Chris Dick

About Chris Dick

An experienced IT professional and application software developer that transforms business requirements into great solutions. I have worked in a wealth of enterprise computing environments, have designed and developed complex systems, and worked in the software development lifecycle with various methodologies. I am an organized problem solver who enjoys the collaborative nature of team design to produce great applications.Focused development areas include but are not limited to- Object Oriented development- Web development in C# using MVC- Web Forms using C#/ASP.Net- Windows Forms using VB.Net- Data modeling (traditional TNF design, Generic/Entity Data Model design)- SQL (Oracle and SQL Server)- Data warehousing using PL/SQL- T-SQL - maintaining and designing stored procedure code for batch and web use- LINQ - used with both Entity Framework and LINQ with collection objects- UNIX, particularly with HP-UX, AIX, and Linux- Batch processing with custom Korn shell (ksh) or Bash scripted jobs- iOS mobile development using Objective-C- Application design for web and mobile- Project management using Agile/Scrum and waterfall methodologies- Knowledge and use of Enterprise development patternsToolsets- Visual Studio (various versions)- Xcode- Oracle SQL Developer, MS SQL Server Management Studio- MS Team Foundation Server, MS SourceSafe, Subversion, Git- Unit testing using IDE toolsets (XCTest, Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework)- SharePoint/SharePoint Designer- MS Visio, OmniGraffle- Windows, OS X, iOS, UNIX Operating Systems- MS Project, Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Intuit QuickBase- MS Office, Apple iWork, Microsoft 365, Teams- Control-M

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Foot Locker

   Feb 2016 — Present · Camp Hill, PA, US

   Lead developer and analyst for global product allocation systems and main point of contact for global business users working with Allocation and selected merchandising/logistics systems. Continuously upgrade and rework our internal processes to remove unnecessary code and improve performance, maintainability, and feature sets. Introduce better enterprise development patterns into the code to improve extensibility and simplify code with an emphasis on code reuse and testability. Using Agile methodology to improve team collaboration and improve speed to market.Developing batch processes and websites using C#.Net Framework, MVC 4 and MVC 5, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap, Entity Framework, SQL Server, TSQL, Oracle, AIX, Linux, and Kafka. Championing improvements in application quality using dependency injection, object oriented design, enterprise code patterns, and automated unit testing.

Education

• Danville Area High School

  HS Diploma

  1987 — 1990

• Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Windows
• Mobile Application Development
• Software Development
• Visual Studio
• Sdlc
• Onenote
• Object Oriented Design
• Data Warehousing
• Xcode
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Problem Solving
• Pivotal Tracker
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Office
• Html
• Xml
• Database Design
• Databases
• Ios
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Applications
• Integration
• Web Development
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Programming
• Sql
• Microsoft Project
• Visio
• Systems Analysis
• Asp.net
• Os X
• Oracle Sql Developer
• C#
• .net
• Ksh
• Shell Scripting