James M. Curran's Resume

EDUCATION

Master of Science - Computer Science

Montclair State University
1993

Bachelors of Science - Computer Science

Montclair State College
1984

WORK

Presentations

Writing a Compiler Using C#, Irony and RunSharp

NYC CodeCamp 9, 13 Sept 2014, Microsoft, 11 Times Square, NYC
C#

Castle Monorail MVP Framework (One Hour Deep-Dive version)

NYC ALT.Net Developers Group, 26 Mar 2010, Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

.NET Generics without Collections

NJ CodeCamp 3, 18 Nov 2006, Microsoft, 194 Wood Avenue South, Iselin, NJ 08830
C#, VisualBasic.NET

Castle Monorail MVP Framework (10 Min overview version )

NYC .Net Developers Group, 17 July 2008, Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

MVC, web design

Open-Source Projects

As Creator

Full github profile: 35+ repositories: https://github.com/jamescurran
JavascriptLoader - https://github.com/jamescurran/JavascriptHelper
- JavascriptHelper is a ASP.NET MVC component which allows you to specify that a Javascript file is needed, wherever you need it (view, partial views, layouts, helpers etc.) and the helper will collection them all up, plus all their dependencies – in the right order-- and insert all the <script> tags in one spot --- and at the same time, do the same thing for the CSS files those JS scripts need.
Snitz Membership Provider - https://github.com/jamescurran/SnitzMembershipProvider
- ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Providers which use a Snitz Forums (http://www.snitz.com/) database as the backing store. This allows a website currently using Snitz forums, to leverage the existing membership database when added new features to the website.
State Theater Website - http://statetheater.codeplex.com/
- Building a website designed to provide information about live theater throughout a state. Basically, it a port of NJTheater.com from classic ASP to Asp.Net MVC making it customizable to any state along the way.
Uptime - https://github.com/jamescurran/UpTime/
- A simple application C++/MFC which sits in the Taskbar notification area, and tells how many days since the last restart.
Shakespeare Compiler- https://github.com/jamescurran/ShakespeareCompiler
- Several Compilers (producing C code, C# code, and MSIL) for the exotic (and silly) Shakespeare Programming Language

Open-Source Projects

As Contributor

DevToys https://github.com/veler/DevToys
MicroRuleEngine https://github.com/runxc1/MicroRuleEngine
Castle Monorail https://github.com/castleprojectcontrib/Castle.MonoRail.ViewComponents
Definitely Typed https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Argotic Syndication Framework https://argotic.codeplex.com/
.NET Extensions Methods Library https://github.com/hype8912/.NET-Extensions-Methods-Library
Chocolatey-Explorer https://github.com/chrissie1/chocolatey-Explorer

Publications

Using a Second Model object in an ASP.NET MVC View HonestIllusion.com Nov 2013, http://honestillusion.com/2013/11/11/Using-a-second-model-object-in-an-aspnet-mvc-view
Spotlighted on the home page of www.ASP.NET in January and February 2014
"Writing Text to a Printer with LPrintWriter" CodeProject.com June 2006 http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/LPrintWriter.asp
"Locate SQL Server instances on the local network", CodeProject.com Nov 2005 http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/locate_sql_servers.asp
“Access Raw Data with Performance Counters in Visual C++” DevX.com, C++ Zone feature for Aug 2002 http://www.devx.com/cplus/article/7951
"Implement A Circular Iterator", Visual C++ Developers Journal, June 2000, pg. 64
"A Class For Reading Version Information" Windows Developers' Journal, July 1999
"A Word Iterator" The C/C++ User's Journal, Aug 1998, Pg 82. This was cited as the primary source for the article "A Generic Iterator for Strings" by David Lorde, in The C/C++ User's Journal, Apr 1999, pg 65.
"A Dialog Units Conversion Class" Windows Developers' Journal, Feb 1998, pg. 51 (It was featured on the cover)
Several technical articles in the "Clipper Club Newsletter" (also Technical Editor)
"Variable Dump" CLOAD, January 1982
"Simplified Base Conversion" BYTE, November 1980

