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Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

DevsOperative is a Cloud Native focused service provider, centered around Kubernetes based digital platforms and tool-chains. We offer training, staffing, CNCF project support, and on-site architectural design services. We believe that DevOps principles and Cloud Native technologies can enable businesses of any size, to achieve high levels of agility, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Responsible for developing web services in Java. Designed, coded, configured, tested, debugged, deployed, and documented large and/or complex programs, using a variety of software development toolkits, programming languages, testing/verification applications and other tools, while adhering to specific development best practices and quality standards. Gathered business requirements and translated that information into detailed technical specifications from which programs were written or configured.OpenShift Platform Implementation• Implemented on-premise OpenShift• Performed a proof of concept to determine what Spring Boot services running in a container would look like.• Worked with various Container Platforms (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, OpenShift) to determine the architectural considerations.Automation of Build and Deployment of Code• Designed a system to consistently deploy our code to our various environments• This process included implementing a continuous integration build system (Bamboo), an artifact repository (Artifactory), and a configuration management system (Puppet).• A custom script in Ruby was written to integrate all the various tools in this system.Boxen and Mac Rollout• Provided training, documentation, and demos of the use of Boxen to speed the iteration time of workstation setup and to provide a more consistent and maintainable work environment.• Designed and wrote a complex collection of scripts using the Boxen framework to support the rollout, maintenance, and provisioning of all Macbook Pro workstation.Vagrant Implementation• Designed and wrote a complex collection of scripts using the Vagrant framework and the Puppet language to create and provide a consistent and reproducible development environment.Environment: Java, JBoss EAP, WSO2, Vagrant, Git, Jira, Stash, Bamboo, Boxen

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Meetup for technologists interested in mobile, web, cloud, wearables, data sciences and other areas involving Google-developed or Google-inspired platforms and services -- located in Grand Rapids. A key goal is to connect local technologists and facilitate collaborations that support local community needs.http://www.meetup.com/GDG-Grand-Rapids/

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Primary Android developer responsible for various mobile apps, both public and private.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Responsible for working with cross-functional teams to maintain detailed knowledge of upcoming releases and integrating incoming code changes into them. Make informed and appropriate recommendations to engineering managers and project managers regarding integration policy, project branching and versioning, and merge conflict resolution.Bonus Calculation System• The build and deployment process used to be a convoluted, multi step procedure, which required the manual execution of 41 individual scripts as well as manual file manipulation using WinSCP. Following my efforts, the entire build and deployment process has been reduced to a 2 button process.• Converted ant projects to maven projects.• Set up Jenkins instance to automate the build and deploy process.• Set up Sonatype Nexus instance for dependency management.Jira and Git Implementation• Diagrammed and put together proof of concept demos of Jira to replace various methods of issue tracking.• Diagrammed and put together proof of concept demos of Git to replace SVN and TFS.• Demoed how git could be used to facilitate a standard process of application deployment.Chef and Vagrant Discussions• Provided training, documentation, and demos of the use of Chef and Vagrant to speed the iteration time of development and to provide a more consistent server environment.Environment: Java, J2EE, .Net, SOA Suite, Web Methods, Red Prairie, JD Edwards, JDA, Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, WebSphere, TFS, Subversion, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Waterfall, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Responsible for handling the day to day operations and support of the custom warehouse management system, as well as diagnosing and fixing relevant bugs, building and deploying, and merging various code branches.Warehouse Management System• Fixed bugs on a large, java based, enterprise warehouse management system.• Added new features to the warehouse management system.• Made changes to the pom.xml and maven build script.• Converted code from CVS to SVN.• Converted projects from ant to maven.• Acted as business day on call to support the users in their day to day activities.Environment:Java, J2EE, Maven, Ant, WebLogic, SVN, CVS, Eclipse, Oracle 11g

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science