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Severna Park, Md, Us

Severna Park, Md, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Leading the "Site Reliability Engineering" (SRE) efforts for critical Customer production applications as the Platform technical lead. Responsibilities included: * Developed/Deployed a development and production platform based on Cloud Foundry that enables all applications to be deployed with minimal effort. * Developed the common software to ensure all applications deployed to the platform are compliant with all security and monitoring requirements. * Develop Cloud Native Applications utilizing microservices, Spring Boot, CI/CD Pipelines, Mongo, Kafka, AWS, and Vue.js. * Architected and implemented AWS enviornment to support a Kubernetes environment that utilized AMIs, EC2 VMs, IAM Roles/Policies, Cloud Formation, KMS, VPCs, Subnets, DNS Servers, and NAT Gateways * Deployed/Maintained Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) to AWS. * Developed a Software factory that utilized a Deveopment Handbok and Platform to create Production ready Cloud Native Applications in minimal amount of time that have a complete monitoring/tracing strategy. * Created and Documented a Development Handbook that details the entire development lifecycle from how to onboard new team members to how to build/deploy/monitor a 12 factor cloud native application using micro-services. * Mentoring junior team members in creating Cloud Native Applications using feature mapping, event storming, Business Driven Development (BDD), and Test Driven Development (TDD), while utilizing maintaining focus on the concepts of Microservices, bounded context, and 12 Factor Apps.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Elkridge, Md, Us

Develop/Maintain a Spring integration project that connects Enterprise Messaging and COTS products with metrics and monitoring solutions.Technologies included: Java, Spring Framework (JMS, Integration), Linux

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Develop/Implement the data and services layers of a flex/java web application utilizing Spring/Hibernate. Configured the Integration of Spring Framework and BlazeDS Develop web services. Technologies included: Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Flex, BlazeDS, PostgreSQL, SQL, Maven, Jax-B, Axis, Soap UI

Charleston, Sc, Us

Develop, test, and Integrate SOA applications. Responsibilities include:• Design an application to allow monitoring of web applications and web services for specific events and aggregate the data for a user to monitor.• Utilize ASM (low-level bytecode manipulation framework) to unobtrusively modify core Java web service classes in order to facilitate runtime inspection. • Design and Develop a hub to gather information from multiple web services and allowing the user to monitor in real time events. Technologies used include: Spring, Hibernate, Direct Web Remoting (DWR), jquery, CSS, Web Services, Ajax, and Reverse Ajax.• Configure and secure Windows and Linux Servers.• Develop an application using JavaScript, Web Services, Ext 2.2, JAX-WS, and JAX-B to deliver aggregated information to users in a Summary set of views for decision making.• Integrate 3rd party SOA applications into the DoD environment for the Purpose of Test/Integration with other applications in the NSLDSS project.• Integrate and Debug web application that utilizes Google Maps, AJAX, Ext JS framework, and Java to combine multiple types of data from Geospatial, REST/RSS Web Services sources, WS Notifications or other types of data into tables and maps.• Develop a Web Service Front End for Mark Logic that will be utilized multiple applications to retrieve and store data in an xml format.• Develop Web Services to consume and expose data between multiple applications following the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) standard.• Develop Web services to Send and Receive WS-Notifications utilizing JUM (Joint User Messaging) • Develop a Maven build process that Utilizes Hudson to create a Continuous test and integration environment. Technologies included: JAVA, JAX-WS, JAX-B, SOA, Maven, SoapUI, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Firebug, GIS, SQL, eXist, MarkLogic, XML, XSD, XSLT, Apache Tomcat, Red hat Linux, SSL, and PKI Certificates. , Direct Web Remoting (DWR), JQUERY, Spring, Hibernate.

Contracted to Ned Davis Research Market Data division that handles the loading and presenting of the Investment and historical data for the Market Researchers. Tasks included:• Develop Java applications to Download, Parse and Load Financial and investment data into Databases and binary files. • Design and Create MS SQL database to store Data

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Maintained a set of applications that combined over 50 data feeds into a transaction and reporting databases using Java, Perl, SQL, Linux, DB2, and MYSQL. This included: Developed fixes/patches and new functionality as requiredEvaluated and Developed changes to enhance the application and to reduce maintenance cost/time.Regulated and approved all development changes from a code, process, and maintenance perspective within a projectConsolidated reference data inside TRX and distribute to other projects/teams utilizing Java, SQL, JDBC, MS SQL, and Linux.Lead a migration of a multi million-dollar application to our customer. This included server/application setup, application changes/enhancements and customer relationsPromoted to Development Team Lead within six months of startingTraveled to India to train resources on our tools and methodologyDeveloped C# website for Incident managementReceived Xceller Award (Top performer Award for a quarter nominated by peers).

BIPT Inc. – Sarasota, FL 6/2005 – 2/2006Maintaining an End to End Insurance web application that handles the full workflow of processing Insurance policies from the quote to claims. This application uses Websphere server, DB2, Java, and JSPs. Responsibilities include:• Convert the application into a J2EE 3 Tiered application.• Maintain and cleanup Visual Basic Application that handled data migration.• Mentor Junior Java Developers

• Developed a stand-alone web application template using Struts to ease development of new applications.• Developed new features/workflow for an application using Java (J2EE), JSPs, XML, and SQL. This environment consisted of WebSphere Application Developer 5.0, EAD4J, CMVC, and DB2 7.2.• Developed and optimized SQL Queries to retrieve data from a DB2 database.• Developed Java Database Layer that updated, inserted, deleted, and retrieved information from a DB2 database using JDBC and IBM’s EAD4J framework.• Created drill down and searching workflow/capability for an e-commerce web application. This included multiple features like search optimization, negative searching, and bread crumbing.• Debugged and optimized the application when errors or timing issues occurred.• Migrated application development environment from version 4.X of WSAD to version 5.X.• Developed Perl Filters to convert flat files to usable format to be loaded into database tables.

Technology Support Corporation contracted me to IBM, TradeMC (IBM and Flour subsidiary), and Vertical Net (formally Atlas Commerce). Developed / Maintained a B2B application using J2EE, SQL, Java Beans, Java Servlets, and JSPs The development environment consisted of Ant, WebLogic, CVS, MS SQL Server 7.0/ Oracle 8i, and IBM MQ Series Managed IT development projects, application development, and workflow control processes Developed and maintained Lotus Notes Databases for Internal and External Customers Advised and determined ways to enable suppliers to a B2B application via EDI or XML

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Assigned to the development team in a worldwide global procurement web application using Lotus Notes, DB2, and Java Developed and designed a web based Computer Based Training (CBT) application using Lotus Notes to track and log a user’s progress through the material for house and external usage Developed and debugged an e-commerce Lotus Notes web application that used Java, Lotus Script, JavaScript, and SQL Maintained Perl CGI-Scripts.

Bs, Information Technology

As, Computer Science