Jefferson Benjamin Sheppard, MCPSj.ben.sheppard@gmail.com | 267.222.2572 | 716 Cherry Street, Lansdale, PA 19446

OBJECTIVETo obtain a position with a focus on the latest .NET technologies, with potential continued team leadership.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY1. Over three years of intensive work focused on deep .NET technologies, including a focus on

database design and management. 2. Became a Microsoft Certified Specialist in C# Development July 14, 2014.3. Creative and passionate in learning new concepts and techniques.4. Motivated and well-read self-starter. Self-educated in the latest C#, web, and database

technologies, design patterns, and development best practices.5. Worked closely with C-level employees in small- mid-size business structures. 6. Frequent attendee of the Philly .NET lectures

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mid-level Developer / Project ManagerXcent, Inc., Bristol, PA June 2011 – January 2015

- Ownership of complete projects from architecture development through release and continued support.- Headlining the company’s adoption of Entity Framework.- Developing MVC 4, API, jQuery/JavaScript, and WinForms applications, including mutli-threading- Used Bootstrap to make fully responsive websites, including seamless mobile support- Direct contact with customers for continued support and exploring new project opportunities- Supervise multiple co-workers across multiple projects simultaneously.- Used n-tier architecture to properly separate functionality for reuse among additional projects.- Created several reusable sets of functionality for different tiers in different solutions.- Optimized bottlenecks in code when discovered during stress testing to drastically improve performance.- Used Visual Studio’s Unit Testing solution to ensure maintained functionality across code revisions.- Trained in Demandware

Process Optimization Specialist Eisenhower Tool, Inc., Quakertown, PA January 2006 – April 2011

- Studied customer-supplied blue prints to create custom machinery within given tolerances, often within .0005”.- Created algorithms to expedite effective time management and produce timely results- Responsible for organizing purchase orders and determining quantities throughout orders.- Conversed directly with customers and engineers to further specify the needs of the end user.

Information Management AssistantCertain-Teed, Valley Forge, PA November 2004 – June 2005

- Used Visual Scanning software to process invoices and legal documents into digital databases.- Responsible for timely dispersing of intra- and inter-office communications between several departments.- Accountable for preparation of sensitive documents for off-site storage.

FEATURED PROJECT: SkyZone PTP Business Intelligence MobilePhiladelphia Trampoline Parks (PTP) is a recent franchisee of SkyZone. As they opened their second location, and began working on opening additional locations, they realized that they needed a clean and easy way to monitor the daily sales metrics of each location.

Our solution involved setting up an API system to import their location data to a central database for easier access and accumulation of the data required. A web application was created that focused on a mobile font-end, so a light-weight approach was adopted. Instead of passing fully-populated views to the client, a JSON approach was used where a JavaScript engine was used to transform the data into a fully-functional website that used as little internet traffic as possible. Jasmine was used to unit test the development of the JavaScript code that would ensure any changes would not break the user experience.

FEATURED PROJECT: University of Pennsylvania P2PXThe University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business is one of the premier learning institutions in the country. They desired to create a new networking feature for their alumni to use. This system would allow their graduates to share their expertise with their peers in any trouble space their real-world ventures would take them.

The system that we created for them was a solution similar to that of Facebook where a user could post a problem that they are currently experiencing, and tag it with the various fields of interest that apply to their situation. Other alumni would log into the system, and find that post either by the auto-sorted Main Feed that filtered based on the tags that user had set up, or at the “general feed” that contained everything by most recent activity. Additional filtering could be done as desired. Replies could be made to any open inquiries, and those exchanges would then become private in order to maintain privacy of any trade secrets or personal information shared. An additional system was set up to email users, if desired, to notify them of responses to their posts, or any new activity in their areas of expertise.

FEATURED PROJECT: InnoPrint Kitting ComplianceInnoPrint is a company that does industrial printing. One of their main projects is to print the annual medical insurance packets that we all receive. Due to federal guidelines, they need to ensure that all parts of the packet are present when being shipped to the end customer.

The solution we created read a 2D barcode they added to each sheet via a barcode scanner. This marked that piece off the list of required materials for the packet the worker was assigned to. When the packet was complete, a tone was returned to the scanner denoting completion. The worker would then put the material into the envelope, and scan that as complete. This process allowed InnoPrint to provide real data to their customers that showed 100% compliance for all materials sent out.

RECENT BOOKS STUDIED- Programming Entity Framework: Code First by Julia Lerman and Rowan Miller- Expert JavaScript by Mark Daggett- Test-Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johansen- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig- JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford- The Definitive Guide to HTML5 by Adam Freeman- Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming by Rob Vieira- Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman- .NET Domain-Driven Design in C#: Problem – Design – Solution by Tim McCarthy

EDUCATIONMontgomery County Community College (2005-2007)

Computer Science Major 4.0 GPA 28 total credits

References and Code Examples Available Upon Request