Dean Parker

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AI / Cloud Architect at IBM - Hybrid Cloud Services - CTO Office @ IBM
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
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About Dean Parker

At IBM, I am working as an AI Architect specializing in generative artificial intelligence. This is in addition to my cloud and full stack architect role. I am focused on creating platform neutral solutions leveraging the power of generative ai, but I have implemented these client solutions on both Azure and Watson.ai. In my prior role as Kubernetes/Openshift technical lead at one of the worlds largest airlines I was the last line of support and technical guidance for all of the stream-aligned development teams. This was done across a wide variety of technical stacks including AWS and Openshift on AWS (also known as ROSA). That was for an application Modernization, Containerization and Migration effort spanning hundreds of applications over multiple years. I contributed code, designed new containerization and migration patterns and most importantly I taught stream-aligned teams best practices and guiding principles suitable for the tech stack and business domain of each application.At IBM, I have worked on a long-term engagement and modernization effort for one of our largest clients in the insurance industry. My role there was as both lead full-stack architect and cloud architect helping to advise, build, move and service a distributed application once deployed on the Netflix OSS stack. The target move environment was Redhat Openshift running on the IBM Cloud. This project was completed successfully over the span of 2+ years.At IBM, I design, write, test and contribute code in a variety of languages in all of my engagements as the need arises.At IBM, I am a regular instructor and content contributor for our Generative AI Bootcamp, Complex Solutions Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering courses.At IBM, I leverage my extensive background in UI/UX design and development to guide stream-aligned development teams as the need arises.At IBM I contribute to design thinking sessions to create original and unique software in the Site Reliability Engineering space.At IBM I assessed existing systems and designed and built operational Runbooks for one of the largest beverage companies in the world.Before my time at IBM, I worked continuously for 10 years in the health care industry at Medecision in Wayne Pa as a Senior Software Architect. I began my career as a Technical Lead focused on one of our most popular products, iExchange. I was eventually asked to join the Medecision Software Architecture Team as Senior Software Architect based on my performance.