The Rest

2005 – Present: Member, Board of Directors, 12 Miles West Theatre Company, Bloomfield, NJ
2013 – Present: Member, Board of Directors, Immediate Life, Inc, NYC
2013 - Present: NJ State Licensed Massage Therapist
Playwright: "The Literary Merit of People's Exhibit One" was presented in three One-Act Festivals in 2016.
Photographer:
- Gallery Shows at Artfront Galleries, Newark, NJ:
  - Heliotrope: Turning Toward the Light Virtual Gallery!
  - Femme Fatale October 18th - November 8th 2019 (Catalog)
  - Black & White Erotica July 19 - August 9th 2019
  - Dishabille September 28th - Octover 12th 2018
- Gallery Shows at Bortolami, New York, NY
  - Postcards From the Edge 2020(my photo sold)

AWARDS

Microsoft MVP (VisualC++)

Presented by Microsoft with their Most Valuable Professional award for technical contributions on their Internet newsgroup support forums, predominantly for giving expert answers to questions on C and C++ programming techniques. There are only about 150 Developer MVPs total in the world-wide program and only about 13 for C and C++. I have been recognized with the award every year 1994-2004.

1994-2004

CONTACT

Address

14 School Lane
Trenton, NJ 08618.

Phone

+1 973-978-6269

SOCIAL LINKS

StackOverflow

.NET Consultant Porzio Life Sciences Rewrote File import process from scratch based on the previous application. Implemented a new business rules engine, fuzzy record matching, and key/value lookups, leading to a significant speed improvement. Contributed to Core Web API, which supplies data to the UI. Restructured File Import and Core API to allow optimal code sharing, to simplify expansion to other entity types. Responsible for generating compliance reports in MS Excel, including designing an extensible table-driven framework for producing fully formatted reports from raw data. Built data and business validation plug-in framework using C# Expression Trees and the Managed Extensibility Framework. (MEF) C#, Azure, .NET Core, EntityFrameworkCore Mar 2020 - Present .NET Consultant/Associate Vice President MUFG/Bank of Tokyo Designed and Implemented framework to generate Volcker compliance reports for multiple branches. Coordinated efforts to maintain a share library among multiple departments. Converted to full-time employee in Dec 2017. C#, ASP.NET WebForms, VisualStudio May 2017 - Feb 2020 .NET Consultant Quidsi, inc. Maintained shared code base for company’s six online retail sites, using a proprietary MVC framework. Integrated Quidsi’s proprietary authentication system into Amazon’s membership system. Contracted through TEKSystems C#, ASP.NET WebForms, VisualStudio Apr 2016 - Oct 2016 .NET Consultant Solix, inc. Designed and implemented several web-based applications for the Lifeline telephone assistance program. While each application did essentially the same thing, due to conflicting requirements by different clients (sometimes telephone companies, sometimes state governments), implementations were done in VB.Net WebForms, C# ASP.NET MVC, and Javascript/AngularJS/Bootstrap. Wrote both the customer-facing front-end, and backend webservices. Contracted through Randstad Technologies C#, ASP.NET WebForms, VisualStudio Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 .NET Consultant OneCall Care Maintained and added new features to internal ASP.NET support tool. Contracted through Robert Half C#, ASP.NET WebForms, VisualStudio, June 2014 - Sept 2014 Mobile Developer AFS Technologies Maintained and added new features to AFS’s line of handheld Direct Store Delivery Windows CE devices. Led project converting existing VisualBasic.Net code base into C#. Designed JavaScript/Angular Sales management app for iPad Maintained Web app management tool Mentored remote team on creation of ASP.NET MVC tool C#, VisualBasic.NET, WindowsCE, ASP.NET MVC, VisualStudio, SourceGear Vault, WinForms, ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, Javascript, AngularJS, Typescript January 2013 - May 2014 1997 – PRESENT Owner/Director/Webmaster http://www.NJTheater.Com Design, implementation, and maintenance of a website for the promotion of theater companies in New Jersey. Implemented a full three-tiered systems, offering information including the titles, descriptions, playwrights, performance dates, theater locations, casts and actor biographies of stage production in NJ, originally using a Microsoft SQL Server database, IIS, Classic ASP, server-side VBScript. Designing & implementing conversion to ASP.NET / C# implementing the Model-View-Presenter and Inversion of Control patterns using Castle Monorail. Presently converting it once again using ASP.NET MVC, and jQuery/KnockoutJS This website, which I run in my spare time as a hobby, allows me to experiment with new technologies. Skills: ASP.NET MVC, Castle Monorail MVC, .Net (v1.1, v2.0, v3.5), C#, Generics, WebForms, ASP.NET XML, XPath, XSL, Custom WebControls, MS Sql Server, T-SQL, Windsor IoC, LINQ2Sql. MVP, jQuery, Knockout .NET Consultant Tallan, LLC. While at Tallan, I was placed at: McKinsey Solutions

One-year contract to design and build modules for client and server sides of a Silverlight-based web application for the global management consulting firm, integrating Silverlight/XAML, a Star-Schema database, and the firm’s internal framework, bring the firms industry knowledge to a retail product.

