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• Active in ongoing installation, configuration, management, and support of Grainger.com and other internet based applications and supporting software, including BroadVision, WebMethods, JBoss, Endeca, Hybris, tcServer, and Apache.• Acted as liaison between business partners and other enterprise infrastructure teams to get systems and applications implemented.• Administered and supported Grainger SDLC, monitoring, and management software and systems, including Subversion, GitHub, MediaWiki, Eventum, MySQL, AWStats, and other home-grown applications.• Created scripts using python and unix shell to simplify and automate processes used to start/stop applications, resulting in quicker and less error prone build deployments and site-to-site failovers. • Managed integration of Grainger.com scheduled jobs into corporate tools and operational processes using Cronacle.• Member of team involved in design and implementation of new e-commerce platform, including infrastructure design and configuration of Hybris, Jboss, Cassandra, Apache web servers.• Member of team involved in design and implementation of Endeca search systems for enterprise use. Implemented and maintained portions the data management processes for Endeca data.• Member of team that migrated Grainger.com website from IBM data centers to internal Grainger data centers. Migration was completed almost 2 months early for a cost savings of nearly $1.5M.

* Managed team of 5-7 developers. Duties consisted of coaching and quarterly reviews of team members. Led team process and quality improvement activities including usage of Checkstyle and FindBugs software, Test Driven Development, and Lean / Agile methodologies.* Worked with business partners to ensure timely completion of projects.* Member of team to optimize the Grainger.com platform. Final delivery resulted in an additional 53% improvement in customer page download time as measured by third party monitoring partner.* Supported and participated in website upgrade from Java 1.3 to Java 5.0.* Integrated corporate LDAP authentication service into build system, helping to eliminate unnecessary maintenance of multiple user authentication sources.

* Team lead for team of 5-7 developers. Duties mainly consisted of coaching and quarterly reviews of team members. Involved in team process and quality improvement activities, including use of Agile development processes.* Implemented automated, web based reporting of standard measures for development group.* Business and system analysis for development projects.* Provided leadership as core team member for project to rewrite online ordering and order management functionalities. Involved heavily in design and implementation of project.* Maintenance of Grainger.com website using BroadVision, server-side java script, Java, JSP, HTML, client side java script, WebMethods.* Maintenance and expansion of SCM and build tracking system, using integration of ClearQuest, Cruisecontrol, Codestriker, and other custom solutions using open source libraries and applications.* Primary support for deployment and build activities, including software updates and administration configuration

* Development of Grainger.com website using BroadVision, server-side java script, Java, JSP, HTML, client side java script, WebMethods. Primary development focus was back-end Java solutions, including interaction with external systems and databases.* Core member of several projects that converted code base from BroadVision server side java script to Java/JSP using the Apache Struts framework.* Member of project team to rewrite Grainger.com search functionality using AltaVista APIs. Involved primarily in data analysis and building of search data.* Created and maintained automated SCM build scripts using Ant and Cruisecontrol. This effort led to an approximate 90% reduction of non-value added activities over a 5 year period