Austin Lear Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Mclean, VA, US

Mclean, VA, US

• Manage distributed cross-functional team to support and enhance mission-critical reporting system.
• Hire team members by evaluating experience, technical skills, and ability to collaborate effectively on a remote team.
• Meet with stakeholders to define new user stories, identify issues, and adjust the product roadmap.
• Assess risk, estimate effort, and prioritize work by grooming the backlog with the development team.
• Write annual enhancement proposals to secure budget of over $1 million.
• Select tools and practices that improve team communication, ensure product quality, and increase productivity.

Mclean, VA, US

• Managed production releases for Android and iOS native mobile apps and served as technical liaison between product team and client.
• Educated client on setting up build environments for Android and iOS versions and deploying production-ready apps to Google Play and iTunes Connect.
• Delivered updated source code from product team by committing modifications to client’s version control system and identifying any new build dependencies.
• Analyzed mobile security scans to determine the app requirements regarding user permissions, data usage and battery usage.Developed front-end and middle-tier Java code for data collection and reporting system in Agile.
• Implemented RESTful web services and single page web application for collecting and reporting commodity prices for the USDA.
• Developed AngularJS ui-grid for viewing, sorting, filtering and editing data allowing for a dynamic number of columns and unspecified data types.

Claymont, DE, US

• Senior developer on Agile team that maintained and enhanced backend payment distribution software at the heart of charitable donation system.
• Architected system wide changes necessary for regular transmission of accounting data from the distribution system to Microsoft Dynamics GP.
• Refactored dissimilar report code into reusable and performant reporting framework.
• Integrated with multiple payment gateway services to support credit card payment submissions as well as automated settlement file downloads.
• Implemented CRUD functionality in views using HTML, Javascript, and jQuery.
• Performed releases and provided production support.

Mclean, VA, US

• Led team to build business analytics dashboards of voluntary price data using SiSense Prism.
• Analyzed the requirements to determine feasibility given the chosen commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software – SiSense Prism.
• Constructed SiSense ElastiCubes and accompanying dashboards necessary to present the custom averages, data tables and price trend graphs to web users.
• Executed performance tests against the prototype dashboards using a cloud-based performance-testing tool.Successfully learned existing architecture and customer pain points to quickly identify improvement opportunities.
• Recorded task dependencies, allocated developer resources and monitored progress using Microsoft Project.
• Wrote web services that perform database queries on behalf of multiple dashboard applications.

• Extending functionality of existing Struts web application used to create bank wire transfers.
• Modifying Java, JavaScript, SQL, XML and JSP files to add features requested by customers.
• Using CVS to manage the multiple branches of the code base.

• Worked with a team of Java and Flash developers to create a web application for viewing and interacting with USDA cattle data.
• Wrote Axis2 web service that brokers communication between the Flash front-end and the Microsoft SQL Server database.
• Used Apache Tomcat to publish the web service.

New York, NY, US

• Provided technical support to faculty and students as a member of the help desk team.
• Worked with IT hardware such as laptops, desktops, printers, SMART Boards, digital cameras and video cameras.
• Maintained FirstClass e-mail accounts and mailing lists.
• Delegated help tickets to a team of four technicians.

New York, NY, US

• Taught Java programming to upper school students.
• Taught applications, HTML programming, LEGO robotics, and computer hardware to middle school students.

New York, NY, US

• Observed and documented the paper-based scheduling process and recommended migrating to software-aided scheduling.
• Wrote a Java program to detect scheduling conflicts and generate student and teacher schedules.

Livingston, New Jersey, US

• Scheduled all classes, students, teachers and rooms in the upper school and middle school.
• Assigned each class section to a meeting pattern according to student course requests and teacher availability.
• Assigned sections to classrooms according to departmental requests and desired facilities.

Livingston, New Jersey, US

• Taught three levels of computer science: Introduction to Computer Science, AP Computer Science, and IB Computer Science.
• Taught Algebra 2 / Trigonometry to 9th and 10th grade students.

• Performed review on Java web application code written by a third party.
• Fixed bugs in source code and documented changes.

• Taught middle school students how to use MicroWorlds, a Logo-based programming environment.
• Helped students build LEGO robots in preparation for FIRST LEGO League competition.

• Designed toolkit for developing browser-independent web applications.
• Used Java and JavaScript to write an in-browser homepage builder.

• Taught students how to communicate through email, create effective PowerPoint presentations, perform research using the Internet and author web pages in HTML.

US

• Taught Java development skills to employees at large investment bank.
• Enabled a stock ticker application to retrieve previous stock quotes from a database.
• Configured stock quote network to exchange quotes among New York, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo locations.
• Created a reusable code library to prevent code duplication across company projects.