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Established a new Tiger/SWAT team • Resource manager and technical leader for this new team• Implemented an XP-style Agile SDLC to address the distinct mission and varying goals of this new team• Analyzed existing code, redesigned the architecture when necessary, and implemented the refactored code to improve performance and maintainability • Hands-on role developing code, doing code reviews, and mentoring Tiger/SWAT team Resource Manager and Technical Leader of a large-scale application development team in the Healthcare Claim domain • 60+ engineers, analysts, and quality engineers located in multiple US states and India• Transformed existing team to increase technical competence, improve SDLC processes, and improved efficiency of organizational leadership• Achieved some of the highest employee engagement and manager effectiveness scores in the company• Hands-on role developing code, doing code reviews, and mentoring engineers at all career levelsOwned and developed multiple new features, including the UI and Data Security Framework

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• Resource Manager and Technical Leader of a large-scale application development team in the Healthcare Benefits domain • Led a large Agile team of 20+ engineers, analysts, and quality engineers• Participated in the interviewing cohort that screened and interviewed 200 candidates to hire 50 Software Engineers in 5 weeks• Hands-on role developing code, doing code reviews, and mentoring engineers at all career levels

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• Co-developed the application framework that would go on to be used by over 200 engineers • Hands-on role designing key portions of the architecture and developing code• Produced rapid proofs of concept for multiple healthcare domains

Medina, Minnesota, Us

• Team member of agile development team responsible for building new Pre-Delivery Inspection Web/Mobile application for Polaris Dealers. I was the sole designer/developer of database and backend RESTful Web Services.• Development Technologies include Java 7, Groovy, Spring, Jersey for RESTful Web Services, Hibernate ORM, Maven, WebSphere Liberty Profile, SQL Server RDBMS• Testing was performed and automated using Spock and included Unit, Integration and Functional Tests• Worked within a small team to develop new standards around technologies and a framework.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

• Team member of agile development team responsible for building next generation Product Availability Services; this solution is a key component of to determine which store has a product, a key component during Black Friday shopping• Worked with lead architect to design and implement scalable web service model that included resiliency features such as failover and replicated data stores• Wrote code, conducted code reviews, peer programming model, added monitoring capabilities, and was part of the production on call support rotation• Development Technologies include Java 7, Groovy, Spring, Jersey for RESTful Web Services, Swagger to support Self Documenting Services, Hibernate ORM, Maven, Tomcat, Oracle 10g RDBMS, Riak NoSQL, MQ Series for JMS Integration, Amazon AWS• Testing was performed and automated using Spock and included Unit, Integration and Functional Tests

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• Resource Manager and Technical Leader of several engineering managers and their technical teams (totaling 50 engineers in Minnesota, Connecticut, and India)• Hands-on role developing code, doing code reviews, and mentoring engineers at all career levels • Built the strategic Clinical application in use today by over 60K daily users • Designed high level architecture and designs used by multiple team members• Wrote the code for key modules of the application, including the security module• Managed the code build and deployment team• Responsible for defining code quality and practices for the full Clinical organization• Led several innovation efforts to explore and implement new technologies such as UI frameworks, commercial and open-source rule engines, security models, logging solutions, and automated testing technologies• Identified and selected Spock for improved automated testing; deployed this technology and trained the rest of the team, introduced the technology to other teams within the organization• Improved staffing reviews by leading the management effort to normalize review criteria by role and grade • Worked directly with the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and University of Minnesota, Twin Cities to initiate a new-graduate work entrance program• Main technologies utilized – Java 6 and Groovy; Spring IoC for improved and isolated JUnit Tests using Spock; Spring MVC Controllers for management between JSP view layer and the Spring Bean Model Layer; Spring AOP used for Transaction Management; Interaction with MySQL (for Database Configuration) and Oracle 11g (Operational Database); Application Servers – JBoss (Development), WebSphere (All other environments)

• Key developer for the CAMS (Customer Account Management System) Application, the strategic spending account platform still in use by Optum and UnitedHealth Care • Wrote the technical design and code for key modules of the application, including Customer Account Contributions (Automated and Asynchronous using JMS), Accounts Receivable(Transaction Entry and Processing) and Accounts Payable(Transaction Entry and Processing)• Main technologies utilized – Java 5(Generics, Annotations, Enumerations); Spring IoC for improved and isolated JUnit Tests using JMock; Spring MVC Controllers for management between JSP view layer and the Spring Bean Model Layer; Spring AOP used for Transaction Management; Interaction with MySQL (for Database Configuration) and Oracle 10g (Operational Database); Application Servers – Jboss and WebLogic (Development), WebSphere (All other environments)

Greenville, Wi, Us

Lead Developers in creation and integration of business application softwarePerformed as Technical Leader for multiple projects involving the Yantra Application.o Application Performance and Stabilizationo Enhancements - DC Capacity Management, Item Substitutions/Replacementso Converted entire J2EE Application to an Automated Deployment platform using ANT and QuickBuild by PMEase.o Oracle DatabaseProduction Support and TroubleshootingOracle eBusiness Suite ERP Implementation – Interfaces and Customizations

Green Bay, Wi, Us

Write software for enterprise rating applicationo C++ Server Sideo Java Homegrown JSP Framework User Interface communicating with Server Side via CORBA through OmniORB.o DB2 DatabaseTechnical Leader for a Box (Trailer) Management Application written in Java Related Technologies such as EJBso DB2 Database

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Test AS/400 Operating System APIs. Write new APIs to handle UNICODE character set.