Senior Microsoft C# Software Developer Position Available In Nassau, Florida

⚐ ⚑ ⚑ Senior Microsoft C# Software Developer (Telecommuting) compensation: Please tell us how much per hour you are looking for We seek a part

• or full-time software developer who is highly experienced in Microsoft C# / .

Net. You should have a minimum of ten years of software development experience and a minimum of five years of experience developing in C#. Our need is immediate. Since this is a telecommuting position, you can be located anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. 1. About Us makes money by processing mass tort legal cases, such as . We primarily pursue case types which are in settlement mode, thus substantially reducing risk. We have developed proprietary, world class AI and data mining techniques to identify prospects who have viable claims, and thus our Customer Acquisition Costs (“CAC”) are $300 per valid case, as compared with $5,250 for a Roundup case or more than $100,000 (!) for a mesothelioma case. We only undertake case types and cases where it is clear that the defendant/manufacturer has engaged in outrageous conduct, and we seek to obtain as favorable a settlement as possible for our clients. Our management team includes individuals who have co-founded a successful mass tort law firm (“MTLF”); an attorney who has negotiated the settlement of numerous mass tort case types with settlements substantially in excess of what most law firms achieved; a data scientist who studied statistics and data mining as a graduate student at Harvard University; a medical coding professional with over 20 years of experience; and an information technology professional who has spoken at national conferences and has co-authored a published by Microsoft Press.. Some people have asked us if they can defer their salary if exchange for a piece of the pie. Since we are open to such arrangements, we have included a lot of material concerning the profitability of the business. If that does not interest you, we are also open to traditional compensation arrangements. 2. Compensation We are flexible about compensation. One possibility is paying $X an hour for your time. Alternatively, because of the lucrative nature of our business, in the past some people have asked if we are open to more entrepreneurial approaches, in which they end up making a lot more money per hour. That’s fine with us, and because of this possibility, we have included some information about our business. 3. Mass Torts “Mass torts” are product liability claims against pharmaceutical, medical device, and toxic substance manufacturers. We only bring claims against exceptionally large and profitable product manufacturers, and never against individuals, physicians, or hospitals. (When was asked why he robbed banks, he replied “Because that’s where the money is.”) We focus primarily on case types that are in “settlement mode”

• i.e., the defendant/manufacturer has suffered so many adverse verdicts that it has decided to throw in the towel and has set aside several billion dollars
• or in the case of Monsanto and J&J, more than $10 billion each
• to settle those claims. Currently we are pursuing five case types: Roundup, mesothelioma, hernia mesh, sexual abuse, and NEC infant formula cases. 4. Our Business Strategy There are three elements to our business strategy: “Come Late to the Party”
• We focus on case types where the manufacturer has decided to settle. Sign up a Diversified Portfolio of Case Types
• We diversify the case types we sign up cases for. Utilize a Vastly Superior Method of Generating Cases
• Many MTLFs have lost money by choosing lead brokers who delivered bad leads. As noted in Section 9, we have several methods of determining up front if a case is valid, so we do not have this problem. 5. The Attraction of Mass Torts We are attracted to the mass tort business for several reasons: The business is quite lucrative. Done the conventional way
• i.e., obtaining cases through traditional marketing channels
• operating margins exceed 80 percent. With our AI and data mining techniques (see Section 9), our operating margins exceed 95 percent. (!) Remarkably little law is involved in processing mass tort settlements. The fewer lawyers we have working for us, the happier we are
• attorneys are expensive and they’re a pain in the neck to manage.

To us, the best law firm has no lawyers. Processing mass tort cases for settlement lends itself to systemization of processes and computerization, something we are quite good at. After a prospect has signed a Client Engagement Agreement, we can turn the case over to a legal process outsourcing (“LPO”) firm which will process the case through settlement and collection and disbursement of funds. Such firms are willing to defer their fees until the case turns into money. (See Section 7.) If we follow the three key business strategies listed in Section Error! Bookmark not defined., the risk is exceptionally low relative to return. 6. Historical Case Types Listed below are several historical mass tort case types

• i.e., in the past they were “hot” but are no longer suitable for new cases
• and the fees per case that they generated.

