Agnes Chen Email & Phone Number

NIST Gaithersburg Campus

• Ms. Chen serves as the lead J2EE Developer to provide Operations and Maintenance support to the financial and grants applications for the Business Systems Division (BSD) in the National Institute of Standards and.
• Design and upgrade the Web Service integration between NIST and Grants.gov grant applications to meet the latest integration requirements, using technologies/tools like J2EE, Web Service, SOAP, ANT, Oracle WebLogic.
• Design and implement the SOA integration between DOC WebDocFlow and NIST grant application in order to replace the legacy manual processes;
• Migrate the legacy grants applications to utilize the latest versions of the technologies (J2EE, JAXB 2.x, Web Service) using JDeveloper, TOAD, Citrix, PVCS, SSH tunneling;
• Work closely with clients to gather requirements, conduct high level functional & technial design, identify project's level of effort to provide Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates;
• Provide immediate and solid support to the NIST grant related applications; work on all phases of software development activities; create well-formatted documentation;

Rockville, MD

• Provides leadership and technical support in implementing the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration platform for the E-Gov travel systems, J.P.Morgan Travel Card system, and all three Oracle Financial systems.
• Research various JBoss and Oracle SOA integration & data transformation technologies and conduct prototyping to determinate the choice of technologies to be used for the ETS2 SOA integration;
• Manage and guide the developers and Redhat consultants to develop Prove of Concept (POC) for the ETS2 data lookup and data transformation Web Services (both SOAP and RESTFUL) implementation, using JBoss ESB service.
• Design and guide the developers to develop the ETS2 integration XML schema and database schema and create prototype to determine the data persistence technologies to be used;

• In the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Social Security Number (SSN) Reduction/Elimination Project, Ms. Chen serves as the core technical resource to design and create the Web-based SSN Survey Tool and Reporting.
• Develop the Web-based SSN Survey Tool in four iterations of the development life cycle, using J2EE portal framework (Struts+Hibernate), JSP, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, MySQL and etc.
• Review technical requirements and complete the data modeling and database schema design with 100+ tables; create the DB E-R diagram using the MS Visio Pro Reverse-engineering technology.
• As the primary designer to conduct Web UI design for the SSN Survey Tool and create the functional use cases documents, using UML modeling tools and MS Office Suite.
• Effectively communicate the client to understand the technical requirements, define the work scope, provide labor effort estimate.
• As SQL Report Writer to work with the client to collect the SSN Survey Reporting Tool requirements and the change requests; design and implement the SSN Survey Reporting tool using MS SQL Server Reporting services.

Germantown, MD

As the Technical Lead in the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Grants Online (GOL) Operations & Maintenance Support Project, Ms. Chen's major accomplishment included leading the technical team to implement GOL production releases in Agile Software Development model and providing 100% on-time high-quality deliveries and achieving 100%.

Mclean, VA

Ms. Chen served as the senior technical resource on the SAGIS project (Subsidy and Grants Information system) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The SAGIS system is designed to manage the grants workflow and the subsidy allocations for HUD. Ms. Chen‘s major contributions included designing and implementing several major components.

Cary, NC

Ms. Chen severed as different leading roles (such as project manager, technical lead, core developer) in various function enhancement and customization projects for the Cash Management products for various financial institutions/banks (e.g. Wachovia, ING, ANZ, HSBC, CSOB, ABSA, PROSA etc.).

As Research Assistant of the Database Lab, Ms. Chen conducts extensive research on relational databases technologies, especially on using the relational algebra and standard SQL queries to implement parser for XML XQuery processing, as well as textual/relational information retrieval. In addition, Ms. Chen works part-time as Teaching Assistant for.

Shenzhen, GD China

Ms. Chen participated the development of the first and the only nation-wide Interbank ATM/POS (Automated Teller Machine/Point of Sale) Network in China. Her major contribution includes: develop the nationwide Inter-bank ATM/POS Transaction Switching System; lead the system maintenance team to provided system support on 24hrx7days base; effectively.

Mmath, Computer

Thesis Topic: "XQuery Query Processing in Relational Systems"

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Business