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Developed Event-Driven Automation and Self-Healing Infrastructure solutions in Financial Services Consulting. Helped develop the Red Hat Event-Driven Automation Portfolio Architecture. Architect of the Red Hat Social Innovation Council. Technical Architect of 9 Red Hat Hackathons related to Social Innovation. Active in Red Hat Research and the Red Hat.

Centerville, Utah, United States

• Architected from the ground up the data backend (NoSQL, SQL, Elasticsearch) for a new door-to-door sales tracking application for mobile devices in both Microsoft C# and Python Django.
• Created from the ground up a REST API backed by Postgresql and MongoDB with unit/functional tests.
• Built all Elasticsearch functionality for geolocation and reporting with advanced analyzers and synonyms.Delivered several important releases of a large scale, web-based virtual machine interactive environment for.
• Built a searchable help system with faceting for categories, autosuggestions, search highlighting, nGram keyword substring matching, phrase matching and fuzzy queries.
• Built several new database features for managing virtual machines in more powerful ways.
• Setup staging and production cluster of Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL.

Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• In a Linux environment, deployed Java J2EE applications to Tomcat and Apache HTTPD for creating and harvesting XML content and related images for public display online for many libraries in France.
• Reworked the database connections to work properly with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle or HSQLDB. Also worked with XML database eXist for clients to generate specific XML content.
• Developed functionality to support several XML specifications including OAI-PMH Harvesting, Dublin Core, EAD (Encoded Archival Description), also ARK (Archival Resource Key) URLs.
• Worked together with the other developers to deploy new features for several public libraries and research organizations in France including the city of Grenoble, Orléans, and the bank Crédit Agricole.
• Applied internationalization in English, French, Chinese and German to all new components and provided up-to-date technical and user documentation to the client.

Orem, Utah, United States

• Building Java/Spring-based knowledge base solutions for companies needing help organizing their information. Primary focus has been on installing, configuring and customizing ATG (Art Technology Group) software. ATG.
• Helped bodybuilding.com optimize their ATG Search Engines and properly apply ATG Merchandising to their ATG Commerce data with Oracle as the major database provider.
• Rebuilt AT&T's global search landing page to handle searching from all of their different sites in one place. Added autosuggest functionality, related searches, past searches, AJAX / Prototype interaction with a SOLR.
• Customized PayPal's Help Center site by adding a new topic tree that expands and contracts so users could browse help articles by topic. Installed and configured several new environments with the latest ATG.
• Installed ATG Platform, Self Service, Knowledge, Search, Siebel Integrations and ACI (Reports) in their development and production environments for LSI. Migrated several thousand solutions from their old Primus.
• Spent two weeks in San Francisco California receiving ATG training on ATG Development, Content Administration and Installation of ATG on Jboss.

West Jordan, Utah, United States

Designed and implemented a database-integrated information system for all activities of a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian aid to villages in developing nations