In order to be conservative, attorneys’ fees are calculated based on a one-third contingency fee, even though most MTLFs (including us) charge 40 percent. Actos Diabetes drug that causes bladder cancer Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Takeda Pharmaceutical Total value of 2015 settlement

• $2.3 billion Average settlement value
• $175,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $61,250 Avandia Diabetes drug which caused heart attacks, heart failure and death Defendant /

Manufacturer:

GlaxoSmithKline Average settlement value

• $266,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $88,880 DePuy Artificial Hips Defective artificial hip Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Johnson & Johnson Total settlement in 2013

• $4 billion Average settlement value
• $182,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $63,700 Drug Eluting Stents Used to treat coronary artery disease. They are designed to release drugs that prevent the arteries from becoming blocked again after the stent is implanted. These stents can cause blood clots and subsequent heart attacks. Average settlement value
• $300,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $100,000 Fen-Phen Anti-obesity drug that caused fatal pulmonary hypertension and heart valve problems Manufacturer /

Defendant:

Wyeth Total value of 1999 settlement

• $3.75 billion Average settlement
• $150,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $52,500 Praxada Blood thinner which causes excessive bleeding Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Boehringer Ingelheim Total settlement in 2014

• $650 million Average settlement value
• $182,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $63,700 Rezulin Diabetes drug that causes hepatitis Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Parker-Davis Total value of 2002 settlement

• $995 million Average settlement value
• $150,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $52,500 Sulzer Defective Hip Implants Defective artificial hip Manufacturer /

Defendant:

Sulzer Orthopedics Total value of 2002 settlement

• $1 billion Average settlement value
• $147,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $51,450 Vioxx Caused heart attacks in men Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Merck Total value of 2007 settlement

• $4.85 billion Average settlement value
• $225,000 Average attorneys’ fees
• $78,750 Yaz / Yasmin Birth control bill that caused blood clots in women Defendant /

Manufacturer:

Bayer Total settlement value in 2012

• More than $3.2 billion Average attorneys’ fees
• $73,500 7. LPO Firms There are approximately 30 legal process outsourcing (“LPO”) firms which will process the case from “soup to nuts”
• i.

e., once a client is signed up, they will perform all of the remaining tasks, through settlement and collection and disbursement of the settlement. These firms are willing to defer their fees until settlement funds are collected, which substantially improves our cash flow. Since they collect the settlement funds, the first payment they make is to themselves, for their deferred fees plus interest. Such firms include and . 8. DC Law Firms Some of us are not attorneys. The District of Columbus permits non-lawyers to own and manage law firms, so we always form our law firms in DC. (In case you are interested, see .) 9. AI and Data Mining Techniques We have discovered and developed proprietary, highly effective AI and data mining technologies to generate high value mass torts legal cases from various databases. Except for our captive law firms, MTLFs spend several thousands of dollars to obtain a valid case

• e.

