Dean Andrews Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca

2019 still dealing with creating vendor access points. Expanded from just service providers to include claim event consumers and external scoring vendors. Spent time with spring boot creating demo/test implementations for these providers. Also ported the runtime framework to our platform version 8 (a pre-gradle, java 7 version, build environment). 2018 switched over to integration of third party service providers (vendors) into our platform. This is basically a cloud based environment utilizing aws (dynamodb, s3, ecs) and requiring creating docker containers and gradle/groovy work to make all the parts work together. 2017 added a definition first (swagger) rest framework which utilized composition to have platform, internal app, and customer, into a unified, versionable, stable api. Also, a read only json schema based definition with mapping to provide a versionable, stable, json documents.The products supported h2, Oracle, and Sqlserver databases. The products ran on Windows and Linux platforms. And was deployable in Jetty, Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, and JBoss servers. I have participated in multiple release cycles and as a lead in the platform's integration pod have mentored a lot of fellow developers and worked with multiple different agile approach. The integration pod is responsible for how we permit customer to extend our product's backend. These integration points where batch processing, workflows, webservices, servlets, work queues, documents, and plugins. Prior to being promoted to the platform team, I work with a specific application team dealing with the Policy capture and management. Important projects there included making permissions and roles customer extendable (later adopted by platform); adding a different ACL (Access Control List) mechanism; extending workflows to permit visualization and management of complex processes like renewals and submissions (later adopted by platform); and worked on umbrella coverage.

Des Plaines, Il

This is continuation of Endeavor Information Systems. The company was purchase, my project was closed down and there were layoffs else where in development. So I resigned (I was ready to go back to SF and I tried to save some others' jobs).

Des Plaines, Il

This is a C/C++ shop in the Library industry. I introduced Java for one project, in a tomcat/axis environment. Used xml/xslt for another project. In addition to multiple release cycles, routine maintenance and problem escalation, among the projects accomplished where a rewrite of the complex library network search protocol, exposing that search engine via web service, dealing with federated searching (broadcasting a search request, multiplexing the responses, and presenting this to the web based end user). The last 6 months I was also lead on an new product offering dealing with long term archiving of digital artifacts with upgrade as the preferred codex changed.

Austin, Tx

This was an object oriented C++/Perl shop supporting a hosting environment for consumer banking. The service was marketed to various banks that did not have the expertise to security present customer information on the web for their customers. Being a hosting environment for financial information there were extensive security requirements and change controls. As a senior developer here a significate portion of my time was mentoring and mandatory code reviews. The projects I dealt with where permissions configuration; clearing account auditing; and performance escalations.

Monterey, Ca

During this time I was also considered an employee of the parent company, Data Research Assocates, see that entry. This was a very small library software vendor. Primary language was Pascal and the database was HP proprietary. In additional to programming tasks and managing 4 other developers, I was also the public face of development at this firm, traveling to customer sites when needed and participating in the sales cycle. One major project was the introduction of the library standard network search protocol. Also, significant time was spent migrating to HP's risc architecture and certifying customer extensions for Y2K.

Monterey, Ca

During this period, I was primarily at Inlex Library System (see that entry), which Data Research Associates (DRA) owned. But also partook in DRA efforts to design a replacement system for the three library system they marketed. This was an extensive Rational project sticking to RUP guidelines as much as possible. This system was platform independent and was being stubbed in C++.

Sunnyvale, Ca

This company flagship product was a job scheduler and load balancer. Soon after I departed this company was acquired by IBM. When I started this a Pascal application run only on HP using HP's proprietary network protocol. One of my projects was migrate this to C, Berkeley sockets, and runnable on any Posix compliant system. Also, created an Z8000 based environment monitor with sensors and outgoing devices (text to speech, telephone, relays), communicating to HP server via rs232. This shop used HP's equivalent of flex/bison for parsing configuration files. Integrated with network management platforms (Openview and Netview) via SNMP and create control app within that framework.

Oakland, Ca

This company was a vendor for two report writer solutions in the HP system space. One was a compiler, the other used HP's screen equivalent to collect reporting configuration and generated code for that compiler. I was the lead programmer with two other programmers, saw this through several life cycles. Rewrote the end user front end to the visual report writer.

San Francisco, Ca

Sole person responsible for bring this broker dealer into the computer age. Client management software; limited partnership subscriptions and commissions; accounting. Cobol, RPG, HP's SPL. On HP business systems, IBM PCs, and CP/M PCs.

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