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Massapequa, Ny, Us

Massapequa, New York, United States

New York, Ny

Led ground-up development of DSNY Operations Board, the mechanism through which the DSNY tracks, manages, monitors, and deploys their mechanical and personnel resources. Acted as tech liaison to other development groups and to executive level business personnel in an Agile/SCRUM project. As Lead Engineer, handled leading, mentoring, and training a team of 7, working closely with the Technical Architect, Java/Javascript coding, API design, and SCRUM task/story creation, estimation, and assignment.As Integration Architect, designed, developed, the back-end application integration layer used to interact with PeopleSoft and several other remote applications, and trained staff in how to build it out further.As full-stack engineer, was responsible for re-skinning the real-time UI (LESS), writing Websocket, Javascript and AngularJS directives, and making sure the back-end API worked for the front-end UI.

Mineola, Ny

Led the design, prototyping, and implementation of a new highly-scalable, distributed broadcasting / digital signage system. Took project from needs analysis through design, implementation, testing, and deployment, exceeding client expectations with regard to feasibility studies, feature implementation, and security implementation. Successful implementation of multiple software sub-projects for mobile, kiosk, and desktop, as well as network and VPN design and hardware integration. Consumer- and internal-facing web-based applications utilizing Vert.x, Groovy, MongoDB, and Ember.js. Design of automated self-monitoring/self-healing features for underlying systems and networks.

New York, Ny

Designed, and led ground-up implementation of, Pearson's first Mobile Platform. Achieved goals of high-scalability architecture, implementation-agnostic common services, and an extensible, future-proof platform, all on an event-driven, distributed bus. Platform is to be used for all future mobile and web-based apps.

45 Main St., Brooklyn,Ny

Back-end/front-end engineering, problem solving, optimization, and UI development for a ground-up development of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's new web presence. Implementation of business logic, work flows, complex, custom validation mechanisms for the associated booking system, service layers, and central user interface. Design and coding of complex deals and promotions rules. Performance tuning and optimizations of UI and SOAP-based service layer.

Brooklyn, Ny

Asked by the Nassau County PBA to add features to the system I built for them during 2008 - 2010 via Total Hosting (see Total Hosting Job entry).

Brooklyn, Ny

Back-end/front-end software engineer for teacher/administrator-facing education-industry applications.

Solved key problems in 6 web applications and several internal libraries for a failed off-shore project. Analyzed code base to determine what could be salvaged and what should be thrown out. Advised on best approaches for future development of various pieces of the overall system, a large scale effort including 5 back-end Seam-based web applications and several Spring-based customer- and consumer-facing eCommerce and training applications.

Created a product design and set of technology choices that enabled Total Hosting to win the bid to build a custom distributed system tailored to the needs of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association. This system consists of 2 pieces of software and various custom hardware, security, and networking solutions. Successfully implemented all aspects of system and delivered it on time and within budget. Responsible for all decisions and entire implementation, as well as oversight of installation.This system is now fully functional and running successfully within the Nassau County Police Department.

Co-architect (hands-on) and senior software engineer for the Positions Tracking System, the distributed system responsible for global tracking of all financial instrument positions related to JPMC company-wide. Developed business components, component messaging flow, and trade processing flow and routing mechanisms. Ownership of, and significant enhancement to, business rules engine. As a secondary role, worked closely with globally and locally located Equities, Fixed Income, and other business units as tech-to-business liaison.Java EE arcitecture and development for this middle office application, responsible for business component and system-level architecture and development, application of design patterns to new and existing code, technology and software evaluations, tool evaluation, and group-tools and script development.

Front-end / back-end architecture and engineering of distributed system for physical plant monitoring and management.Software architecture, engineering, build & test management, and project management for several projects, utilizing Java EE 5, EJB3, Hibernate, JSF, and JSR-168 Portal/Portlets, MVC within a JBoss AS environment for development of safety and equipment monitoring systems in a chemical plant environment.Requirements gathering, making recommendations of technologies to be used in projects and performing much of the implementation engineering.

New York, Ny

Dual-role position as both software engineer and infrastructure specialist.Development of Java-based software tools for infrastructure monitoring and management.Design and implementation of department software packaging and deployment policy.Creation of encrypted data-feed management automation and monitoring using SSH, Java code, and shell scripting.

J2EE Software Developer, J2EE Infrastructure Specialist, Open Source Specialist.Hired by Lehman Brother’s Fixed Income Division to move the group to a full J2EE stack from a servlet/JSP container. Advised fellow teammates on proper architecture and engineering principles with regard to utilizing J2EE in their particular environment. In secondary role, took on task of building an enitre new infrastructure, moving the group from a Windows-server/Weblogic Application server environment to a Linux/JBoss Application Server environment, enabling greater platform stability while dramatically reducing costs and providing future budget reduction.

San Francisco, Ca

Joined the company as the first software architect/engineer, providing the company’s initial technical design and implementation work on their sole product, a "services marketplace" web application. This product went on to become the industry's top choice in that category. Lead engineer for the company's “Wireless” project. This project encompassed the whole of the company's WAP phone, PDA, and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) access to their product. This position was an addition to my existing responsibilities in software architecture and engineering for the overall site. Acted as project interface to non-technical departments as well as to our wireless business partners. Responsible for overseeing all work produced by the Wireless team.

Held simultaneous positions as software engineer on the Ticker, Consolidated Trading, and Consolidated Quote system projects, and as Systems Administrator for 80+ HPUX systems.My position as software engineer involved C and TAL programming on large scale projects such as the NYSE ticker system, trading system, and quote system, and required close work within a team of six to seven individuals. SIAC Intranet Webmaster. Organized and created most online departmental sites and their content.Was also responsible for administration of mail servers, timeservers, routers, client software evaluation / installation / configuration, ftp servers, bootp setups, IP administration, etc.

Computer Science, Biology, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Resident Administrator - 1st responder, emergencies. Responsible for co-administration of dormitory, student.

Computer Science