Victor F. Laurence

Manager, Software Development

Happy Valley, OR  97086

victor@victorlaurence.com

 

Highly motivated, creative and enthusiastic software engineer with a wide breadth of technical, managerial, and leadership skills. Accomplished in writing, debugging, and architecting windows and web based .Net applications and the databases that they run on. Excellent analytical and organizational skills with a passion for LEAN and Agile methodologies, simplifying procedures, and finding innovative solutions. Charismatic leader with a passion for supporting team success. Voracious life-long learner, always expanding technical, managerial, and leadership skills. Described several times by others in key projects as “only man for the job” and always succeeds when put to a task.

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science: Computer Information Systems
Concentration:   Business Administration
4.0 GPA, Dean’s List, Honors
DeVry University – Federal Way, WA

Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional – Developing Windows-Based Apps VS2003
Adobe Certified Expert – InDesign 2
Adobe Certified Expert – Acrobat 5

Employment

Manager, IT
IHS        Lake Oswego, OR                        Mar. 2007 – Present

·         Current responsibilities include development, architectural guidance, and implementation of key business logic for a high priority business intelligence offering for the domain.

·         Prior to current role, managed a small software development team in maintaining an Enterprise Web application for emissions compliance and cap & trade. Most notable accomplishment is the drastic improvements to customer delight between 2008 and 2009.

·         Prior to role as a manager, worked as part of a larger team of developers on an environment chemical lifecycle product. Most notable accomplishments include leading a sub team to complete a 4 month long full security check and fix sweep to improve the security of the product. Also re-wrote a legacy application from VB6 to C# .Net, making vast improvements thanks to direct customer feedback.

Guild Leader / Founder
HILYMI        Portland, OR                        Jun. 2006 – Jun. 2009

·         Founded a small online volunteer community that has ended up growing in to a 3+ year long exercise in leadership. At the height of the organization’s size, it had over 120 full time members and 12 officers who assisted in the leadership of the organization. Today it is a much smaller organization, but continues to provide a venue for me to improve my communication and leadership skills.

Assistant Site Manager
Tabula Rasa Vault             Portland, OR                        Feb. 2008 – Mar. 2008

·         Volunteer position for an online community network for the MMOG Tabula Rasa. Assisted in general site maintenance, writing articles, and helped organize the “Alpha Wolves” which I was also a contributing member of. Alpha Wolf duties included gathering feedback from members of the community and providing that feedback to the developers of Tabula Rasa, essentially acting as the primary a voice of the customer.

Senior Programming Analyst
PREM Group                      Portland, OR                        Jun. 2004 – Mar. 2007

·         A key player in the growth of the company from a small handful of individuals to a midsized business of over fifty people. Initially my role covered the gamut of responsibilities in IT, from server administration to development of the customer web portal application. Eventually my role became more focused on just software development as the company grew and I focused on continued development of customer portals, integration between software systems, and all other in-house software developement and database administration in the company.

.Net Developer
DXGaming Network        Sherwood, OR                     Apr. 2004 – Jan. 2005

·         Contact to develop a series of windows, console, web based applications to support a small, but growing MMORPG run by the DXGaming. These applications included an application launcher / patcher which also checked and disabled cheat programs, a data mining utility to build a player stats database, and a web based player stats page for viewing the data mined information.

Network Tester
Mindlance                           Hillsboro, OR                        Aug. 2002 – Aug. 2003

·         Contract at Intel to work in the network testing lab at one of the Intel campuses in Hillsboro. Primary responsibilities included testing drivers and a networking utility with several different series of Intel cards on various servers and desktop machines. Re-wrote the Basic Acceptance Test tool from a VB6 application to a VB.Net application and updated it to work with newest suite of tests that needed to be run for basic acceptance.

Network Support Rep.
Stream International      Beaverton, OR                    Jun. 1999 – Aug. 2002

·         Worked as part of a team of call center professionals answering questions on software and hardware that we supported. Over my 3 ½ year time there moved around a lot, learning many different technologies including telecommunications, networking hardware and servers, and even picked up a few certifications on products I was supporting. Developed an application to assist in call tracking and producing reports on call metrics.