g., Roundup cases cost approximately $5,250, and mesothelioma cases cost in excess of $100,000. Many of the cases acquired are of low value, in that the bodily harm suffered by the injured party is insignificant. This leads to a low settlement, since settlement values are to a substantial extent ae based on the severity of the injury. We can focus solely on obtaining high value cases, such as permanent disability and wrongful death. These data mining techniques have been used for more than 25 years for a completely different purpose, and thus we know the technology works. Paragon is simply using these techniques for a different purpose, namely, to obtain mass tort clients. Our techniques comply with all federal and state medical data privacy laws, including HIPAA. There is no other company in the world that is able to generate on a consistent basis mass tort clients using any AI or data mining technology. Our techniques allow us to reach prospects who will not respond to other marketing channels, such as television and Facebook ads. Anecdotal evidence for historical case types (which have been settled years ago and thus are no longer valid claims) indicate that six out of seven people who could file a claim (i.e., they meet all of the settlement criteria which were negotiated with the defendant/manufacturer) do not in fact do so. Our outbound telemarketing allows us to reach those 86 percent that will never respond to any advertising, no matter how many tens of millions of dollars in advertising are spent by MTLFs. Here is an analogy we use. Imagine there are two bodies of water: a small pond and an ocean larger than the Pacific. In the pond there are hundreds of fishing boats (law firms looking for mass tort clients) and as a result, the pond is overfished (it’s difficult to find valid mass tort cases). As for the ocean, there is only one fishing boat (our law firm) and there are zillions of fish, each one of which can be caught at almost no cost. Once the data are obtained and written to a Salesforce CRM system, we have several proprietary AI techniques to enhance the effectiveness of the data and to identify the most viable prospects. 10. The Information Systems We are Developing We will be storing data in two

RDBMSs:

(i) Salesforce’s RDBMS (which is based on the Oracle RDBMS, but SF s the complexities of Oracle from you) and (ii) Microsoft SQL Server (we use ). We will be developing seven information systems, all of which read data from, and write data to, these two databases. 1. Case Transfer & Lookup System (“CTLS”)

• We purchase data from data aggregators, and the data are delivered in an Excel file.

CTLS reads the data from this Excel file and writes it to

CPS. CTLS

then goes through a complicated process to legally reidentify the Protected Health Information (“PHI”), including matching certain data columns with a non-medical database. Finally, using API calls CTLS accesses certain people lookup systems to obtain any missing contact information, such as telephone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses. CTLS is written in Microsoft Access. 2. Case Management & Administration System (“CMAS”)

• Once CTLS writes the data to

CPS, CMAS

is used by our Sales Manager to assign various prospects to various telemarketers. This system is also written in Access. 3. Case Prospecting System (“CPS”)

• We license Salesforce’s Sales Cloud SaaS and using the Salesforce Platform, extensively modify it to make it more suitable for cold calling mass tort prospects. 4. Case Management System (“CMS”)
• Once a sale has been made by a telemarketer, it is ged in CPS accordingly. CMS reads the data from CPS and then writes such data to our SQL Server database. CMS then prepares a Client Engagement Agreement (“CEA”) and HIPAA Authorization Form to send to the prospect. CMS is written in Access. 5. Case Folders Operations System (“CFOS”)
• This system prepares a standardized set of folders on our file server for each new client we sign up. When CMS prepares a CEA, for example, the CEA it creates is saved in one of the folders created by CFOS. This system is written in .Net / C#. 6. Initial Documents Receiving System (“IDRS”)
• When a prospect returns a signed CEA to us, the CEA is scanned and stored on a particular folder (one that had been created by CFOS).

It also sends an email to the telemarketer, notifying him that the CEA has been returned and informing them of the date they will receive their commission, and in

CPS IDRS

s that the CEA has been returned. This system is written in .Net and C#. 7. Case Reporting System (“CRS”)

• Once a week the LPO firm sends us an Excel file with updates on all of the cases it is processing on behalf of our law firms.

CRS reads this Excel file and writes the data to our SQL Server database. We can then use CRS to run various reports. We have this reporting system because the reporting systems provided to law firms by the major LPO companies are not as flexible as we would like, so we just want them to give us the raw data and then we will prepare our own reports. This system will be written in Access or . For Phase I, we want to do the absolute minimum necessary to start signing up mass tort clients, what venture capitalists call a (“MVP”). For us, MVP is systems 1 and 3 and a very skeletal system 2. Once we have a certain number of cases signed up, we can borrow against them, and then we will finish system 2, continue to enhance systems 1 and 2, and write systems 4 through 7. Until that happens, the steps accomplished by systems 4 through 7 will be accomplished manually. System 3 is a SaaS app, written using Salesforce’s software development tools (which SF now calls “Salesforce Platform” (“SP”) and which used to be called “Lighting”). We are normally not a big fan of most Web development tools, but SP is different

• the tools are remarkably powerful in terms of developer productivity, even more time efficient than Access and .

