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Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Generative AI Software Developer and Team Manager

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

IRAD Product Owner & Senior Principal Software Engineer at Northrop GrummanProviding technical and leadership expertise to foster an environment of learning and success of delivering a product that meets customer and stakeholder expectations.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama Area

RIMFIREResponsibilities and achievements include: - Developing web applications utilizing HTML, Javascript, CSS, Angular, Bootstrap, and Tomcat. - Introduced the concept of Behavior Driven Development through the use of Cucumber and Docker in order to automate testing of code for faster and more reliable deployment times. - Converted existing Ant builds to Gradle. - Established a Pipeline based development process utilizing Jenkins. - Trained team members on using… Show more RIMFIREResponsibilities and achievements include: - Developing web applications utilizing HTML, Javascript, CSS, Angular, Bootstrap, and Tomcat. - Introduced the concept of Behavior Driven Development through the use of Cucumber and Docker in order to automate testing of code for faster and more reliable deployment times. - Converted existing Ant builds to Gradle. - Established a Pipeline based development process utilizing Jenkins. - Trained team members on using tools such as Gradle, Jenkins, Cucumber, Docker, etc. in order to facilitate the growth of DevOps within our team. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

RIMFIREResponsibilities and achievements include: - Serving as a traditional Scrum team Product Owner. - Communicating with the customer to gather requirements and create requirement documents. - Maintaining and prioritizing the backlogs for 3 products simultaneously. - Creating Epics and stories that are contained within Epics in Jira. - Defining Sprint Goals and leading Scrum ceremonies as needed. - Training current team members on Agile concepts and the… Show more RIMFIREResponsibilities and achievements include: - Serving as a traditional Scrum team Product Owner. - Communicating with the customer to gather requirements and create requirement documents. - Maintaining and prioritizing the backlogs for 3 products simultaneously. - Creating Epics and stories that are contained within Epics in Jira. - Defining Sprint Goals and leading Scrum ceremonies as needed. - Training current team members on Agile concepts and the applicability within our products. - Creating a Release Plan so that the team can drive down release time and understand what releases mean to our team. - Creating a sound Definition of Done to drive the quality of our incremental releases up. - Creating release notes. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

C2BMCResponsibilities and achievements include: - Serving as a System Architect, Software Engineer, and Scrum Master on the System Architecture Team. - Transitioning the toolset and fundamental DevOps/Agile philosophies developed in Research and Development to a large scale defense program. - Innovating test automation for requirements verification. - Creating Java-based automated architectural analysis to drive down test time. - Guided a Scrum team in setting up… Show more C2BMCResponsibilities and achievements include: - Serving as a System Architect, Software Engineer, and Scrum Master on the System Architecture Team. - Transitioning the toolset and fundamental DevOps/Agile philosophies developed in Research and Development to a large scale defense program. - Innovating test automation for requirements verification. - Creating Java-based automated architectural analysis to drive down test time. - Guided a Scrum team in setting up their own Jenkins pipeline to test their product utilizing Cucumber. This effort resulted in the discovery of multiple issues that would have failed requirements months down the line previously. - Interacting with government/military/customer stakeholders to ensure communication and products are satisfactory. - Provided learning sessions on tools and products across the program. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Research and DevelopmentResponsibilities and achievements included: - Tasked to teach and facilitate the transition to an iterative Agile execution and continuous test environment by fulfilling the role of Scrum Master and stepping in as Product Owner as needed. - Lead the development effort to install and configure Jenkins, Git, and Nexus Repository in a closed environment. - Developed reusable modular Java components utilizing Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection… Show more Research and DevelopmentResponsibilities and achievements included: - Tasked to teach and facilitate the transition to an iterative Agile execution and continuous test environment by fulfilling the role of Scrum Master and stepping in as Product Owner as needed. - Lead the development effort to install and configure Jenkins, Git, and Nexus Repository in a closed environment. - Developed reusable modular Java components utilizing Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection design principles. - Developed a release plan for the team. - Developed infrastructure to facilitate the development of microservice applications that utilize the latest in message serialization and protocol technologies. - Leading orchestrator behind the use of Cucumber for BDD on our team. The majority of C2BMC is being transitioned to Cucumber BDD testing built on top of the patterns and infrastructure we’ve built. - Provided learning sessions across Northrop programs for tools and products. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

EC2BMC SCOUT Responsibilities and achievements included: - Development lead for the CSV Aggregation Tool. - Took over Quick Look Report (graphical representation of data analysis) development and automated most of the process for producing, analyzing, and viewing logs. - Developed new graphs, enhanced old graphs, and developed a strategy for graphing large datasets that were previously causing display software to break.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

CPATResponsibilities and achievements included: - One of the leading engineers responsible for the first two phases of merging C-RAM Performance & Analysis Tool (CPAT) with Air & Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS). - Developed in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Citadel EBCS Responsibilities and achievements included:- Developing of the Command Overview UI (Spring in an OSGi framework) and backend of the Common Warfighter Machine Interface (CWMI) for the Citadel Enterprise Battle Command System (EBCS).

Huntsville, Alabama Area

THAAD Fire Control and Communications Responsibilities and achievements included: - Development of Object Oriented message based functionality for the Battle Management Software of THAAD. - Gathered requirements directly from the customer and performed design alterations (UML/Rational Tau), coding (Ada & C++), unit testing, unit integration testing, and log analysis. - Automated the log analysis process which decreased review time substantially.… Show more THAAD Fire Control and Communications Responsibilities and achievements included: - Development of Object Oriented message based functionality for the Battle Management Software of THAAD. - Gathered requirements directly from the customer and performed design alterations (UML/Rational Tau), coding (Ada & C++), unit testing, unit integration testing, and log analysis. - Automated the log analysis process which decreased review time substantially. - Assumed responsibilities of a departed Software Engineer 4 and received a promotion to Software Engineer 2 for the effort. - Received “Team Employee of the Quarter” for the above efforts in Dec. 2014. - Received TAP Certificate of Appreciation in Nov. 2013 for developing an on-boarding system to help new hires get up to speed. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Java programmer developing web applications and web services using an extensive set of tools, programming languages, and knowledge. Development of UI, back-end logic, synchronization to SQL databases, and conversion of outdated software to newer technologies.Languages: - Java, JavaScript, ColdFusion, XML, JSF, XHTML, HTMLTools: - Eclipse, IntelliJ, Subversion, soapUI, TOAD, Maven, Weblogic, RichFaces, Oracle, TortoiseSVN

Florence, Alabama Area

-Received employee of the month twice.Responsibilities included:-Providing dining room services to elderly residents in assisted living.-Memorization of names, habits, needs, and health conditions of approximately eighty residents. -Developing a positive, trusting relationship with each resident.-Following strict protocol for kitchen responsibilities.-Attempting to resolve any issues residents may have.