Chris Dufour
Principal Cloud Operations Engineer @PowerSchool
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Cloud Operations Engineer @PowerSchool
CA
EDUCATION
Centennial College
Accounting and Financial Management Diploma
Honeywell Bull Institute
Computer Systems Programming and Analysis Diploma
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRIS DUFOUR
I am a Toronto-based hands-on Software Architect with over 25 years’ experience in the Information Technology sector. I am a self-motivated and disciplined team leader, who is passionate about software engineering and enjoys staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in technologies in the IT industry. I specialize in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including C#, MVC, RESTful Services, WCF Services, SQL Server and Microsoft Azure. I am passionate about the developer community. I am the president of the East of Toronto.NET User Group and co-founder and organizer of the Toronto Code Camp. I am a well-known speaker at local User Groups and Code Camps as well as international conferences such as DevTeach and Microsoft TechDays. I have contributed projects like the ‘Code Camp Event Module’ to the open source community on CodePlex.I have been recognized as an ASP.NET Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for my involvement in the developer community. The MVP Award is Microsoft’s way of saying thank you to exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others. Of the more than 100 million social and technical community members worldwide, each year only about 3,800 are recognized as MVPs.Professional Certification and Awards:• Awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – MVP ASP.NET 2007-Present• Microsoft Certified Application Developer (.NET) – MCAD• IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 UDB V8.1Specialties:• Architecture: ASP.NET, MVC, SOA, REST, Web API, OData, WCF, CSLA, MVVM, SOAP • Database: SQL Server, MySQL, T-SQL, LINK, DB2• Development.NET (all versions), C#, ASP.NET, Ajax, jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JSON, JavaScript• Tools: Visual Studio (all versions), TFS, GIT, Enterprise Library, Fiddler• Cloud: Microsoft Azure, PaaS, IaaS, IDaaS• Methodology: Agile, Kanban, Test Driven Development, Unit Tests
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