Jonathan B. Email & Phone Number

Waukesha, Wi, Us

Courbevoie, Ile De France, Fr

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer / Java Architect Professionally managed and delivered on all aspects of software engineering, including devops, for multiple web-based products utilizing micro-services and multiple databases for the U.S. financial data services industry.Took ownership of and corrected several-years’ worth of technical debt.Recreated build- and deployment- paradigms for Spring Java applications, deploying to AWS with auto-scaling, load-balancers, etc. Created servers, AMI’s, Took ownership of and successfully led conversion of AWS deployment footprint during corporate sale/transition from one global financial corp. to another global financial corp.Technical Lead on a variety of data-centric projects and utilities. Routinely provided needed guidance and direction to other software and technical personnel.Significantly improved technical team’s communication, approaches and turn-around time by virtue of demonstrating a professional example and taking the lead when necessary.Vital to the organization's technical-personnel interview process; performed interviews and provided critical input to enable correct hiring decisions for software personnel.Maintained day-to-day and year-over-year progress and momentum with minimal direction or supervision, routinely switching back and forth from one context to another.Worked closely with BI personnel to clarify and document BI logic and procedures.Created meaningful and usable diagrams to document pre-existing complexity.Engaged in significant self-directed Pluralsight training on AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Agile, etc.Gained improved understanding of enterprise-level networking to which I had not previously been exposed from seasoned network-admin types.Mentored mid-level developers, provided guidance to Business Analysts.

Drove efforts of multiple engineering teams developing a multi-language (polyglot) SaaS platform utilizing micro-services and multiple databases for the U.S. health-care insurance industry.• Critical to the successful engagement of my teams with our client.• Acted as primary communication liaison between our client’s engineering teams and client’s product teams (business-analysts). Also acted as primary liaison between my engineering/product management teams and client’s engineering/product management teams.• Provided technical leadership and communication leadership to technical personnel, Business Analysts, and product-management personnel.• Guided and drove architectural/technical decisions across our client’s multiple organizational boundaries.• Achieved implementation of common/shared agile development processes, ensuring fast feedback and response times between on-shore and off-shore stakeholders, and significantly improving communication and collective understanding of issues and expectations.• Provided significant and critical input to client’s decision-makers – at both technical and big-picture levels of understanding.• Provided 24-hour availability for both on-shore client and off-shore engineering and management teams.• Extensive travel to client sites in L.A. and N.C. Travelled to India to provide training to engineering and product management teams.• Succeeded at diplomatic fire-fighting under occasionally hostile circumstances.• Provided daily clarification and communication to technical personnel and management personnel.• Mentored senior technical personnel. Mentored mid-level product management personnel.• Routinely exceeded the requirements and expectations for the role.• Engaged in frequent meetings with decision-makers inhabiting roles such as Directors and Vice-Presidents.

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Full-lifecycle software engineering on award-winning products catering to Enterprise-level data- and operations- management for large financial-services companies.

• Responsible for all phases of software engineering. Produced high-quality deliverables in a dynamic and collaborative environment utilizing an Agile process framework. Consistently exceeded expectations for both quality and performance. Continually sought additional responsibilities and tasks. • Architecture-level refactoring and performance analysis of industry leading warehouse management system.• Created tools, documentation and implemented improvements and enhancements to web-service architecture as part of a product shift to RESTful web services as a step toward SaaS and the enablement of a Cloud-service architecture.• As part of the Architecture team, contributed to longer-term decisions regarding code-quality, application performance and developer guidance and support.• Implemented numerous utilities, resulting in significant and measurable improvements in developer performance and code-quality across multiple products. Improved visibility of quality metrics for management.• Investigated and resolved deeply-embedded performance and reliability issues centered around the use of C code and third-party modules (memory leaks, overwrites, double-frees).• Mentored entry level developers with regard to development of quality deliverables, Agile process utilization, best practices and performance considerations. • Technologies included Java, SQL, C, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, Jackson, ExtJS, C#, Restful web services, proprietary coding language, PMD, Findbugs.

• Developed business-critical C++/SQLServer windows application to replace C++/FoxPro application for workers compensation insurance company. C++, SQL, C#, Windows Forms, web services.

• Developed installation procedures, scripts, modules and applications for a leading supplier of electroencephalograph machines and software used in medical facilities. SQL, C#, .Net.

• Focused on renovation of personal real-estate. Expanded investment/financial expertise. • Provided website consulting/development for business of acquaintances, functionality included product database and order estimation.

Developed advanced, multi-tier, multithreaded applications for a color control system on web-offset printing presses utilizing Visual Studio, C++, .NET, Java, C#, embedded C and SQLServer.• As part of a large team, converted existing application to an object-oriented paradigm. Increased quality, maintainability, and flexibility of product.• Implemented abstract/concrete factory and singleton-based data-access interfaces, improving performance of database interactions.• Pioneered increased interaction with users. Championed standard testing and deployment practices resulting in improved development-cycle and feedback-response times.• Advocated the adoption of unit, integration and regression tests to the software development process, leading to increased software quality. Advocated evolution of development processes, including Iterative and Agile methodologies.• Provided effective and timely support for field personnel and customers leading to greater customer satisfaction, reduced installation costs and increased sales.• Developed numerous feature enhancements, leading to higher user satisfaction. Extensive resolution of existing defects, reducing installation and maintenance costs.• Developed automatic database/file purging application consisting of windows services and multiple stored procedures. Project enabled reduction of upgrade time and costs. Created auto-update and version control web and windows services using Java and C#.• Developed embedded, real-time, event-driven, messaging/control software for motion controllers of step-motors and CCD cameras using TCP/IP, RS-232 and RS-485. Developed recovery algorithms, event/exception-handlers, thread synchronization, and communication interface software. Performed packet analysis, bitwise operations. Use of oscilloscope.• Created physical test-beds and test suite for motors. Executed performance testing of motors and hardware.• Please see my resume for additional accomplishments.

Developed software, documented software, developed test plans, tested applications.• Developed Visual Basic, SQL and AML feature enhancements as part of a 3-person development team. Effort was critical to customer acceptance of product.

Master Of Software Engineering, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science