Christopher Bowerman Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

NASA - EDP - EAST2 Contract

Washington D.C. Metro Area

NASA HITSS III Contract

NASA HITSS II Contract

• Examined existing websites and applications requirements and technical infrastructure, determine target cloud infrastructure, configure and stood up the target infrastructure and migrated the applications to the target environment for multiple sites and applications.• Deploy EC2 instances on AWS using Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Redhat, Windows AMIs• Launch and configure MySQL and Oracle databases on RDS• Create and manage s3 buckets• Provide system administration support for 300+ instances hosted on AWS cloud environment.• Configure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with both public and private subnets, NAT instances, and Elastic Load Balancers• Responsible for allocating, releasing, associating, and disassociating elastic IP addresses• Perform LAMP installation and configuration on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances• Creating AMI’s and volume snapshots.• Setup, configured and supported NASA chats using Parachat.• Perform requirements analysis, conceptual design, and staged implementation of systems.• Develop, review and approve design documentation. Generate system-level documents.• Design and implement disaster recovery plans.• Conduct high availability assessments and lead integration efforts of a system.• Lead the development of System Operational Procedures documents.• Generate customer design review materials and present at customer design reviews.

• Member of a team responsible for the development and deployment of new client/server applications in a cloud-based environment while maintaining, supporting and developing enhancements to existing applications and/or systems software. • Created new Source Management system which included the user front end GUI as well as web services backend. The platform uses a variety of technologies including Java/J2EE, Javascript, Dojo, JQuery, Spring MVC and MySQL• Planned/coordinated activities related to requirements gathering, design, development and implementation of client information systems and software applications. Ensure development projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfill end-user requirements and identify and resolve systems issues. • Worked pretesting phase of development by evaluating proposals and requirements in order to identify potential problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations. Collaborate with analysts, designers and system owners in the testing of new software programs and applications. Apply communication skills, problem-solving skills and knowledge of best practices to work with the Application Development. • Coordinated issues related to the design, development and deployment of client oriented, mission-critical information and software systems. Liaise with other Software Engineers to assist with quality assurance and documentation.

• Created and configured virtual machines in a vmware and Amazon cloud environment as needed for clients.• Installed and configured various application and server software (Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, Java, ANT, Oracle, MySQL, Torque, Maui, TopQuadrant, JIRA, Confluence etc.) on a variety of operating systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat, Windows). • Configured SSL MPKI server certificates. • Maintained current versions and upgrade custom web and application software, in coordination with development and testing teams. • Determined server requirements based on client needs. • Completed several security oriented tasks including applying security patches on operating systems to comply with regulations and requirements needed to allow for firewall access through firewalls and advise of security alerts for in-use software, such as Apache vulnerabilities, etc. Set up and configure application uptime and performance monitoring and troubleshoot performance issues. • Provided admin support as needed for adding users, groups, granting user access, resetting passwords, coordinating firewall rule changes, AD administration, etc. • Helped maintain QA, staging and production environments. • Supported application migration and source code repository management systems. • Monitor, manage and be point person with notifications for data center maintenance windows.

• Developed, tested and deployed web-based applications for the Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP) including a web-based COMPARE application for investigating mechanisms of cell growth inhibition using Java and J2EE technologies including JSP, JDBC, JSF, JSTL, XML, Web Services, HTML, CSS, SQL, CVS, and Apache/Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS.• Developed, tested and deployed web-based applications for the Target Structure Based Drug Discovery Group (TSBDDG) including PILOT application for structural analysis, comparison and organization of compounds with similar cytotoxicity into similar steric and pharmacophoric classes using Java and J2EE technologies including JSP, JDBC, JSF, JSTL, XML, Web Services, HTML, CSS, SQL, CVS, Apache/Tomcat. • Created, deployed and maintained content for the DTP’s public website. • Implemented a versioning control system for website content and application code. • Provided system administration duties to 20+ Linux servers and workstations including an 8 node cluster. • Installed, configured and administered system applications such as Symantec Netbackup• Installed, configured and administered scientific applications such as Accelrys Pipeline Pilot and Schrodinger Suite on Linux servers/workstations. • Installed and configured Linux workstations to replace older SGI workstations for the Target Structure–Based Drug Discovery Group (TSBDDG). • Provided technical consulting and support to customers and fellow employees.

Responsible for teaching “Fundamentals of Computers” (CIS101) courses.

• Developed client/server business application in Visual Basic to calculate commission payments from data in an Oracle database. • Developed a new Oracle database to handle membership enrollment and new client/server applications using Powerbuilder. • Planned testing of client/server applications using SQA TeamTest. • Created an Electronic Data Interchange solution to work with the new database. • Created an Oracle database for a newly-acquired health plan. • Loaded and manipulated data into database. • Documented the legacy system’s application code and business rules. • Provided hardware and software administration of several NCR 3000 class computers. • Monitored and maintained the Unidata database and applications available on the NCR computers. • Prepared and implemented disaster recovery scenarios. Created programs and program enhancements. • Provided support for 1200+ users nationwide.

• Provided system administration for all hardware and software. • Created programs and program enhancements. • Developed new report documents. • Provided systems information support. • Coordinated input and output of project data. • Trained and supervised employees in IS matters.

• Assembled and tested computer hardware.

Masters Of Science, Computer Science

B.S, Computer Science

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