Jim Priest Email & Phone Number

Senior level engineer with responsibilities to build, deploy and maintain reliable code.

United States

Help modernize a legacy disaster recovery application using modern development practices.

- Senior developer on a multi-million dollar Federal government project- Led integrated and unit testing initiatives- Manage and mentor a team of developers. Evangelized best practices, tools and process which would benefit career growth

- Senior developer on a multi-million dollar Federal government project- Create Jenkinsfile build to replace manual process of setting up Jenkins jobs- Lead effort to organize documentation across Confluence and Sharepoint- Integrate CFLint and retire.js within Jenkins to detect code issues- Integration testing using Robot Framework

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Performed DevOps duties to support of redhat.com- Deployment of regular feature, security and configuration updates- Developed application to scan for 404 pages reducing errant links on redhat.com- Implemented monitoring and reporting solutions using Splunk and Graphana- Application load testing using Blazemeter, JMeter and Locust- Managed redirect implementation for redhat.com using Akamai Edge Redirector- Managed cache/failover for redhat.com using Akamai Site… Show more - Performed DevOps duties to support of redhat.com- Deployment of regular feature, security and configuration updates- Developed application to scan for 404 pages reducing errant links on redhat.com- Implemented monitoring and reporting solutions using Splunk and Graphana- Application load testing using Blazemeter, JMeter and Locust- Managed redirect implementation for redhat.com using Akamai Edge Redirector- Managed cache/failover for redhat.com using Akamai Site Snapshot Show less

- Developed and maintain custom applications used for travel management- Introduced unit and integration testing using Testbox and Selenium- Maintained Gitlab repositories, JIRA bug tracking system. Created custom JIRA workflows- Developed automated deployment solution using Jenkins to replace old Robocopy process- Improved documentation of processes and applications

- Designed, coded and tested complex software for Federal government project- Troubleshooting software and correcting errors- Prepared test data, tests and debugged programs with unit testing using TestBox- Documented programs and user procedures using Confluence- Supervised and mentored junior developers

- Developed and maintained applications to manage research at the University of North Carolina

- Developed a Healthcare Provider Credentialing Application which replaced an existing inefficient,manual paper process- Introduced development best practices to team including source control (SVN), application testing (MXUnit) and bug tracking (Redmine)

- Develop high end applications for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) using ColdFusion and Oracle- Established configuration management environment- Initiated JIRA bug tracking system- Initiated Confluence wiki for project documentation

- Develop high end applications for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) using ColdFusion and Oracle- Introduced new processes and procedures to improve developer productivity- Developed Ant deployment scripts to improve deployment process and reduce errors- Established use of version control system (Subversion)