Jason Heard Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

∙ One of the project leads of the Gemini project that allows the traffic related to listener’s collections, playlists, and downloads to be active/active across datacenters and GCP regions.∙ Migrated microservices from on-premises application hosts, cache, database, data warehouse, and workflows to a hybrid cloud architecture.

Oakland, Ca, Us

∙ Service owner of the microservice that powers the APIs for a listener's collection, playlists, and downloads. These APIs, collectively, handle around six hundred requests per minute for Premium tier listeners.∙ Owns and was a core member of the team that created the microservice which accounts for a million listener feedback (thumbs) for personalized playlists that are created for a listener by Pandora's recommendation logic.∙ Modernizing and scaling the microservice which serves the playlist API to support at least billion or more playlists for listeners across all tiers.∙ Organizes and runs the Sprint Kickoff and Grooming meetings for the Listener Services Team which comprises six engineers.∙ Led and participated in Pandora mini-hacks which involves creating & pitching an idea and determining roles needed for the team, then recruiting across the organization to fill those roles to work on the mini-hack.∙ Gave a presentation about the experience of using Google Cloud Platform's Spanner database for the feedback microservice to fellow engineers for an Engineering Stand-Up.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

∙ Initiated a technical initiative for the proof of concept for the redesign offorbestravelguide.com by deciding on using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Datato provide data to be consumed via JSON or object serialization from a Mongo database.∙ Collaborated with an offshore team of developers in Vietnam and eventually took ownership of the iOS version of the StarCoach app. In the process, developed a working knowledge of Swift, Xcode, and the Apple Developer setup, build, and management processes.∙ Responsible for the build and archive deployment of the iOS version of the Forbes Travel Guide app.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

∙ An integral member of the software development team for forbestravelguide.com and wasessential in the development of many features of the site. Some of which include,member profile photo upload, Yahoo OAuth integration on registration, Q&A refactor,and member messaging.∙ A core member of the team that successfully redesigned the business to businessoffering from Forbes Travel Guide which streamlined the process used to generatereports to the client, allowing the company to reduce the effort to generate reports by 1900man hours by utilizing Grails, and MySQL.

∙ Set up DNS hosting, redirects, and canonicalization for the company.∙ Advised and implemented an SEO strategy to maximize the company's web and social media presence.∙ Provided support and answered technical questions the company had in regards to technology.

● Used Ruby/Rails, Heroku, Apache, Thin, PostgreSQL, SendGrid, LogEntries, signing VeriSign security certificates for HTTPS, and an assortment of technologies and server admin functions to rapidly prototype a proof of concept which then turned into a fully vetted system that was used to network small-medium sized corporation's employees into a network to receive the same perks that employees from larger corporations enjoy.● Oversaw the and integrated business & server side logic of the initial design, and subsequent redesigns of the site and company strategy, which ranged from working with one UI developer to a team of outsourced developers.● Learned analytics, SEO, and various other strategies to help increase Quinques's presence on the web searches and pinpoint areas of improvement as related to page load speed and minimizing the site's content and artifacts footprint.

Falls Church, Va, Us

∙ Researched and provide a Proof of Concept for testing frameworks i.e. Selenium, Mockitoand rapid application development frameworks i.e. Spring Roo, Groovy/Grails whichwill ensure that business requirements are fulfilled and customer’s expectations are metwith the project.∙ Compiled Knowledge Management Architecture design documents for specific featuresand modules of the electronic HIV AIDS Reporting System. (eHARS)∙ Provided expertise in developing Java, JavaScript, and STRUTS application(s) using theSQL Server DBMS.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Selected for a research team that investigated Hadoop, columnar databases, keystore databases, and hybrid databases for a data mining solution to be used withbackground processing and ad-hoc querying.● Key member of the only team that successfully implemented SPAS into productionby translating requirements based off of a convoluted manual process into algorithmsthat automated DNS provisioning.● Specifically requested by a product analyst to aid in launching the new DOJO basedRIA query solution. This novel RIA used Spring MVC, AJAX, and JSON tocommunicate, handle requests & responses, and process logic providing a seamlessapplication like feel within the browser.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

● Provided conceptual programming analysis via High Level Design documents forVeriSign Billing & OSS System (VBOSS) Enhancement Requests that have beenfinalized and implemented into production.● Analyzed Change Requests and modified code to ensure that defects were solved anddid not continue to interrupt the system, or negatively affect any other modules in thesystem.● Was instrumental in the successful product launch of VBOSS and subsequentVBOSS patch releases by way of being a member of the Production OnlineTransaction Processing Team.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Aided in the analysis and design of the Sales and Production Graphical UserInterface in a J2EE environment for Great Dane Trailers.● Interpreted and dynamically coded engineering tree logic for the P-Series trailerinto a database model. Used this model to create a system for engineers to createand maintain models of trailers by entering logical constraints for their options.● Successfully implemented the Sales and Production Graphical User Interface into production and performed ongoing maintenance.

Bba, Information Systems

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering