Greg Smith Email & Phone Number

Natick, Ma, Us

Software Engineering Manager (a/k/a Senior Team Leader at MathWorks) is a position that encompasses a broader scope of responsibilities within a software engineering team. While previously serving as a Principal Software Engineer, my focus was primarily on guiding technical decisions and shaping the team's direction. As Software Engineering Manager, I have the privilege of overseeing the entire team and assuming the crucial responsibility of ensuring successful delivery. This involves coordinating the team's efforts and aligning our vision with the expectations of our management chain and stakeholders. By effectively balancing technical expertise with team management skills, I strive to foster a collaborative environment where each team member can thrive and contribute their best work.I am dedicated to leading by example, fostering innovation, and driving our collective success in building exceptional products.

Natick, Ma, Us

Principal Software Engineer on the Cloud Center team in the Online Products group, building software to automate life cycle of cloud resources across a variety of cloud providers. Technical Highlights:• Envisioned, championed, and building microservices platform to manage RBAC life cycle management of cloud resources.• Architecting and building microservice platform based on Kubernetes, Docker, Istio (Envoy), and gRPC; microservices under gRPC written in Go (golang) and Java.• Building microservices platform to support micro-frontend integration with other JavaScript apps.

Natick, Ma, Us

Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Center team in the Online Products group, building software to automate life cycle of cloud resources across a variety of cloud providers. Technical Highlights:• Envisioned, championed, and building microservices platform to manage RBAC life cycle management of cloud resources.• Architecting and building microservice platform based on Kubernetes, Docker, Istio (Envoy), and gRPC; microservices under gRPC written in Go (golang) and Java.• Building microservices platform to support micro-frontend integration with other JavaScript apps.• Built Java/Spring Boot 2/Hibernate RESTful web app from the ground up with annotation-based configuration, including writing custom token-based auth filters, reusable spring servlet config (separate Maven project) for future projects, and a complete in memory H2 database (MySQL compatible config) for end-to-end integration tests (through the servlet to the database and back).• Wrote integration test framework for existing Groovy/Grails web app using an in memory H2 database and improved test coverage by >100%.• Supported implementation of "single page" JavaScript application (SPA) by writing REST controllers for the business logic and creating mechanism for capturing input and output JSON objects for use in the SPA's integration tests.• Organized team in Confluence and Jira and conduct daily scrums, beginning of sprint planning, and end of sprint retrospectives.• Collaborated with sister team to build features with integration dependencies on time and with minimal known bugs at code freeze.

New York, Us

Technical Highlights: Built FUSION, Catalyst Digital’s and GroupM’s data management platform for SEO, SEM, and social data.• Built FUSION in Java, using Spring and Hibernate frameworks. Runs on Linux and Windows servers, using Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, and multi-TB MariaDB/MySQL/Aurora databases. Supports +250 North American clients.• Designed and implemented a distributed web architecture that elastically scales to meet growing demand.• Federated development tasks by enabling the data pipeline team to build packages in KNIME and execute them in FUSION.• Architected a custom, clustered environment to run “sharded” KNIME packages in FUSION. Built over 200 API and Java library adapters for connection to APIs like Tableau Server, Amazon Advertising, Facebook Insights, and Google AdWords and to libraries like Tableau SDK, Apache Lucene, and JSON processing.• Built KNIME custom nodes in Java, using the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment provided by KNIME.• Designed and implemented a framework for rapid KNIME Java node development based on JSON configuration files.Migrated all FUSION VMware servers from GroupM’s physical data center to the Amazon AWS cloud with zero downtime.• Architected, built, and configured FUSION AWS cloud (EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, RDS), including: (i) Linux servers for the HTTPS and SSH edge servers, (ii) Linux servers for the Tomcat app servers running the frontend service and RESTful middleware, and (iii) Windows servers for the Tomcat app servers running the backend service and KNIME custom packages.• Scripted servers to self-deploy code at startup based on AWS metadata, using configured server AMIs and Auto Scale Groups (ASGs). Server patching and code deployment requires registering a new AMI and restarting servers via the ASGs.• Implemented integrations with other GroupM technologies, including its Tableau Server environment and its MS SQL Server and Vertica data warehouses.

