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San Francisco Bay Area

San Diego, Ca

Design and code applications to control US naval ship software systems that are guaranteed to function in a wartime environment with an emphasis on reliability, survivability, and security. Manage the Ship Engineering Control Test team consisting of six engineers. Responsible for integrating over forty distinct software applications, six hardware platforms and four different operating systems testing both GUIs and embedded applications.-Develop software to integrate third party components with a scalable, plug-and-play infrastructure-Work on real-time systems that support failover capabilities to guarantee continuous uptime-Mentor young engineers sharing expertise knowledge, providing technical support and fostering career growth-Perform testing and integration during all stages of software life cycle including unit testing, functional testing, and formal sell-off testing using both white-box and black-box techniques-Debug and perform root-cause analysis of complex issues including memory leaks, race conditions, and performance bottlenecks -Create custom test tools to assist testing automation, simulations, and data analysis-Commended for flexibility working across various teams and as a result promoted four times and recipient of numerous awards including the Raytheon Technical Honors in Innovation and Excellence award

Created an innovative social networking oriented sports information website taking an original concept from idea to implementation. Acted as lead developer designing both the front-end interface and back-end application frameworks-Wrote server-side and client-side code using Ruby On Rails, HTML, CSS, and Prototype JavaScript libraries leveraging Web 2.0 capabilities-Researched and analyzed servers, frameworks, languages, and web programming tools tooptimize performance and ease of use for both the developers and end users-Responsible for server administration and management of a large, complex relational database