New York Sports Club

On team that designed and built a BizTalk application interacting with a REST webservice to handle membership management for a national health club chain. (Added to a team that was behind schedule. Given one day to learn sufficient BizTalk skills. Worked entirely remotely. Project met deadline.)

Vi-Tech

Starting as a two-day assignment to make finishing touches to the HTML & CSS of a Classic ASP website for an upcoming conference. Grew in four-week project, to re-write most of it.

C#, SilverLight, XAML, nHibernate, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, BizTalk, XML, HTML, CSS September 2011-December 2012 .NET Developer Connectivity Data Systems (now Relationship Science) A full-time position at a start-up (still in Stealth mode) Designed and implemented Enterprise wide data access layer Direct involvement with WinForms, Web Services, Console application, MS SQL Refactored existing code libraries for performance optimization. ASP.NET MVC, WinForms, LINQ, XLINQ, XML, Multi-Threading, Custom Serialization, WCF, C# Generics, C# Extension methods, Visual Studio, SubVersion, Anhk December 2010 - September 2011 .NET Consultant CitiGroup A 6 month contract position building a multi-platform bond trading application C#, WCF, WPF, XAML, https June 2010 - December 2010 .NET Consultant Thomson-Reuters An open-ended contract position building a multi-platform bond trading application to bring together real-time bond information from many different sources to provide the best-informed trading environment. Direct involvement with WinForms, WebForms, Web Services, Console application, Windows Services. Refactored existing code libraries for performance optimization. WinForms, WebForms/ASP.NET, LINQ, XLINQ, XML, HTML, Multi-Threading, Custom Threadpool, Named Pipes, Custom Serialization, WCF, C# Generics, C# Extension methods, Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, SubVersion, Anhk June 2009 - June 2010 Senior Programmer/Analyst Barnes & Noble.Com Designed and implemented key portions of the online retailer’s new My B&N" website feature.', C#, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web Services, CruiseControl.Net, Visual Studio 2005, Visual SourceSafe. March 2008 - March 2009 C# Consultant FirstPaper, LLC (now known as Skiff, LLC) Contract position for an e-reading and advertising start-up company funded by Hearst Interactive Media. Wrote background Windows services to read RSS feeds, sanitize data, store and repackage articles. LINQ, XLINQ, LINQ2SQL, SQL Server, RSS, XML, HTML, Remoting, Regex, C# Generics, C# Extension methods, COM Interop, XPath, Sockets, Visual Studio 2008, Subversion CrusieControl.Net, nAnt, PowerShell, .Net 3.5, WCF April 2007 - February 2008 C++ Consultant Raritan Computer Six month contract to maintain their C++/MFC application connection users to remote PCs via Raritan's suite of KVM over IP products. C++, MFC, Sockets, TCP/IP, XML, Visual Studio, CVS Sept 2006 - March 2007 Senior Programmer/Analyst Partsearch Technologies Designed and implemented a system for on-store & online e-commerce sales including multiple search paths and fraud detection, in ASP.NET/C# using MS SQL Server. Designed and implemented a system for creating invoices for retailers, is C#/WinForms. Maintained website for online e-commerce sales including fraud detection in ASP/VBScript. Refactored system to increase speed, OO design, and maintainability. A lead designer/implementer of a complete rewrite of the system to prepare for large-scale growth in the coming years, including low-level data access, middle tier business logic, back end data processing and user-facing website. Wrote code generation templates to handle create to data-access layer and UI layer. Spearheaded project to transform internal design documents from flat text to XML, for more efficient and robust usage for code generation, error checking, and documentation. .Net (v1.1), C#,WinForms, WebForms, ASP.NET XML, XPath, XSL, Custom WebControls, MS Sql Server, T-SQL, MyGeneration Sept 2006 - March 2007

James M. Curran

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Open-Source Projects

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