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AI / Cloud Architect at IBM - Hybrid Cloud Services - CTO Office
Dean Parker Work Experience Details
  • Ibm
    Cloud Architect
    Ibm Aug 2019 - Present
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Currently, I am working as a cloud and full stack architect for one of the largest airlines in the world. I work as the applications and Kubernetes/Openshift technical lead for the enabling "Tiger" team designed to be the last line of support and technical guidance for all of the stream-aligned development teams across a wide variety of technical stacks including AWS and Openshift on AWS (also known as ROSA). This is for an application Modernization, Containerization and Migration effort spanning hundreds of applications over multiple years. I contribute code, design new containerization and migration patterns and most importantly I teach stream-aligned teams best practices and guiding principles suitable for the tech stack and business domain of each application.I have worked on a long-term engagement and modernization effort for one of our largest clients in the insurance industry. My role there was as both lead full-stack architect and cloud architect helping to advise, build, move and service a distributed application once deployed on the Netflix OSS stack. The target move environment was Redhat Openshift running on the IBM Cloud. This project was completed successfully over the span of 2+ years.I design, write, test and contribute code in a variety of languages in all of my engagements as the need arises.I am a regular instructor and content contributor for our Complex Solutions Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering courses.I leverage my extensive background in UI/UX design and development to guide stream-aligned development teams as the need arises.I contribute to design thinking sessions to create original and unique software in the Site Reliability Engineering space.I assessed existing systems and designed and built operational Runbooks for one of the largest beverage companies in the world.
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  • Medecision
    Senior Architect
    Medecision Mar 2009 - Jul 2019
    King Of Prussia, Pa, Us
    As the first full time Architect at Medecision to combine significant project Technical Lead experience with a pure Architecture background from prior full-time and contracting work, I have been in a unique position to transform the traditional relationship Architecture has with Development at Medecision. Acting as both a technical and managerial bridge between the two entities, I have been able to improve efficiency, interpersonal communication and develop a more fundamentally sound code base.I have spent quite a bit of time designing and building the foundation for a line of Mobile capable products using tech such as Vue.JS and Node.JS in an attempt to create lightweight, Responsive and flexible applications that can both perform well and exceed the user's expectations in a mobile form factor.I am also responsible for 3rd party vendor and product evaluation such as Redhat Openshift, Amazon EKS Managed Kubernetes Service and Elastic Search. I have also been personally responsible for the prototyping and architectural direction of most of our layered product upgrades. These include Spring, Hibernate, Oracle 11->12 and Oracle JDK 8 -> OpenJDK 11. My evaluations are not solely technical in nature but also take budgetary considerations into account.I have personally lead a transformation effort here from large monolithic Java Enterprise applications running on Wildfly to a microservices design based on Docker containers running various technology stacks. These include SpringBoot, Node.JS, Express, Quarkus and Graal VM.Integration with 3rd party applications is a fundamental part of our design approach here and making this work from a design and coding perspective including Single Sign On is a critical part of the job. These include applications that enhance or replace Medecision authored modules and often require complicated or difficult real time interactions.
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  • Dean Parker Solutions Llc For Playdaytv
    Sole Proprietor
    Dean Parker Solutions Llc For Playdaytv Aug 2008 - Mar 2009
     Formed a sole proprietorship to offer my services on select projects to clients in the greater Philadelphia area. Acted as Senior Technical Lead for the Java Practices division of e-brilliance consulting in Conshohocken, Pa. My primary client was Virrata Games / PlaydayTV in Conshohocken, Pa. I was the designer and Architect of a java based back-office technology stack designed to support a new games based cable channel as well as an internet based interface to the gaming channel. This model is very similar to the Xbox Live network in functionality, but is intended to support hosted games and not set top box to set top box communication. All elements of the technology stack were selected and built from the ground up by me, from the database to the web pages themselves. This project is being run as an Agile project using Rally from Rally Software Development. Agile methodogies being followed are SCRUM, TDD(Test Driven Development) and Sprint Iteration planning and execution. Various technologies used are detailed below. Java 6  Java Enterprise Edition 5 EJB 3 Stateless and Stateful Session Beans Sun Java Application server 9.x (Glassfish) Java Server Faces (JSF) Facelets JBoss Seam Hibernate Hibernate Search built on the Lucene API JBoss Cache Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) used to expose key services to each individual running game and portal. JPA (Java Persistence Architecture) MySQL Subversion Cruise Control Ant Sun JavaFX to provide rich internet functionality for the primary internet gaming portal. XHTML and CSS to provide templating and layout for the primary internet gaming portal Various tools used include MyEclipse 7.0 and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
  • Ciber Inc.
    Senior Consultant
    Ciber Inc. Mar 2006 - Mar 2008
     Consultant to SEI Investments Co. – Wealth Management Software. Technical Lead for the Reporting and Statements team and advisor to the Platform Management and Architecture teams. Technical Lead duties at SEI include mentoring younger developers and consultants from non CIBER consultancies, designing and programming the core modules of the Reporting and Statement application, and coordinating a complicated development process featuring dozens of teams and hundreds of developers. Included working with Business Analysts to develop Use Cases, and personally developing High Level and Low Level Design Documentation. Responsible for production support of older versions of the SEI Wealth Management in addition to the planning, design, construction, testing and implementation of newer versions. Design, programming and testing of various aspects of the GWMP project. J2EE – JSP(Struts), Stateless Session Beans, Message Beans, JMS J2EE Design Patterns – Strong usage of design patterns including but not limited to Service Locator, Session Façade, Transfer Object, Business Delegate, Composite Entity and View Helper. Instrumental in the creation of a custom SEI pattern to handle heavy Message Bean usage called the Orchestrator Pattern, as well as a pattern meant to handle long running open ended processes called the Chunking Pattern. Oracle –Heavy usage of Stored Procedures, Array, Object and Table Types Crystal Enterprise –Heavy usage of the RAS (Report Application Server) API to create, publish and modify report templates on the fly IDE – Eclipse· Database – Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000 Application Server – Weblogic 8.1 Performance Optimization - Used JProbe along with other tools and techniques to assist in performance profiling and code optimization. Optimized and refactored both Oracle Stored Procedures and core Java code (running on Weblogic) to meet and/or exceed minimum performance requirements. Misc – Starteam, PVCS Tracker, Crystal Enterprise XI
