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Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Experienced AWS architect – led migration of corporate assets from data center to cloud
• DevOps expert – automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, and Docker
• Interacted with business owners and end users, to understand customer needs and respond quickly to production support issues.
• Organized roundtable discussions for developers and DBAs to present new topics to colleagues, and discuss the most interesting aspects of their current projects
• Led a team of 5 experienced developers; Responsible for reviews and recruiting.

Venice, Florida

• Implemented a custom DSL for financial analysis, used by researchers to calculate nearly all the company’s charts, reports, and investment models. Documented API so that other Java and JavaScript programs could.
• Modernized the company’s application infrastructure, adopting SOA techniques including language-independent web APIs based on REST and JSON-RPC
• Configured DevOps tools to collect code quality metrics (Sonar and JaCoCo), and deploy apps through continuous integration pipelines (Jenkins)
• Implemented extensive monitoring and auditing tools to maintain stability of production environment
• Worked extensively in Java, and promoted functional programming style

Sunrise, FL

• Managed team of developers during enterprise phase of product life cycle, while programming bug fixes and new features. Conducted competitive analysis and market research to understand user requirements.
• Purchased by Microsoft, the company's product PC Relocator was rebranded as Windows Easy Transfer
• Enhanced consumer product PC Relocator, a utility for migrating applications from an Old PC to a New PC, into an enterprise product (written in C++)
• Studied patterns of application installations (registry, file, and shortcut footprints), and developed heuristics for application discovery and analysis.

Miami Beach, Florida

• Designed and implemented BearShare, a profitable Gnutella file sharing application featuring automated download logic, swarming files from multiple sources, bandwidth management, and automatic self-upgrades.
• Programmed in C++ using multiple threads, Windows asynchronous completion ports, TCP/IP Sockets, I/O stream abstraction, and network protocols including HTTP and SAX/DOM XML parsing.
• Modularized GUI, core logic, and platform-dependent modules to maximize platform portability. Model/View/Controller architecture presented real-time internal state and statistics in advanced diagnostics display.
• Managed five other developers, set priorities for new features and bug fixes, and mentored new members of the team.
• Conducted competitive analysis, market research, and solicited user feedback via nightly beta builds on a public news group. Communicated with competitors (e.g., LimeWire) to agree on compatibility of new features..

Pittsburgh, PA

• Wrote the Java networking layer for SneakerLabs' collaborative applications, consisting of a client-side library and a server-side messaging application.
• Wrote guidelines for project organization, build procedures, test suites, naming conventions, coding standards, version control, and code promotion.
• Wrote and standardized deployment procedures for packaging and installing SneakerLabs products in Solaris, Linux, and Windows environments
• Designed, implemented, and thoroughly documented system administration procedures and backup routines for internal and production UNIX machines.
• Coordinated and maintained 10 Solaris and 5 Linux servers running common services like SSH, SMTP, IMAP, Samba, DNS, and servlet engines.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Wrote the user interface for a computer vision application in Java
• Responsible for project details including initial storyboards, data structure design, control flow design, coding, testing, documentation, packaging, and deployment

Nashville, TN

• Worked on a team to build a computing infrastructure to put hospital medical records on-line
• Implemented three-tier client/server applications spanning database servers, web servers, and UNIX/PC clients, and supported them in production
• Implemented and maintained web servers, firewalls, DNS and file servers, client software distribution mechanisms, monitoring agents, and network management viewers across 40 SunOS and Solaris servers

Pittsburgh, PA

• Developed early Java-like object-oriented languages for building graphical user interfaces (packaged as client libraries known as Garnet and Amulet)
• Implemented graphics and event modules in X Windows and Mac QuickDraw to abstract away differences into platform-independent C++ libraries
• Wrote substantial documentation, and was responsible for revising and publishing finished versions of the user manual