Citystream is an Internet/SEO startup located in Kendall Square running various websites in the real estate space. • Primary consultant/developer on data analytics enhancement contracts with BenchCoRE.com and Catalyst Digital/GroupM. • Interfaced with clients to determine requirements and estimate level of effort and timing. Ultimately recruited and hired by Catalyst Digital/GroupM based on quality of work and ability to integrate business and technical requirements. • Managed additional activities for core Citystream mission based on priority and level of effort. Technical Highlights:• Updated and enhanced BenchCoRE.com real estate benchmarking functionality (JavaScript, Struts, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL).• Built on-line keyword management into Catalyst’s original data analytics portal (JQuery, AJAX, JSTL, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL).• Built standalone thick client key phrase analytic tool for use by one of Catalyst’s client teams (C#).• Designed and built Google Webmaster Tools integration for Catalyst’s reporting portal (Python, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL).• Designed and built system to manage and accept/reject work from contractors on Mechanical Turk (Java, Tomcat, and MySQL).

Boston, Ma, Us

Information Technology Division is now the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.• Worked with IT procurement teams to determine business requirements for high-profile Executive Branch IT projects, documented the requirements, and advised the procurement teams on proper scoring and evaluation of vendor bids.• Wrote IT privacy policies, site policies, and other Executive Branch policies. Prepared and delivered training to Executive Branch employees on IT and HR policies, such as the Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources Policy.• Participated in various IT projects as a legal SME, including implementation of time clock badge readers by the Massachusetts Human Resources Division and documentation of compliance requirements from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards in the Springfield Data Center.• Negotiated statements of work, maintenance agreements, and warranties with various IT vendors. • Worked with teams in Boston office and remotely in the Commonwealth’s data center in Chelsea, MA. Traveled for a bi-weekly shift on-site in Chelsea where management was available to employees for questions and to enforce employment policies.Technical Highlights:• Installed, configured, and tested eDiscovery tools related to email searching. Conducted public record and HR searches.• Built treemap charts to clearly visualize HR record search data for CIO, General Counsel, HR, and impacted employees. • Built Excel spreadsheet routines (VBA and formulas) to compile procurement team scores and weight them against the requirements set forth in the procurement documentation to determine the successful bidder.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed client projects related to real estate, estate planning, and distressed finance, with teams in local and remote offices.• Managed a team of junior associates for a massive document review related to real estate finance transactions.• Recommended approaches to partners for, project-managed, and documented real estate deals, including brainstorming ways to avoid negative tax consequences for clients and searching contracts for terms that give leverage to clients. Technical Highlights:• For a large document review, established a shared network drive for PDFs and a nightly batch process to OCR the PDFs so associates could quickly identify relevant documents by keyword, saving the associates’ time and clients’ money.• Established scripts for eDiscovery reviewers to classify documents based on file markers (file extensions, meta data) that saved associates’ time and clients’ money by not having to review duplicate documents and/or irrelevant documents (for example, image icons in email signatures).

New York, New York, Us

• Selected by senior management at Brown Rudnick to be embedded on-site for a highly visible position with a strategic client.• Advised Goldman Sachs business team members on technical (legal) questions regarding longevity and mortality risk.• Project managed the creation of a legal structure to facilitate offshore purchasing of life insurance policies for investment purposes, with business partners in local and remote offices.Longmore Capital and Longmore Credit Services were subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs. They were closed in late 2009.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Delivered high quality software solutions to meet a variety of client needs in the public sector consulting groups (both federal and state). • Tasked by senior management to investigate performance issues in a Java-based web application and made successful recommendations for a critical build that brought the case management system web application within client’s expectations.• Led portion of development team enhancements to Java-based web application, including overseeing developers implementing new “waiting room” functionality in the case management system web application.• Conducted Joint Application Design sessions with clients to determine UI design and business requirements for a sales tax audit application, including rapid, overnight turnaround of wireframes so the client could fully visualize the final workflow.• Received certificate of appreciation from client for ESRI GIS integration work in thick client Visual Basic application (TS/SCI).Technical Highlights:• Instrumented, analyzed data for, and solved performance issues in Java/JSP web application. Creatively solved session management logout issue while maintaining data from the currently submitted transaction.• Built security framework for web application in ASP.NET/VB.NET, intercepting events to ensure security rules were enforced.Obtained Secret and TS/SCI (w/ lifestyle polygraph) clearances (expired).American Management Systems was split and acquired by CGI and CACI in 2004.

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