Introduction

My name is Jeff Bazinet, I'm a senior web developer specializing in custom software and web consulting using C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, JavaScript, and DHTML. My main occupation is software consulting and contracting and I have built VWD-CMS in my free time as way to publish and share some of my work.

I'm always looking for new consulting opportunities, so if you have a web development project in mind that has special requirements such as ultra flexibility, critical performance needs, large database tables, or you just want a website with super high quality code, then please contact me at to discuss it in more detail.

My Consulting Services

• Complete website design and development, start to finish.
• SQL Server database design and construction, configuration, and deployment.
• Business requirements analysis and technical specifications.
• Object-oriented programming and design.
• Database performance analysis and improvement.
• Troubleshooting and debugging - identifying and fixing tough problems.
• Application architecture - planning for flexibility and future enhancements.
• Data conversion - importing data from one format into another.
• Search engine optimization - ensuring that the site design is "SEO friendly".

I work on long-term or short-term projects, and sometimes even short trouble-shooting support requests. Just let me know what your needs are, and if I can't do it, I will try to help you find a qualified person who can.

More About Me

Education

I tend to say that I'm from Seattle, Washington because that is where I have come to feel most at home. In fact, I am originally from Connecticut. After completing high school I headed north to Syracuse, New York, where I spent my freshman year of college studying at the Syracuse University College of Aerospace Engineering. I then moved south and studied Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. After college, I started programming in Visual Basic and found that I enjoyed it and had some natural talent for designing and building software and database systems.

Microsoft

A couple of years later, I headed west to Seattle. I was very fortunate to get a contract position as a developer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on the SQL Server Team. It was exciting to be working at Microsoft and to meet the people who were responsible for building all of the development tools and database components that I had been using. During the year and a half that I contracted at Microsoft, I gained in-depth knowledge of SQL Server, improved my object-oriented programming skills, and got to be a part of Microsoft's first OLAP product, SQL Server Analysis Services version 1.0.

Boeing

My next career move was accepting a consulting contract with Boeing that was supposed to last about six months - I ended up being there for about 4 years. I helped to design and develop an automated occupational health monitoring system that is used to keep track of any hazardous elements that Boeing employees come into contact with while constucting airplanes.

These days it's hard to imagine spending 4 years building a system, but if you have worked on medical systems before, then you know that they are complicated and full of exceptions to the rules. Software to handle all of the nuances of medical practices can get really crazy - my emphasis on this project to build a system that handled very complex business rules with simple and coherent solutions so that the system would be easy to use and work on.

Nordstrom.com

The dot-com bust and September 11th made finding work in Seattle pretty tough back in 2002, but once again I got really lucky and landed a job at Nordstrom.com as a senior web developer. The funny thing about the time I spent at nordstrom.com is that I thought I was going to learn a lot about web development and I did learn a lot. But, in the end, I got deeper into SQL Server - writing highly optimized stored procedures to deal with their complex product catalog database and writing lengthy stored procedures to process the massive quantities of customer data in the data warehouse.

VWD-CMS

In January of 2007, I started working on VWD-CMS - the first prototype took about a day and half! Needless to say, the system has gotten quite a bit larger and more sophisticated since then. In order to build the Admin page for VWD-CMS, I had to get really deep into JavaScript and DHTML since that is the best way to provide really great web page functionality without forcing the user to make many round trips to the web server. As time permits I will continue to improve VWD-CMS.

Thanks for visiting the site!

Regards,

Jeff Bazinet