David Ward Email & Phone Number

Rochester, NY, US

Raleigh, NC, US

• Managing the team that delivers Istio for OpenShift Service Mesh.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Engineering Manager for the open-source Drools business rules and decision engines project
• Engineering Manager for the open-source OptaPlanner planning/optimization engine project
• People Manager

Raleigh, NC, US

• Technical Lead for Business Automation Cloud Team
• Provided guidance for architectural design and development
• Ensured consistency in approach among technical efforts across the product suite
• Coordinated sprint work among team members to meet project goals and and deadlines with required deliverables
• Acted as liaison between development teams, as well as quality assurance and productization
• Developed templates for product deployments focusing on common customer use cases and architectures

Raleigh, NC, US

• Senior Engineer on core Cloud Enablement Team
• Helped bring Red Hat JBoss middleware products into the Cloud environment (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Openshift).
• Lead developer of JBoss Decision and Process Execution Server images for Red Hat OpenShift
• Developer on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat SSO server images for Red Hat Openshift
• Created libraries for cluster membership discovery enabling High Availability for application servers within a Kubernetes environment
• Contributed to maven utilities, Source to Image (S2I) process, and various other image development tools

Raleigh, NC, US

• Provided architectural guidance for the design of client applications and identified appropriate technologies for implementation.
• Formed relationships and orchestrated efforts of client management and technical staff, Red Hat sales/marketing, product management and engineering teams, and partners to solve specific client problems and identify new.
• Educated prospects on the capabilities of JBoss software products.
• Wrote POCs and conducted live demonstrations for prospects to prove the capabilities of JBoss software products.
• Answered technical portions of RFPs/RFIs.
• Collected and provided responses to competitive FUD.

Rochester, NY, US

• Architecture team member/lead developer of large multi-cluster payroll processing app.
• Created logic system & workflow framework (integrates w/other rules & workflow tools).
• Created async data conversion framework migrating clients to new system.
• Created custom XML object serialization mechanism.
• Created remoting layer abstracting RMI to EJB or HTTP to WS.
• Created service management facility.

• Consulted at Pitney Bowes Management Services and Paychex (see those Positions for more information).
• Assisted other consultants assigned to other accounts. For example, at Pfizer: Developed app-to-app messaging abstraction layer (based on JMS) for intranet pharmaceutical applications.
• Contributed to various internal projects.

• Lead development on multi-user distributed document management and printing application.
• Helped create both web and graphical user interface clients to the application.
• Created a generic state machine to handle application workflow.
• Created an asynchronous file manipulation toolkit, including document and image conversion, splitting, merging, etc.
• Created a custom security model for the application.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed and co-created the J2EE application layer for the “Planet Project,” a worldwide survey capable of polling millions of users over the course of its 4-day event lifespan.
• The application was also used for real-time online surveys for and about the year 2000 Presidential Debates.
• Designed and implemented the mechanism to fully internationalize the application. The application was localized to 14 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese.
• Created a custom persistence layer optimized for data insertion.
• Created a custom caching layer to optimize data extraction and display.
• Involved in network design with 3COM and AT&T, application server configuration with Sun and BEA, database configuration with Oracle, system and load testing with Mercury Interactive, PDA integration with Palm, and.

Rochester, New York, US

• Technical lead for several high profile web applications for kodak.com.
• Architecture team member.
• Created components, services and utilities to be reused across Kodak’s web applications.
• Helped create a custom chat application (“PhotoChat”) that allowed people to share photos online, including scribbling and traditional text messaging.
• Technical lead and co-implementer of kodak.com online store.
• Created a custom promotion system for the online store, which was later replicated by ATG into their Commerce Engine.

• Developed and managed web sites for several businesses in Rochester, NY and Buffalo, NY.
• Created a custom document management system.
• Customized calendaring applications.
• Customized order processing applications.

Rochester, NY, US

• Managed small team of people.
• Provided teleconferencing services to remote offices and stores.
• Provided audio/video support for office locations.

• Recorded, mixed and mastered audio for several local and national artists.

• Provided broadcasting support.
• Helped create a database of all audio recordings in WXXI catalog.

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