Frank Hofstaedter – Overview

Frank Hofstaedter
Software Developer, Architect and Development Manager
This is an overview résumé. Here is my full résumé. I have over twenty eight years of experience in software design and development as a Senior Developer and Technical Lead. I have managed a team of software developers for the past three years. I am skilled in all phases of the software development life cycle. I have worked in a variety of business domains including the pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial, insurance and retail industries. Areas of expertise are n-tier client-server, web applications and systems integration.
Relevant experience

12/02 – PRESENT, DAVID’S BRIDAL
Over the past fifteen years, I have progressed from Senior System Analyst to Manager, Development and Integration to Sr. Manager, Enterprise Systems Development. I currently manage a team of full stack developers and a team of eCommerce developers as well as staff augmentation developers. A few of the initiatives I have worked on include:

  • re-engineered the entire integration messaging platform from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2013
  • built the integration between a new ERP (Dynamics NAV) and other internal systems such as the retail store platform, the eCommerce platform and the OMS
  • built a number of scalable, reliable and performant REST web api endpoints used by on-premise and cloud solutions

05/02 – 12/02, PSCI
Spent six months with PSCI at Astra Zeneca as a Sr. Web Developer. Primary effort was the rationalization of multiple internal websites into a common intranet site.

10/96 – 04/02,  FIRST CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
Over six years I progressed from Lead Consultant to Sr. Consultant. A few of the client initiatives I worked on include:

  • DBA on a Palm Pilot based mobile Adverse Events tracking system for a pharmaceutical company
  • Lead Developer for the conversion of a VAX based financials system to a three tier client server VB6-MTS-SQL Server based system for a logistics company
  • Lead Developer for a LIMS system for Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics for a pharmaceutical company

06/95 – 10/96 AETNA, US HEALTHCARE, BLUE BELL, PA
I spent almost 1.5 year with Aetna, US Healthcare as a Sr. Applications Developer. During that time, I primarily worked on the design and development of a client-server management decision support system.

06/89 – 06/95,  THE PRUDENTIAL, FORT WASHINGTON, PA
Over six years I progressed from Asst. Programmer Analyst to Programmer Analyst. A few of the efforts I worked on include:

  • PowerBuilder client server marketing cost tracking system
  • Application Manager (OS/2) client server pension billing system

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, LANGUAGES AND PLATFORMS
C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Node, Angular, BizTalk 2006/2013, Visual Basic, VBScript, Visual Studio 2002-2017, XML, XSL, HTML, JavaScript, COM+, MSMQ, SSRS, SSIS, NHibernate, Git, Java, Eclipse, Jira, Confluence, BitBucket

DATABASES
MS SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, MS Access

OPERATING SYSTEMS
MacOS, Ubuntu Linux, Windows (all versions), MS-DOS, OS/2

Education
M.B.A, Computer Information Systems, Temple University, 1994
B.S., Computer Information Systems Management, Delaware Valley College, 1988
B.S., Business Administration-Accounting, Delaware Valley College, 1988