Michael Gale Email & Phone Number

Cary, North Carolina

Paramus, Nj

Accomplishments● Developed APIs to centralize business rules and functions utilizing JMS and RESTful services, reducing development effort, production defects, and project costs.● Led the re-architecting and enhancement of the core UPS tracking application, increasing throughput capacity from 60M to 450M transactions per day.● Oversaw data compression project to decrease network payload size and reduce server overhead, minimizing network traffic by 60% and reducing required servers by 50%.● Implemented IBM DB2 software solution moving from a per transaction cost model to fixed cost model, resulting in a $6M savings per year.Java Software Developer (12/2014-11/2017)● Developed RESTful micro-services with messaging pipeline for warehouse management, volume forecasting, resource planning, and cost saving analysis.● Designed and implemented Pub/Sub layer to reduce business rules and canonicalized data structures to reduce payload size and reduce code complexity.● Lead architect on multiple application design sessions utilizing modular design patterns.● Responsible for evaluating and implementing several third-party products (Log Insight, TFS, CouchBase).● Effectively delivered training, mentoring, and technical presentations to various teams and upper management● Acted as Scrum Master on agile development projects.Associate Java Software Developer (6/2012-12/2014)● Implemented CI/CD which provided consistent test releases and statistical code analysis.Responsible for evaluating and implementing several third-party products (Jenkins, TFS, CouchBase).● Constructed templated pipelines to streamline and standardize Camel route behavior by re-factoring and re-architecting common modules into OSGi services, increasing speed of development and reducing integration test phase defects.● Leveraged Camel, ActiveMQ, and IBM Websphere to deliver horizontally scalable back-end solution in charge of alerting downstream applications of important package state changes.