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Kensington, Md, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

CPDW (CIVILIAN PERSONNEL DATA WAREHOUSE). Senior SoftwareEngineer and one-time Team Lead on an AWS Redshift Data Warehouse for DoD civilian HR data. Led team in customer meetings, sprint planning and task estimation. Participated in full software development lifecycle on agile team, with secure development and coding practices, code reviews, testing and deployment. Team SME for Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) system. Developed ETL processes to generate Oracle HCM data extract files and ensure secure data transfer through ETL pipeline. Focused on protecting data-in-transit with Secure FTP (SFTP), with additional defense-in-depth using PGP and encrypted S3 buckets. Built HCM data extracts and BI Publisher reports to generate CSV data files for ETL pipeline. Wrote complex SQL query data models for generating Oracle BI Publisher reports. Worked with government stakeholders to securely provision user accounts for the data warehouse. Worked to develop a Redshift database application to enforce role-based access control (RBAC) to prevent exposure of sensitive data to users without sufficient authorization. Developed Databricks ETL notebooks using PySpark SQL. Generated cross-system HR data mapping spreadsheets using Python/Pandas. DATA SOLUTIONS WIZARD. Member of the Strategic Innovations Group (SIG), worked on development team for an AWS provisioning, configuration and deployment wizard. Created prototypes for streaming data applications, ETL processing and Data Lakes. Wrote CloudFormation and Teradata templates for RDS, DMS, MSK/Kafka and ECS/EKS. Wrote demo apps for Kafka Connect, Streams and ksqlDB.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

MATRIX. Senior Software Engineer on the data conformance team for the DHSCIS Identity Processing Pipeline. Developed secure and robust solutions using AWS technologies (DynamoDB, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis), and PySpark/Databricks. Wrote Lambda functions in Python for data conformance ETL. Created metadata-driven design for conformance and validation of person data records. Implemented data standardization with master codes database. Participated in full software development lifecycle on agile team, with secure development practices, code reviews, testing and deployment. Gave presentations of new code feature to large audiences of government stakeholders and software engineering staff.

GAO Business Intelligence. Senior Software Engineer developing Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, ETL and Web applications for the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Gained expertise in Pentaho BA (Business Applications) Server, Spoon/Kettle ETL jobs/transformation, and Liferay workflows. Developed secure REST APIs and middleware applications in Java with input validation and sanitization. Wrote complex SQL scripts for ETL processes. Participated in designing the data warehouse and developing the ETL pipelines. Participated in full software development lifecycle on agile team, with secure development and coding practices, code reviews, testing and deployment.BI Manager. Created a Java web application for data warehouse management, scheduling and executing ETL jobs. Developed Java APIs and JSP pages using with Spring, Hibernate, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Quartz. EMS Reporting. Developed secure middle-tier RESTful web services in Java, delivering JSON data to the GAO Engagement Management System, using the Spring framework, Hibernate ORM and Criteria queries.

Mclean, Va, Us

PBGC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT. Member of team developing SOAP-based Web services for the Document Management System of the Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation. Back-end Java Web services using Apache Axis 2 and Oracle Weblogic / Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) servers. Developed PDF split/merge/copy functionality for the PBGC Image Viewer Application using the iText Java API. Verity search engine integration with IBM’s FileNet Content Engine API.

Falls Church, Va, Us

GAO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE. Created data warehouse for payroll and job costing data for the Government Accountability Office, using Pentaho BA Server, ETL and reporting tools. Designed and built star-schema data warehouse design with dimension and fact tables and analysis cubes; developed ETL transformations to populate the data using Pentaho Kettle/ETL. Subsequently the project was expanded to include a full team of developers. GCTRACK. Developed small data warehouse for GCTrack project (GAO engagement tracking system). Maintenance of GCTrack web application.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

