Anthony Frey Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wi, Us

Founder and principal consultant of Devera, LLC. Lead the growth and development of a custom software development and consulting firm focused on Next-Era Development practices and technologies. Responsible for project engagements, account management, and client relationships. Devera builds successful software projects based on the convergence of three leading-edge principles in software production: Containers, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps.

As Director of Technology Services I lead the strategic direction of our technology practice. My mission is to harness the cloud computing, big data, and agile forces that are reshaping the technology landscape to provide solutions that meet our client's strategic goals and drive their business forward.

Madison, Wi

Independent consultant with 20 years of experience providing information sharing and data integration services. Specialized in architecting lightweight enterprise-class integration solutions for cloud based environments. Specific domain knowledge in the justice, law enforcement, and insurance industries. Communicate directly with clients and stakeholders at all levels, including management, business users, developers and technology staff to ensure commitments are kept and projects are successful. Active research agenda includes unstructured information stores (key-value and native XML databases), declarative/functional data languages (XQuery, XSLT, JavaScript), event driven architectures (EDA), complex event processing (CEP) and multi-tenant services.

Madison, Wi

• Managed DOT eCitation application for the automatic routing of citations for law enforcement agencies in the state of Wisconsin.• Scaled production server environment to handle over 70,000 messages per month.• Created statewide standards and systems for the secure exchange of data between various law enforcement agencies.• Designed exchange documents (XML schemas) using industry standard data models (GJXDM, NIEM).• Designed message exchange patterns and workflow processes to support distributed applications.• Interfaced with development and management staff from state and county agencies on integration projects.• Managed integration projects from design through development, testing, and production.• Wrote numerous XQuery applications using open-source eXist XML database to parse, generate, and manipulate XML documents and messages.

Madison, Wi

• Architecture of LDAP directory tree structure for OpenLDAP• Implementing Java wrapper classes to access LDAP environment via a secure protocol• Performing installation, setup, and administration of OpenLDAP server in Test, QA and Production environments• Implementing HTTPS protocol for OpenLDAP server• Implementing standard analysis, programming, and testing techniques across systems

Sun Prairie, Wi

• Designed and developed legacy integration system for personal lines insurance quoting service.• Develop and implement migration plan from legacy application servers to WebSphere 6.1.• Develop migration strategy from legacy IP socket communication to SOAP service based architecture.• Advise and recommend WebSphere 6.1 clustering strategy for scaling existing SOA services.• Advise and recommend WebSphere 6.1 High-Availability strategy.

Madison, Wi

• Develop systems monitoring and management application for JBoss and WebSphere High-Availability environment.• Develop systems integration for automatic workload switching of WebSphere High-Availability clusters.• Support, configure and maintain multi-cell High-Availability WebSphere 5.1 Application Server environment.• Troubleshoot and debug JBoss and WebSphere application server issues.

Madison, Wi

• Designed and developed SOAP web services for integration with multiple call center IVR systems.• Designed and developed a JMS/MQSeries messaging library for integration with OS/390 Cobol data files.• Developed J2EE based web application for customer service representative call center.

Madison, Wi

• Designed and developed distributed applications for agency-to-agency system integration using the STEP messaging technology.• Designed exchange documents (XML DTDs) and workflow processes to support distributed applications.• Worked closely with development and management staff from state and county agencies on integration projects. Managed integration projects from design through development, testing, and production.• Wrote numerous Java/JDBC/JMS applications to import and export case information from the court system's 70 distributed Sybase databases. Wrote numerous Java applications using open-source Xerces and JDOM to parse, generate, and manipulate XML documents and objects.• Scaled production server environment from one to five+ servers handling over 3 million messages per month.• Managed production environment of 50+ active clients and servers.

Madison, Wi

• Managed www.thedailypage.com website. Maintained and developed site's Perl CGIs and dynamic content.• Developed website's database driven event-listing guide. Designed the site's next-generation architecture: successfully transitioned the site from large Perl CGIs to modular Java Servlets and PHP pages.• Designed and Developed Java Servlet based corporate Intranet. Built complete Apache/JServ/JSP/EJB installation for development and production.• Managed multi-server Linux network, including all common Internet services, e.g. SMTP (Sendmail), DNS (BIND), Web (Apache), LDAP (OpenLDAP), file sharing (NFS and Samba), and firewalling.• Managed network of NetWare SFTIII 4.11 and Linux systems.• Deployed and managed NetWare ZenWorks for site's 50-node network.• Developed Perl scripts for classified ad production, extraction, and reformatting for publication.

Manhasset, Ny

• Designed and developed software for testing CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), database, messaging, and Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP) type middleware products.• Tested middleware products on multiple network technologies including Ethernet, ATM, Frame-Relay, and dial-up.• Supported database testing requirements for other technology editors. Performed multiple server Oracle database administration on Network Computing's nationwide Frame-Relay test WAN.• Frequently reconfigured the database for different software products, including reconfiguring tablespaces, disk partitions, memory sizing, performance bottlenecks, and user access.• Routinely installed and configured software products on many different operating systems versions and hardware, including Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, Sparc, PPA, and S800 RISC architectures.• Worked with enterprise level hardware, SCSI disk and tape subsystems. Used a wide range of network equipment and technology in an enterprise environment, including Ethernet switched and routed, ATM, ISDN, Frame Relay, DSL, etc.• Actively covered middleware and database markets as part of assigned "beat." Interviewed industry leading people and vendors on products and technologies.

Baraboo, Wi

• Implemented Oracle v7 based Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Customized the application and managed the process of integrating it into the workflow of the laboratory.• Used SQL*Forms to customize, improve, and resolve problems with packaged reports and forms.• Administered Oracle v7 and Informix OnLine v5 database systems.• Maintained and integrated Intergraph GIS system with local groundwater data.• Worked with sampling database that relied heavily on post-processing to extract data for laboratory instrument reports.• Designed and installed local Ethernet TCP/IP network. Designed campus and wide-area network.

Edinburgh, Scotland

• Developed a genetic algorithm technique for parallel data mining of very large databases.• Developed parallel programs on MIMD and SIMD parallel architectures using message passing techniques.