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Maui County, Hawaii, United States

• Senior engineer focused on building the foundations of a new banking platform with fiat and crypto currency components and a strong emphasis on compliance using Java and Spring Boot micro-services deployed to Azure.
• Collaborated in the design, implementation and deployment of the core components of the banking platform using bi-temporal data models to address expected compliance reporting requirements
• Designed, implemented and deployed an order management system for both fiat and crypto currencies
• Designed, implemented and deployed a transaction settlement system for both fiat and crypto currencies
• Designed, implemented and deployed a high availability framework for deploying high-state services within Azure Scale Sets
• Designed, implemented and deployed multiple integrations with uncommon blockchains

Dkist, Maui, HI

• Senior developer responsible for completing the high level software that allowed Science Operations to execute experiments with the telescope using Java based services deployed to on-prem servers with RabbitMQ and.
• Actively leading the specification and implementation of an engineering data repository intended to store and report on 10 years (~15TB) of non-science telescope data to disparate audiences
• Lead the effort to reduce messaging data complexity between the Science Operations and Summit systems
• Presented “Stories and Timeboxes” as part of a continuing effort to improve the Agile practices of the HLS team
• Demonstrated the viability of replacing Makefiles and a home-grown dependency management tool with Maven or Gradle

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Senior developer and team mentor for the white-label crypto-currency trading platform APEX using C#, Hazelcast, MySQL and Azure. Tasked by the EVP Technology to lead teams in adopting Agile/Lean practices as well as.
• Provided coaching and oversight in adopting effective practices for story definition, backlog management, team stand-ups and release management
• Provided one-week formal training sessions Introduction to Software Engineering for all new graduate hires; provided ad-hoc mentoring and coaching for existing professional staff
• Championed and implemented a behavior-based automated acceptance test system using SME written Gherkin to improve the quality and confidence of trading mechanics
• Designed, built and maintained a multi-stage Jenkins CI build pipeline facilitating multiple layers of automated testing (including acceptance, integration and unit testing), packaging and automated deployment for.
• Led the implementation of a high availability service framework to maximize APEX up time

Cary, North Carolina

• Senior technical resource, project leader, and staff mentor for multiple teams in Cary and Singapore leading the design and implementation of multiple J2EE based systems leveraging WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Jetty.
• Championed and led the near-green field architecture and implementation of Autobahn Alerts, a near-real-time business intelligence generation system acting on more than 15 million FX and FI trade and other business.
• At Director’s request, undertook multiple roles with wide ranging responsibilities to ensure the Autobahn Alerts team success, including development manager, release manager, L3 support co-lead, configuration manager.
• Addressed changing requirements and increasing demand of Autobahn Alerts by scaling the initial design from a simple framework to a multi-site, multi-tiered, globally distributed fault tolerant system heavily.
• Planned and led the transparent migration of GTB’s 150K global user payments system from custom hardware to bank standard internal cloud services for Apache, WebLogic and Oracle working through significant internal.
• Led a small team for the Equity Swap System implementing tactical projects including the reconciliation of reference data between multiple disparate systems

Rochester, NY

• Supervisor and technical lead for a team of ten students and staff leading the design and implementation of many multi-tiered web systems creating reusable and extensible systems with WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle.
• Instituted team practices and organizational culture resulting the in repeated successful delivery of critical software systems, despite the natural high turn-over of student team members
• Directly mentored over 50 students in a variety of technology and graphic arts majors
• 2008 RIT Staff Recognition Award Nominee for the delivery of the new Student Housing Portal
• Presented “RIT FAST Dev: A Student based Web Team for RIT’s Finance & Administration Division” at the 2004 HighEdWebDev conference

Rochester, NY

• Lecturer of all areas of Software Engineering
• Recognized in 2005 for "commitment to equal access, and for demonstrating awareness and sensitivity in the course of serving RIT students with disabilities"

Penfield, NY

Architect and implementer of a multi-tier system for the secure handling of Medicaid claims using Java, Adobe Flex, PostgreSQL, and Active MQ

Rochester, NY

• Project architect and technical lead for multiple J2EE projects leveraging Weblogic and Oracle
• Presented “Design Patterns in the Real World” to the July 2000 Rochester Java Users Group

Rochester, NY

Firmware developer, but later team lead for designing and implementing remote control and reprogramming software for mil-spec HF radio systems

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Focus on Software Engineering Thesis: Parallel genetic algorithms : three implementations and their analysis

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Minor in Economics