Ben Hall Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

• Key Achievements:
• Team member for the development of the Route Performance Monitor, http://www.internap.com/business-internet-connectivity-services/route-performance-monitor-rpm/. Developed an efficient export, movement, management, and.
• Refactored an existing open source Java OpenStack storage client to adhere to OO design principles, improved code quality and test coverage.
• Identified and corrected critical Java resource management and multi-threading defects that prevented the OpenNMS-based rewrite of the Distributed Network Monitoring System and usage collection system from being.

• Design and lead the implementation of new features and the improvement of existing functionality and infrastructure. Provide technical leadership in “ground up” adoption of software engineering best practices such as.
• Led the highly successful transition to a Kanban development process and transition of legacy code base to more effective software engineering practices and the reduction of technical debt.
• Designed and developed highly concurrent SNMP cable network data collection and diagnostics platform. The platform brings stability and scalability to a key piece of the application architecture. The platform supports.
• Designed and prototyped libraries for bandwidth management component that interacts with network-based Juniper Policy Servers (PCMM/COPS), DHCP, and RADIUS.
• Researched DOCSIS 3.0, IPv6, IPDR, and other network technologies for integration into the Broadband Explorer product line and core service offerings. Led implementation of DOCSIS 3.0 diagnostics and data collection.
• Implemented Grizzly NIO based service for high throughput processing and parsing of DHCP events stream after a stock ESB component failed to meet required performance criteria.

Mountain View, CA

• Continued developing architecture practice within IT and across the Engineering and Operations organizations. This included hiring additional architecture staff and developing capacity of software engineers to support.
• Redeveloped CDN IP usage collection and reporting systems and software using Netflow, flow-tools, Java, and Groovy.
• Supported and advised on technical aspects of CDN development and retooling.
• Used application development around proprietary business intelligence algorithm and process to extend Groovy implementation with introduction of Grails rapid application development framework and integration with.
• Provided key technical and architectural oversight and management of conversion, development, and integration processes for Oracle CBRM implementation.
• Designed and implemented integration of Oracle CBRM Java and WebService API's with existing Java-based n-tier architecture for core business application and interface development including order entry/management.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed architecture practice within IT organization. This included planning and organizing software and systems architecture for core IT systems, applications, and platforms. Set technical direction and system level.
• Provided post-acquisition process and technology review of VitalStream CDN. Implemented improved usage collection, reporting, and billing processes. Identified key deficiencies and improvements in core CDN platform..
• Researched commercial and open source ESB, business process management, and related tooling solutions. Selected Progress Sonic ESB (JMS backed) and designed the initial production architecture.
• Automated cost/revenue impacting business process changes working across the entire business.
• Set architectural direction of LDAP implementation used for application authentication / authorization and as the base for a proactive customer support communications tool.
• Led design and development of Java n-tier Unity framework and agile processes with the goal of standardizing application development processes and creating high quality and highly maintainable software while replacing.

• Managed and continued as a practicing engineer in the IT Development and Integration group which was responsible for maintenance, development, selection, and implementation of core business applications and application.
• Rebuilt IT Development and Integration staff, development practices, technologies, and processes. This included hiring junior and senior engineers, introduction of Scrum agile development methodology, improvement of.
• Pursued implementation of Open Source and standard-based software where possible. This included the implementation of Nutch search engine for internal and external websites, clustered JBoss AS implementation.
• Developed colocation price increase application that has yielded $10Million+ revenue since implementation with minimal operation or business support required. Application complied with legal, SOX, and business.
• Improved customer experience and key financial metric (Days Sales Outstanding by 5 days) through effective implementation and launch of online invoices application in the customer portal and invoice email delivery..
• Developed provisioning, customer support, and billing applications or integrations for new products and services including the introduction of Global Route Acceleration and VLAN product lines.

• Focused on remediation of core financially significant applications to Sarbanes-Oxley control compliance, development and maintenance of operational, customer, and sales support applications. Key Achievements:
• Remediated financially significant applications (Perl, Java) and systems (Linux, Solaris, Oracle 8). Worked across business, operational, and engineering communities to effectively implement SOX controls and eliminate.
• Developed Struts-based business, operational, and customer support applications. Developed key customer facing support application for new product line added through corporate acquisition.
• Evaluated and implemented Java Object Relation Mapping technologies (Hibernate and Apache OJB) within IT Development and Integration group and advocated for their adoption across entire Engineering organization.
• Developed and improved core billing applications to provide greater speed, efficiency, scale, and quality of a $13 million/month process. Billing processes on the same code base have since grown to $21+ million/month.

• Designed and developed interfaces between core GIS product and non-GIS applications used across the electric utility industry (e.g., IVR, equipment databases, billing systems, field engineering applications). Worked.
• Designed and developed XML-based (MSXML/DOM/SAX) interface engine in VB6 and VB.Net to the industry standard, making OriginGIS the first platform certified as completely MultiSpeak 2.2 compliant. The interface engine.
• Refactored large portions of legacy VB6 code base for performance optimization and greater code reuse.
• Designed and developed tools to automate the conversion of AutoCAD drawings to an ESRI Geodatabase and for the cleanup of the electrical flow model.

• Founded and acted as principal technologist for startup software development and consulting company. Responsible for development of requirements, statements of work, project plans, review of all requests for proposal.
• Led the solution design and implementation of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, an XML, XSL, and Struts-based encyclopedia and encyclopedia management platform. Oversaw implementation of the encyclopedia publishing tool, a.
• “Shrink wrapped” encyclopedia management and publishing platform with migration to RDBMS agnostic database tier and major changes to the Java persistence architecture.
• Designed and developed the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Center directory. The directory is an ASP, XML/XSL, and SQL Server solution that allows end users to search based on more than forty.
• Designed and developed the American Academy of Religion Perl and MySQL data entry tool for initial harvesting of data while the main Swing/RMI/XML data management tool was in development. Migrated data to eXcelon XML.
• Supervised and mentored multiple junior level programmers to successful project completion across disparate technology set.

• Performed cross functional analysis and development with subject matter experts, technical writers, engineers, project managers, and clients focused on the creation and refinement of processes and applications for the.
• Led technical aspects of transition team’s efforts in data analysis and development of document conversion process. Converted 100,000+ pages of printed material from a proprietary ASCII format to and industry standard.
• Programmed and analyzed ad hoc tasks such as converting time sensitive engine repair manuals from proprietary format to JCALS standard SGML.

M.S., Information Design & Technology

B.S., Science, Technology & Culture

Activities and Societies: Varsity Cross Country and Track & Field Letterwinner

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