John Shields Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Leading the Engineering Effectiveness team for ThousandEyes in Austin, TX.ThousandEyes gives organizations visibility into the now borderless network, arming them with an accurate understanding of how the network impacts their applications, users, and customers. ThousandEyes is used by some of the world's largest and fastest growing brands, including all.

Sunnyvale, California, US

San Jose, CA, US

After TubeMogul was acquired by Adobe, I continued my role as an Architect providing input and code particularly around the use of containers and automated testing.

Emeryville, CA, US

* Work with teams at TubeMogul to provide architectural input and guidance as well as hands-on coding to implement specific features, capabilities, and libraries.* Designed, documented, and coded a set of low level libraries for use by all TubeMogul Java projects to consistently implement application configuration with first class environment support and.

Emeryville, CA, US

* Designed, documented, and implemented TubeMogul's continuous delivery capabilities in Jenkins. This included standardizing the company's git branching model, build process, and deployment process as well as implementing their automated integration. Worked with Operations to create infrastructure and networking rules for this capability. Continued.

Emeryville, CA, US

* Worked on the Statistics team to improve and operate a large scale Hadoop based data processing pipeline. This pipeline processed billions of transactions per day to record, process, enhance, aggregate, and report on events within TubeMogul's online advertising platform.* Helped design, code, and integrate a new finance module into the ecosystem to allow.

• Worked with a small, dedicated team to develop the Passbox in-store loyalty network product from the ground up. The product provided convenience stores with in-store daily deals, loyalty rewards, and targeted marketing.
• Designed, developed, and deployed the cloud infrastructure to create a scalable, easily updated, and reliable server environment.
• Implemented the mobile web application to allow consumers to register and access their rewards.
• Implemented the ZK based management console for the Passbox network.
• Implemented the external integrations and the event based messaging system used to route messages and run business logic.

San Jose, CA, US

• Worked as the system architect to design, develop, deploy, and support TCWI’s VMS Express product. This product utilizes many current technologies including cloud-based deployment, RESTful web services, a custom web.
• Worked as the primary sales engineer to demo VMS Express for potential clients.
• Managed the development team and process for product planning and strategy.
• Managed a client team at a Forbes Global 2000 company through requirements gathering, design, and implementation of the company’s internal Intranet application. This application utilized the Vignette Content Management.

• Managed a team of software engineers and technical support staff through both new development and maintenance of a custom CRM platform that mines vehicle maintenance records to send postcard and email service reminders.
• Designed, developed, and deployed a custom data load infrastructure to nightly load 40-80,000 vehicle maintenance records (with peaks ~350,000) from over 80 proprietary XML data representations into a single normalized.
• Implemented engineering processes, procedures, and disciplines including version control, defect tracking, release scheduling and management, code inspections, isolated and virtualized developer environments.
• Designed and developed numerous web applications including a self-service postcard promotion system.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Customized and implemented Wily Technology’s Introscope J2EE performance monitoring system.
• Designed and developed a custom Java performance monitoring infrastructure.
• Worked on a team to design and develop the front office system used by all of RHI’s branches to process candidate job orders that includes a desktop (Swing) client, web services architecture, and a standard J2EE.
• Architected and developed a client-side Swing data binding and validation framework and a server-side persistence framework based on the Spring Framework and Hibernate.

• Designed and developed a J2EE based billing system that integrated online credit card processing with wireless session tracking hardware via an XML API.
• Designed and implemented 802.11b (WiFi) wireless networks at hotel and resort properties.

Dublin 2, IE

• Designed, coded, and documented various Java web application components for applications such as an online testing system, a billing system interface, and an enterprise application integration system.
• Managed development teams through requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing.
• Worked closely with client personnel throughout project phases, including activities such as requirements gathering, design sessions, system implementation, and client relationship building.
• Wrote technical documentation covering topics such as UNIX technical architecture, web-based application architecture and design, support processes and enterprise process impact, development tools configuration and.
• Coded various computer application components including development support tools, billing system components, and web-based components.