Brent Schwartz Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Chicago, IL, US

• Architected and built a workflow-based artifact upload service to collect photos, videos, and data from customers via the mobile app. Adopted by multiple features through several teams, including vehicle inspection.
• Primary engineering contact for third-party cloud software vendors, managing the relationships from a technical integration perspective

Chicago, IL, US

• Technical Lead of the Claims Scrum Team for an auto insurance company – a full-stack team with Kotlin/Spring backend microservices with Android and iOS mobile apps written in React Native
• Designed and managed implementation of features to interface with third-party Cloud providers to reduce insurance fraud by 75%, create claim estimates, and accept claims; REST API’s, authentication, database.
• Created an architecture to support current and future claims-related web applications, each requiring different authentication mechanisms (pre-signed links, OAuth tokens), and supervised the features’ successful.
• Engineered an incremental migration of the Claims application to Spring Boot
• Integrated with an LLM to use AI to parse customer descriptions to create more complete claims and reduce claim payment time by 20%
• Implemented new features on the Clearcover mobile app and the corresponding REST endpoints, improving the customer experience when submitting an insurance claim

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• As O Series Engineering Lead:
• Directed cross-functional team of 10 engineers, overseeing both development and testing, providing mentorship, coordinating with architecture and product management, producing software designs, and refining requirements
• Successfully led the development of a rewrite of a major subsystem to address scalability concerns and dramatically increase performance, coordinating with 5 Agile teams, addressing dependencies among over 200 user.
• Organized collaboration between two Vertex divisions to develop a data synchronization feature between on-premise software and Cloud services on AWS using REST API’s and OAuth, driving to decisions, solving.
• Designed and led development of a component to upload transactional data to Amazon S3, managing concurrency and authentication using OAuth
• Created the norms, processes, and standards relating to branching/merging in Git, Jira workflow, team organization, and all engineering concerns while serving as the lead of the Vertex Agile Pilot Program, which became.

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• Architected RESTful service framework using Spring MVC, Jackson, and JSON to replace SOAP/XML web services, retaining standards compatibility with Vertex’s existing Jersey-based REST solution; oversaw implementation.
• Modernized Vertex Enterprise to focus on movement and transformation of large data sets for Fortune 500 companies
• Integral part of a large team effort to rewrite entire Adobe Flex user interface in HTML5, using modern React/Redux JavaScript technologies
• Designed a cross-team feature which used Quartz scheduling to run OpenText reports, calling AWS email services (one of Vertex’s first efforts at using AWS)
• Investigated new technologies such as service-oriented architecture, AWS, and Angular, publishing documents with findings and writing proof-of-concepts

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• Developed from the ground up a framework for common services used by multiple applications, including Vertex Tax Accounting and Vertex Tax Data Warehouse
• Devised an innovative way to dramatically decrease development time and eliminate repetitive tasks (and their potential for error) by auto-generating Java, Flex, and JavaScript code from data, web service XSD’s, and.
• Coordinated a complex cross-functional project over multiple development sites that used desktop software to call SOAP endpoints to load and read large data sets from the server
• Delivered several well-received companywide educational presentations on both Vertex projects and the technologies used to create them
• Facing a tight deadline and a non-performant Pentaho solution, wrote a pure Java and SQL ETL tool that outperformed Pentaho by 500% and was able to prevent a delay of a major software release
• For over 20 features, wrote designs using formal UML standards, participated in review meetings, and led implementation teams ranging from 1 to 4 people

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• Created Vertex’s first web-based transaction tax management and calculation system, used by nearly 80% of Fortune 500 companies
• Designed and developed software to upgrade customers, included with every new version of O Series through the present
• Secured O Series’ largest contract by delivering, in a short time frame, a major feature requested by a key customer; organized an Agile team to successfully build, test, and deliver the feature on time
• Implemented a solution to enable point-of-sale use of the system by swapping database persistence for file-based persistence without requiring any other changes to the base software

• Software consulting company focused on web-based solutions using Java and JSP

Minato, Tokyo, JP

• Consulting firm used by financial companies to create programs using Java and JHTML

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Software Engineering