Lane Goolsby, Senior Software Engineer

Lane is a Senior Software Engineer with ThreeWill. He is a strong technology expert with a focus on programming, network and hardware design, and requirements and capacity planning. Exceptional combination of technical and communication skills with a strong emphasis on troubleshooting, problem determination, customer relations, and identifying quick paths to resolutions. Strong mediator between programmers, end users, and clients. Experience in design, installation, implementation, maintenance, support, and client/end user training of various software and hardware packages for use in everything from large-scale enterprise applications to small deployment limited traffic web sites.

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Experience

Senior Consultant – SharePoint Integration for Enterprise Social Business Software
  • Designed and maintained REST web services.
  • Researched means of implementing impersonation using the SAML specification.
  • Developed several key pieces of functionality.
  • Assisted with customer implementations.
Senior Consultant – SharePoint 2010 Dashboards for Company Managing Energy Efficiency Programs
  • Tasked with designing and building a security infrastructure that allowed for SSAS Dimension level security trimming for external, forms-based user accounts.
  • Installed and configured Microsoft Threat Management Gateway to perform Forms to Kerberos protocol transition for security delegation.
  • Installed and configured SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, and PerformancePoint.
Senior Developer – SharePoint Architect for a Fortune 500 Insurance Company
  • Tasked with developing and architecting a viable SharePoint infrastructure capable of supporting 70k+ users from the ground up.
  • Excelled as SME/evangelist for SharePoint in a new implementation of SharePoint 2007
  • Developed several custom features for SharePoint .
  • Served as system SME and lead architect for SharePoint
  • Designed and developed implementation plan for upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
  • Performed design for physical implementation of PerformancePoint 2007/2010
  • Performed design for physical implementation of FAST Search for SharePoint.
  • Created SharePoint User Group to expand SharePoint usage across business units.
  • Trained and experienced in FAST Search for SharePoint.
Senior Developer – Build Administrator for a Fortune 500 Insurance Company
  • Tasked with developing an automated build and deployment model for internally developed applications while adhering to CM Level III change governance and recommendations
  • Managed conversion process from Visual Source Safe to Serena Dimensions
  • Administered and maintained Serena Dimensions
  • Identified and developed methods to improve performance and reporting within and outside of the Software Configuration office
  • Examined and researched third party applications for the SCM office to use in change management duties
Architect / Senior Developer / System Administrator for Classifieds2Go and SwapJobs.com
  • Designed, built, and maintained a web service for newspapers to collect printable (offline) and non-printable (online) classified ads using their own branding and pricing.
  • Responsible for identifying and executing architectural requirements and scheduling deployment dates.
  • Built and deployed two different language versions of the site (Visual Basic 6 and classic ASP, and C# 1.1) and associated migration needs (flat file database to SQL Server 2000, Linux OS to Windows 2000 then 2003, Visual Basic DCOM API and ASP 3 scripts to .NET n-Tier Design, etc).
  • Designed custom shopping cart e-commerce system and implemented the Verisign PayFlowPro API product to handle secure credit card transactions.
  • Defined and built database structure and schema requirements for storing, logging, and searching ads, users, and newspapers.
  • Managed other developer’s implementation of business layer logic I designed into the site including code review and testing.
  • Heavily utilized methodologies and technologies such as XML, XSLT, ADO .NET, VeriSign PayFlowPro, C#, T-SQL, and n-Tier Architecture design paradigms.
  • Designed custom database search engine utilities for searching classified ads and seeker/seller profiles.
  • Ensured customer security by designing site to utilize HTTPS for data transmission and encrypting sensitive data in the database using Blowfish and AES encryption protocols.
  • Leveraged Visual Source Safe and IPSec/PPTP VPN to allow developers to not have to physically reside in a single city or location.
Lead Software Support Engineer (3rd Level) for OpenNetworkTechnologies
  • Supported 70+ different clients with extremely divergent environments that required the ability to quickly assimilate and learn new applications, hardware, and software architectures in order to determine points of failure and paths to resolution.
  • Responsible for supporting the company’s software package(s) and ancillary software and hardware requirements.
  • Resolved customer custom code issues and challenges involving the DirectorySmart API involving languages ranging from classic ASP to J2EE.
  • Worked closely with implementation and sales engineers to successfully deploy implementations of the company’s product(s) in million dollar projects.
  • Resolved product code issues and enhancements and assisted in troubleshooting and/or solving third party configuration or quality issues.
  • Designed and developed the company’s Support web site code and network requirements.
  • Converted Support web site from VB .NET to C#.
  • Created and managed internal processes and procedures for Product Support.
  • Lead as head West Coast Engineer and UNIX S.M.E. for Product Support and Client Services.
  • Ensured 24×7 software support for customers and internal engineers.
  • Assisted customers with custom code issues and requirements involving the OpenNetwork DirectorySmart API’s and/or implementation.
  • Translated the DirectorySmart LDAP Schema to be imported into OS390 LDAP.
  • Designed, built, and managed the Testing and Support Lab hardware and network for replicating client environments and training engineers on new version releases and/or product offerings.
  • Gained real world experience in LDAP v3 standards and implementation including Microsoft Active Directory, iPlanet Directory Server v4-5, IBM Secureway v3.x, and Novell eDirectory v8.5 on massive scales.
  • Gained real world experience in deployment and use of common web servers such as Microsoft IIS version 4 and 5, iPlanet Web Server v4-6, IBM HTTP Server v1.3.x.
Security Analyst/Operations Support for Kforce.com
  • Responsible for helping develop internal network security policies.
  • Performed weekly risk assessment scans and tests to verify network integrity including network mapping, password brute-force attacks, network sniffing, and external security risk assessments.
  • Facilitated Operations group with on call 24×7 support
  • Assisted in project to move entire production data center to new hosting facility across town.
  • Monitored intrusion sensors to determine when/if a network compromise had occurred, what was affected, and ways to prevent it from happening again.
  • Performed post-mortem analysis of virus attacks on network to determine impact on network systems and ensure data integrity.
  • Designed a script for a legacy application that was housed in remote offices to transfer backup files to a central backup data store.

