MARTIN ALLEN

Software Architect/Developer
(C#/.NET/SQL/Azure)
BROWARD COUNTY, FL

About Me

I am a Microsoft Certified .NET/SQL Developer from Coral Springs (Broward County, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida) with decades of experience in software design and development. I have a strong financial background from the insurance industry. I am well-versed in the Microsoft Technologies as well as all phases of the software development lifecycle.

I believe that software is a tool which improve so many of our activities. With proper software we can open so many possibilities.

People have unique skills and competencies and software should be there to complement them. To help people visualizing ideas so that they can focus on using their unique abilities to provide more value.

To me, building software means providing tools to people.

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Software Development

Software development is my passion. I mainly work with Visual Studio and other Microsoft techologies, and target every web, cloud, mobile and desktop platform that are supported by the Microsoft tehnologies, but I do my best to keep up with other mainstream technologies as well.

Visual Studio, C#
ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Xamarin
MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor, Angular
Synfusion, Progress/Telerik and Infragistics user interface suites
Web technologies, such as HTML5, Javascript/JQuery, CSS/Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud
Other programming languages, such as Clarion, C/C++, PHP, Python, Java. Pascal/Delphi, Visual Basic

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Data

Data is the backbone of every business. Most of my work revolves around designing database systems, dealing with data, database technologies and file formats, such as:

Microsoft SQL Server (TSQL)
Azure Cosmos DB
mySQL
MariaDB
SQLite
Clarion (.DAT, .TPS)
XML/JSON
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and reporting
QuickBooks integrations
Data migrations and conversions between systems and/or file formats

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Web Design

When it comes to building a professional web or an intranet site or an e-commerce website, it rarely makes sense to build it from ground up. Instead, there is a wide variety of well tested and industry proven content management systems and platforms that meet and exceed all the feature and flexibility requirements, such as:

Microsoft Office 365 (Sharepoint, Lync, Exchange, Office)
WordPress
DotNetNuke (DNN)
Joomla

E-commerce:

WooCommerce
Amazon Marketplace
Ebay Marketplace
OpenCart
Payment processors

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BI and Reporting

In addition to great software, every organization needs a way to transform their raw data into attractive and accurate reports and KPI dashboards to assist them in their analysis and decision making process. I can make that happen with the industry proven technologies from the leading vendors, such as:

SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft Power BI
SAP Crystal Reports
IBM Cognos
Tableau

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Social Media Marketing, Content writing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

One of the most important facets of your website is Search Engine Optimization and Social media marketing. When your site is easily viewable and accessible, you’ll get new unique visitors all the time. I can help.

Google/Bing Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Social Media Markering (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram)
Mailing lists and marketing campaings
Search engine friendly content writing
Translations and localizations (english, finnish, swedish)

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IT Systems

I have plenty of experience in designing, implementing and supporting software, hardware and networking infrastructure for organizations of all size with a particular interest in virtualization, cloud solutions and Office 365 as a platform.

Windows and Linux Servers and Desktops
PC Hardware implementation and troubleshooting
Network infrastructure design and implementation
Virtualization, cloud architecture and hybrid cloud solutions
Office 365 deployments and migrations
Workflow and automation
VOIP phone systems
Paperless office solutions
Security and backup infrastructure
System monitoring, maintenance and support

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Education

Education and mentoring has been my calling throughout my professional career. I provide training, exam preparation workshops and course material on various IT subjects to individuals and organization of all size.

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Creativity

When it comes to arts, I am not a professional by any means, just an enthusiast. While painting, drawing, music, photography, audio and video productions, 2D/3D graphics design are my creative outlet, once in a while they seem to turn into interesting job and contract opportunities.