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Idaho Software Development Since 1980
From development, sprints to wireframes, and everything-in-between.
A lot has changed from the days of calling this Computer Programming but times do change. Both being essentially the same effort and responsibilities but has changed not just in context but in procedures and methodology used to scope the work out.
Idaho Customers
Some information I know about Idaho is I believe the state was admitted or ratified to the United States around or about 'July 3, 1890'. Idaho is located around latitude '44.068203' and longitude of '-114.742043' and has a population of roughly '1,839,106 million'. If I remember correctly the capital is 'Boise' and the largest city is 'Boise'.
Word of Mouth
Take a moment to read related case studies and testimonials below around my experience with Software Development.
Case Study
The bank needed someone to manage complicated efforts for Merchant Services. I served as a Scrum Master / Agile Coach for 5 sprint teams running the governance and ensuring teams are adhering to enterprise standards, also handling all retros and demos..
"Eddie is very strong given his expertise from years of software development. Eddie spends quality time observing things working well and also those that are not. Based on the patterns he has always engaged with the teams to provide constructive feedback and ensured to the solution."
5/27/2023
Arun Nitta | USA
SVP - Portfolio Delivery Manager / Program Manager
Bank of America
Case Study
The bank needed someone to manage complicated efforts around ATM Updates inclusive of releases related to Diebold ADA changes as well as Enterprise Splunk / Cribl initiatives. I ran Agile/Scrum cadence utilizing Jira and removed impediments as needed. I coached the teams around Agile practices as well.
"I highly recommend Eddie Drye for any future role as Scrum Master for software development teams. He has a very calming demeanor, is a good listener and he learns fast. He contributed within his first few days here and was in a rhythm quickly."
12/2/2022
Larry Imperiale | USA
Senior VP, APS&E Operational Intelligence
Bank of America
Case Study
Pike needed someone to manage Agile projects across a diverse line of technologies and vendors for the construction of quality solutions. I managed Pike's fleet software development and integrations.
"Eddie, I really like how you run the Fleet projects. I enjoy working with you."
10/14/2021
Scott Cash | USA
Director of IT Management
Pike Engineering
Case Study
When RJMW a leader in Catastrophic Insurance needed a system to turn around insurance estimates faster they came to me. What I created for them was a cutting-edge claims and adjuster deployment system that took 7 day turnarounds to 3.
"Eddie has been a fantastic help in updating our claims system software. He has always been responsive and has come up with innovative ideas that have transformed how we do business. I would highly recommend Eddie and his company to anyone that needs custom software done."
April , 2016
Jay Crisp | USA
Director of TAP and Special Operations
RMJW
Case Study
ScanOnline hired me to manage manufacturing and government software development for small clients to large clients like the FBI and Executive Offices of the Whitehouse. NTI Solutions was a subsidiary of ScanOnline selling QuarterMaster software at the time for asset management. Many federal agencies used Quartermaster to manage checkout of assets whereas the Whitehouse utilized it to manage furniture for events.
"Eddie had respect and faith in his developers to perform their jobs with the best of their abilities. Eddie was always willing to offer his assistance and had an excellent rapport with the companys customer base. He was always available to answer any questions or help with any issues that would arise. His management style was unique in that he let developers have a sense of control."
October, 2015
Anthony Downs | USA
Developer
NTI Solutions
"I worked directly with Eddie and his team of developers to review, fix, enhance, create and deploy products. He has a very positive attitude, acknowledges teammates input and has an excellent rapport and ability to communicate well with clients, making him a valuable member of the team. I was also impressed with his forward thinking and ideas."
October, 2015
Lynn Stone | USA
Product Manager
ScanOnline
"I am a fan of the dashboards you create our customers are going to love them."
January, 2015
Brian Graves | USA
VP of Sales
ScanOnline
"We are confident that Eddie is the right person to help ScanOnline meet strategic and growth objectives in the coming years."
November, 2014
Lee Pickler | USA
President
ScanOnline
Case Study
Market America hired me to manage 6 teams around their eCommerce and distributor portal platform where IBM Universe and ColdFusion developers integrated innovative features to their eCommerce site.
