Add To Contacts

Michael Kappel

Location
naperville, IL (US)
Work Category
Engineering
Interests
Business partnerships, Job opportunities, References, Ways to stay in touch
Email
Currently working on...
Learning Silverlight

About Me

My Personal Homepage http://www.MichaelKappel.com

Languages : ASP.NET C#/VB, T-SQL, ASP,HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML

Technologies: Web Services, Ajax, User Profiles, Custom Controls, libraries, Objects, Classes, Interfaces, Generics, Data access layer, Typed Data Sets, LINQ, Transactions, Regular Expressions
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008:
Stored Procedures/Views/Functions
Table Joins inner/outer/right/left/ GUID and auto increment keys
Clustered/Nonclustered Indexes/Full-Text Indexing
Microsoft Software: SQL Server Management Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005/2008,Visual SourceSafe, Team Foundation Suite, IIS, and the entire Office Suite including Excel and Access
Oracle Database 9i/10g/11g: Transactions, Stored Procedures, Packages, Views, Functions, Triggers, and Sequences

Work Experience

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008
    chicago, IL (US)
    ASP.Net / TSQL Developer
    Infra-Strategy
    Agile sprint based team environment.
    Built easy to use financial reporting system.
    TSQL (Transact-SQL) Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer.
    Created ASP.NET 3.5 C# Client Administration System
    Microsoft Ajax and JQuery Javascript frameworks
    Developed custom class libraries to increase department productivity
    Web and Windows Forms application development.
  • Mar 2007 - Jul 2008
    chicago, IL (US)
    Consultant
    Unison UCG
    Built, maintained, and improved applications for City of Chicago and The Chicago Airport System.
    Work with let ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Ajax
    Created relational databases components including Views, Triggers, and Stored Procedures for MS SQL and Oracle.
    Custom made compiled controls embed resources and libraries for use by other developers across mutable applications.
    Used Transactions, Typed DataSets, Web Services, and LINQ regularly.
    Helped with Oracle PL/SQL Migration to ASP.NET
    Worked with sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis.
    Airport Clearance approved by the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Jul 2005 - Mar 2007
    buffalo grove, IL (US)
    Sr. Web Engineer
    Westlake Financial Group
    Developed and maintained high security sites.
    Improved Employee Benefits Enrollment System.
    Developed C# Ajax content management system.
    Optimized reports for client billing.
    Implemented automatic error reporting system.
    Migrated ASP to C# ASP.Net
    Migrated SQL calls to Stored Procedures.
    Streamlined code by eliminating redundancy.
    Emulate look and feel of client sites in their benefit enrollment module.
  • May 2001 - Jun 2005
    orland park, IL (US)
    Developer
    CreativeExpansion
    Complete project development for E-commerce sites.
    Worked directly with Search engine optimization professionals (SEOs) to build high traffic websites.
    Cross platform compatible data driven sites with Ajax capabilities.
    Took over sites from other companies and dramatically improved their speed, performance, and compatibility.
    ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, HTML, MySQL, MS SQL and Visual Basic applications development.
    Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
    Light Graphic Design work, including icon and button development.
  • Apr 1999 - May 2001
    park ridge, IL (US)
    Graphic Editor, and HTML Specialist
    Americaneagle.com
    Intense knowledge of HTML and its compatibility, uses, and limitations.
    Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
    Light Graphic Design work, including icon and button development.

Education

  • 2003 - 2004
    Other - Computer Science
    Moraine Valley
  • 1997 - 1999
    Associate's - Psychology
    Purdue University Calumet