Doug Merhar Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

As a Senior Staff Engineer and Team Leader I am building and maintaining multiple cloud based internal and external applications. We follow Scrum/Agile methodology, microservices architecture, and DevOps utilizing Source To Image CI/CD pipelines for containerized Web Application clusters on top of Red Hat Open Shift/Kubernetes. The tech stack includes Java back-end along with Dojo/React JavaScript Front end. In the back-end we utilize IBM Cloudant noSQL database and Redis high performance caching.• Led migration project of multiple applications from on-premise to IBM’s hybrid cloud environment.o Redesigned data model from DB2(SQL/JPA) to IBM Cloudant NoSQL document-based data structureso Improved product performance as much as 10xo Improved our Net Promoter Score by >20 points immediately upon our new releaseo Developed and maintained key features and created corresponding Junit testso Created build pipeline integrating Docker, Open Liberty, GitHub Enterprise, and Gradle to containerize our product suite• Led cloud application to facilitate IBM’s transition to European Union GDPR data compliance.o Promoted to Advisory Software Engineero Reworked key code paths to lower overall response times by 20 percent.o Opened and solved 400+ defectso Implemented key features across all aspects of key applications

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As a Staff Software Engineer I worked on numerous internal and external Web Application projects using Java 8, JPA, SQL on DB2 databases and JavaScript front end. I developed many key customer features, created and resolved hundreds of bugs.* Consulted for the Rwandan National Police organization as part of the IBM Corporate Service Corps. Projecto Spent five weeks with handpicked international team providing direction for IT strategy, IT infrastructure, as well as architectural design and implementationo Provided 80-page IT roadmapo Presented high-level findings to Rwanda’s congressional officials* Designed and implemented Dojo JS based UI for java web application utilizing AJAX request methodology. o UI Lead – Built rich and interactive JavaScript and Dojo based interface to house integrated test cases to be shared across test organizations. o Owned all the servlet, jsp, javaScript, javaBean code as well as back-end code.* Redesigned Tagging web application to streamline the user experience as well as make more robust o Built JAX-RS compliant REST API implementation to support requests in json/xml/html Content-Types o JAXB for xml response marshaling with custom MessageBodyWriter class for xml and used the wink JsonProvider implementation for json xml binding w/ JAXB o Removed redundant forms, and added input validation and Dojo look and feel.* Lead effort to move Clearing House, an internal IBM WebSphere Portal based application, from version 6.1 to v8.0 o Did technical and feasibility analysis on best path for migration o Built a from scratch Proof of Concept to prove out move to Portal v8 o Provided input for long term road map of migration plan o Resolved many deep configuration, code and technical issues as they came up o Created a full implementation document to provide a technical road map for colleagues

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

System Verification and Development Test Engineer focusing on long running load testing and clustered environment configuration across *nix and Windows environments.* Top rated performer two out of three years* Utilized prior onsite customer experiences to design and drive real life testing scenarios--discovering 200+ defects* Built native java test scripts to stress many features of WebSphere Portal including wiki and blog pages, tagging and rating features and remote portlet requests- Managed all the request / response mechanisms, building and submitting the forms and other web 2.0 features to emulate real customer interaction in portlet environment* Built and maintained complex testing environments across AIX, Windows, Linux(RHEL), zOS, zLinux and Solaris* Expert administrator in WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty environments

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

L2 Support Critical Situations Team for WebSphere Portal & Web Content Management* Promoted to Staff Software Engineer * Traveled onsite and resolved several international critical customer situations including, but not limited to, Hanover Insurance, Abbot Labs US, City of Helsinki, Community of Milan* Solved 100+ intractable and high profile customer issues

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Worked as customer facing IBM WebSphere Portal L2 technical support solving complex configuration and runtime java problems for both domestic and international Fortune 500 customers* Solved 200+ issues* Supported multi-tiered software stack including databases, LDAPs, web servers, application servers and web portals* Top rated both years