Gary A Passero Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Software architect and team lead for the development of the e-commerce supply side platform for organizing, searching, buying and fulfilling advertising inventory.⇨ 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Acted as a change agent in driving agile transformation within the department and across the organization. Played a key role in the organization-wide systems design team. Ensured that developments in the Supply Side Platform were effectively coordinated with changes in other parts of the larger system, maintaining system integrity and operational excellence.⇨ 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Authored a comprehensive Software Architecture document, detailing the forces, constraints, objectives, and proposed solution for the the architecture of the Supply Side Platform web application.⇨ 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Worked closely with product managers to strategically select the order and scope of features. This approach was instrumental in maximizing the reuse of existing capabilities and significantly minimizing team waste.⇨ 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Mentored a team of three engineers at varying levels (Senior Engineer, Engineer II, and Engineer I), focusing on their professional growth, skill enhancement, and effective team collaboration.⇨ 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Led and significantly contributed to the development of a modular monolith in Ruby on Rails (Rails 7 + Hotwire + Stimulus + ViewComponents)

Apex, North Carolina, Us

Project leader for custom web and mobile application consultancy focused on delivering software assets through craftsmanship, collaboration and character. Responsible for managing relationship with clients; leading cross-functional teams; architecting solutions; implementing core features; managing scope, budget and schedule; mentoring developers and apprentices; and supporting production applications. ⇨ Delivered 11 web application projects (sized $100k-$1M) successful in all areas: functional requirements; architectural objectives & constraints; client satisfaction; budget, schedule, and scope targets; growth of team members; ⇨ Demonstrated ability to quickly ramp on variety of complex subjects, including: learning management & delivery, financial investment, landscape estimation, data labeling (intelligence community), college degree search engine, and obstacle course competitions⇨ Delivered projects using combination of latest relevant technology and customer constraints including Ruby on Rails (with both React and Turbo/Stimulus) and React Single Page Applications (both Component-based and Function-based)

⇨ Team leader for the Data Quality Management team► Champion of agile development philosophy in small company which needed to build team,deliver high customer value, and maintain responsiveness to market conditions► Added value to the company by designing solutions to customer needs which also advanced the company product (short term delivery with long term gain)► Served other team members in assisting them to overcome technical obstacles, and to grow as developers and individuals⇨ Invented, designed and led the implementation of the Dynamic Data Generator ► Product Architect and significant implementer of distributed, scalable, SOA-based system togenerate large-scale, synthetic, consistent*, and realistic data sets.► Designed and led the implementation of an XML document generation subsystem for use in the DDG, producing random, high fidelity, and consistent* documents for a given XSD.⇨ Designed and led the implementation of a medical data generation subsystem for use in the DDG, producing fully-synthetic, high fidelity, consistent* and random medical records ► Designed and led the implementation of an HL7 v2 message generation subsystem for use in the DDG, producing random, high fidelity, consistent* and valid messages► Contributed significantly to the design and implementation of an HITSP C32 output► Contributed significantly to the design and implementation of a CCDA - Continuity of CareDocument output component► Contributed to open-source .NET SchemaTron for use in HL7V3 document validation► Contributed to open-source C# NHapi for use in HL7V2 document validation* having internal, external and longitudinal consistency

Melbourne, Florida, Us

⇨ Principal software engineer working in development of both embedded and desktop application development.⇨ Responsible for development of both embedded software for tactical radio products [C++/STL/CORBA/SQLITE/XML], and desktop application software supporting tactical radiocommunications networks. [C++/MFC/WTL/STL/XML/XSLT/DBC/CPPUNIT]⇨ Responsible for a high level of technical contribution, assigning and directing day-to-day technical assignments for engineering staff, and assisting with project management.⇨ Participated in all phases of the product development including planning, requirements, system & software design, implementation, testing (unit, integration, system) and support.⇨ Contributions included: red key management desktop application, mission planning & radioprogramming desktop applications, transmit-only down-pilot radio embedded application, MACA channel access improvements for packet radio, embedded web server.

⇨ Software engineer, team leader & project manager for various software development projects using advanced imaging & color science techniques.⇨ Project manager and software developer on project to design and implement a flexible andextensible framework for use in researching color reproduction algorithms for Canon R&D. Created an OO design which featured a pluggable component architecture. [ANSI C]⇨ Project manager and software engineer on project to develop an image recognition desktopapplication for use in manufacturing of custom dental implants for Atlantis Components, Inc, a leader and innovator in the dental implant market. Collaborated with imaging scientists to implement & optimize feature location algorithm. Responsible for all aspects of delivering commerical-quality software including requirements generation, design, implementation, software and algorithm verification, and applications deployment. [C++/STL]⇨ Led team to deliver color calibration desktop application based on a custom algorithm foruse in a NexPress 2100 digital printing press. Developed GUI components for Job submission front-end using Java. Assisted with development of a field support web application, by creating a COM-to-CORBA bridge. Bridge featured dual-interface support for access from ASP and C++, andacted as a CORBA client. Application was delivered ahead of schedule and within budget. [C++/ATL/COM/CORBA/Java/JNI]

⇨ Hired for short-term contract as a subject matter export in CORBA and distributed systems. ⇨ Design various components and communicated these designs to the team using UML. ⇨ Worked on the Windows-based implementation of a concurrent and distributed (n-tier) patient portal web application [CORBA/C++/ISAPI/SQL/ODBC/HTML]

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⇨ Developed resource manager for use in a distributed (client/server) framework for telephonyapplications. Used spiral development process. [C++/Java/CORBA]⇨ Developed components for off-board, UNIX based provisioning framework for use in newline of DMS-100 switches using iterative development process. [C++]

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering