Ken Byers Email & Phone Number

Glendale, Arizona, United States

Assigned to CSAA as lead software engineer.

North Aurora, Illinois

I have been providing home care and support for a critically ill family member. She has since passed.

Greater Chicago Area

Contracted to document and support a legacy iSeries (AS-400) application suite.Derivation of requirements necessary for system upgrades.

Naperville, Il

Provided support and updates to MultiPlan’s Payment Triage system for health insurance claims..Design and development of Spring Boot micro services.Member of a distributed agile scum team.

Greater Chicago Area

Designing and developed services with Spring Boot for interaction with mainframe host and consumer applications.Defined exposed API for service layer.Derivation of requirements and use cases.I designed and implemented the SDLC for the team.

Hancock, Michigan

Architect and Lead Software engineer for multiple clients and business domains.Consultant for multiple clients. Portfolio includes:• Designed and developed an integration application for processing digital signatures with the DocuSign platform. This includes interaction with the DocuSign REST API, data persistence with Apache Casandra, event processing with Apache Kafka.• I successfully designed and implemented a Spring MVC and Drools rules engine based application, applying SOA patterns. This included integration with an AS-400 inventory management system.• Developer and design engineer on a data analytics application using C# .NET, and SQL Server.• Architect and developer on a report generation service using Java and Apache FO for dynamic PDF document generation.• In addition to acting as a lead technical team member, I’m involved in the preparation of RFPs, as well as RFP responses to several clients.

Portland, Oregon Area

Principal Software Engineer on the Rating team at UTi in the Transportation domain. I am focused on application design and development of lightweight services that require high performance to meet user needs. I am currently applying skills with Java, Blaze Adviser, Jetty, Jackson (JSON), JAX-WS, SOAP, JMS, and many more technologies. Past assignment was as a Java & SOA Specialist in UTi Technical Center of Excellence. Focusing on best practices and development of loosely coupled ESB based services using the Tibco suite of applications. These include Tibco ActiveMatrix, BusinessWorks, and Tibco Business Events.

Architect with IBM Global Services

Enterprise software architect.

Department of Human Services. Working on FamilyNet, a platform for administration of state programs oriented to child health.

Technical Lead, responsible for four projects. Two projects involved hands on coding, two technical coordination and leadership.I participated in the development of GRID, a liner program model for calculation of net energy cost for regulated electrical generators. This is developed using server side Java/J2EE with the Apache Struts framework.I was technical lead for internal human resource applications integrating SAP/R3 and an external ASP. This included architecture, design, establishing highly secure data delivery, PKI infrastructure, and messaging through TIBCO corporate backbone.

Responsibilities include architecture establishment, design, and installation of Bidwell.com, an online securities trading system. This system is developed with server side Java/J2EE, Sybase, and JSP. My initial task was to stabilize the existing system, applying lifecycle management, code control, and deployment policies. I have been instrumental in the design and coding of new trading related features, problem resolution, and new site development.I completed the architecture and prototype of a real-time streaming quotes facility for Bidwell Customers.In addition to the above responsibilities, I provided technical leadership and mentoring to a staff of 7 individuals, five of which were software engineers. I reported directly to the VP of trading.

Responsibilities included management of a team of six engineers, serving as primary architect and manager for server side products, as well as a key developer on GeoTrust TrueCredentials productTrueCredentials is a server side Java/J2EE based web service using a Weblogic/Oracle server platform.The application is oriented to mitigation of risk in B2B e-commerce transactions. I participated in all aspects of product development, from requirements to deployment.

Computer Science

Computer Science

Diploma, High School

Diploma, High School