Alex Blanchard

Experience

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  Verizon

  Nov 1995 - Jun 2019

  Development team lead for VPF (Verizon Product Factory) suite of applications, including .Net and Angular based web applications that are used to create, maintain and distribute Verizon’s products/promotions related information. These applications are Windows based and use MS SQL Server as the data repository. Informatica distributes the changes to several downstream billing, provisioning, reporting and ordering applications. • Oversaw day to day operations including development, testing, production support, and disaster recovery, resulting in improved workflow efficiencies for the team.• Coordinated new enhancements among the Architecture, Program Management and user community, focusing on meeting project delivery dates.• Prepared HLD documents/user stories and reviewed development and test results done by offshore teams, ensuring that requirements were met.• Streamlined new product and promotion creation from months to just weeks and even within a day in certain circumstances• Reduced testing timelines by providing the ability to do mid-day data refreshes to deploy changes near real-time. Show less Developer for a .Net web service application using Biztalk Rules Engine to validate product and reference data. • Automated new rule generation from a table-based schema enabling new rules to inserted, generated and deployed in minutes.• Created grouping concepts to minimize tabling effort to reduce development time and reduce data errors• Provided bug resolutions for the web based front-end application using C# .Net. • Wrote and reviewed detail designs that were to be coded and tested by the offshore team. • Reviewed developer code changes (.Net and T-SQL) and testing results performed by SIT team. • Oversaw the development of several additional applications that were developed using the same framework to manage and distribute additional type of product data including Retail (copper LEC), bill messaging/bill inserts and billing/taxing related data. Show less Web application developer for Interworld project. Application provided a web interface to installation technicians to provide them with hardware needed to install advanced internet services (Frame Relay, DSL, and ATM). This application received the Verizon Best award.• VBA developer for the VADI (wholesale Internet division) migration team. Application used Excel spreadsheets to extract, modify and upload data changes. Application originally used an Oracle database, but was later ported to IBM DB2. • Evaluated software solutions for companywide implementation. Show less

  • Senior Member Technical Staff - Systems Engineer

    May 2014 - Jun 2019

  • Member Technical Staff – Systems Engineering

    Aug 2003 - May 2014

  • Systems Engineer

    Feb 1998 - Aug 2003

  • Application Integrator

    Mar 1997 - Feb 1998

  • Analyst Tech Specification

    Nov 1995 - Mar 1997
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  Citi

  Dec 2019 - now

  Engineer Senior Analyst