David Stasinos

Software Engineer

• Develop custom desktop business applications, websites, and forms for small businesses.
  • Coordinate with company representatives to understand their business and requirements to outline application or website features and functions.
  • Create preliminary layout or UI design (wireframe) to ensure that the features and design meets their requirements.
  • Create or edit custom website content, including written content, web forms, and images. Websites created both from the ground up and from templates, depending on client needs. Perform website optimization for SEO where requested.
  • Determine the best design paradigm for a requested desktop application (C# Windows Forms, C# WPF, etc.). Determine whether an application would benefit from adding a database, and create a database where needed. Layout preliminary code-behind and class structure to meet feature specifications and code all features.
  • Coordinate with contact person to ensure that the completed application meets requirements and operates as expected. If necessary, make alterations as needed.
  • Create responsive website design using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, PHP, ASP.Net / MVC Core, or WordPress.
• Create custom, programmatically interactive PDF documents and forms. Interactive and self-calculating documents and forms incorporating JavaScript programming at document level to perform functions and calculations.

Software Engineer

• Developed custom business tools for in-house use.
  • Created a knowledge base programmed in C# over a MS Access database to search through a collection of past user issues and solutions to aid support in consistently and effectively providing fast and accurate solutions to customers.
  • Created a tool to produce multiple web pages at once using programmed templates and content from a CSV file, allowing temporary website pages to be created quickly, significantly reducing production time.
• Software product development.
  • Development of a software application to allow user input for tax form W2C. This product was developed to have no dependencies on outside software packages by saving data to XML database files, creating high resolution image reproductions of IRS forms and simultaneously sending image and text to printer.
• Use of video editor and text-to-voice software to create a series of tutorials for reducing customer support calls.
• Aid in phone, chat, and email customer technical support.

Software Developer

• Team member involved in the development, support, and enhancement of interactive State and Municipal sales and use tax Electronic Tax Reporting software.
  • Use of C# and XML to build a friendly user experience and facilitate accurate calculation and formatting of imported tax data.
  • Substantially increased the scope of available tax reporting resources.
  • Identified and addressed operational bugs in the primary application engine thus enhancing accuracy.
  • Added functionality for specific municipal returns to file programmatically in various formats.
  • Built C# entities to facilitate the conversion of tax form data to a format acceptable by individual state revenue departments (converted to XML, EDI Text, CSV).
  • Developed formulas to automate calculations on tax forms (some calculations are as much as several hundred lines in length).
  • Created “Wiki” and Runbook documentation of products and processes.
  • Worked with and trained international team members.
  • Created various test cases in order to validate operation efficiency.
• Team member involved in the development, and maintenance of interactive State and Municipal sales and use tax forms using Adobe Acrobat, programmed at document level coded in JavaScript.
• Created and assisted in the creation of various software tools to boost and enhance productivity.
• Responsible for semi-automated creation and distribution of customer database tables (Flat ASCII, Comma Delimited ASCII, and Access 2003).
• Developed detailed documentation of programming characteristics and operation of projects in the form of an on-line internal Wiki.

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