"Eddie has the unique ability to pull together all the pieces of the puzzle, keep them together, and make sure everyone is always on the same page and headed in the right direction. His education, experience and professionalism have brought us great results."
3/5/2009
Kim Palmer | USA
Creative Services Manager
New Breed
"Eddie Drye is one of the best out of the box thinkers that can deliver what he and his team envisions. He is also the type of person to stay on a project until it is done, no matter how long or how difficult. His drive to solve complex problems and to create new innovative software solutions is unparalleled from any other developer or analyst I have had on my team."
1/12/2009
Chris Diggs | USA
Director of R&D
Market America
"Eddie was the best Project Manager I have ever had in my career. Not only did Eddie always have a high-level grasp of projects, but being very technical, he also had a detailed understanding of projects. Eddie's management and people skills are excellent. He was always liked by all team members and yet was able to get the best work from all involved. Eddie has always been very resourceful, creative, and able to do far more than be a skillful project manager as evidenced by the design and creation of his own successful dot com, Avoli, Inc."
4/16/2012
Jim Goins | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
"Eddie, both from a technical, developmental, project management, personal, personnel, and business process perspective, was an incredible asset to the company. In addition to managing his site. If that isn't pure talent, then I surely don't know what is."
4/25/2013
Joe Washington | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
"I had the opportunity to work peripherally to Eddie and observe the manner in which he ran his development team. He proved to be a skilled project manager and consistently delivered positive results in a challenging environment. I was particularly impressed by the way he advocated for his team."
11/5/2012
Antonio Green | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
Case Study
Dimon Tobacco required a new system to handle their entire Tobacco Processing activities across their world-wide distribution channels. Dimon hired me specifically to handle all the barcode issues for Tobacco, it's packaging and distribution across the world with the first location being Tanzania.
"It was pleasure to work with Eddie on a Major Business project at Dimon International and other multiple assignments, I was impressed by Eddie's depth of knowledge, high skill set in software development process from conception to delivery. Eddie is a creative person. That's him multi-skilled, forward thinking, insightful and result driven co-worker. As a Project Manager/Barcoding Developer in his other assignments, Eddie applied the most advanced management techniques that helped project team achieve successful results. He has very positive attitude towards work. In depth experience and intelligence makes Eddie view solutions instead of problems."
4/22/2012
Deepak Kulkarni | USA
Project Lead
Diamond Tobacco
Case Study
I assisted TIMCO for instance to develop software in Progress 4GL critical for day to day operations off 'Jet Aircraft Facility' maintenance. I am also skilled to work with avionics embedded software.
"Eddie picked up Progress4GL really fast and was able to become a valuable member of our software developmemt team."
8/21/2000
Steve Clagg | USA
Progress 4GL Developer
TIMCO Jet Aircraft Maintenance
"Eddie is enthusiastic and innovative and was key contributor in a software development team challenged to develop solutions that met the needs of a young, rapidly growing and evolving jet aircraft maintenance business."
4/21/2000
Tom Kimes | USA
Developer Supervisor
TIMCO Jet Aircraft Maintenance
Case Study
I have assisted such banking giants as Wells Fargo (Wachovia) and Bank of America in highly visible projects up to an 11 billion dollar Asset Management Package where I was assigned to the project where he led as the Lead Developer Architect, Project Manager and Business Analyst. After throwing me to the wolves in banking and the success we had other banking clients such as Bank of America jumped at the opportunity to have us assist them.
"You are a great asset to the team Wachovia and I am glad I had the pleasure of working with you. If I had my own company, I would love to have you as my IT director. (Note: I created RECMTMS for Jimmy which managed $11 billion in bank assets)"
1/11/2006
Jimmy Gray | USA
Director of Finance
Wachovia Securities
"Jimmy's users are pleased with the RECMTMS application and reports. Excellent news as always."
