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Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, Us

Worked closely with both leadership and technical teams of large corporations to help leverage the benefits of the Oracle JDK subscription. Mentorship focused heavily on using Java Management Service to manage enterprise Java installations, ensure the security of all JDK deployments, monitor applications for emergent vulnerabilities, measure application performance metrics, and assist in upgrades to newer SDK versions.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Customer facing Java architect and developer working with RealPage’s Document Director product supporting document management, workflow enablement, and compliance tools for the multifamily real estate industry. Responsibilities also included working directly with customers, ongoing product enhancement, release coordination, and collaboration with an offshore team.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

HCL acquired my team from CA Technologies in Jan. 2019.Drove customer enterprise adoption of Broadcom’s DevTest product (acquired from CA Technologies) and enabled teams to shift left in their development cycle. Ensured great outcomes by coaching customers' technical teams on best practices around the use of service virtualization for functional and performance testing.Constantly contributed to the practice by assisting the pre-sales team, sharing "lessons learned" within the business unit, mentoring new team members, providing content for enablement and certification, and contributing to the DevTest community discussion forum. Frequently contacted by the support team for technical insight when troubleshooting customer issues.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Implementation specialist with SnapLogic’s PaaS product to help customers accelerate integrations across multiple technologies including REST web services, Amazon S3, multiple SaaS providers, and various databases. Helped customers simplify their use of MapReduce, Spark, and other Big Data technologies.Created multiple Java-based product extensions to handle proprietary data formats and to integrate the platform into a CI/CD process.

Plano, Tx, Us

An early team member of a startup that built upon repeated customer success before becoming acquired by CA Technologies for $330M in 2011.Responsible for guiding new CA AppDelivery customers to successful product rollout strategies and creation of self-supporting Service Virtualization centers of excellence. Coach, mentor, and implementer for initial projects that prove the value of the product and prepare technical staff for successful delivery of future work. Creating numerous delighted customers willing to provide strong, positive references for the entire suite of CA LISA products.Specific skills and technologies used include Java development, Service Oriented Architecture, and related SOA technologies. Developed multiple product extensions in Java for managing customer-proprietary communication protocols.Leader of CA's Associate program which recruits recent college graduates for our professional services team. Creating training material, practical exercises, and real word case studies to quickly ramp up their skills in core technologies they will see in the field.

Cranston, Ri, Us

Client-facing, senior technical consultant responsible for product deployment, customer training, and hands-on mentoring. Agitar’s products enable faster, more effective Java developer testing as well as auto-generation of JUnit tests to protect legacy Java code from regressions and promote a more agile development environment.Primary responsibility was driving continued post-sales revenue from Agitar’s subscription-based products by ensuring customer success through professional services. Training and coaching were provided on-site and via WebEx. Also tasked with motivating internal customer champions and identifying additional sales opportunities within existing clients.Highly regarded by all customers, both domestic and international, for effective speaking and training skills as well as technical expertise and thoroughness in troubleshooting issues with customer’s use of tools and the customers' own J2EE code.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

Worked with a team designing and developing server-side and Windows Forms applications in C#/.NET for evaluating and processing real estate appraisals for the mortgage industry. The multi-threaded back-end software interacts with remote systems through both XML Web Services and Microsoft Message Queues. The front-end required a high performance WinForms user interface built using both standard and custom controls.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Application architect and developer focused on integrating disparate software systems following the acquisition of MBNA by Bank of America. Multiple production applications were refactored to create a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allowing data sharing across formerly independent systems. Technologies used include SOAP web services, Spring Framework, Hibernate, and J2EE on a WebSphere application server. Mentored other team members in web services technology and architectural principles.

Plano, Tx, Us

Designed and built a JRun based accounting reconciliation application used to manage transactions posted from toll booths, customer service representatives, and online payments. This was a JSP with Struts and Tiles front end with an EJB backend employing SOAP based web services. The accounting system acted as both a web service provider and consumer within a service oriented architecture (SOA).Rearchitected and reimplemented a legacy customer service portal in order to add functionality and simplify the maintenance of an older design that had proven to be cumbersome. Recommended multiple technology changes including the use of JMS for messaging and Hibernate for object-relational mapping. Mentored team on best practices to adopt with Struts and Tiles. Refactored entire multi-application build process with Apache Ant in order to improve performance and repeatability of a previously problematic task.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Helped T-Mobile HotSpot successfully architect, build, and deploy a WebLogic based customer-facing website. Ongoing support for the application included adding a wide range of new functionality. This JSP application, built on Apache Struts and Tiles, is a customer’s first Web exposure to the company and its wireless 802.11 service.Significant personal accomplishments included developing an XML based binding of Java to the underlying Infranet billing system for a savings of hundreds of man-hours of otherwise extensive, repetitive, and error prone development. Developed a pluggable framework for deploying new promotions into the customer signup process that greatly reduced the cost of rolling out and maintaining new promotions. Designed and developed an LDAP based, multi-application configuration architecture that dramatically decreased risk and increased repeatability of production and QA software deployments.