Welcome to GekoDesign

As Lead Web Application Manager, I manage the Development teams at Deardorff. Ultimately responsible for all web development and the design process along with maintaining all company websites, hosted in Azure, and mentoring junior staff on a continuous basis.

Within the Technology Practice I am responsible for the company’s digital marketing and social media programs, development and maintenance budgets, vendor management, and involved in client proposals, project estimation and project management for multiple clients. I consistently participate as a member of the development and design teams taking on development and design projects and maintenance of the website. The team is comprised of an Art Director, Digital Strategist, 3 developers, 2 designers, and various contract workers.

To streamline all digital projects, I have established the user experience digital process for which all digital projects are managed. The process progresses clients through information architecture development, user interface and user experience design including persona development, user stories, and journey mapping, comprehensive designs, project engineering and post launch activities including search engine optimization, analytics monitoring, quality assurance and Social Media campaigns.

Duties include acting as Web Application Architect providing the overall guidance and structure for creating and maintaining the whole web presence of the company. Enacted a core set of development standards and coding practices for error handling and notification, role -based security, UI design and data reuse (WCF, Web Service, REST). Established source control standards beginning with the migration of the entire source control library from Visual Source Safe to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS).

In addition, I lead a team of 7 developers providing the technical guidance and mentoring for all development projects. I also lead a team of 3 developers to provide on-call support for all web applications. I also continuously mentor numerous developers throughout IT in the areas of the .NET Framework, SQL and Graphic Design.

In addition to the duties described above, I was also involved in numerous development projects as our department functions on a project basis.

www.healthydelawareretirement.com

Developed a website to assist current and potential customers learn about and understand Medicare and Medicare Supplement plans. Includes an interactive Flash presentation to assist in the "Countdown to Retirement"

www.bcbsde.com

Lead a team of 4 developers to redesign all external facing websites. Included replacing multiple classic asp/html web sites with more modern MVC applications. I also established a central user experience to standardize the external presence. Project includes central JSON/REST services for news and marketing banners and the central CMS management interface for internal staff to maintain the information.

Member Portal

Leading a team of 4 developers to upgrade the existing functionality in the existing legacy security system into the ASP.NET Security Provider Model. In addition, upgrade all legacy data connections to the IMB mainframe to use a Middleware Web Service solution. Project included migrating 4 disparate web applications into one, 3 databases into one and upgrade to SQL 2008, 12 SQL/SSIS Jobs to SQL 2008 and implementing a new user activity logging methodology using WFC Web Services.

Employer Portal

Designed and developed an Employer group enrollment application. This application was originally targeted for small groups (less than 25 members) and is currently used for medium to large groups (less than 1500 members). The system uses SQL and Middleware Web Services to query Legacy data in an IBM Mainframe and communicates with and in-house legacy system for completing the enrolment process.

Your Blue Express & Your Blue Renewal

Your Blue Express (YBX) was the expansion of the employer portal’s group enrollment application. The project consisted of migration from IBM Legacy data source to Middleware web service solution, added functionality to accept supporting documents, implemented a new back-end workflow process, reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and implementation of AJAX. Your Blue Renewal utilized the existing YBX back-end and workflow to add open-enrollment functionality processing for employers.

Provider Portal

Added a portal for viewing a provider’s Payment Voucher in ASP.NET which works with an existing Security System hosted off site. Queries Vignette IDM system using the web service API to view the index information and display the document in PDF format. Lead a team of developers to create a system to suppress the printing of the Vouchers from the IBM Mainframe.

Intranet Web Sites / Web Services

Security Request System

Worked with the Corporate Security Administrator to create a system for managing and auditing all security requests. Manages the three main areas of corporate security; Badge\Building, Mainframe, and Network access. The system contains a custom work flow to obtain all manager or director approvals that are necessary for completing the request and work flow to process the requests.

RACF Transaction Audit

Worked with the Corporate Security Administrator to create a system for auditing Mainframe (RACF) access. The system contains a work flow for all managers to accept their direct reports and approve the access that they are supposed to have.

StartingPoint

Lead a team of developers of up to 3 developers to pilot the migration the existing internal website from an HTML/Document mix to MOSS 2007. Project included training staff from each department in the company on how to administer and manage their area in MOSS.

Active Directory

Built reusable web services to query Active Directory using a mix of the .NET Framework Directory Services and Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI)

IDM Vignette

Built reusable web services to query Vignette’s Flow Manager API. This was customized to specific applications built for departments in the company. Handles authentication and filtering.