April, 2007 - Present
Clarity Consulting
Chicago, IL
I was employed at Clarity as an Engagement Engineer, a position that involved developing software solutions with teams of other Clarity developers at several client engagements. The details of my roles at each client and the technologies each highlighted are listed below.
June, 2007 - PresentEngineer: Crate&Barrel - Point of Sale
Technologies: C#, .NET 2.0, Windows Forms, Web Services / SOAP, GDI+, Team Foundation Server, Visual SourceSafe
- Responsible for major functionality in a national rollout to all Crate&Barrel stores. Product enhancements include development of 8.5” x 11” receipts, a variety of transactional notes and changes to order maintenance functionality.
- Introduced a robust solution to allow furniture stores to print receipts onto 8.5” x 11” paper in addition to their existing Epson thermal printers.
- Resolved hundreds of bugs to Quality Assurance and performed routine system maintenance.
- Worked effectively with AS400 team to implement new functionality.
April, 2007 - June, 2007Engineer: Echo Global Logistics - EDI Integration | Performance Tuning
Technologies: C#, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, Windows Services, SQL Server 2005, AJAX, GDI+, Subversion
- Responsible for an integration between shippers and suppliers that would update Echo’s existing web application with shipping status updates.
- Took action to improve performance across Echo’s infrastructure including SQL Server and ASP .NET profiling.
November 2nd, 2007Speaking Engagement
- Delivered a company wide presentation highlighting the benefits of proper XHTML and CSS, and demonstrating the principles of good web design. Video available at andyamiri.com/resume/fass (~ 1hr).
September, 2004 - April 2007
Peregrine Financial Group, Inc.
Chicago, IL
November, 2005 - April, 2007Junior Web Developer
Technologies: C#, VB, ASP.NET 2.0, Classic ASP, SQL Server 2005, Access, Web Services / SOAP, AJAX, XHTML, CSS
- Primary Responsibility: Maintained corporate website, www.pfgbest.com, and developed satellite websites such as pfgkelly.com, and peregrinecharities.org.
- Customer Service Knowledge Base Application: Developed a MSDN-style knowledge base application for a team of 20-30 customer service representatives. The 3-tier application framework was inspired by Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA Business Objects.
- Independent Research and Development:
- optoutsite.com: By recognizing a business need for centralized opt-out management of email blasting, I designed this program to handle PFG’s needs while opening the possibility for other companies to use this tool, possibly as a paid service.
- Customer Service Account Management Tools: Provided customer service with the ability to centrally track account setups, while providing managers with valuable reports.
- Landing Page Administration for Marketing Campaigns: This centralized internal program facilitated the creation of custom landing pages for email blasts, without the need for building it manually.
September, 2004 - November, 2005Technical Support
- Maintained a 24 x 7 x 365 trading desk of 50-75 workstations, quad-display setups, trade ticket printers, and assorted telephony.
- Upkeep, administration, and organization of workstations, servers, software and network scanners/printers including IBM AS/400, Exchange, Active Directory, Windows 2000, XP and Vista
- Prepared professional quality presentations with movie editing software for events like the Leukemia Research Foundation 5K Walk/3K Run [Available Upon Request].
