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Laguna, Calabarzon, Philippines

Pasig, National Capital Region, Philippines

Philippines

Solo developer of UPOU's Chatbot and Self-Service Information Portal both merged into a single website. Increased engagement with incoming/current students and faculty as the chatbot is also integrated with popular Facebook Messenger app. Provided efficient lookup of needed information as all UPOU sites are crawled and indexed for fast search in the central site. Significantly eased up the workload of multiple University personnel. Sites: https://askou.upou.edu.ph | https://m.me/UPOUOfficial

Makati Philippines

Designed, developed and tested multi-technology-stack modules for the Government Common Platform (GCP) project for the Philippine Government. Project involved the creation of an application used to sanitize huge amounts of citizen data.(Details are available in the full CV)

Lead the team in the implementation of strategies to significantly improve data quality that is a big factor in maintaining the company’s good reputation with counterparties and with multiple government regulators. (Details are available in the full CV)

Technical Lead person responsible for the design, implementation of a social networking site from ground-up. Cloud infrastructure architect and integration engineer. Created deployment automation scripts.Created backend REST web services via Java Jersey and utilizing MongoDB and ElasticSearch as datastore.Installed and custodian of the company’s Subversion (source code repository), Archiva (build repository), Hudson(Continuous Integration) and Jira (issue tracking) servers.

Philippines

Lead engineer responsible for scaling J2EE based portal and (Content Management System)CMS to meet anticipated aggressive growth due to business expansion for the LesConcierges client. This included upgrading the platform from JBOSS 3 to JBOSS 6, eliminating linkage errors, profiling and other steps to ensure stability. Provided solutions to the management and other developers in the elimination of deadlocks and improvement of inefficient modules for the 6-year-old application. Created and designed JMeter scripts to do performance and load tests. The tests determined the maximum concurrent users of the LesConcierges customer portal site and had identified the major bottlenecks of the system. Identified and led extensive database query optimization efforts.Improved and optimized data loading scripts for UBS and Visa client data on the LesConcierges database. Were able to achieve 5 times speed improvement even while adding some functionality.Primary developer for the integration of the LesConcierges-Visa client site with the ThreatMetrix DeviceID for customer portal security. Designed and implemented data audit trail generators using Java and T-SQL scripts.Led team on separate projects to integrate secured SOAP web services with Visa and Bank of America.Lead engineer responsible for improving Lucene-based search engine of BitCentral Inc. for their product that is internally being used by major TV networks like CNN to index video catalogs. Were able to achieve 7 times speed improvement. Implemented a Nutch based application for web crawling and indexing.

Beijing, China

Successfully completed integration of value added service applications to the following telecommunication companies: TWM (Taiwan)Vibo (Taiwan)Maxis (Malaysia)SKT (Korea)Digitel (Philippines)Optus(Australia) AIS(Thailand)Indosat(Indonesia)Telkomsel (Indonesia)GPC (Vietnam)CNC (China)Conceptualized and built the necessary applications to satisfy different client requirements:Email gateway for SIM Application Toolkit Markup Language (SATML) utilizing POP3 and SMTP protocols.Converter for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) markup language to SATML.AXIS SOAP (XML relay over HTTP) based web-service APIs following the ParlayX 2.0 specification.Web-based statistics generators that produce html and excel files.Billing information generators.Automatic user provisioning scripts.Database backup and recovery scripts.Designed and created applications for validation and tuning of company deliverablesDeveloped simulators for Short Messaging Service Center (SMSC), SOAP call client and other proprietary or client-specific protocols.Conducted stability and performance tests.Performed database tuning.Conceived and engineered necessary applications to solve problems in the field:Automatic forwarder and flow control proxiesAutomatic notification mechanisms for downtime, overload and some other user-experience-affecting events. Alarm includes SNMP traps, e-mail and SMS notification sending.Automatic server housekeeping scriptsData recovery scripts. Data inconsistency detection scripts. Log parsers.On-the-spot firefighting (problem fixing) tools. Hands-on involvement in activities to deliver new applications and upgrades in the field. Involved hardware architecture design and coordination with project managers and vendors.Traveled several times to Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and China for actual field integration of software and application components.

Philippines

Developed web based programs/report generators that are connected to Oracle Databases.Developed system data interfaces using Unix Shell Scripts (scheduled FTP pull/push, logs creation, etc.), Oracle SQLLdr, Oracle PL/SQL, and HP Brio SQR technologies. Created monitoring and fail detection scripts. Interfaced environments involved Unix, Windows NT/2000, Tandem and SAP machines.Contributed / Updated Web based Finance application that runs on the Motorola Communications Intranet. It is used by all Semiconductor Product Sector Regional Finance Departments worldwide for Credit Approval, Credit transactions, and report generation. It is interfaced to other existing Motorola Databases. Contributed in the development of the Quote Update Acceptance Deployment System (QUADS) that is used by Motorola as their system of records for their transactions with subcontractors globally. Had received high commendations for the contributions in the conversion of 300+ Oracle reports to HP Brio SQR. Had written wrapper scripts that were able to dynamically convert reports and accelerated the development of the project. The scripts were able to significantly reduce the man-days requirement of a 20-man project. Primary Sun Solaris Administrator. Backup IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) Systems Administrator. Backup Oracle Database Administrator. Primary NT Administrator and primary computer desktop support for RDC.