  • Octagon Research Solutions
    Lead Developer
    Octagon Research Solutions Mar 2003 - Mar 2006
    Lead Developer for ViewPoint – Submissions Management commercial software. Included working with contractors while helping to build internal development team. Responsible for overall technical architecture of ViewPoint including, but not limited to, JSP design, Swing interface design and middle-tier design using EJBs and plain Java classes. Responsible for most tool/API review and recommendation. Responsible for User Interface consistency, look and feel, as well as the coding of the ViewPoint Swing framework. Responsible for sole development and maintenance of several Viewpoint associated applications that use Spring, Hibernate, and Java Server Faces running on Tomcat. Design, programming and testing of various aspects of the ViewPoint project. J2EE – JSP(Struts), Stateless Session Beans, CMP Entity Beans, Message Beans, JMS Java – Swing, middle-tier design. Spring – Used as the foundation for several applications built from scratch. Hibernate – Used in conjunction with Spring to handle database access.· Java Server `Faces Used as the interface and the controller for several applications built from scratch. XML – Sax, DOM parsing IDE – Eclipse, JBuilder Modeling – MagicDraw Database – MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i Application Server – Weblogic 8.1, Tomcat Misc – Visio, Rational ClearQuest, JProbe
  • Macadam It-Consultants
    Senior Consultant
    Macadam It-Consultants Jan 2002 - Mar 2003
    Worked on a contract basis with First MCO Health Insurance in Parsippany NJ to enhance some of their existing systems as well as completely replace key pieces with new modules. Used Java 1.3 and Visual Basic 6.0 running against an Oracle 8.0 database to fulfill the needs of the client. Contract required analysis, design and implementation of new functionality as well as maintenance of older systems. Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 95.
  • Rewardsplus Of America
    Lead Architect
    Rewardsplus Of America Oct 2000 - Nov 2001
    Identified, reviewed and recommended modeling, design and programming tools as well as J2EE application servers. Developed programming and design standards and methodologies for the entire company. Extensive object modeling and system design for a full development life cycle. Component design, programming and testing using EJB 2.0 and WebLogic Application Server 6.0. Extensive Stateless Session Bean design and programming as well as detailed implementation of proven industry standard J2EE blueprints and design Patterns. Primarily responsible for the design and architecture of the middle-tier layer of a system needed to support the core medical benefits administration of large corporate clients. J2EE client applications consist of Cold Fusion and JSP based websites running on MS IIS, as well as normal Java programs. Extensive design and implementation of a Data Access Object Layer (DAO) intended to isolate and de-couple database access form the rest of the system design. Wrote and standardized the usage of a custom DAO writer using Java Swing to facilitate the integration of new and existing database tables into database neutral middle-tier architecture. Primarily used TogetherSoft Together Control Center 5.x to do UML 1.3 modeling, design and programming for the middle-tier. Client applications usually written using Netbeans Open Source 3.2 or Sun Forte for Java Community Edition. Hardware consists of Windows 2000 servers running Weblogic 6.0, MS SQL Server 7.0 and MS Internet Information Systems (IIS) Web servers. Worked in a team environment requiring the tutelage and mentoring of less experienced developers. Platform: Windows 2000. MS SQL Server 7.0. Cold Fusion 6.5. NetBeans 3.2. IIS.
  • Cendant Mortgage
    Sr Developer
    Cendant Mortgage Oct 1998 - Oct 2000
    Us
    Nearly all development work was the design and coding of Java Enterprise Beans in a 3-tier environment, and writing a special Windows NT COM object using Java and C++ that was used throughout Cendant. The tools used include Visual Café, Microsoft Visual Studio, Powerbuilder 6.5 and the BEA WebLogic Server. Used Powerbuilder 6.5 (PFC) in a large-scale production environment (Sybase System 11) to manage the entire life cycle of a home mortgage from Origination to Servicing. Another primary responsibility was maintaining and enhancing the Computer Telephony Integration system using Microsoft Visual Studio (C++) that thousands of Cendant’s originators used on a daily basis. Platform(s): Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, UNIX, PowerBuilder 6.5, Sybase System 11.
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  • Alliance Consulting Group
    Consultant
    Alliance Consulting Group Dec 1997 - Oct 1998
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Used Powerbuilder 5.0 and Visio 4.0 to design, develop and implement a Credit Card Processing expansion module and a Registration Discounting module for the Thomas Jefferson University JEFFNOW Physician Referral and Class Registration System. Instructed and assisted the in-house developers in the Thomas Jefferson Information Technology department in various tasks, including Oracle 7.3 database design, bug-fixing and product point release upgrades while using Windows 95 as the development platform. Platform(s): Windows NT 4.0, PowerBuilder 4, Visio 4.0
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  • Tokai Financial Services
    Senior Developer
    Tokai Financial Services Jul 1997 - Dec 1997
    Assisted in the complete overhaul of the internal Tokai Leasing System, using Powerbuilder 6.0, Visio 5.0, Erwin Modelmart with an Oracle 7.3 back-end and Windows NT 4.0 as the development platform. Attained knowledge and skill in the use of Sybase Jaguar Transaction Server. Used Powerbuilder as a front-end tool and Java as the middle tier component language running under Jaguar. Attended and completed a 2 week session in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML at the Advanced Concepts Center of Lockheed Martin. Attained a working and practical knowledge of the use of UML and Object Oriented Design on large-scale projects. Platform(s): PowerBuilder 6, Windows NT 4.0
  • Innovative Tech (Its) Now Known As Peregrine Systems
    Programmer
    Innovative Tech (Its) Now Known As Peregrine Systems Jan 1994 - Jul 1997
    Designed and developed mission-critical applications in Powerbuilder 3.0 to 5.0 to run in both 16 and 32 bit Microsoft Windows environments. Effective use of relational database data modeling using Sybase SQL Anywhere, SQL Server 4.2, Oracle 7.0 to 7.3, Sybase System 11 and Informix 7.1 as back-ends. Extensive use of Structured Query Language (SQL) in Powerscript as well as in the creation of Powerbuilder objects. Solely responsible for the application security design, application framework and MDI navigation technology of Innovative Tech’s core product. Proficient in writing database-independent Powerbuilder script. Adept in the design and application of Powerbuilder Foundation Class (PFC) applications using Powerbuilder 5.0.Platform(s): MS DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0
  • Robec
    Developer
    Robec May 1993 - Dec 1993
    MIS Developer using Dataflex for a value added computer reseller

Dean Parker Education Details

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Computer Software Engineering

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