.NET MVC Developer

Mar. 2015 - Jun. 2017Washington D.C. Metro AreaI worked on internal and internationally public facing web applications using ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET WebApi with a SQL Server back-end. I utilized my programming expertise to provide feedback to management regarding the use of new technology and integration within our new systems.

Kentucky Housing CorporationSoftware Engineer II

May. 2012 - Mar. 2015Frankfort, KyI was a software engineer and team lead for one of the agencies largest projects, which contained several asp.net web applications (for internal and external use), and one very large windows desktop application (for internal use). I used VB.net, C#.net, asp.net, and MVC4 with Razor syntax. I utilized traditional ADO.net along with LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework 5. Projects also included third party tools from Telerik and Infragistics. The project used TFS2010 Build Services, which I managed, and have created custom workflow activities for. All development was done using an agile model. I successfully lead my team's migration from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008R2. I conceptualized and architected a major piece of the project, which was nominated for an award for the 2014 NCSHA conference. Along with this project, I had some TFS Admin responsibilities.

Legislative Research CommissionSoftware Developer

May. 2011 - Apr. 2012Frankfort, KYDeveloped and maintained desktop applications using .net (C# and VB) Determined specific software needs of internal customers Built databases to support applications Converted VB6 applications to .net

Cox CommunicationsAssociate Software Engineer

Feb. 2010 - May. 2011Wichita, Kansas AreaI developed and maintained web-based and desktop applications using .NET (C#). ASP.net, MVC, IIS 6, and IIS 7 were used for web-applications. Deployment of desktop applications was done with ClickOnce. The database back-end was mostly SQL Server 2008R2, however, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 were also used. Many applications read data from our corporate Oracle database, and on occasion a MySQL database stored at corporate. Subversion was used for the source code repository. In this role, I also assisted our Business Analysts in requirements gathering.

Cox CommunicationsCommunications Specialist

Nov. 2007 - Feb. 2010I was responsible for keeping technicians informed of field impacting news and events. In order to do this, I built and maintained BlackBerry friendly Field Operations Websites (~80% of my job) using Classic ASP and SQL Server 2000 and 2005. In this role, I built solutions to support the field managers in their daily assignments, including a meeting management tool. I also provided automated scripting support for our analysts and assumed minor reporting responsibilities.

Cox CommunicationsField Service Representative III on Service Improvement through Excellence Team

May. 2005 - Nov. 2007Installed and troubleshot video, high speed internet, and telephone products Performed general customer service and retention Reported problems found on job site

Progamming/Computer ConsultantConsultant

Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2015Build custom software to meet client needs General computer repair Small network setup Work with clients in residential and commercial environments Offer general computer/technology related advice/solutions