UDRWEB. Developed web-based version of data entry tool for editors of legislative data (BillTrack). Supervised a development team consisting of both staff developers and external contractors. Requirements documents, meeting with stakeholders, Hibernate/Oracle data access, Wicket application framework. STATETRACK REGULATIONS. Ruby/Rails/Javascript application for state regulatory data. Data Management Rails application, Postgres database, XML data feed processing with Ruby and shell scripts. Alerts and query execution using a Texis search engine. Central role in interacting with all members of a geographically diverse team. CQ LAW TRACK. Participated in developing web application for presenting / searching text of public laws impacted by current bills in Congress. Xquery / XSLT web services, XML document processing workflow, XHTML transformation, storage in MarkLogic XML database; diagnostic queries to discover error conditions and anomalies in the document database. CQ FLOOR VIDEO. XML/XQuery framework for CQ Floor Video product, honored with a MarkLogic innovation award. Wrote code in Ruby, Python, Java, XQuery, XSLT, and bash shell, transforming live data feed into XML/XHTML documents, storage in MarkLogic XML and Oracle databases. Developed procedures to perform bulk processing and loading of the data.

ANALYTICS ENGINE. Participated in web-analytics development for the Clearspring Widget Platform, including web-page view metrics and interaction-based analytics . Analytics engine based on a BerkeleyDB; back-end and involves the creation of RPCs to return data in JSON format.

RULEPOINT. Worked to develop the Rulepoint event processing system. Wrote Antlr-based parser for DRQL (Detect and Respond Query Language), a domain-specific language allowing users to create rules for applying conditions to events and executing responses. JBoss rules engine. Java, Spring framework, Hibernate.

Rockville, Md, Us

PLATFORM SOLDIER MISSION READINESS SYSTEM (PSMRS). Designed XML schemas to represent combat vehicle fault signals and perform failure analysis for Future Combat Systems; Java Data Import Tool to perform an XSL transform of data into XML format; Swing GUI, Java Servlets/JSPs. CRISIS OPERATIONS. Agent-based Java simulation modeling crowd control under crisis conditions, SVG-based Java Swing GUI. LOGISTICS DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (LDSS). High-level software architecture to support an agent-based military logistics system, as part of Future Combat Systems. UML modeling.

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ALAMBIC FRAMEWORK. Member of team developing Java framework for applying mathematical transform and fitting functions to binary data to perform data compression, for use in delivering HDTV/multimedia content over the Internet; team included software developers and mathematicians.

BEST (Battlespace Environment and Signatures Toolkit). Senior member of team developing a multi-language distributed simulation system for missile-defense scenarios, written for the Missile Defense Agency and Naval Research Laboratory. 25-person development team. Wrote Java code for CORBA components providing an interface to physics codes written in Java, C++, and FORTRAN; proprietary CORBA Component Model application server. High level architecture design, CORBA IDL interfaces, Java implementations of distributed software components. Developed concurrent/multi-threaded Simulation Manager component. Developed XML schemas for missile and simulation scenario configuration. Participated in developing the Trajectory, Entity State, EO Sensor, and Optical Signature components. Worked in close interaction with physicists and other domain experts.

Rockville, Md, Us

SURVIVABLE NETWORKS. Agent-based simulation of an 802.11 mobile ad hoc wireless network. Designed and implemented agents in Java; wrote a Linux kernel module in C, designed JNI interfaces, researched routing algorithms and wrote C functions to implement an experimental routing protocol. Worked closely with senior-level Computer Scientist who designed the algorithms.MEDICAL INFORMATICS. Java/CORBA-based application for paramedics to transmit patients medical records. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER'S WORKBENCH. E.xpert system educational training prototype, Java Servlets/JSPs, JESS rules engine. AGENTS EN-ROUTE. Team developed an agent-based air-traffic control simulation in Java.

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ONLINE LIVING. Developed portal site used by apartment residents for online shopping, news, surveys, and discussions. Led team of developers coding in Allaire Spectra; supervised full-scale design phase, coded a large portion of the site and reviewed code of others.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

GE CAREERS. Cold Fusion developer for career-development/employment opportunity Web site (www.gecareers.com). Implemented a job search engine, interactive user surveys, resume submission/email notification, and an admin tool. CYBERGISTICS. BEA WebLogic application to send order-status emails to customers of online and mail-order merchants. UML design, EJB and Java servlet development, XML generation.

College Park, Md, Us

COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS. Web editor for academic computer magazine. Designed and coded Web pages in HTML, Javascript and Perl and maintained the magazine website; edited copy and wrote two regular columns.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Classics And Classical Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Bachelor'S Degree, English

Master Of Arts - Ma, English