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Rochester, Ny, Us

Rochester, Ny, Us

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Managing a team of brilliant senior software engineers solving complex infrastructure and distributed systems problems, including micro and macro load balancing, traffic distribution, messaging, automation, and inventory management• Strategic planning of projects, execution, and reporting read outs to executive leadership• Performing regular 1:1s, performance appraisals, and discussing career growth opportunities• Driving the architecture, design, training and evangelizing of a revolutionary infrastructure-as-code, environment-as-code multi-year project• Assisting engineers in engineering or troubleshooting highly visible projects

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Manage, guide, and lead a team of systems engineers, performing regular 1:1s, performance appraisals, and discussing career growth opportunities• Assisting engineers in engineering or troubleshooting highly visible projects• Prioritizing operational and functional engineering activities• Leading functional engineering initiatives to improve infrastructure• Providing direction for technology choices and implementation strategies• Instilling Infrastructure as Code principles using automation and configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, Foreman, etc.

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Manage, guide and lead a team of 24 high caliber middleware engineers, performing regular 1:1s, performance appraisals, and discussing career growth opportunities• Assisting engineers in engineering or troubleshooting highly visible projects• Prioritizing operational and functional engineering activities• Leading functional engineering initiatives to improve infrastructure• Providing direction for technology choices and implementation strategy• Much of Engineer III duties

Rochester, Ny, Us

Middleware Engineer focusing on new projects working with IT operations and Software Development. Managing middleware technologies including WebLogic, SiteMinder, RiskMinder, LDAP, iPlanet, and Layer 7 XML gateways. • Implemented and configured infrastructure and middleware for RiskMinder Multi Factor Authentication project• Troubleshooting diving into every layer of the application stack from database, LDAP, SSL, middleware, web services, to LTMs, web servers, JVM configurations, etc.• Designing F5 LTM and GTM configurations for applications• Part of the internal DevOps and SDLC Continuous Delivery strategic initiatives to transform the way Paychex provisions infrastructure and delivers software• Drove the implementation and adoption of Confluence, JIRA, and Git into the daily routine of the IT Operations organization• Driving improved process, documentation, and knowledge sharing across the entire IT organization• Implemented Git as the source control option for IT Operations

New York, Ny, Us

Buffalo, New York, Us

Developed a web application to manage critical Food Show operations. Functionality included tracking check-ins of 100s of guests, printing artifacts for guests, reporting on arrivals, data entry of orders made by guests at the shows, and reporting on guest orders for sales people.● Immensely helped expedite and streamline the triage of guests at food shows as well as allow for quick turn around of processing their orders post-show● Worked with client on requirements and continued to add functionality over several years● Supported the application onsite during Food Shows which could involve high pressure situations

New York, New York, Us

Developed a Java Spring Boot web application to bulk test USB drives. Flexible tool to write GBs of random data to a bank of 50+ drives simultaneously and record performance or errors and report on that information. Helped eliminate $$ in wasted time shipping faulty drives.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Worked as liaison between Infrastructure and Software Development organizations to properly architect, size and configure infrastructure; physical and virtual servers, databases, middleware technology, F5 LTM configurations, etc for internal and external facing applications.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Software Architect working with several development and infrastructure teams to develop dynamic software (web) applications used by both internal PAETEC & Windstream employees and external customers. Guiding teams in general direction of architecture and facilitating knowledge sharing. Using several types of technologies based on the need such as Java, Oracle, SQL, SOA Suite, etc.• Software Architect on the Order Automation team; working with team on design tasks and system architecture.• Scrum Master of the Order Automation Scrum team; leading daily scrum calls, managing sprints, helping engineers work through roadblocks and participating in development.• Administer Oracle WebLogic server and SOA Suite middleware, assisting engineers in troubleshooting performance issues and development roadblocks. Diagnosing performance issues related to virtual machine (VM) architecture.• Lead Engineer of a consolidated database of Toll Free Telephone Number data for Toll Free Provisioning teams. Used Informatica to load data from numerous sources, including remote sites/vendors/carriers as well as technologically disparate internal databases. Presented information in a dynamic Oracle Application Express (APEX) interface.• Manage and maintain internal suite of Atlassian Development tools (JIRA, FishEye and Crucible) used by all of IT, and Confluence Wiki (used by all of the company). Performing upgrades, maintenance, and support as well as troubleshooting performance issues and improving architecture.• Evangelist of process improvements and development tools to promote better development efficiencies, agile development, visibility and knowledge sharing between teams, continuous integration, and automated tests.• Lead IT Architect on consolidating version control systems (VCS) across the company and help promote the use of DVCS, specifically Mercurial.

Supervisor of Tactical Software Engineering, managed dynamic team of 6-8 engineers who develop applications used by both internal PAETEC employees and external customers. Managed the development of applications which facilitate common day to day activities, workflow and order tracking, automated provisioning tasks, email notifications, sales profitability, and tools to better track change management and SOX compliance. Interfacing daily with numerous IT members and business stakeholders to define business problems, obtain requirements, schedule and facilitate development, balancing resources for various projects, and schedule code deployments for production.

Software Engineer designing, engineering, developing, and supporting web based applications as well as data integration applications. Worked with Java, JSP, Oracle PL/SQL, Hibernate, Java Server Faces (JSF), JRules Rules Engine, and Oracle Workflow. Extensive work with telecom platforms MetaSolv (MSS) & RevChain (RC) as well as Oracle eBusiness Suite.UI Engineer for an internal profitability analysis tool called Profit Assistant Online (PAO) used by the PAETEC Sales organization to generate quotes for potential opportunities, allowing them very flexible quoting of a complex product catalog.• Lead UI Engineer on the PAO team; design and development of the core front-end using JSF and Oracle ADF Faces to be completely data driven. Performed heavy optimization of UI components to improve performance and scalability.• Researched and compared various business rule vendors and presented recommendation to management for direction to use JRules to separate business profitability logic from application logic.• Architected and implemented an extensible workflow framework based on Oracle Workflow utilizing Oracle Advanced Queuing, PL/SQL and Java. Implemented reusable components that could be utilized to create complex enterprise business flows. Created an inter-system event driven model to allow initiation of business flows.• M&A (mergers and acquisitions) work to migrate data from companies obtained via acquisitions into our provisioning and billing platforms.• Developed a web-based tool using Struts to allow automated Trouble Ticket creation in MSS for key customers.• Began grass-roots initiative to bring in Atlassian suite of development tools to improve development. • Participated in development and maintenance of internal reporting tool called Concerto.General ResponsibilitiesRequirements gathering, end user interaction, application design, graphical development, unit testing, production deployment, support and maintenance, interaction with vendor support.

L-1160 Luxembourg, Lu

Web application design and implementation using ASP and ASP.NET as well as developing in Microsoft SQL server and writing all T-SQL for projects.Requirements gathering, end user interaction, application design, graphical development, QA testing, production deployment, support and maintenance.

Manage facility and daily business operations, opened and closed facility, scheduling of employee work shifts, performed customer service, organization and coordination of 7 junior bowling leagues containing 120+ children, birthday parties, troubleshooting, disassembling and fixing pin setter machines (Brunswick) as a mechanic, performing daily maintenance and oiling of lanes.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science And Engineering

Honors, Computer Engineering