Adam

RapidField develops and maintains Solid Instruments, an advanced, multi-purpose .NET API suite. Solid Instruments helps .NET developers rapidly overcome design challenges and deliver stable, secure, high-performance software.

He is a managing member of RapidField and drive product development for Solid Instruments.

RapidField also serves as a 1099 consulting vehicle. He is working as an independent application development consultant for a major national car dealership chain. His team is responsible for maintaining and extending a suite of read-only HTTP APIs backed by a master data management system. In this role, he has contributed to the establishment of numerous CI/CD pipelines, the addition of unit testing, performance remediation and functional enhancements.

Applied: Agile, .NET 5, ASP.NET Web API, RabbitMQ, C#, Azure DevOps, Azure App Services, Git, GitHub

The Home Depot is a Fortune 100 retailer of home improvement products and is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. In 2020 the organization recorded over ten billion USD in eCommerce revenue.

As a consultant, he was working with the Interconnected Retail group to develop a bespoke eCommerce experience for homedepot.com.

Applied: Agile, ASP.NET, C#, React, SQL Server 2017, Git, GitHub

Improving Enterprises is a technology consultancy that serves markets throughout North America. He worked as a delivery manager and software architect for Improving.

DISA Global Solutions is a software and services provider that offers an integrated solution for managing regulatory compliance across a range of industries. The DISAWorks system allows customers to order background checks and substance abuse tests, manage driver qualification files, and tracks every step of the process.

Led a team of software architects at DISA who were responsible for guiding the organization’s software platform forward. Worked as an Agile team to conduct research, presented implementation proposals, produced technical design documents, led training sessions and created foundational technology upon which the rest of the application development teams built and extended their applications. As the engagement manager and team leader he was tasked with presenting sprint reviews, delivering quarterly progress summaries, performing code reviews, resolving interpersonal issues, delegating work, identifying and resolving emerging risks, and working as an individual contributor each sprint.

Applied: Agile, .NET Core 3, C#, RabbitMQ, SQL Server 2017, ASP.NET MVC 5, Git, JIRA, Azure DevOps, Azure App Service

Gexa Energy is a Texas-market subsidiary of NextEra Energy, a Fortune 200 energy producer, and retailer serving North American markets. They operate one of the largest commercial nuclear power generation fleets on Earth.

He joined a team at Gexa Energy that enhances and supports a suite of web applications that serve commercial customers, most prominently focusing on their energy broker partner portal.

Applied: ASP.NET MVC 3, C#, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server Integration Services, Team Foundation Server 2012

Spark Energy is a natural gas and electricity retailer serving residential and commercial customers throughout the continental United States.

Focused on development and maintenance for Spark Energy’s first-party ecommerce and customer management applications. These systems integrate with energy utility software to enable the organization to sell and manage customer contracts with trivial human intervention.

Applied: ASP.NET MVC 5, C#, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012

United Airlines is the second-largest passenger airline carrier in the world. Following a merger with Continental Airlines in 2010, United carries over 140 million passengers each year. Their customer front-end is among the top 1000 highest-traffic websites in the world.

As a consultant he was part of the team that architected and developed the new united.com ecommerce technology stack. His group was primarily responsible for an ASP.NET Web API application that serves as a security framework and abstraction tier standing between user interfaces and domain services.

Applied: Agile, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API 2, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, Team Foundation Server 2012

Direct Energy is the largest retailer of energy and energy services to residential and commercial customers in North America. Their operations support over one half million customers across various brands throughout Canada and the United States.

Primary focus was ongoing development and maintenance for the organization’s in-house product management and pricing optimization suite. His team also carried responsibility for maintenance and feature enhancement for a variety of ecommerce and line of business applications.

Applied: Agile/scrum, ASP.NET MVC 3, C#, Team Foundation Server 2012, WCF

National Oilwell Varco manufactures heavy equipment and provides a broad range of oilfield services for the petroleum exploration and production industry including procurement, operations, maintenance, logistics and information solutions.

Helped to develop an engineering and manufacturing quality control workflow system. The software is used globally by customers, suppliers, quality assurance staff, engineers and technicians to report and track product quality issues and to collaborate to resolve them.

Applied: Agile/scrum, ASP.NET MVC 3, C#, Entity Framework 4, HTML 5, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, WCF

Avanade is a global software and technology consulting firm that was formed as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. The organization serves its clients by developing custom business software using Microsoft technology platforms.

Worked alongside a team of developers to engineer a solution that enables the United States Postal Service’s merchant customers to provide an automated international package return service to their end customers. Merchants within the United States issue requests to a web service to obtain a printable, pre-paid return label for use within the customer’s country of residence. Alternatively, they can provide customers with a link to a user interface to obtain the return label. This application represented the first cloud-based US government IT project. It runs on a single Azure web role.

Applied: Azure, C#, Entity Framework 4, SQL Server 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, WCF

Landstar Supply Chain Solutions (later acquired by XPO Logistics) offers services and technology to the logistics industry.

Helped develop the organization’s flagship transportation management system. The software enables supply chain managers to automate freight acquisition, pricing, tracking and invoicing. Licensees rely on 100% uptime of core functionality for business continuity.

Applied: ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server 2008