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Chicago, IL, US

Helped build the company's next-generation web site enabling customers to upload and manage their personal media as well as configure and order products. Employed a variety of web and application tier technologies including Grails, Groovy, Java, Spring, jQuery, CSS and HTML5. Worked remotely with a small and fast-paced development team.

* Custom development for a variety of clients. Projects typically involved working closely with clients from requirements gathering to deployment. Iterative development and pair programming with my remote business partner were standard.

Longmont, Colorado, US

* Participated in the design and development of an in-house geocoding system using Java, Tomcat, Struts, JSP, Spring, Hibernate and an Oracle database. Supported web service requests leveraging both in-house and external geocoders as well as a web site to submit geocoding requests, manage system access, manage geocoding data and run reporting tools, saving.

US

* Participated in the design and development of a Java/J2EE compliant electronic bill presentment and payment system using Java, Weblogic and Oracle. The system used J2EE technologies and was platform and middleware independent. Developed stateless session beans that generated XML using data retrieved from entity beans (wrapped using Toplink) and.

* Served as a Java / WebObjects developer for the Intranet / Extranet Technology division's distributed learning project. Developed reusable components to build dynamic content.

Mclean, VA, US

* Served as a developer for the Internal Revenue Service's Compliance Research Intranet. Assisted in the design, development and deployment of custom suite of applications. Researched, tested, recommended and deployed COTS products. Wrote technical documentation and assisted in user and administrator training. Also assisted in data gathering and client.

* Designed and developed a Java applet as an interactive front-end generating user-defined searches of an online toxicology database for the National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine.* Designed, developed and implemented an internal report generator in Visual Basic for compilation of MS Word documents for user-defined searches.* Designed.

* Implemented ITS Help Desk, which supported approximately 250 Local Area Network users and approximately 600 users worldwide.* Assisted in maintaining 3 servers (2 production and 1 development).* Assisted in managing e-mail services, including cc:Mail Mobile and Sprintmail.* Managed computer equipment inventory for Barents Group.* Set up and configured.