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Jericho, New York, US

Jericho, New York, US

• Director of e-commerce development on multi-brand website that includes 1800flowers.com, harryanddavid.com, and seven other gifting brands.
• Led migration of the Harry & David website after its acquisition by 1800flowers.com. The effort included merging development teams from both companies and utilizing multiple consulting companies to ramp up our.
• Introduced Akamai Dynamic Page Caching to offload page requests, maximize availability, and significantly reduce time to first byte.
• Led the effort to introduce Scrum and build automation with Jenkins into our development cycle. Recommended the adoption of the Rally suite of agile tooling, which was rolled out to all of IT.
• Provided hands on leadership to three scrum teams, based in India and NY, during effort to migrate 1800flowers.com from a custom Struts and J2EE platform to IBM’s WebSphere Commerce.
• Significantly increased site capacity in performance lab in the current WebSphere Commerce platform and earlier custom Java platforms by increasing caching, tuning database queries, and optimizing CPU intensive Java.

• Designed, built, maintained, and administered a layered, object-oriented web service application that implemented the RosettaNet standard for business communication in the electronics industry.
• Worked directly with trading partners and internal management to develop requirements and timelines, and to resolve web service integration problems.
• Trained programmers, QA, marketing, and sales on RosettaNet standard and other custom applications.
• Worked closely with marketing and sales to resolve technical problems.
• Extensively used JSP, Servlets, JavaMail, JSTL, JSSE, CSS, AJAX, Castor, SAX, Struts, JSP, Eclipse, CVS, DB2.
• Ported multiple web applications from WebSphere, in an AS400 environment, to Tomcat.

• Developed Java Classes, JSP, and Custom Tag Libraries, extensive use of Blue Martini API. Extensive use of XML technologies such as SAX, DOM, XML Beans, XSLT, and XSD.
• Led development team towards greater use of proven object-oriented design architecture, which increased maintainability and reduced defects.
• Trained and led new development staff on programming standards and tools, Blue Martini environment, and individual project plans and scheduling.
• Interviewed applicants for development positions, paying close attention to technical expertise and communication skills.
• Monitored application servers and tuned JVM, Blue Martini, and application code for optimal memory use and performance. Extensive use of JProbe.
• Designed normalized and object-oriented database structures for custom applications.

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Bs, Integrated Science And Technology