Edward H. Ferking III

• Refactored and rewrote multiple internal business applications, modernizing legacy codebases and improving maintainability.
• Delivered full-stack solutions using Vue, TypeScript, Node.js, C#, MySQL, and SQL Server.
• Collaborated onsite with a cross-functional Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, code reviews, and iterative delivery.

Retained as independent consultant post-employment - ongoing contract work continues alongside current role.

• Co-developed and maintained an enterprise intranet and extranet serving 10,000+ users, built with C#, Angular, Vue, VB.NET, and SQL Server.
• Led a complete overhaul of a legacy ASP.NET / VB.NET application spanning 200+ web forms, improving UX and reducing technical debt.
• Provisioned and managed high-availability web servers and applications at 99.999% uptime.
• Authored, tested, and deployed data and schema conversion scripts for high-availability SQL Server databases.
• Delivered projects using Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD pipelines in a fully remote Agile environment.
• Technologies: VB.NET, C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Angular, Vue, TypeScript, SQL Server, SSRS, ActiveReports, Jira, Azure DevOps.

Primary focus 1995-2020; continued as an active consulting practice, running concurrently with full-time employment.

• Founded and operated a software consultancy for 25+ years, delivering custom solutions across telemarketing, insurance, financial, industrial, and retail sectors.
• Designed and managed a telemarketing operations platform - handling lead management, sales, order fulfillment, and debt collection - with a database exceeding 100 million records.
• Built a crude oil shipment tracking application for a large refinery using WinForms and SQL Server, featuring offline data collection on tanker trucks with cellular sync and full integration with billing and reporting systems.
• Architected a web-based refinery reporting tool with cell-level Excel rendering in a browser, role-based access control, FTP / SSIS integrations, and third-party system automation.
• Guided a desktop insurance application through three full lifecycle rewrites - from Microsoft Access to Visual Basic / SQL Server to .NET WinForms.
• Configured and managed Windows infrastructure: file, web, mail, database, and surveillance servers across client environments.
• Technologies: VB.NET, C#, WinForms, ASP.NET, VBA, SQL Server, SSIS, Firebird, SharePoint, DevExpress, Infragistics, Telerik.

• Migrated an Access split database to a SQL Server backend while preserving the Access front end.
• Developed stored procedures, views, functions, and data conversion scripts; performed ad-hoc data analysis.

• Led technical development efforts on insurance software systems; coordinated with cross-functional teams on requirements and delivery.

• Designed and developed web and desktop applications in an early-internet environment, building foundational expertise across the full stack.