C. Carlyle Rood

Atlanta, Georgia | contact@carlylerood.com

I am an experienced, test-driven software developer interested in working in an Agile development environment.

Experience

Software Developer

Travel + Leisure (formerly Alliance Reservations Network)

Hired full-time to develop software applications to manage a travel platform that powers hotel, car rental, airfare, and recreation booking.

  • Developed a class library in C# that would query REST and SOAP APIs for the hotel inventories of suppliers.
  • Developed an MVC web application that would allow quality assurance testers and software developers to inspect raw JSON and XML responses from hotel suppliers to facilitate testing and verify compliance with applicable laws.
  • Mentored other developers in best practices for test-driven development.
May 2021 to October 2024

Software Developer

Glory Global Solutions

Hired full-time to develop software applications to manage Glory's bank teller-assistance service solution, TellerInfinity™.

  • Developed class library, console and Windows applications that would backup and restore every configurable setting for a banking kiosk.
  • Developed console and Windows applications that would synchronize stories and bugs between a Mantis bug tracking system and Jira using each tool's REST API.
  • Developed web application that used OAuth 2.0 to query a Jira REST API for resources and submit new stories.
  • Developed a configurable MEF component that would allow you to access a TrueChecks REST API to learn whether a bank check is recommended for acceptance, rejection, or holding for an extended period.
  • Developed a class library of a rule engine that allowed bank kiosk functionality to be configurable for transactions by account type.
    • This tool could discover what rules were required by inspecting a simple, comma-delimited table.
    • And from these rules, it could automatically generate the required Zephyr test cases to verify its accuracy into an importable spreadsheet.
March 2019 to May 2020

Software Developer

Wolters Kluwer

Hired full-time to develop professional tax and accounting software for both the Web and Windows desktop.

  • As a rotating Scrum Master, I coordinated the removal of impediments, facilitated visibility and communication of progress within and outside the team, and ensured the team was focused and progressing towards the prioritized commitment.
  • Maintained a legacy ASP.NET Web Forms tax application for the Web in C#, Visual Basic, and JavaScript.
  • Created a .NET Core Web API for creating and processing electronic signatures to and from a third party vendor using C# and JSON.
  • Created a web application for displaying bank fee revenues using C#, MVC, and Google graphing tools.
  • Integrated feature management package to allow risky, new, or incomplete features to be toggled on/off remotely in production.
  • Integrated tax research tools and documentation into existing tax application. Integrated third party logging tools.
  • Integrated with Oracle database following the Repository Pattern using LINQ and SQL.
February 2015 to December 2018

Software Developer

Convergent Media Systems

Contracted through Insight Global to develop software for Convergent.

  • Developed an MVC web application to monitor network equipment via SNMP.
  • Developed a dashboard for field technicians using jQuery, JSON, Razor (C#), and MVC to allow them to review the status of cable modems within their service group, or query those modems to review their operation.
  • Integrated a jQuery plug-in to chart network traffic through interactive graphs.
  • Developed a service layer to communicate with SQL Server to pass data to models in MVC.
  • Designed and developed tables and stored procedures to support a custom authorization solution using SQL Server.
October 2012 to January 2015

Software Developer

Infax

Designed and developed a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for sharing case (docket) information for courthouses.

  • Implemented Windows services in C# using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to provide client applications with court docket data and configuration information.
  • Created a Windows service that interfaced with a SQL Server 2008 database and maintained court docket data.
  • Created Windows services that maintained preferences for data table layout and color palettes defined using XML.
  • Created a Windows service that informed client applications if emergency notifications or advertising (images, movies, or text) should be displayed with court docket data, again defined in XML.
  • Created a client application in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for displaying docket information on high-definition television monitors.
  • Created a client application in C# using Web Forms in ASP.NET for querying and displaying docket information over the Internet.
  • Created a custom time class in C# to ensure banks of monitors could synchronize data updates, as well as paging updates.
  • Designed and developed a Web Forms application in C# to generate and review log entries whenever an advertisement (image, movie, or text) was started or stopped on any high-definition television monitor among predefined banks of monitors throughout a site.
2010 to 2012

Licensed Landscape Architect

Carlyle Rood, P.L.A.

  • Designed children’s outdoor learning garden and butterfly garden for Sope Creek Elementary School.
  • Authored Drawing Plan Graphics on the Computer.
  • Taught 2-day computer graphics workshop for graduate and undergraduate landscape architecture students at Oklahoma State University.
2007 to 2012, By Request

Designer

Edward Pinckney & Associates

Site planning and landscape design for residential, commercial, retail, and community development.

