Austin O'Brien Email & Phone Number

Jackson, MS, US

• Major full stack contributor in the development of the AHT application, a cloud-based facilitymanagement EHR (Electronic Health Record) solution for post-acute and senior living organizations.
• With my substantial background in application modernization, and my ability to quickly become proficient with new technologies, helped to bring the AHT product from MVP status to a viable solution for the existing.
• Within 6 months of hire, was commissioned to lead the development of a fundamental scheduling component, built upon the existing Microsoft C#.NET / SQL Server architecture and an emerging Open Source based.
• Worked closely with fellow engineers as well as colleagues from UI/UX, BA, PM, and QA to help deliver functional and non-functional product requirements.
• In addition to being a member of the architecture group, served as primary mentor for the on-boarding team (5-7 members), in addition to my core development team (5 members), with an emphasis on driving best practices.

• Developed and maintained client-side components of Rocket Data Virtualization product, including Java Eclipse user interface, JDBC and ODBC driver implementations, and Web services integration layer.
• Overhauled existing UI, delivering more appealing and productive UX, exceeding customers' expectations and attracting new customers.
• Created and streamlined development, test, build, and product release strategy, managing ontimedelivery of 4 IBM branded product variants.
• Collaborated with server developer to build MongoDB facade, extending reach of datavirtualization offering beyond SQL, including NoSQL consumers such as Node.js.

• Developed and maintained tooling components for Shadow product suite, including Java Eclipse user interface and several other applications written primarily in C and C++.
• Served as technical leader within 6 months of hire, ensuring smooth transition of responsibilitiesto small offshore team.
• Improved build automation, reducing turnaround times for product maintenance andenhancement releases.
• Designed and implemented enhanced field mapping capability in screen scraping tool throughcollaboration with technical sales engineer.

• Built first and only CORBA-based mainframe integration solution (Orbix Mainframe, written primarily in C++) with involvement at all levels of product lifecycle.
• Partnered with enterprise customers (like AT&T and Credit Suisse) to drive industry specifications and meet critical performance goals.
• Also worked on core Orbix, OrbixWeb, and Artix (a precursor to the Apache CXF project and Red Hat Fuse).