Richard H. Gross, MTS
8624 East 53rd Terrace • Kansas City, MO 64129 • 816.679-8974
Email: richard@richardgross.net • Find me on LinkedIn
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.Net Developer
Highlights
- Full-stack software developer with extensive .NET, C#, SQL, Oracle, Bootstrap, and JavaScript experience.
- Facilitated move from monolithic services to streamlined, easily maintained microservices with no downtime.
- Maintained existing enterprise-level .NET applications in both .NET Standard and Web Forms.
- Responsible for the design and creation of major enterprise applications using .Net Core.
Key Technologies Used
- .NET Core; ADO.NET; AJAX; ASP.NET; Bootstrap; C#; C/C++; CSS; Entity Framework; GIT; HTML5; JavaScript; jQuery UI; jQuery; JSON; LINQ; MVC; React.js; REST API; SOAP API; SQL Server; SQL; Subversion; Visual Basic.NET
Technical Training
Centriq
- Centriq, Certificate in Application Development in C#.NET; focus on software development in C#.NET through intensive boot-camp program that included C# Programming; HTML5/CSS3; Responsive Web Design; JavaScript; Model-View-Controller Design; Relational Databases & SQL; Data Manipulation; Data Architecture; Web Forms; and MVC Advanced.
Various Institutions → Technical
- Advanced C#
- Generics and Delegates in C#
- Lambda Expressions
- Events and Extension Methods in C#
- LINQ
- Asynchronous Programming in C#
- React.js
- Responsive Web Design
- Relational Database Design and SQL
- MVC Advanced
- MVC: Data Architectures
- MVC: Introduction to Data
- MVC Fundamentals
- Web Forms with Data
- C#: Collections
- .NET Core: Middleware
- .Net Core Security
- Object Oriented Programming with C#
- Learning C# Algorithms
- Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning
- Introduction to PHP and SQL
- Ellucian Live Online 2020
- Salesforce for Customer Service
Various Institutions → Soft Skills
- Remote Work Foundations
- Collaborative Leadership
- Productivity Tips: Finding Your Productive Mindset
- Cultivating Mental Agility
- Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls
- Cultivating Cultural Competence and Inclusion
- Creating a Culture of Collaboration
- Skills for Inclusive Conversations
- Time Management: Working from Home
- Managing Stress for Positive Change
- Mindful Meditations for Work and Life
- Mindfulness Practices
- The Mindful Workday
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- How to be an Adaptable Employee During Change and Uncertainty
- Nonprofit Fundraising Essentials
- Starting a Nonprofit
Salesforce Trailheads
- Create a Process for Managing Support Cases
- Impact of Unconscious Bias
- Salesforce Flow
- Salesforce Flow for Service
- Lightning App Builder
- Administrator Certification Prep: Reporting and Automation
- Apex Triggers
- Service Cloud for Lightning Experience
- Service Essentials Features
- Service Cloud Basics
- Desk.com Basics
- Quick Start: Process Builder
- Data Management
- Salesforce Platform Basics
- Rich Publisher Apps for Experience Cloud Sites
- Personalize Experience Cloud Sites with Audience Targeting
- Share CRM Data with Your Partners
- Data Modeling
- Search Basics for Experience Builder Sites
- Community Rollout Strategy
- Build an Experience Cloud Site with Knowledge and Chat
- Experience Cloud Basics
- Database & .NET Basics
- Quick Start: Aura Components
- Lightning Alternatives to JavaScript Buttons
- Lightning Experience Basics
- Trailhead Playground Management
- Trailhead Basics
Additional Education
- Master’s Degree, Sacred Theology, Ave Maria University, Naples FL; Graduated Cum Laude
- Bachelor of Arts, English, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
- (Academic Coursework for Ordination), Conception Seminary College, Conception, MO
Professional Experience
Software Developer II, Grantham University
Lenexa, KS: 02/16 - 05/21
- Collaborated on the design plan for moving from monolithic services to streamlined, easily maintained and distributed APIs.
- Created microservices that allowed seamless transition from outdated monolithic services with no downtime.
- Maintaining and developing enterprise-level .NET applications in both MVC and Web Forms.
- Designed and developed a new MVC application that coordinates data from multiple sources and generates PDF records for government compliance purposes.
- Designed and developed a new MVC/API application to record incoming and outgoing text messages and archive that information in student’s record.
- Designed and developed a Web Forms application to automate the migration of data from one FAQ system to another using APIs.
- Designed and developed a Salesforce-base ticketing system used by all university departments for issue and student tracking.
- Designed and developed a student facing application to summarize a student’s degree work and show classes remaining, class options, earned grades and estimated time to degree completion based on the individual’s past work.
- Created extensive integrations with the university’s Banner (Oracle) database and multiple in-house SQL databases.
- Mentored junior developers.
- Worked closely with business to deliver needed software features in a timely, efficient manner.
- Worked with fellow IT teams to coordinate delivery of new applications.
- Collaborated with other developers on the design and scoping of all projects using Agile methodology.
- Consistently maintained lowest ticket response times from initial creation to final resolution.
Webmaster, Stained Glass Association of America
Kansas City, MO: 1995-2015
- Designed and created original Stained Glass Association of America website in early 1996.
- Developed original website into suite of five websites for different branches of Association.
- Developed e-commerce and online ordering for SGAA publications and products.
- Created secure online registration portal for annual conference registration.
- Created secure online registration portal for online membership registration.
- Ensured continuous access and maintenance for five Association websites as Webmaster.
- Ensured timely and accurate website updates of new material for each publication interval.
- Strengthened website security against ongoing cyberthreat vectors.
- Designed and built sites to accommodate users with disabilities or using assistive technologies.
- Worked with SGAA officers, committee members, and general membership to create relevant, timely content for the industry.
- • Created online editions of the association’s annual trade publication, the Sourcebook.
Deacon Richard H. Gross,MTS
8624 East 53rd Terrace
Kansas City, MO 64129
