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Working on a Developer Tools Innovation Squad working to rework and automate our existing developer tools on an enterprise scale with an effort on moving from Jenkins to GitHub Actions for the developer pipelines. Working with team to create and enhance workflows, and testing end-to-end workflow pipelines for automated builds for Java web applications of various JDK versions and some multi-module applications.

Working on an engineering team whose purpose is to automate processes used by the enterprise and AWS applications. Implementing the automation using AWS Lambda functions with Python and Java code. some automation will include the use of REST APIs for various software, including Dynatrace. use Agile framework with Rally for handling workflow. Developed a series of internal Terraform modules using the Dynatrace Terraform provider that implements a flexible structure to allow application teams to use to set up and manage their own Dynatrace configuration, while simplifying the inputs to reduce the amount of knowledge of Dynatrace configuration needed and enforcing company standards.

Senior Software Architect currently specializing in performance monitoring and improvement of the performance of multiple applications in a large enterprise environment. Works with application teams during project lifecycle to develop performance strategy based on tech requirements, define load test scenarios, and analysis performance during tests. Consults with application teams to analyze production application performance and resolve issues. Extensive use of Dynatrace for load testing analysis, production monitoring and alerting, and reporting. Worked with admin privileges to set up monitoring of applications Including on-premise and AWS environments. Also wrote automation code (Java) to use Dynatrace REST APIs to pull data for unified dashboards, building standard configuration using templates for managed and SaaS Dynatrace environments, and integrate with other applications. Defined Performance Monitoring life cycle process to work with SDLC. Participates in vendor user groups.

Architected and developed J2EE applications and enterprise-level services, particularly dealing with enterprise content management (ECM) to provide electronic document functionality to an enterprise. Web services

Object-oriented developer working on J2EE applications for companies contracting our services. Work included building web applications (JSPs, servlets) as facade to legacy mainframe Cobol applications using mid-tier EJB components and MQ to interact. Helped to develop XML-based framework that these and other applications used.