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Arlington, Virginia, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Java Developer – On Contract with DHS/USCISELIS2 Immigration/Naturalization Application
• Assisted in the Design and Development of a microservice for moving background checks from a legacy system to a more robust modernized system.
• Maintained numerous JMS queues and REST endpoints to handle traffic from internal services between one another as well as internal to external calls.
• Updated, maintained, and added additional logic to handle new functionality for background checks pertaining to minors, different prefix and suffix rules, as well as automatically flagging potential risk cases as.
• Assisted in the Design and Development of a feature to capture all the pertinent information on any given case of any benefit type and generate an official certifiable copy of that document for litigation or other.
• Routinely added and updated unit and integration tests both to maintain the code base as well as bolster code coverage and help remove technical debt. Environment: Eclipse IDE, Git, Gradle, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Successfully completed the Cook Systems FastTrack'D course towards becoming a full fledged Java Developer. Completed a rigorous 8-week course concentrating on Java and related technologies such as Spring and Hibernate as well as JavaScript, AngularJS and other technologies to prepare for deployment into various software projects.

• Managed up to 80 inmates by conducting frequent security checks, providing positive social interactions, and enforcing facility rules.
• Maintained accurate inmate records, behavior logs, and security logs through interactive database.
• Communicated and responded to 5-10 emergency situations per month by following procedures set forth by jail administration.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, US

• Managed up to 90 inmates by enforcing facility rules, conducting frequent security checks and searches, and engaging inmates with opportunities for social development for reintegration into society.
• Performed criminal background checks on all visitors and contract workers through use of both State and National information system software and in conjunction with other Law Enforcement Agencies as needed.
• Assisted in the creation of new facility documents and logs as well as rewriting outdated procedures to better reflect current practices and maintain needed records.