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Aurora, Colorado, United States

• Developed front-end web systems producing, testing, and designing software and the integration of the system.• Coordinated major feature releases to support customer’s aggressive schedule. Created user stories to successfully meet the customer requirements while simultaneously coordinating the delivery of enhancements to maintain a testable product throughout development.• Deployed software to test and production environments.• Engaged in daily scrums with 2-week sprints in an agile environment to produce a major release every 3 months. Delivered releasable products every 2 to 4 weeks.

Aurora, Colorado

Subcontracted to Raytheon•Produced Core/Java EE software for an enterprise level application running in WebLogic, Spring framework, JDBC and Oracle database.•Delivered new features and product enhancements utilizing Java, to large-scale Department of Defense systems.•Produced design, code, automated unit tests, and performed feature verification in a Scrum environment with 2-3 week sprints.•Produced continuous builds using Jenkins, developing with Eclipse integrated with RTC.

Centennial, Colorado

• Subject Matter Expert on securing public and private company websites. • Initiated Single Sign On implementation for 50+ internal company applications. • Built development, quality assurance, user acceptance test, and production environments to support enterprise architecture. • Technical consultant for development teams virtualizing investment data. • Provided 24/7 on-call professional services for 15 company applications.

Greater Denver Area

•Project Lead for 2 years with a team of 4 to 6 engineers that modernized a user interface and a total server revamp. Increased usability by 70%. Reduced the number of windows by 90% and removed 100% of duplicative functions.•Designed and re-architected a legacy server baseline into a maintainable, enhanced baseline with a decrease in 500,000 lines of code. This led to 80% higher productivity rate for software engineers.•Scrum Master for 8 person team for a 5 month research and demonstration project using agile methodologies. The product was accepted by the customer. This project will now lead to future business for the company.•Test lead for product verification and validation. Improved the legacy factory acceptance test plan to a thread based test that was 50% more efficient. •Successful validation of product during installation at customer facility. This was the culmination of 2 years of development. Led the installation team and led integration testing with other products deployed at the site.•Successfully conducted Participation with Industry to elicit requirements from the customer. Analyzed and realigned system requirements into functional/nonfunctional requirements to meet the needs of the users in the field.•Received awards for design including Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review artifacts•Developed and executed a testable build plan. Planned software enhancements so that integration and test could function during development. Managed anomalies and brought them to closure within the project’s aggressive schedule.•Created a new interface to an external system and integrated that system’s data into the product. Conducted integration testing during development and during product installation.•Verification and Peer Process owner for the program. Improved the efficiency and effectiveness of peer reviews across the program.

Master'S Degree, Systems Engineering, 3.61

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics And Computer Science