stephen wright

Stephen Wright

Website Craftsman

Personal Info

Professional Profile

Lead Web Developer using Agile Methodologies to build great websites. I am very passionate about building the most outstanding websites. I take a lot of pride in the work I do and I expect nothing but the best of the products and services I provide.

Work Experience

August 2004 - Present

Senior Web Developer

Reflection Software, Full-Time


  • Designed and Developed an Enterprise-wide web-based Learning Management System; deployed for 4 customers.
  • Developed using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL 2005 Tracks e-learning for all employees at 5 major retail stores
  • Integrated with HR systems to import data from Peoplesoft and additional proprietary systems
  • Future improvements scheduled are migration to ASP.NET MVC
  • Implemented Subversion source control for all .NET projects Implemented Continuous Integration server using TeamCity
  • Implemented standards based programming, focusing on code responsibility and best practices

January 1998 - Present

Webmaster

United Child Care Network, Part-Time


  • Managed the website lifecycle (design, programming and deployment)
  • Created monthly newsletter in Publisher, printed to Adobe Acrobat for download
  • Deployed to a VPS on Windows Server 2008 Designed a monthly newsletter and applied content and layout to stories submitted.
  • New website design plans to move to ASP.NET MVC in the coming months

Jan 2000 - Aug 2004

Business Analyst

Nestle Transportation/Nestle USA, Full-Time


  • Developed and led project to integrate returns process using ASP and SQL to be distributed nationwide to multiple distribution centers and customer service centers. Project integrated Sybase, DB/2, SQL Server and Oracle databases into a single point of collection to be used for tracking and reporting.
  • Designed & developed a rate impact application for truckload carriers using Visual Basic, SQL Server and ASP.
  • Designed, managed and developed a product returns data entry and reporting website with ASP, ASP.NET and SQL Server.
  • Won Team Member of the 2nd Quarter 2002 and was on Team of the 2nd Quarter 2002, Team of the 1st Quarter 2003 & Team of the 2nd Quarter 2003. Member of Team of the Year 2002 and nominated for finalist - Team Member of the Year 2002. 5 Very Best Awards in span of a year.

Technical Skills

Expert, 7+ years

ASP.NET (VB.NET & C#)


All of the websites I have developed have been implemented using ASP.NET with a SQL Server backend.

Advanced, 5 years

HTML and CSS


I have done the design on most of the websites I have developed.

Advanced, 2 years

Javascript/jQuery


jQuery is rapidly becoming the framework of choice for web designers and developers.

Beginner, 1 year

ASP.NET MVC (v1 and v2)


ASP.NET MVC (MSMVC) is in the infant stages of acceptance within the developer community.

Education

Northern Illinois University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science


I graduated in 2000 from NIU.