Derek Karnes Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Charlottesville, Virginia

▪ Driving Innovation in Government Projects: Lead cross-functional teams to deliver vital government systems, supporting thousands of users and enabling secure data exchange with external partners through RESTful services and serverless AWS Lambda solutions.▪ Full Lifecycle Application Development: Spearhead end-to-end implementation of applications, from gathering requirements to production deployment. Created reusable Java EE infrastructure and AWS CodePipeline configurations, streamlining deployments across multiple government programs.▪ Cloud Migration Expertise: Played a pivotal role in migrating the first Army system from a government network to AWS GovCloud, ensuring secure and seamless operations in a cloud environment.▪ Strategic Representation and Communication: Serve as the development team’s representative in management and customer meetings. Excel in stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment on project progress, challenges, and objectives.Specialties: Cloud Architecture, DevOps, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Java EE, AWS GovCloud, RESTful APIs, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management.

Charlottesville, Virginia

As a Team Lead for multiple projects, I produced many successful Java-based solutions for the Department of Defense, including mapping, visualization, collections and order of battle management systems and applications.My last project was leading the Agile (scrum and Kanban) development team in a massive rewrite and integration effort of two congruous technologies, an Order of Battle analysis tool and a C3 networks analysis tool. As System Architect for the effort, responsibilities include documenting and designing all aspects of the SOA system that uses a Java Web Start thick client, web services with Apache CXF, and Oracle XML DB.● Languages: Java, SQL, Bash, JavaScript, UML● Software Libraries: Spring, Apache CXF, Hibernate, OpenMap, JUnit, XML-RPC, Apache Commons, Apache Pooling, JIDE, JDAF, Xerces XML parser, yFiles graphing● Software Tools: Eclipse, Ant, CVS, JIRA with Greenhopper, Cobertura, YourKit, SVN, Hudson● Databases: Oracle RDBMS, Oracle XML DB● Servers: JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle AS● Technologies: SOA with web services (SOAP and REST), Java Web Start, LDAP, AD, Google Earth (KML), ArcGIS, DODAF

Mclean, Virginia

At MainControl, an asset management company, I managed two globally distributed teams with more than a dozen developers, QA and documentation specialists. I was responsible for project scheduling and task delegation, performance reviews, salary and budget recommendations, requirements gathering and documentation, functional specifications, and both high- and low-level design.● Languages: Java, SQL, HTML, JavaScript● Software Libraries: Xerces XML parser, Sun compilation tools● Software Tools: Eclipse, VisualAge For Java, CVS● Databases: Oracle RDBMS● Technologies: Java applets

Mclean,Virginia

MainControl Inc was acquired by MRO Software shortly before I left. MRO was eventually acquired by IBM Tivoli.

Manassas, Virginia

In addition to supporting multiple army war simulation exercises, I worked heavily with defense mapping and visualization in C, C++ and Java.● Languages: C, C++, Java, Bash● Software Tools: Eclipse, Ant, CVS, FindBugs● Databases: MySQL

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Software Development

Computer Science