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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

▸Led the Policy Administration engineering team in building innovative solutions to enhance our policy administration system, reducing administration costs and improving loss ratio ▹Migration of policy renewals and endorsements from legacy TypeScript system to new Kotlin/Spring web service including: ▹Integration with third-party reports during renewals to improve customer segmentation ▹Cross-team projects to enhance rating accuracy and provide new discounts to customers ▹Enhancements to Agent Portal to improve agent self-service ability and reduce time needed to service customers▸Guided team in planning and breaking down work, leading to 20% increase in sprint planning accuracy▸Guided other teams on rollout of new initiatives impacting multiple engineering teams▸Member of "Kotlin Specialists" group, providing Kotlin guidance to other engineers across the department▸Profiled Kotlin microservice and improved throughput by 50%▸Gave lunch-and-learn talk to department on performance testing▸Guided team members in architectural design of new features▸Built DSLs for seed data and external service mocks, improving readability and reducing development time of integration tests▸Mentored team members through pairing sessions, discussions, and code reviews▸Took ownership model/client auto-generation project ▹Fixed generation of Kotlin models/clients so that they are usable by our projects ▹Started and led discussion group around tooling▸Refactored common redaction framework to provide 5x reduction in latency impact▸Built deployment pipeline for publishing Avro Schema changes▸Enhanced common deployment pipelines to reduce API calls and improve visibility changes▸Built Hackathon project to triage memory leaks in running applications in Kubernetes ▹Fixed multiple projects, leading to lowered AWS hosting costs▸Interviewed lead/senior-level candidates

Chicago, Il, Us

▸Co-led the Claims engineering team in building innovative solutions to improve the claims processing experience and combat fraud.▸Quickly ramped up on new domain and technologies (Kotlin/React Native) and began contributing within first week▸Mentored team members through pairing sessions, discussions, and code reviews

Rochester, New York, Us

As a floating developer at Mindex, my responsibilities involve supporting multiple teams in various parts of the software development lifecycle. Thus far, my role has involved:▸Collaborating with stakeholders to produce quality solutions▸Providing technical guidance across multiple scrum teams▸Participating in the hiring process ▹Interviewing new candidates for development, testing, and lead positions ▹On-boarding new scrum teams▸Mentoring other developers▸Enhancing developer productivity through tools and processes ▹Providing suggestions for improving teams' agile practices ▹Dockerizing development dependencies ▹Enhancing common build tooling ▹Significantly reducing testing times to improve developer feedback loop▸Quickly ramping up on new technologies and leading other developers in using them

Rochester, New York, Us

I was a member of a Mindex statement-of-work team contracted to Paychex to work on new development in their Paychex Flex suite of applications. As the senior developer on the team, my role involved:▸Developing a new Help Center application written in Java, and JavaScript ▹Building out new Spring Web Services ▹Creating AngularJS components ▹Standing up a Drupal website for content-management ▹Creating/configuring new Solr collections ▹Dockerizing Drupal/Solr environment to facilitate local development▸Mentoring the other members of my development team▸Providing guidance to other Mindex/Paychex teams in my areas of expertise▸Performing code reviews▸Breaking down requirements into User Stories▸Performing 30-minute tech talks, both at the team level and at the department level▸Getting quickly up to speed on technologies I was previously unfamiliar with, including: Java, Spring, Solr, Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Drupal, PHP▸Doing deep-dive into Paychex software infrastructure so that our projects can utilize it▸Becoming team's subject-matter-expert on these technologies

Rochester, New York, Us

As the interim Solution Lead for my team, my responsibilities included:▸Leading a team of 4 other developers/testers▸Providing technical walkthroughs of the Help Center project to Paychex senior leadership▸Acting as technical point-of-contact between my team and Paychex stakeholders▸Working with Paychex stakeholders to plan and design various parts of the Help Center project▸Working with Product Owner to create User Stories and flesh out project backlog▸Collaborating with Mindex leadership to brainstorm/implement new department initiatives

