Ron Skufca
Software Engineer
I am a person who utilizes technology as a way to solve problems. My purpose, IS to understand your business. I achieve this understanding by immersing myself in your world. This allows me to develop a deep understanding of the issues you face, and equally important, our close collaboration enables you to develop trust in me. This I feel is the key to successful projects.
Ok, now that you are done reading the marketing paragraph, the truth is you need someone who can own and deliver on the full software development lifecycle. Software projects contain many moving parts. Business sponsors need attention, products need defined, requirements to gather, infrastructure to be provisioned, oh yea code must be written, testing must be done, release schedules must be created, post release maintenance must be considered. In a nutshell, I bring complete product delivery expertise to your orgainzation. Much much more than simple coding.
Skills
Languages
- C#
- C++
- XML
- SQL
- Javascript
- Python
- JSON
- Stored Procedures
Design and Architecture
- SOLID Principles
- Distributed Systems
- Domain Driven Design
- REST API Design
- Enterprise Architecture
- Agile
Front End Technologies
- .Net MVC Core
- Selenium
- Bootstrap
- CSS
- React
- JQuery
- Gulp/Grunt
- Razor Pages
Tools, Tech & Frameworks
- Azure
- Git
- NUnit
- Reflector
- AutoMapper
- Team City
- SQL Server
- Azure DevOps
- SVN
- XUnit
- NLog
- Elastic No-Sql
- Resharper
- Kubernetes
Experience
Team Lead / Manager of Vendor Services
National General Insurance
Feb 2022 - Present
- Technical lead for the architecture, design, and implementation of over 25 .Net Core applications and restful microservices. These serve as the backbone for our multibillion dollar insurance products.
- Daily pair programming sessions with various team members to mentor, and assist with day-to-day development tasks.
- Partner with enterprise architects to ensure our software is designed for extensibility and maintainability. Ensuring our deliverables are easy to enhance, have a longer lifespan, and cost less to maintain.
- Experienced in the design, deployment and monitoring of microservices in a Kubernetes cluster.
- Experience with Azure Devops to manage all backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release management.
- Work with various business units to manage deployment schedules to ensure delivery timelines are met.
Senior Developer
National General Insurance
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
- Technical owner for Producer Licensing Library (PLL). An enterprise-grade suite of apps and services designed to provide real-time license and appointment data for insurance providers.
- Designed and implemented a series of .Net Core Api's to connect National General Insurance to the National Insurance Producer Registry's real-time gateway. Combined these services manage all licensing and appointment requests for the enterprise.
- Designed and implemented several .Net Core back end services to allow for real-time communication and updating of insurance producer information when it becomes available from the states.
- Partner with application and enterprise architects to ensure our software is designed for extensibility and maintainability. This ensures our deliverables are easy to enhance, have a longer lifespan, and cost less to maintain.
- Developed .Net Core web portal to provide administrative services to business users. This allowed business users visibility into licensing, and appointment request's, reporting, and a host of other real-time data. This freed-up development resources to focus on delivering other high value projects.
- Work with various business units to manage deployment schedules to ensure delivery timelines are met.
- Work alongside DevOps to configure and deploy applications into a Kubernetes environment.
- Work daily with various team members to mentor and assist with day-to-day development tasks.
Software Developer III
National General Insurance
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
- Member of the Enterprise Services team which is responsible for architecting, developing and deploying various enterprise-wide software and services.
- To comply with PCI auditing requirements, re-designed a legacy credit card processing application from the ground up utilizing modern web development technologies such as Asp.Net Core, Razor, EF Core, Bootstrap, Gulp, etc…
- Tasked with analyzing our Producer License Library application and associated business processes to create applications and infrastructure to automate repetitive tasks, thereby freeing up developer's time to create additional value.
Software Developer
MediQuant Inc.
April 2010 - Oct 2017
- As a scrum master, I recognized manual regression testing of our flagship product DataArk was taking almost 5 days. I pitched the idea of automating regression testing to senior leadership. As a result, I was tasked with finding a solution.
- Paired with an Application Architect to design and develop an automated UI testing framework and application. The UI testing framework enables developers and QA to write automated use case tests against DataArk.
- After completing the MVP in late June 2017, we immediately realized the project would make a significant business impact by reducing personnel costs associated with manual regression testing.
- In July 2017 the executive team approved funding for a full framework and application suite.
- Member of architecture team for DataArk our flagship product, responsible for making technology, design, and architectural decisions to ensure the product’s future success.
- Member of the DataArk development team responsible for the development, testing, and implementation of our flagship product.
- Lead developer responsible for DataArk's medical claim processing module, which includes EDI 835, 837, UB04, CMS 1500.
- Lead developer responsible for DataArk's general ledger accounting module.
- Responsible for ensuring our codebase meets current architecture standards and modern development best practices, including unit and integration test coverage.
- Responsible for code reviews with team members to ensure we are following development best practices.
- Responsible for mentoring junior developers.
Automated UI Framework
DataArk
Lead Software Developer
Sundance Systems Inc.
Aug 2003 - April 2010
- Lead developer responsible for driving technical strategy and architecture for all software products.
- Lead architect responsible for the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of a mission-critical alarm monitoring system delivered to the Boeing Company. Utilizing Microsoft’s development stack, this product processes incoming SNMP traps/alarms generated by Andover Controls Continuum™ devices located thought Boeing’s Anaheim, CA campus. The Andover Continuum™ devices monitor power, cooling, UPS, diesel generators, air conditioning units, etc… for Boeing’s most sensitive equipment. The software routes the alarms to Boeing’s communication center located in Seal Beach, CA where they are processed by a custom version of our CAD (computer-aided dispatch) software. Currently, the system monitors around 1000 Andover Controls™.
- Team lead responsible for porting all remaining legacy applications from VB6.0 and Microsoft Access to .Net C#.
- Team member responsible for the design and development of www.department-online.com, an ASP.NET Web application suite serving police, fire, service, building departments as well as other government agencies.
- Designed and developed department-online’s AVL (automatic vehicle location) system using ASP.NET, C#, and Google Maps API, which processes incoming GPS data and tracks a vehicle’s movement in real-time.
- Designed and developed department-online's false alarm billing module for police departments, which reduced the time personnel spend on alarm billing from an average of 8 hours to less than 1.
- Designed and implemented a web-based C# solution by which our client’s database schema and stored procedures are automatically updated with our latest enhancements. This eliminated the time-consuming task of manually updating each client's remote databases, greatly reducing the time it takes to get updates to customers.
- Team member responsible for the development and maintenance of CAD (computer-aided dispatch) software, records and jail management software as well as Police, Fire, and EMS mobile data systems.
- Designed and developed the .NET Web Service infrastructure to support automatic synchronization of customer’s systems.
- Reduced connection related support tickets by 60% by developing a C# based software system to manage Cisco VPN connections to mobile cellular laptops.