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Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

San Marcos, TX, US

• Built, managed, and monitored large-scale IT projects for campus-wide systems to serve the needs of 40,000 students, faculty, and staff.
• Built and migrated existing infrastructure to a new architecture to support Banner Cloud project. This Linux-based system feeds messages from Banner through Java-based middleware to downstream targets.
• Fully rebuilt and migrated from an A10 delivery control infrastructure to new F5-BIG IP infrastructure with no system downtime. Required detailed coordination with administration owners, administrators, and users to.
• Managed the application delivery controllers for essential campus applications. Facilitated troubleshooting on issues as they arose with DBAs, system admins, application owners, and network engineers. Provided insight.
• Created a monitoring system for our Java Identity Management middleware to proactively inform the call center of any Identity Management backlog.
• Managed networking, network configuration, and security on the F5 and A10 network load balancers.

San Marcos, TX, US

• Led design and development on diverse software projects. Managed team members by teaching new skills, arranging training and task management, creating an open-door policy to foster great working relationships, and.
• Designed and developed a new request system for software deployment in classrooms. Completed workflow process from request to deployment. Used Django framework.
• Designed, developed, and implemented a hardware and software model for the university digital signage initiative. Built a custom dashboard that displays what each digital sign is displaying in real time.
• Served as lead developer on the faculty annual review and reporting system. Rewrote the code to adhere to software best practice, implemented SSL, and deployed inside the virtual infrastructure for resilience.
• Led team on design, development, and administration of the Lab Monitor project, a Java-based IT solution to display how busy campus computer labs are. The system reports computer availability to students and reports.
• Designed, developed, and administered the Lab Reports system, a Java-based system for lab assistants to document what they did to help customers. The system tracks time, consumables, and can trigger alerts.

• Developed Java-based billing engine, end-user, and customer management portals for broadband.

• Researched key broadcast devices and standard architectures. Designed and implemented Java adaptors to communicate to broadcast devices in real time to return status information.
• Contracted to BBC Northern Ireland to implement our monitoring system.
• Built Java prototypes to meet customers’ business requirements.

• Developed in-house asynchronous messaging system.
• Served as the build manager to automate deployment of code to server.

London, GB

• Worked on a B2B project using WebLogic to replace legacy text system.