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Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Design, develop, and maintain two of the top ten pages (History and Statements) on schwab.com, written in C#, ASP.NET Core 6 (for capability web API (cAPI) and experience API (xAPI) web apps), and Angular/TypeScript (for SPA apps, using the ALTO framework).* Rewrote the legacy History page to new xAPI and SPA apps* Rewrote the legacy Statements page to new cAPI, xAPI, and SPA apps

Jersey City, New Jersey

Consultant - Web Developer Grid (March 2020 - May 2021)Developed and maintained the Grid site as a front end developer, using JavaScript, Dojo, and FreeMarker templates.Consultant - Web Developer TDAx (2018 - 2020)Designed, developed, and maintained the TDAx Mobile web app - a JavaScript/React app that uses the hexagonal architectural design pattern along with agile and TDD (Test Driven Development) to produce a high quality and maintainable trading app. * Wrote technical documents for the team to reduce miscommunications and misunderstanding * Wrote a testing tool to reduced the average wait/test time from 12 minutes to 3 minutes (a 75% reduction in time). * Mentored the junior members on the team. Consultant - Mobile Developer (2014 - 2018)Designed, developed, and maintained the apps for TDA Mobile and VeoMobile using Objective-C, Swift, Dalvik/Java, and C++. * Used agile best practices, including pair programming and test driven development (TDD) from Pivotal Labs. Was on the first agile team for mobile. * Developed cross-platform efficiencies to reduce code duplication across iOS/Android platforms. * Member of the team that led the effort to consolidate application logic into one place, communicated between agile teams to reduce technical barriers and roadblocks, and mentored, taught, and wrote documents and presentations to facilitate this effort. Manager TDA Mobile (2013 - 2014)Managed the teams for the native mobile (iOS and Android) TDA Mobile app and Institutional VeoMobile iPad app. * Delivered redesigned TDA Mobile app for both iOS and Android. * Participated in the T2 initiative for Lean/Kanban/Scrum * Implemented Lean and Agile for the mobile teams.Senior Software Engineer (2011 - 2012)Coordinated, coded, built, maintained and released the iOS, Android, and Blackberry trading apps as lead programmer. * Lead development/enhancements for VeoMobile iPad app * Managed the rebranded iStockManager to TDA Mobile effort

Skillman, New Jersey, United States

Senior Software Engineer , Equity Fundamentals Design, develop enhancements, and maintain the Bloomberg terminal using C++, C, Fortran, and Javascript.

Ewing, New Jersey, United States

Designed and developed enhancements to the ERwin software suite, a DBMS design package. Maintain and enhance existing code with C++, MFC, and design patterns.Researched, designed, and implemented a code generator in Python that reduced the database editors’ code turnover time by over 60%.

Eatontown, New Jersey, United States

Government Security ClearanceHelped to analyze, design, and write cross-platform (Windows and Linux) terrain project which used C++ and Java, that exposed multiple terrain analysis functions through a SWIG interface.Instrumental in writing and developing Decision Support Engine (DSE) in C++ and .NET. Team leader for embedding DSE in Army’s Software Engineering Center (SEC) flagship product, Maneuver Control System (MCS), to enable war-gaming and planning capabilities.

Pennington, New Jersey, United States

Maintained and enhanced the enterprise-wide desktop shell, Trusted Global Advisor (TGA), software package. TGA won first place award at Comdex’s Windows World Open in 1997, was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution’s Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology in 1999.

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Managed C++ code that coordinated all database access for the Portfolio Account Management (PAM) software package.Designed and programmed C++ code generator for PAM database, reducing the time spent on hand-coding by 90%.

Abilene, Texas, United States

MIS provides fully integrated software to serve the entire spectrum of electric utility requirements, effectively automating utility operations from engineering to customer service.Senior ProgrammerCreated and managed the full life-cycle of Distribution Analysis (DA) software package written in C, C++, and FORTRAN.