2006 to 2007

Designer

Site Solutions

Prepared plans and specifications for commercial, retail, and residential landscape design.

2005 to 2006

Designer

Roy Ashley & Associates

Site planning and landscape design for primarily residential and commercial development.

2004 to 2005

Intern

Michael Riley Design

Shadowed golf course architect during construction of Governors Towne Club in Acworth GA. Prepared computer graphics to model recommended design changes.

Summer 2003

Manager of Software Development

Homestore.com
  • Created and defined user stories to capture the users, components, activities, and interface for new tools and applications we were developing.
  • Vetted prototypes and mock-ups of prospective designs.
  • Organized and coordinated teams of developers and content providers to deliver completed work.
  • Designed and developed a suite of financial calculators for estimating mortgage payments and home affordability.
  • Developed algorithms using the Uniform Modeling Language (UML) to make calculations using the guidance of and verification by our company’s economist.
  • Wrote Active Server Pages (ASP) in VBScript that calculated form data to produce simple, graphical table and text data in HTML.
  • Developed a web application to display current weather conditions for a given city or zip code.
  • Wrote a script to regularly parse comma-delimited text files and populate a SQL Server database.
  • Developed Active Server Pages (ASP) in VBScript to retrieve data from SQL Server to display weather for a specified zip code.
  • Wrote a Perl script to regularly generate static HTML pages by calling these Active Server Pages for every known zip code.
  • Salvaged a previously developed content management application for posting articles online, correcting flaws and inefficiencies in templates and tools developed by others.
  • Rewrote templates to allow advertisers to recast our previously posted articles as a new website sponsored by those advertisers. Published a traditional-print book (The Reader’s Digest Garden Problem Solver) as a website.
  • Wrote a script in Perl to parse an exported PDF document, strip it of extraneous information, and export the relevant information as an XML document.
2000 to 2001

Software Developer

Digital Insight

Developed cash management banking applications for community banks servicing small businesses.

1999

Software Developer

Conduit Software

Developed self-service employee benefits applications for the Internet.

1998 to 1999

Software Developer

CNN / Sports Illustrated

Developed the fastest sortable sports statistics on the Internet for NHL, NCAA football and basketball.

1997 to 1998

Software Developer

ISX Corporation

Debugged an air campaign planning tool.

1996 to 1997

Education

University of Georgia

Terry College of Business

Earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Sciences & Information Technology.

1988 to 1992

Georgia Institute of Technology

College of Computing

Reached midpoint of curriculum towards a graduate degree in Computer Science.

1995 to 1996

University of Georgia

College of Environment & Design

Earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree.

2001 to 2004

Skills

Agile

Scrum Jira MS TFS Mantis Test Driven Development (TDD)

 

Programming Languages & Tools

.NET C# Visual Basic JavaScript jQuery Angular Razor Bootstrap HTML CSS MVC WCF WPF XML XSD ASP VBScript C++ Perl

 

Database

Oracle SQL Server Access MongoDB

 

Modeling & Drafting

AutoCAD Google SketchUp Adobe Photoshop Hand graphics and drafting

Interests

I enjoy collecting vintage baseball cards. My focus is on sets from the 1950s and 1970s, and vintage Braves cards (Boston, Milwaukee, Atlanta) from all eras. [ Link to Collection ]

I also enjoy cooking New Orleans cuisine.

I used to be an avid golfer, playing primarily at my home course of Atlanta Country Club; but, now I usually just walk regularly (when weather permits).

Awards & Certifications

  • Project Management Institute - Certified Agile Practitioner® (PMI-ACP) [Link to Badge]
  • Scrum Alliance - Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) [Link to Badge]
  • First Place, 2018 Coding Games at WK-Atlanta
  • Second Place, 2016 Coding Games at WK-Atlanta
  • UGA Presidential Scholar: 4 occasions; Dean’s List: 2 occasions
  • Landscape Architect, State of Georgia, License No. LA001543
  • Best New Garden, 2013 Keep Cobb Beautiful Awards: Sope Creek Elementary Learning Gardens
  • Award of Excellence, 2010 Professional Awards, Georgia Chapter of the ASLA: Drawing Plan Graphics on the Computer
  • Member, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2009-2012
  • Executive Committee, Member-at-Large, Georgia Chapter of ASLA, 2009-2010
  • Newsletter Editor & Website Chair, Georgia Chapter of ASLA, 2010-2011