Architect and software developer working in the SDN space

Software and System Architect of private cloud engineering

Strategist and Visionary authority of GE Healthcare's cloud automation technology, web applications, and web systems.Focus is providing on-demand cloud computing PaaS (Platform as a Service) for enterprise applications and tools. I am Principal Architect of Cloud automation and platforms, providing self-service hands off infrastructure provisioning of single and multi-server platforms leveraging Chef (Ruby), vCloud Director (REST), vCenter Orchestrator (JavaScript), and an in house catalog and asset management portal (Spring, Hibernate, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, Rhino) for which I am principal system designer and implementer).Automation work includes Microsoft Windows service development (C#) and scripting (Powershell) and Linux scripting (Bourne Shell).

GE Healthcare's Web technology infrastructure and platforms owner and Senior team leader of a 12 employee, 60+ contractor team with a budget of $2MM. The platforms include:-WebLogic, JBoss, Glassfish, WebSphere application server environments, containing over 1000 applications (both internal and external facing) across hundreds of Unix,Linux, and Windows (physical + virtual) servers.-Vignette Portal and Content Management environment for hosting gehealthcare.com-eCommerce PlatformAdditionally, I provide Java web standards and architectural/development guidance for GE Healthcare application teams.

-Reorganized the technical team functional reporting structure to increase overall capacity.-Completed FDA System/Software validation for the IDM platform.-Successfully managed the development and deployment of many scheduled system releases delivering over a hundred new items of functionality, performance improvements, and bug fixes.-Increased the success rate of automated identity lifecycle operations to 97% by designing and implementing a custom engine.-Increased quality of deliverables, and reduced maintenance costs and time to delivery, which increased the productivity and experience of the end user community.-Managed a development team that continually delivers against tight deadlines and difficult middleware integrations.-Reduced complexity and maintenance by over 90% -Improved performance of the system by over 150%.-Aided SOX by designing a robust, configurable, employee Role Change engine and a registration process for GE workers from non-Healthcare businesses.

Identity & Security Architect:-I designed and implemented the security model and user administration portal for the principal product.Component Architect:-I designed and implemented the system component framework for the principal product. The framework is similar to the early Spring Framework.-I designed and implemented the web framework, similar to struts, adding declarative J2EE style transaction demarcations.Profession Services Liaison:- I am the Founder and 1st appointee of this Role- Provides close coaching to the client team technical leads regarding analysis, design, consultation and technical guidance on the J2EE components and frameworks.- Provides gap analysis of client team requirements; technical design reviews paying close attention to performance.- Conducts code reviews to insure conformance with defined coding standards and expected coding practices.- Provides day-to-day developer support and mentoring.- Coordinates go-live issue resolution

-Lead technical developer for a Web-based administration system. The system was built around a single Request-Processor servlet and used an in-house developed Java object model for dynamic HTML content. The Business Entities were persisted to an Oracle database using an in-house developed persistence layer. Responsibilities include migrating the application architecture piece-mail to the new in-house architecture standard; refactoring existing design implementations for more efficiency, code reuse, and extension; technical mentor for the other team members; business logic implementer.-Team member for various architectural refactoring projects.

-Designer and developer of application-tier Java components for an n-tier Internet solution utilizing an HTTP Request Response servlet, which served dynamic HTML content via XSL transformations; Stateful and stateless business process objects and TOPLink persistence layer.-Co-designed and developed a Scheduler using RMI, JNDI, and EJBs, which managed concurrent jobs, repeatable jobs and run once jobs. -UI data content development consisting of transforming Java based XML DOMs to HTML via XSLT, and HTML form submissions.-Project leader, designer and developer responsible for a mission critical medical testing system built on Oracle with PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Oracle Report Builder.-Developed several significant performance enhancements uncovered during analysis. The enhancement included algorithm modifications, SQL changes, and database tuning.-Other responsibilities included testing and FDA required project documentation.

-Designer and developer of support applications for the internal document management system. The 2-tier Object-based system was a critical component responsible for product designs and costs of manufacturing.-Designer and developer of many MS Access utility databases with Visual Basic front-ends. Responsibilities included user requirements gathering, database normalization, front-end design, and maintenance. -Developed utilities include collecting of product workcenter costs, production tracking, bar-code label generation and shipment tracking.-Designer and developer of a C-based custom hardware application used in hand-held bar-code scanners. The scanners were used to collect inventory data.-Other responsibilities included maintaining the data warehouse for production tracking data, as well as building several Visual Basic querying tools running against MS Access and DB2 databases, and a Delphi based utility application for the computer help desk.

-Designer and developer of a MS Access based inventory-tracking system.-Other responsibilities included instructing training classes on computer operation and Internet use.