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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Fairfax, Va

Falls Church, Va

• Managed a team of 5 developers in the creation and maintenance of Demosphere’s suite of • • • • Registration, CMS, and other Club Management Tools• Worked within an Agile Methodology to determine technical goals and priorities• Lead the Development Team to architect and design all parts of the application, and reviewed code to ensure proper implementation and best practices• Managed staffing and hiring of developers to include annual reviews and professional development• Served as member of leadership steering committee• Presented at quarterly company meetings to CEO, Senior Vice Presidents and other leadership staff

Falls Church, Va

• Managed Infrastructure for over 30 distributed applications that had over 400K registered users, millions of daily page hits, and processed over $100 million annually• Protected personal, credit card, social security, and birth certificate data for over 400K users.• Implemented configuration management for all applications, creating integration, staging, and production environments• Installed, implemented, multiple replica set MongoDB in two weeks, and tuned and maintained the database over 5 years• Installed, implemented, and monitored Load Balancing to ensure application and web server redundancy reducing all single points of failure across 75+ servers• Introduced, built, and implemented capistrano scripts to deploy applications to all environments• Introduced, built, and implemented rake scripts to automate deployments• Utilized Chef to automate server deployment and maintenance• Performed zero downtime bi-weekly deployments of over 30 distributed applications, while mentoring junior staff on deployment best practices, and deployment of hotfix and integration code• Created and implemented Disaster Recovery Plans, with multiple backup sources• Built and Maintained Dev, Staging, and Production implementations using Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Created automated tools to monitor server uptime, and collect application usage statistics.• Migrated all servers from a physical servers to a fully virtualized environment• Built and installed Proxmox Virtualization Environment utilizing a SAN to allow for online migration of virtual servers for high availability and maintenance of servers

• Aide in the management and support of a $5 million government contract • Interview and select in-house and contract staff for multiple projects• Guide six contractors in the development and enhancement to project Servers• Contribute technical and creative direction in creating a mapping application that displays CongressionalDistrict maps over existing Head Start center locations using the Google Maps API• Designed web-based metadata editor that allows users to manipulate all the metadata within the ECLKC• Perform risk assessment and quality control for all projects to ensure a secure and stable environment

• Lead a group of five in-house developers/system administrators and one database contractor on a $4million contract to construct the production infrastructure of the Early Childhood Learning andKnowledge Center (ECLKC), which is the largest early childhood knowledge repository. • Maintain the production environment of the ECLKC, which runs on over 25 Windows and Solarisservers in Virginia and California and handles over 8,000 user visits and over 200,000 page hits per day.• Implement load balancing, geographic code synchronization, and geographic load balancing across thetwo data centers to evenly distribute traffic between the two locations• Installed, implemented, and maintain multiple Oracle 10g databases, Hyperwave IS/6 ContentManagement Server (CMS), Apache Tomcat, Squid Caching Server, and OpenLDAP.• Created and oversee all data backups for the ECLKC database and related application data

• Design, customize, and implement server side javascript template code.• Built a variety of Java web applications which integrate seamlessly with the ECLKC• Fabricated the secure ECLKC user login system integrating Hyperwave with OpenLDAP

• Designed and built a complex workflow structure using Java Servlet Technology and Oracle 10g.• Updated the outdated workflow process from spreadsheets and email system to a highly functional automated process that improves productivity and efficiency by 65%

• Built database driven software and web applications to display financial data to members of different Co-ops, using Visual Basic.NET and an MSSQL database.• Constructed a complement of automated unit tests to validate all application database functions.

• Independently built and tested User Interfaces (UIs) for manufacturing accounting software.

• Maintained a network of 30 Apple and 5 Windows Computers, with over 100 users.

• Built and maintained over 60 syndicated partner sites for MeansBusiness.• Constructed back end systems to automate the creation and maintenance tasks.• Extensive work in creating the front end web site using ASP, JavaScript, and HTML. Also used ADO and SQL stored procedures to access and update database information.

• Designed and tested a large data capture system for the Kansas Department of Revenue, which handled all tax returns filed in the state of Kansas.

Ba, Physics

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Sigma Chi Sigma (National Physics Honors Society)Minor in Computer Science

Ms, Computer Science

Be, Engineering

Bachelor'S Of Engineering