Victor, Ny, Us

As a member of an agile team, I was responsible for designing and implementing new features for customer-facing web services and web applications. This involved:▸Driving design discussions▸Providing user-experience feedback to fellow team members, as well as other teams▸Developing several new REST Web Services using ASP.NET Web API and Entity Framework▸Designing and implementing SQL Server databases, as well as performing query/index tuning on existing databases▸Solving complex problems in AngularJS Web Apps, such as: ▹Implementing virtual scrolling to allow for the display of hundreds of thousands of line items without degrading page interaction ▹Ensuring background data requests get properly cancelled when users navigate away from a page without requiring other developers to add large amounts of extra code to their solutions ▹Enabling communication between pages on different web applications ▹Creating easy-to-use API for efficiently loading pages of large data-sets in parallel▸Continuously learning new technologies, reinforcing existing knowledge, and sharing that knowledge across the departmentAs the System Owner of the Provisioning System, I was responsible for identifying product limitations of the system and technical debt, and providing a road-map for addressing them, as well as determining the architecture of future implementations of the system. I served as the subject-matter expert for other teams integrating with this system, and provide technical advice across my department. In addition, I worked directly with customers to identify their needs for our system, and provide estimates and scoping of the work needed.

Victor, Ny, Us

▸Took ownership of Real-Time Provisioning system ▹Provided guidance to other employees working in area of provisioning ▹Identified and addressed technical debt and improved system performance, resulting in 25x improvement in throughput.▸Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies ▹Learned ASP.NET MVC and became a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer in Web Application development ▹Learned AngularJS and converted a legacy order entry application from MVC Razor and Backbone.js▸Created solutions to improve developer efficiency across the department ▹Wrote a Language Service to allow for editing proprietary scripting language files in Visual Studio ▹VSTS extensions to reduce the amount of time teams spend creating new work items▸Provided guidance to other engineers in various areas of development ▹Trained other developers on provisioning system functionality ▹Assisted team members with using AngularJS ▹Shared knowledge of SQL query techniques▸Functioned as a Scrum Master while organization worked on rolling out Agile process across the department.▸Awarded 2014 IDIology award (honors an employee or group that best embodies IDI's company values: fulfillment, knowledge, respect, innovation and excellence)

Victor, Ny, Us

▸Demonstrated ability to learn by becoming subject matter expert in provisioning integration and taking over majority of related work▸Integrated IDI's systems with various cellular network elements including: Verizon (MVNO/Lessee), Sprint (MVNO), Nortel, Nokia, Huawei, Primal, Bridgewater, Interop, Movious, RIM▸Developed internal solutions to improve quality of work for self and other developers ▹Added code validation to existing editor for proprietary scripting language, leading to 80% reduction in bugs ▹Tools for comparing/tuning performance of SQL queries ▹Spreadsheet for employees to compare cost of insurance plans, used company-wide to help employees choose a plan that makes the most financial sense▸Communicated directly with customers/3rd parties ▹Led meetings to discuss business needs/requirements ▹Led meetings to review requirements documents ▹Interacted directly with customers to discuss issues encountered and explain workarounds and permanent solutions▸Proposed and implemented efforts to improve system performance, resulting in 2x increase in throughput of critical Real-Time Provisioning system▸Represented Engineering department as member of company's Customer Experience Council

Silver Spring, Md, Us

▸Worked on enhancements, testing, and bug-fixing for customer portal, with development in Visual C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET and PL/SQL▸Developed scripts for data migration to new tables in PL/SQL▸Researched tools and migrated CVS server to Subversion

▸Assisted in development and performance of acceptance tests of radio systems and sensors▸Assisted in field testing of radio networks▸Researched unit testing frameworks and set up a unit testing harness for utility classes written in C++▸Developed a prototype system for programming radio systems in C++▸Conducted research on various tools including Wink (video capture tool for creating video tutorials) and TestComplete (automated testing software)

▸Java development for command, control, and communications (C3) system including: ▹Acceptance testing ▹Assisting with Oracle database modifications ▹Development of small modules for information management ▹Development and design of user management system▸Continued to hold Secret level security clearance

▸Quickly learned Java on the job▸Java development for command, control, and communications (C3) system including: ▹Acceptance testing ▹Assisting with Oracle database modifications ▹Development of small modules for information management▸Acquired Secret level security clearance