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Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Seattle Wa

Worked on team responsible for updating APIs to integrate with updated Siebel Loyalty CRM system for new My Starbucks Rewards Program. This effort included updating 7 different API domains to integrate with various legacy backend systems and workflows. API clients included Mobile, Web and Public APIs for licensee integation (using http signature authentication via Apigee). • Accomplished all project milestones on-schedule while increasing test coverage in each API.• Worked with small subset of team to architect new backend API to ease current and future integrations while erasing a large amount of technical debt.• Met with Starbucks functional analysts to help redefine requirements when new problems or business requirements arose.• Worked closely with load-testing team to identify existing architectural problems and to implement solutions to eliminate performance bottlenecks.• Helped document and analyze existing legacy systems and workflows contributing the overall knowledge base of the company while easing integration tasks for my team.

Bellevue Washington

Worked as second most senior engineer on up to 10 person development team with responsibilities including new feature development, mentoring, code review and design of new applications. Lead developer and architect for Early Data Analyzer, an early data assessment and analytics system used in e-discovery. Initially the sole developer and architect the team grew to over 10 engineers since inception in 2011. Helped usher in many best practices such as coding standards, code review, continuous integration and automated testing in addition to my usual duties of feature development and product maintenance.• Delivered on-boarding and mentoring to new engineers to ensure successes of each individual and the team as a whole.• Accelerated release timelines by implementing continuous integration and automated build and deployment system using Team City and MS Build.• Lowered defect rate by designing framework to enable development of integration tests by my team, including automated execution and reporting of test results.• productivity and lowered defect rate by advocating for and helping implement code-review processes.• Enabled features for other teams in the organization by designing and developing libraries that encapsulated document metadata capture and document expansion.• Accelerated new feature development by evaluating and vetting various third party technologies in order to advise on their viability for integration with our products.• Worked on multiple inter-organizational teams to create proof of concept applications and/or evaluate new technologies and methodologies.

Greater Omaha Area

Served as second developer in rapidly expanding organization and marketplace. Worked as the lead developer on commercial utilities; Image Inspector, Load File Pro LAW TSI and Storm Viewer as well as providing bug fixes and new features to our flagship product LAW 4.0/5.0.• Played a major role in acquisition of organization by being the lead developer on major architectural update to LAW 5.0 an e-discovery and document acquisition and production system.• Increased profitability by working with product owners to develop 4 new product lines to bring to market.• Designed and developed LAW TSI, a touch-screen client front end for our scanning and document repository system targeting large multi-function devices using their TWAIN API.• Expanded customer base by providing high level support and consultation on critical issues and workflow problems.• Increased profitability of parent company (a legal service bureau) by designing and developing tools to accelerate large scale document scanning jobs.