John Sheppard Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

I took a sabbatical in late 2022-2023 to co-develop a STEM program for the YouthCan! Program that is part of the Aldeas Infantiles SOS in Costa Rica. I collaborated with medical and engineering leaders to build a modern curriculum teaching basic software engineering, programming in Python, and key industry skills. I am currently back in the US and seeking.

Seattle, WA, US

Leveraged over twenty years of software engineering, cross-functional team leadership, technical acumen, and a robust understanding of attaining business goals to establish IDM’s overall vision and adoption of dynamic computing infrastructure. Drove a unique, highly scalable infrastructure capable of auto-scale and auto-provisioning resources using a.

Developed a high-performance technical team to scope, design, develop, test, and deliver a large-scale, highly distributed Computational Modeling Platform Service (COMPS). Managed personnel and operational budget. Innovated a data-driven, customizable, geospatial/temporal visualization engine to help researchers tease out details from the modeling data.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led a cross functional team providing predictable connectivity services to Windows Embedded devices. Designed and drove delivery of the Client API, windows service framework that communicated with the kernel driver to configure its operation; and the user mode portion of the rule engine responsible for making connection and packet send / receive decisions.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led a team of 5 developers and 4 architects in developing an enterprise search platform. The platform is a loosely coupled, highly scalable and massively parallel system capable of consuming, processing and publishing millions of documents per hour and running on 1 or 1000+ machines. Set product vision to ensure key business features were addressed and.

• I helped to lead a team in salvaging a failing product that was over budget and under-performing. The project is a large, complex enterprise software licensing application tracking millions of customer, agreements and.
• Web Services based upon load balanced, clustered servers that communicated with a large, mirrored SQL Server 2005 containing multiple databases containing > 300 GB of de-normalized customer data.
• Rich UI was developed using WinForms that was used by clients around the world.
• Web UI enables users to calculate and retrieve their license position.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Architected and led a team of six developers in creating a high availability, highly scalable systematic botany data tracking system using SOA, Remoting and Web Services technologies. This is currently one of the.
• Data tiers based upon high availability, load balanced remoting application servers that utilize SQL Server 2000 on a four-way Opteron server for the data store. Both the application servers and data stores can be load.
• Reporting service exposed via remoting and web services that utilizes XML for the data source and Active Reports as the rendering tool.
• Media Management service exposed via remoting, web services and http that is used to store all the media tracked by our research division.
• Single sign on Authentication and Authorization service exposed via remoting and web services that is used across our entire application stack.
• Data integration service exposed that allows data to be imported from multiple data sources and formats.

• Architected and led a team of five developers in creating a high availability, high scalability n-tier reservation / retail sales system that was utilized in several geographically dispersed amusement park locations..
• Data tier based upon high availability, load balanced remoting application server that utilized SQL Server 2000 for its data store that was also load balanced. The data tier mapped data objects to and from the database.
• Business logic and data definitions were encapsulated into data objects. These data objects were then used by multiple clients. All data being serialized across the wire was encrypted to prevent port sniffing from.
• A web service was designed to allow channel partners to sell reservations.
• A rich client GUI using WinForms was designed that allowed stores within the parks as well as reservationists in call centers to utilize the system.
• I designed and helped to develop a rich printing / reporting solution that allowed different locations to customize their printed material that was generated by the application.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Architected and lead a team of five developers in developing a self serve customer care web site for a large energy company that serviced residential and business customers as well as energy suppliers.
• Designed and implemented a highly scalable remoting service that allowed bi-directional translation from raw COBOL copybook format to XML in C#. The remoting service communicated with a proprietary software application.
• Designed maintenance module that allowed business analyst to configure the correct translation between COBOL copybook format and XNL. This allowed the company to achieve a turnaround time of one week when exposing new.
• Designed and implemented a security system based upon LDAP.
• Helped implement the customer care and supplier care site using ASP.NET and C#.

Architected and co-lead a team of six developers in developing a n-tier shipping application that integrated with existing client back end systems such as SAP, CICS, Oracle and Oracle Financials. EAI functionality was accomplished with SeeBeyond Integrator processing XML documents.The client tier, middle tier, and data tier was written in Visual Basic 6.0..

• Architected and lead a team of four developers in developing a very large intranet site. Several different applications were included in the site such as:
• Drawing Management System
• Document Management System
• Web Based Training System
• Vendor Tracking System
• Competitor Tracking System

• Designed server framework and client software that allowed ESRD, Inc. CAE application to be utilized in a web environment. The server utilized a custom server farm load balancing mechanism that allowed for large client.
• Designed and developed a scalable n-tier client tracking and support application. The application tracked sales, licensing, incident management and maintenance data.
• Designed, developed and maintained company web site.
• Designed and developed comprehensive charting and reporting component for use in ESRD, Inc. main CAE application.
• Designed and developed shell integration components to give users convenient access to the CAE applications model information from within Windows Explorer.
• Provided customer support for our application in the areas of installation, usability, incident report and resolution and licensing issues.