(By ” ” we mean the following: you give the developer a detailed technical specification, and how quickly can the programmer develop the system? You then give him a list of 25 changes, and how quickly can he make them?) The other six systems are Windows apps rather than Web apps. We find Microsoft’s software development tools for Windows apps to be about 3 to 5 times faster (in terms of development time) than the best regarded Web development tools such as or the . In our not-so-humble opinion, for anything that is non-trivial Web development is almost always a , while developing a Windows app in Access or Power BI is so incredibly straightforward. Some will argue that Web apps are superior because they can (supposedly) run on any device, while Windows apps can only run on Windows computers. First, the statement that “Web apps can run on anything” needs careful examination. Even in 2025, there are ridiculous incompatibilities between the major Web browser (Chrome, IE, Edge, Firebox and Safari), so you have to test for all of these browsers and sometimes write slightly different code depending on which browser the user is using. Second, the same browser is sometimes slightly different depending on the device it is running on. Third, different versions of the same browser are sometimes incompatible with each other. Finally, the UI for an app running on a smart phone is quite different than one running on a computer with a 27-inch screen.

As for Windows apps:

for the foreseeable future, our desktop computers will be running Windows Desktop, and we will standardize on the PC our employees use, as well as the monitors that are attached. Microsoft does a remarkable job of preserving compatibility in different versions of Windows

• e.

g., we have a old app that was written for Windows 3.1 and it runs just fine on Windows Eleven. In 2025, a lot of criticisms of Microsoft are based on very old information (e.g., it’s been at least 20 years since Windows was unstable, and at least a decade when Window’s security was inferior). 11. Microsoft SQL Server Most of our data is stored in Microsoft SQL, and it’s essential you are proficient in MS SQL. At a minimum, you should understand: Creating a new database Adding columns to a database Creating default values for a column Defining relationships between various tables (such as one-to-many) Creating Views Writing parameterized queries Writing SQL, including Select, Insert, Update and Delete Writing stored procedures Writing user-defined functions Writing triggers Handling transaction (Begin, Commit and Rollback) and ensuring ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) Handling primary and foreign keys Excellent familiarity with SQL Management Studio We realize this list is fairly basic. 12. Job Responsibilities Your job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: Writing “Case Folders Operations System” Writing “Initial Documents Receiving System” 13. Donald Knuth We are big fans of , emeritus professor of computer science at Stanford, who holds the official title of “The Best Programmer in the Universe.” Knuth is the author of and . Our two most Knuth quotes are “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute” and “Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.” If you work with us, we will ask that you make your code as readable as possible. We are big fans of . Bottom line, we like code that is clear and obvious as to what it is doing.

One standard we use:

