Java EE designer, developer, and team lead. • Designed, evangelized, and developed contract-first system for Web Services, with declarative security. Integrated Spring Web Services with JAX-RPC.• Evaluated reporting systems for flexibility and performance.• Did extensive performance tuning on reporting system.• Designed and developed system to drive dynamic Web forms and back-end validation through declarative XML.• Developed system to load hierarchical data into a in-memory graph representation to make access decisions based on graph structure, applied through declarative annotations.• Conducted many technical interviews for Java EE developer positions.• Trained developers on writing testable code.• Trained build team on Maven, Subversion, Artifactory, and Bamboo.

Led team of developers and coordinated development in Java, PHP, and C#.Built new Java EE application to collect and analyze network performance data in order to determine lowest-latency Internet routing.• Managed and coordinated a team of five developers with disparate skill sets in a start-up company. Introduced agile methodologies to a team unfamiliar with agile values, principles, and practices. Helped the business to understand the value proposition of agile techniques, and realized transparency in the software development process through communication and involvement with the business.• Integrated systems from a variety of inherited technologies (Java Swing, .NET GUI, PHP, Perl), and set directions for future development.• Mentored developers to broaden their skill sets and improve development practices. Mentored a high-school student in database design, XML, and Web development.• Conducted informal code reviews to improve code quality and keep the team aligned in focus. Documented coding practices and created Eclipse coding templates to streamline compliance.• Interviewed developer candidates and made hiring recommendations. Built out the team from a single developer to a team of five.• Architected, implemented, and deployed a server-side system from the ground up to optimize Internet connections for low latency and jitter, using a private nationwide network. Core technologies used were Java EE, the Spring Framework including Spring Web Services, and JPA/Hibernate.• Deployed and enhanced Caucho Quercus for Java/PHP integration, exposing middle-tier services as Spring beans to a PHP Web layer in order to leverage an installed base of PHP code while adding new functionality using Java EE.• Configured Apache Tomcat and HTTPD.• Gathered routing table information from routers with SNMP using Perl, and persisted the network topology data to a database.• Developed server-side Java about half time; developed in C#, Java Swing, PHP, and Perl as needed.

TelePacific Communications acquired Mpower Communications in 2006. This position is a continuation of the same position at Mpower Communications, with similar responsibilities.

• Worked as developer/architect, with roles extending to many aspects of the software development process: status and requirements meetings, project charters, requirements gathering, business and technical analysis, functional and technical design, implementation, testing, quality assurance, server configuration, change management coordination, deployment, user documentation, training, and post-production support.• Prepared functional and technical specifications as needed. Led reviews of requirements and specifications to ensure that business needs would be properly met.• Led a weekly stakeholder call for six years, giving status reports, gathering requirements, discussing iteration/sprint planning, and engaging in technical discussions. Led discussions to reconcile competing priorities among several different stakeholder groups and build consensus across departments.• Focused on software systems to perform configuration management, monitoring, and maintenance of multiple network element types. Designed and implemented system in Java for IP inventory, customer network activation, network management, and network element backups. Enhanced legacy Perl-based system, and migrated and extended functionality in Java-based system.• Managed and enhanced system of record for all customer IP assignments. Created algorithm to intelligently assign IP addresses to minimize IP space fragmentation and effectively load balance customers across network elements (such as routers).• Built stopgap network fault monitoring system from the ground up in two weeks to meet custom needs. Collected data via ICMP, TCP, and SNMP. Used Perl and shell scripts, and leveraged available open-source tools, integrating multiple products that had not been designed to work together. Built custom database with MySQL to store network reliability data. System was used for six months until a multi-million-dollar Netcool installation was complete.• Installed, maintained, and deployed to JBoss.