12/1/2004
Lori Spencer | USA
Corporate Investment Banking Technology
Wachovia Securities
Case Study
I assisted Galey and Lord, Inc. out of Georgia when they had the need to create software around their manufacturing wage pricing system. G&L would pay their employees based on the fastest line worker on a given machine. They would sit there and count the employees 'head scrath', 'every time they bent down', 'every time they moved'. This was called a 'Time and Motion' study which was a critical part of their pay system. Each employee was tracked and compared to the same machine's fastest employee. This was a boilerplate for everyone's pay on that given machine. Perodically they would re-confirm the 'Time and Motion' studies.
"The software works great and the client is pleased with your work."
6/15/2001
Janet Lee | USA
IT Manager
Case Study
High Point Radiological Services PA needed their existing patient billing system running on a Data General AOS/VS MV2000 (Bulldog) system to undergo heavy interface and data storage modification. After my changes billing and revenue became stable and highly accurate.
"Eddie, you have done such a great job on implementing the new Medicare, Medicaid, BCBS changes."
4/5/1990
Phyllis Kirby | USA
Patient Services
High Point Radiological Services, PA
"Great job on the changes to the Patient Billing System. You've really picked up Business Basic fast."
10/3/1989
Jim Meredith | USA
Lead Programmer
Carolina Cipher
"You have picked up making these modifications yourself and High Point Radiological really doesn't need Carolina Cipher anymore."
8/25/1988
Zaefer Balkin | USA
Programmer
Carolina Cipher
So software development is still the creation of code through a disciplined process of the developer writing the code towards a solutioned set of functionality. While we as developers always thought of the user through the process it is now called Personas. A Persona is where one takes the role and mindset around that workers responsibility and builds it with them in mind. I know sounds a lot like thinking of the user right? Yep, it sure does. It is a little more involved but that is still the jist of it.
The Development Environment
The software developer still utilizes a place to put the code but instead of putting it in a shared folder we put the code in systems like GitHub where branches are created around the versioning of major, minor relatively speaking. These are referred to in Agile as releases and often called release branches when it comes to the code repositories.
If at any point you decide to reach to me just know the area codes I am familiar with for Idaho are '208, 986'. For Software Development assistance you will find my rates very reasonable for Idaho. Now just keep in mind my time zone is 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' and I know the time zones in Idaho are 'Most of the state: Mountain Standard Time (MST)' in case you wish to call me. Anyway let me continue.
Comments/Documentation
Not every developer is good at commenting their code. It is a habit well worth being formed. Not only from the standpoint of code commenting but in documentation. The format of this documentation is refered to as Markup. Markup files have a different extension and method of creation of the documentation. Often times now though we find the Markup creation is a separate role.
Test-Driven Development
Testing code today comes first through Unit Testing and then the Testing Group will take the code and run their own tests on the code. The Testing Group is often called QA for Quality Assurance. QA often times will perform Regression Testing as well as 'A/B' tests and more. I personally do not like the role of QA for myself I would rather code. The QA role requires a different person with discipline and dilligence that often software developers do not have. QA needs a 'Leave No Stone Unturned' mentality and typically do a better job writing test scripts etc. If code fails QA it is rolled back to the Developer as exceptions which need to be resolved. Often times called Defects which used to be called Bugs but as time goes on terminology just seems to change sometimes for no apparent reason.
You know, I don't make it out to Idaho much but I would like to see the 'Mountain Bluebird' state bird. I am a little familiar with the Idaho 'Syringa' state flower as well. However, I do not know much about Idaho's state tree the 'Western White Pine'. Fishing is fun to me perhaps I would like reeling in the Idaho 'Cutthroat Trout' state fish. Anyway, sorry I went off topic. Let me continue.
My Programming Expertise
Now that you have a better feel for how professional programming is done, you might wonder what my areas of expertise include. My main areas are:
- .NET Framework (Microsoft's Technology)
- Microsft C# (all versions)
- Microsoft Visual Basic (All versions)
- Microsoft Web Development (ASP.net)
- Microsoft SQL Server (Transact SQL)
- Web Javascript / jQuery / Bootstrap
- Web Services and MicroServices
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