CuriouslyCorrect

Dennis Lloyd Jr

By combining years of development experience in a variety of roles with a dedication to providing creative, high-quality solutions, I can assist on a wide array of projects. I have experience in solutions architecture, development, deployment, requirements assessment and testing. Here are a few of the things I have been involved in recently:

  • Deep experience in database test driven development, including several presentations at local user group meetings and the international Agile 2008 conference; and currently co-authoring a book on the topic.
  • Co-developer of the tSQLt unit testing framework for MS SQL Server.
  • Refactoring of application architectures to allow for greater testability and maintainability.
  • Team leader, driving better development practices, agile adoption and team synergy.
  • Design of new architectures using a service oriented approach and Java Spring.
  • Improved efficiency of development process by encouraging automation of manual tasks, removal of unnecessary processes and automated error detection.
  • Lead department wide quality initiatives such as the Continuous Integration stand-up meetings, test driven development users' group and the Fitnesse users' group.
  • Experience with health care information systems, data formats and clinical data processing (structured and text-based).
  • Promoted sound database design and implementation skills, including principles of database refactoring, testing, normalization and abstraction.
  • Improved performance of key conversion stored procedures reducing an estimated runtime of 70 years to a few hours, while teaching other team members the methodology which I was employing.
  • Graduate thesis title: "Methods of Tertiary Protein Structure Prediction" focusing on soft computing techniques for determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their sequence.
  • Research papers in data mining of mitochondrial DNA mutations; epigenetic traits; tools for analysis of genes and protein secondary structure; genetic algorithms; and ant colony optimization.

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