Bill Hatfield

MCT, MCSD (Microsoft Certified Trainer and Solution Developer)

317-670-4001

 billhatfield@edgequest.com

9501 Constellation Drive

Pendleton, IN 46064

Summary

My core strength is communicating complex technical information in a way that is easily understood, quickly absorbed and readily put to use. I do this in a variety of ways:

  • Internationally bestselling author of numerous books on programming including ASP.NET For Dummies, Visual InterDev For Dummies and Developing PowerBuilder Applications
  • Over 18 years of IT industry experience including over 15 years as an instructor, instructional designer and author
  • Extensive experience training certified courses from Microsoft and Powersoft
  • Instructional Designer, Course Developer and Presenter:
    • Many eLearning courses including video training for Avanade and for CareerAcademy.com
    • Live training courses on XML and distributed application development
  • Lecturer and conference presenter
  • IT Architect, Systems Analyst and Developer with deep technical expertise in Microsoft development technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, SOA with WCF, SQL Server and XML

Trainer and Instructional Designer

 

Bestselling Author

·         ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies (Wiley)

·         Active Server Pages For Dummies (Second Edition, Wiley)

·         Visual InterDev For Dummies (Wiley)

·         Windows XP in 10 Easy Steps or Less (Wiley)

·         Creating Cool VBScript Web Pages (Wiley)

·         Developing PowerBuilder Applications (Fourth Edition, SAMS)

o    The first book published on PowerBuilder

o   International bestseller for many months

·         Co-author of other books, including: ASP.NET Professional Secrets (Wiley), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley) and Visual Basic 4 Unleashed (SAMS)

Corporate Instructor and Conference Presenter

·         Microsoft Certified developer courses as far back as Visual Basic 5.0 (Independent Consultant; New Horizons, Indianapolis; New Media, Inc., Cleveland, OH; TASC, Dayton, OH)

·         Four-day, developer-oriented XML course that I created – Presented throughout the United States for clients including Dell, Nortel, Informix and many others (Progressive Solutions, Boston)

·         Conference session presenter at Deeper .NET and several ASP/XML Connections conferences

·         Invited lecturer for the International .NET Association’s Speaker’s Bureau

·         Powersoft Certified PowerBuilder courses (Independent Consultant; New Media, Inc., Cleveland, OH; TASC, Dayton, OH)

Instructional Design/Development: Video and Web-Based eLearning

·         Created a comprehensive 40-hour course on Avanade’s ACA Analytics, an internal asset used to accelerate development on Business Intelligence projects; Combined live video training with slides, Camtasia demos and extensive lab work (Avanade, Seattle)

·         Created a 10-hour course on Avanade’s ACA.NET, an internal asset used to generate repetitive code for Service-Oriented Applications (SOA) built on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework; Utilized Articulate and Camtasia (Avanade, Seattle)

·         Created and presented four separate 10-hour video training courses on Windows and Web development with Visual Studio 2005 (CareerAcademy.com, Needham, MA); A link to one of the four courses: http://www.careeracademy.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=88

·         Coordinated and moderated the Microsoft Technology Webcast Series at Avanade; Each presentation was dedicated to a specific technology and brought together a Microsoft expert with the Avanade executive overseeing the technology to explore both the technology itself and Avanade’s approach

·         Designed and presented the Developer Discover webcasts series for Pinnacle Publishing; Each was a 90-minute drill-down on a key technology followed by a live questions and answer session

·         Created and presented self-paced eLearning course for DevX.com using Camtasia

Instructional Design/Development: Live Corporate Training

·         Created a four-day XML course that integrated concise lectures with practical hands-on lab work to teach XML and the key technologies surrounding it including XML Schema, XSLT and DOM (Progressive Solutions)

·         Authored two four-day courses on client/server development Courses teach experienced developers client/server development techniques using Visual Basic and Borland’s Delphi (Technology Exchange Company)

Professional Journal Editor

·         Acted as Editor for several monthly professional journals for developers from Pinnacle Publishing; I set the editorial direction and focus, solicited and accepted articles from industry experts, edited the articles and submitted them for publishing

·         Over more than a decade, I edited five different journals: Visual Studio .NET Developer, Hardcore C#, Hardcore ASP.NET, Hardcore Delphi and PowerSource

 

Software Architect, Systems Analyst and Developer

 

·         Acted as Chief Architect for a nationally distributed, thin-client database repository system; Encapsulated complex Masterkeying mathematical hierarchies used to track the keys and cores installed at client's sites (Best Access Systems, Indianapolis, IN)

·         Spearheaded a complete Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D) effort using the Booch Methodology (before UML was completed) for a large-scale, nationally-distributed sales/marketing system; It allowed sites to minimize inventory through just-in-time purchasing and inventory sharing  (Zimmer, Warsaw, IN)

·         Designed and developed an intranet/extranet system for tracking health insurance/medical savings accounts for employers as an alternative to costly health plan coverage; Tracked member accounts, employer information, insurer policies and broker information  (HealthMatch, Indianapolis, IN)

·         Engaged as expert consultant, technical advisor and mentor for several multi-million dollar projects for the State of Ohio and other clients (TASC, Dayton, OH)

·         Conducted analysis, design and development of three key business workflow/CMS applications leveraging ASP, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange workflow API (Cybo Robots, Indianapolis, IN)

o   Bug and Enhancement Tracking System (BETS) - A workflow system to rout bug reports and enhancement requests from users and testers to a Software Review Board and then on to different engineers for analysis, design and implementation and finally to the testing team

o   Sales And Lead Tracking (SALT) – Specialized Contact Management System (CMS) custom developed to store and tracks sales leads and contact history and generate management reports on key project status; Designed for distributed Web access through a secure extranet

o   Purchase Order Workflow (POW) – Automates the entry and conditional multi-stage workflow of purchase orders among departments

·         Analyzed, designed and developed a specialized manufacturing Production Control system; Balanced Master Schedule/component requirements against Shop Order receipts; Also developed a Labor Log statistics tracking system for time studies, job performance and training schedules; Created an innovative UI for entry/edit of product usage relationships in an intuitive, visual hierarchy (AcraLine Products, Tipton, IN)

·         Designed and developed a highly customized document management system to track individual leases for each of the stores in over 400 malls nationwide (Mel Simon and Associates)

·         Developed a complete property tax payment system including entry of bills, tracking of assessments and levies, the production of check requests and all associated reports  (GTE, Indianapolis, IN)

·         Worked as consultant, technical advisor and mentor for a variety of multi-million dollar projects for the State of Ohio and other clients. For two separate clients, evaluated a variety of development platforms and made recommendations best based on specific client needs.  (TASC, Dayton, OH)