“If I were hit by a bus today, and some poor guy has to start reading my code tomorrow, how quickly could he understand it?” 14. Steve McConnell’s Code Complete 2 We are also fans of , the best book on software construction. McConnell read several thousand academic research papers and incorporated whatever was worthwhile into one book, thus saving you having to spend several years reading all of those boring papers. (A fate worse than death.) Here’s one of our McConnell examples. Assume you want to loop through every month for a 10-year period. If you were programming in VBA, you probably would write something like this: For I = 1 to 10 For J = 1 to 12 (code) Next J Next I McConnell argues that the following is preferable: For Year = 2010 to 2019 For Month = January to December (code) Next Month Next Year In terms of instantly understanding what the code is supposed to do, isn’t the second example preferable, as even a non-programmer could quickly figure out its purpose? If you work with us, we’ll purchase you a copy of Code Complete 2 for you and we will ask that you read it and incorporate its teachings into your work. For VBA programming, we also like by . Since VBA is similar to VB 6, Foxall’s book is quite useful for VBA coding. 15. Code Samples In our questions (see Section 21), we ask you to send us some code samples Things we will look at include: At the beginning of the module/procedure, is there a good description of what is going on? Are there intelligent comments throughout the code? Do the module/procedure and variable names make sense? Do the names clearly indicate their purpose? (As brilliant as Atwood is, he gets it wrong on this issue, as tabs make more sense than spaces.) Have you used the right statements? For example, if you are writing VBA code, have you used a Select Case statement rather than a super complicated If Then Else statement? If the same code appears several times in the code base, have you created a separate procedure and then just called the procedure? We acknowledge there are rather basic criteria, but you’d be surprised at some of the code samples we have seen. 16. Documentation We are a great believer in documenting our week. We are constantly asking ourselves, “If we got hit by a bus, how quickly could the new guy get up to speed?” 17. Intellectual Curiosity / Professional Development We seek to hire individuals with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, people who love learning for learning’s sake, people who are avid readers. Ceteris paribus, people who invest in themselves through systemic professional development will, over time, be more productive than those who don’t, and if an employee is more productive, we’ll pay him or her more and promote them faster. If you’re interested in which blogs our CEO reads, . 18. Being Available and Reachable We like people who are easy to reach, return telephone calls quickly, and are good at responding to text messages and emails. For those who are busy, offers us a partial solution. For those unfamiliar with this SaaS application, Calendly is a scheduling automation platform that eliminates the back-and-forth emails to find a suitable for meetings and appointments. It streamlines the process by allowing you to your availability and let others book appointments with ease. (To schedule a telephone appointment with our CEO, you can use .) Thus, we can schedule a telephone appointment to speak with you, rather than emailing back and forth as to when a good time to call you is. is free forever (or at least until they change their mind, after they have roped in 100 million users). 19. David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” Time Management Methodology We are devout followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (“GTD”) time management and personal productivity system. Using it, our minds are almost always free of worry, and we are totally in the moment, what Allen calls “mind like water” or “in the zone.” If you’re intrigued, we suggest you start with an our CEO wrote, and then watch Allen’s . After then, we recommend that you purchase the second edition (2015) of his first book, which is called . 20. When Your Respond If you are interested, please answer the questions below and email us your responses. Alternatively, you can see the email to write to at . (Craigslist prevents us from displaying our email in job ads.) Please include our questions and your answers when you respond, so we know which question you are answering. In the subject line of your email, please include “I have answered all of your questions.” We will respond to everyone who writes to us and answers our questions. Thanks! 21. Questions to Answer 1. Your full name 2. All of your telephone numbers 3. Which telephone number do you prefer? 4. Hours and days in which we can telephone you 5. Your email address 6. Where do you live? Resume 7. Please attach your resume or CV. 8. Please provide the URL of your LinkedIn profile. (That means we can cut and paste the link you provide us, and your profile will pop up.) Your Availability 9. How soon can you start? 10. How many hours a week can you provide? 11. Do you have any travel plans in the next six months? 12. As noted in Section 18, we are seeking a web designer who is easy to reach

• you return telephone quickly, you respond to texts, and you are on-time for scheduled appointments.

Will you be available to meet our expectations? Compensation Expectations 13. How much per hour are you looking for? 14. As noted in Section 2, we are also open to a more entrepreneurial compensation plan. How much does that interest you if you could make a lot more money per hour? Software Development Experience 15. For how many years have you been a professional software developer? 16. How many years of software development experience do you have developing in C#? 17. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you know C#? 18. Looking at the list in Section 11, is there anything you do not already know how to do in SQL Server? 19. On a scale of 1 to 10, how good are you are in programming Microsoft Access? 20. On a scale of 1 to 10, how good are you are in programming in the Salesforce Platform (fka as Force.com)?

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