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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Project: Red Hat MarketplaceRed Hat Marketplace is a next-generation marketplace focused on selling primarily third-party containerized software which can be managed and run across multiple clouds, is fully certified and supported, and has an active community of developers integrated into the platform.Responsibilities:• The creation of containerized microservice components and solutions that excel at performance, reliability and web scalability• The development of UI components and frontend services using ReactJS/NextJS web frameworks• Complete coding, testing, defect fixes, and production support, using latest agile CI/CD methodologies• Analyzing current code and existing design with the goal of enacting improvements geared towards making components and processes more efficient for the entire team• Planning iterations and representing accomplishments at team scrums• Presenting individual and team status during weekly playbacks or on management calls• Managing risks and resolving issues that affect scope, schedule, and quality• Deploying services to cloud platforms such as IBM Cloud and OpenShift• Effectively leveraging build, deployment and monitoring/logging tools such as Travis CI/Jenkins, New Relic, Logentries, etc.• Evaluating and selecting appropriate tools to enhance the teams’ productivity• Coaching and collaborating with other development team members

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

Project: Metry UI and Common ServicesMetry is a set of micro-services and UI components for use in multiple Xylem products. The services were built with Spring Boot utilizing Spring Profiles and property settings in order to allow run time determination of what configuration to use, allowing a single code base to be run on multiple platforms. The UI components were built using Vue.js, a progressive framework for building user interfaces.Responsibilities:• Created web UI components with Vue.js and Vuetify• Designed and developed micro-services using Spring Boot • Used MongoDB to store data and Spring Data to carry out various database specific operations • Used Maven, Git, and Jenkins for configuration management , code versioning, building, and release• Deployed micro-services using Docker containers managed by Kubernetes• Used IntelliJ to develop and debug application code• Managed JavaScript code dependencies and libraries using npm

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

Project: Sensus Lighting Control Web Application Design and development of new feature requests and maintained existing functionality for Sensus’ web application used to control lighting modules. The work involved writing components in the latest web framework and technologies used by organization, as well as, developing SOAP Java web services.Responsibilities:• Created web UI components using jQuery, jQuery UI, and other acceptable jQuery plugins• Used HTML 5, CSS 3.0, and JSP for presentation of web interface• Created and configured application using Spring MVC framework and Spring security with JSP tags for authentication and authorization • Developed backend services using SOAP architecture with Spring • Used ORM tool MyBatis for the interaction with MS SQLServer and Oracle databases• Used Data access layer to fetch data from database, carry out various database specific operations and avoid redundant database access statements • Use JMS queues to handling messaging between services • Used Subversion with Maven and Jenkins for configuration management , code versioning, building, and release• Used Eclipse to develop and debug application code• Created unit tests using JUnit with mocking frameworks EasyMock and PowerMock

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Project: Custom software integrations/extensions for Elster’s Smart Grid/AMI/MDM productsResponsibilities:• Identified intercepts for integration based on flows and resources affected by introduction of the Elster's Smart Grid/AMI product to the customer’s business. • Developed standalone applications to generate formatted output for consumption by customer systems• Created and configured applications using Spring framework and plain old Java objects (POJOS)• Implemented transaction management with the Spring framework in the business layer• Used ORM tool MyBatis for the interaction with Oracle database and Spring for controlling the flow between application layer and MyBatis• Used DAO pattern to fetch data from database, carry out various database specific operations and avoid redundant database access statements • Generated output files using templating framework Freemarker• Used Subversion with Maven for configuration management , code versioning, building, and release• Used Eclipse/SpringSource Toolsuite to develop and debug application code• Created unit tests using JUnit with mocking frameworks PowerMock and Mockito• Wrote installers using Izpack packaging toolProject: System Performance Verification Reporting ToolResponsibilities:• Developed application to generate reports viewable from a web browser• Used Adobe Flex/Flash as the presentation layer accessing a server via AMF gateway• Developed backend and server processes using python modules• Used Apache Thrift framework for interaction with NoSQL database Hbase • Deployed application using web2py framework to an Apache webserver

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Project: Outage Management Interface toolResponsibilities:• As Senior Java Developer participated in the designing of new architecture for UI application using model-view controller (MVC) design paradigm• Implemented user interface and dialogs using JFC/Swing in Eclipse development environment• Designed and implemented applet table views using Java AWT, to replace existing third party vendor product• Redesigned applet to use enhanced features of Java Swing API.• Developed enhancements and updates for web based outage management product, using HTML, PL/SQL, and JavaScript• Used JDBC API to connect and run SQL queries from java application to Oracle databases• Managed code changes and revisions using Rational ClearCase• Participated in code reviews

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Project: TRACs trouble ticketing systemResponsibilities:• As Contract Java Programmer created components and Java classes using Visual Café for development and debugging• Implemented user interface and dialogs using Java’s AWT • Used OrbixWeb’s interface definition language (IDL) and CORBA objects as interface between client and server

Project: Product development and maintenanceResponsibilities:• Used Visual Works for Smalltalk to implement user interface bug fixes on client projects • Used VisualAge for Java to assist in the development of a quick quote insurance web demo. Implemented web page using HTML and NetFusion• Created Java servlet to connect page to database of information, calculate quote, and return quote page

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Information Systems