Personal details
Karl A.
Summary
With over 20 years of IT industry experience and over 10 years of experience managing an IT consulting firm, I understand a wide variety of businesses and their specific needs.
Work Experience
• Contracted as Chief Software Architect for a SaaS medical start-up for 2 years, 4 months.
• Created a two-way data sync system to synchronize HIPAA protected on-premises data with the cloud.
• Reverse-engineered a salted security hash to allow insertion into a third-party MySQL database as if the original software were performing the INSERT operations.
• Modified long-polling systems to instead use Web Sockets to reduce load and costs.
• Created a brandable and highly reusable Mobile App product for labor unions using Flutter/Dart.
• Lead efforts to consolidate and modernize software infrastructure across three plants.
• Created a web application for monitoring multiple carbon furnaces, valued at $30M+ each, using React, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SQL Server, etc.
• Created a web application for Layered Process Audits to allow management to track productivity at multiple levels, identify discrepancies, and opportunities for cost savings.
• Maintained and updated legacy systems, including working with interfaces to hardware such as crucible scales, using VB.NET, Java, PHP, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, etc.