Jeff Richards Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, US

Dublin 2, IE

Lead Software engineer supporting clients with a focus on Cloud based Large Data projects.Architected and developed several solutions supporting Data Lakes / Data Warehouses. Leveraging technologies including AWS S3, Redshift, SQL, Java, Springboot, RDF, Spark and GenAI.

Manchester, NH, US

FIRST Robotics is a non-profit that teaches STEM Education through robotics programs in grades K-12, as a Senior Mentor I support all the programs and teams in the state of Ohio.My expertise as a Software Engineer allows me to teach kids how to solve complex problems in a methodical way while constantly looking for that innovative idea that is going to be.

Mclean, Virginia, US

Working on back end services on the Medicare Coverage Tools project of Medicare.gov using GoLang and PostgreSQL.

Dublin 2, IE

Worked at the Columbus Innovation Hub whose main goal is to help our clients with Cloud enablement. The Innovation Hub also has a Strategic partnership with Pivotal where we are working to incorporate Pivotal's methodology of extreme programming into our operations.Main activities included creating cloud native full stack applications using Test Driven.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Extensive experience designing near real time distributed systems for the telecommunications industry using relational databases, stored procedures, web based & Java GUIs, Java middle layer objects and C++ backend.
• Developed network leader Key Performance Indicator (KPI) feature allowing customer to reduce staff by combining data from 9 separate screens into single display. Implemented all aspects of feature from requirements to.
• Implemented Session Detail Record (SDR) Rollup feature to extract multiple views of data collected every 5 minutes allowing customer to identify problems in network, and Oracle stored procedures to process large volume.
• Replaced Java Applets in GUI using Java Servlets / JSP / JavaScript to give users a better experience.
• Implemented release independent mechanism for delivering quick feature so customer could deploy desired feature in a month or two and code.

• OmniVista 8770 is another product I worked on at Bell Laboratories just after we merged with Alcatel. This was a multi-site development team located in the USA, India and France. OmniVista 8770 is a distributed support.
• Integration of the VitalSuite Performance Application into 8770.
• Porting of existing code base to MySQL.
• Integrated C# Trap collector.
• Created Java based SOAP alarm interface.
• Designed alarm schema for database.

• VitalSuite is another product I worked at during my career at Bell Laboratories. Development for this product was co-located in Sunnyvale, California and Columbus, Ohio. Vital Suite is a Performance Management System.
• Real time performance alarming which used rate based thresholding and had the ability to learn network behavior based on past performance.
• Configurable bi-directional data synchronization across multi server application which used database links to sync configuration and alarm
• Database developer for common code base supporting multiple databases - SQL Server on Windows and ORACLE on UNIX.
• On the fly Java based alarm map display that used network connectivity to automatically layout devices and subnetworks given a single element or group as a seed.
• IP Path tracing and display feature that ran on the Master and used RMI to connect to the pollers in order to query router MIBs to determine the next step in the path. Backend GUI support that overlaid alarm.

• NFM is a product I worked on early in my career at Bell Laboratories.NFM is a large, distributed fault management system for the telephone network containing over a million lines of C++/C code with a Java based GUI.In.
• Worked with customers to define new features and enhancements, estimating work effort and timelines, defining architecture changes, organizing the development team, writing software and supporting beta deployment.
• Architect/Lead Developer for implementing highly distributed alarm management system with a user-defined data model supporting high availability and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Architect/Lead Developer for Java GUI Alarm/Map Display.
• Provided sales/customer support by developing and delivering numerous presentations/demos for various customers and user conferences.
• Designed and developed a generic user-definable interface in C++ that allowed the translation of virtually any message into the system’s alarm model.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science