Edom Mesfin Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Md

Worked as Agile Java Dev on one of the largest Grants Management systems in the federal government called Grants Solution. As part of the core ‘Award Team’ I’m involving in multiple assignments:- Modularizing big chunk of sophisticated program sections and gluing them back with Enterprise JMS brokers like ActiveMQ.- Bug fix by implementing proven programming practices like robust exception handling, configurable approach for properties (we use JMX very extensively, & Spring Cloud Config), Rigorous and regular refactoring, integration of proven design patterns.- Web service testing and mock service preparation using tools like SoapUI.- Modernization and optimization:• We are enhancing and dockerizing the Document Management Module which is tightly attached to the main Grant Management Module (GMM) to be standalone component so that external systems can utilize this power house.• As part of this modernization, I've implemented a standalone Apache Camel powered Amazon SQS consumer API and separate Spring Boot web service as a test client. The Apache Camel router is dynamic and extensible which can add more producer/consumer routs to the running Camel context at runtime and give back the consumed messages to the client’s custom processing bean.• This is one of the efforts to move/migrate some of the existing GMM functionalities to cloud like Amazon AWS – Amazon SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda and more.- SurveyMonkey integration: SurveyMonkey is a popular cloud-based survey development service. Used it to gather user experience on our system so that we can easily analyze the result and work accordingly to improve the pages and features with low ratings.- Securing RESTful web services: With our recent componentization of big modules in to manageable micro services, the need for authorization and establishing trust between the services was essential. Implemented stateless spring security using JWT to establish the trust between our client/server and micro services.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assigned as a Java Web Developer on EPIC (A contract project we have with HUD).- Actively added multiple new features, Fixing issues (end-to-end) and Modernizing the entire project for the planned multiple releases.- Refactored JSP pages, to remove bad inline java codes and JavaScripts.- Upgrade to Oracle WebLogic 12c, and Struts2 with some design restructuring.Kudos: I was able to fix critical issues in the application (within short period of time since I have been hired), and now the application successfully deployed to production for the first time ever since the effort to put this app in production was started 3 years ago.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

> I had assigned and worked on a Java & Dot Net projects and supported other systems as well.+ Office plugin development and automation.+ Entrust Intelligence integration with Dot Net applications, java applications and Outlook. Entrust Intelligence is a suite of solutions that delivers multiple security layers, enabling strong authentication, digital signatures and encryption. Using encryption and digital signature technology, the solution provides easy and secure data exchange between Entrust enterprise customers and their third-party partners via a personal, self-signed digital ID.+ Data conversion and system migrations.+ Production Support.+ Java web development with Struts framework.+ Configuration of Jenkins, Jira and SVN for Continues integration (CI) of systems.+

Fairfield, Iowa

Completed Master's Degree in Computer Science/Software Development (Work Authorization: US Citizen).

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

I have been a senior .Net developer and have Managed .NET development for numerous key systems, including a Restaurant Sales management system (PoS) in C#, ADO.Net, and SQL Server. Used ActiveReport as a tool to generate professionally designed sales analysis reports, delivered multi-format report exporting, and many other features. These included a menu cost scheduling engine that provided a significant competitive advantage in the market, and a robust database capable of supporting application functions. Developed queries, stored procedures, systems architectures, and technical documentation. Also delivered a training database that allowed cashiers and waiters to train appropriately. Incorporated additional help and training functions. Conducted manual and automated testing.* Significantly reduced training costs by recommending and implementing a multi-database systems approach.* Eliminated the risk of customer data loss by introducing configurable automatic database backups.* Enhanced performance to achieve optimal system response time by conducting performance analyses on the implemented algorithms.* Upgraded 2 client companies from Microsoft Access databases to SQL server.* Introduced new tools, techniques, and methodologies by researching the company's security and property management protocols, and suggesting alternatives.* Increased brand recognition and distinctiveness through use of the animated character. With the help of Microsoft Agent, I have tried to incorporate interactive animated characters in to the system and got impressive first stage outcome. Microsoft Agent is a technology used to add interactive animated characters to windows application or web page; these characters act according to the user input via speech recognition engine, and also they can speak and tell the user the desired message via text-to-speech engine.

Addis Ababa

Played key role in the team developing a fully integrated reception, stock, and purchase management system. Developed the business logic(C# code) for the system, based on requirements gathered from users, system analysis, and design specifications. Built win-forms in C# and reports in ActiveReport. Leveraged Waterfall for the application development methodology. Conducted systems tests. Created user interface (UI) designs.* Entrusted to implement the stock subsystem, as well as providing critical support for implementation of other subsystems.* Enhanced the user experience for form design by creating graphics.* Elevated communications and eliminated task redundancies by implementing Microsoft Groove.* Improved the level of communication in discussions with managers by using visual paradigms for use case and sequence diagrams.* Established centralized embedded SQL queries via stored procedures.

Awassa, Ethiopia

Managed a project to create and implement a credit management system for the instructors' credit association, leveraging MVC Design Patterns and Iterative SDLC methodologies on a Windows XP platform. Developed forms in VB6 and Microsoft Visual Studio. Built the database in Microsoft Access and deployed all necessary business logic functions. Conducted both unit and integration testing.

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science

Student Project Designed and developed a web-based E-Bazaar online shopping system featuring user login, ordering, shopping cart.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

High School Deploma, General Science