John McDonagh

Co-founder in charge of technology.

Performance analysis and refactoring of WPF/.NET control software.

ACLU: Designed, created and maintained “ACLU Connect”, a complex suite of database driven applications, allowing offices across States to coordinate and share contact, activity, advocacy and legal data. Built on the Azure platform, this includes a database of approximately 200 tables and views, and 500 stored procedures. Licensed software built on a strongly n-tier OO framework utilising Remoting and socket messaging for internal communication.

Developing control and analysis software for the race telemetrics and wind tunnel research.

Senior developer at transitional start up/IPO company specialising in delivering professional services over the web. Fast paced, heavily AGILE environment.

.NET/C++/Mono and WPF software development for high frequency automated trading systems.

Developed a single, n-tier, modular framework solution for distributed data warehouse to replace a legacy suite of disparate applications and web services. Developed a monitoring suite, tuned and trouble-shot DB traffic, etc...

Leading team of 7-10 developers and DBAs in the development of a student information system for US public schools. Communicated with the clients (San Francisco Unified School Distrct and Chicago Public Schools) to gather their product requirements and from there derived the technical requirements and specifications whilst ensuring compliance. As a team lead I mentored many of our team of developers, managed their tasks as well as developed and communicated best practices.