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Boulder, Colorado, US

Guiding our small but mighty team spanning the globe - US, Nigeria, Rwanda, India and more. Keeping our stack and services nimble, scaleable, secure, and resilient. Angular, Java Spring, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Postgres, RabbitMQ. Building and deploying using Bitbucket, coordinating using JIRA, hosted in GCP GKE environments. Staying focused on agile best.

Boulder, Colorado, US

A full-stack engineering role but I'm mostly Java backend (and all corresponding pieces) these days.Tech stack: Java web services using Spring framework, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Bitbucket for source control and continuous integration, Angular. My favorite part: Building reactive Java integrations that connect to.

San Jose, California, US

Returned to Rally/CA after an 8-month self-inflicted sabbatical assisting wife with her Fulbright grant in India and spending nearly 2 months working at a refugee camp in Greece (see volunteer section). Highlights since returning to CA:- Promoted to Principal Engineer for the flagship Agile Central product.- Rising to become team leader focusing on.

San Jose, California, US

Proud member of an innovative engineering department that cultivated solid software engineers using proven software practices, evolving technology, and a mature agile process. Started as a software generalist for the flagship product, Rally ALM (now CA Agile Central). Worked on both the front-end (JavaScript) and the back-end (Java). As Rally grew, moved.

Sussex, WI, US

Worked on several web-based Java projects, including the MRM project management application, Timecard application, as well as the the TMP mail-merge application, written using.Net.Project examples included:- Implementing the ExtJS JavaScript framework in order to create a Marketing Calendar.- Enhanced the MRM app to insert/delete/edit configurable fields.

• Assisted with the content and concept of the a2c Media web site.
• Wrote sales proposals for prospective clients.
• Initiated the sales of a2c Media’s services to prospective US clients.

Irving, Texas, US

• As part of the team for the Horizon Emergency Care application (HEC), designed and developed a wide range of new features and tools, along with training other developers and support personnel.
• Increased developer productivity by 20-30% by developing a tool that streamlined the check-in process for medical content creators. The tool integrated the content creation environment with ClearCase using web services.
• Part of a two-man team that trained 10 offshore contract developers in Bangalore, India, and 5 on-site contractors. Also taught subjects at internal seminars given to HEC support personnel.
• Designed and developed a XML validation tool for HEC’s medical content, which is contained in over 5000 XML files that are constantly being modified; incorporated the tool into the CruiseControl build process.
• C#.Net development of a new customer interface for the application, using web services to interface with the Java back-end.

Working with my supervisor Gary Crosby, we created a vehicle tracking and maintenance logging system from the ground up for the Queensland State Government of Australia's fleet of state owned vehicles, using web-based J2EE technologies and JBoss as the application and EJB server.

US

Worked with a team to developed web-based video conferencing solutions using J2EE technologies.