Technical

SharePoint 2007/2010:
  • Developing custom SharePoint feature solutions
  • Developing custom content type features
  • Custom branding/master page development
  • SharePoint architecture and design
  • End user support and assistance
FAST Search for SharePoint (FAST ESP)
  • Installation and configuration, design and architecture
  • Attended FAST University Admin and Developer training
Operating Systems:
  • Servers: Windows NT 4 through 2008, Linux 5.0 through 6.5, Solaris 7 through 9, AIX 4.3.x, and HPUX 10.
  • Workstations: Windows 3.1 through Windows 7, Linux, IRIX, and DOS.
  • Networking: Cisco IOS, Cisco LocalDirector, personal firewall and router software (e.g. Linksys, Netgear).
Programming Languages

Microsoft .NET (C#, VB), Visual Basic 6, Java 2 (J2SE), HTML, XML (including XSD/DTD schema definitions), XSLT, JavaScript, Perl, some C++.

Database Servers

Microsoft SQL 7 through 2008, Oracle 8, DB2 6.1-7.2

Hardware Architectures

Intel x86, SPARC, RISC RS/6000

Web Servers

Microsoft IIS (4-6), Apache, IBM HTTP, iPlanet 4-6

LDAP Servers

Microsoft Active Directory, iPlanet Directory 4-5, IBM Secureway 3.x, Novell eDirectory 8.5-8.6

Java Application Servers

WebSphere 3.5.x, Weblogic 6.1, JRun 3.1

Security Software

ISS Real Secure and Internet/Database Scanner, Checkpoint Firewall, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Certificate Authority, Raptor Firewall, personal firewalls, various network scanning and probing utilities