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Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

* Helped to maintain and enhance software to support a powerful, proven, extensible platform to empower top television brands and providers to grow their revenues by creating and sustaining consistent experiences that delight customers – on any screen imaginable.* Used Groovy on Grails to quickly develop crucial new features.* Used AWS RDS and EC2 to deploy legacy applications in different stages of development (Development, Staging, Preproduction).* Led a small group for internal Research and Development to evaluate potential new software for use within the company to accelerate development.* Took ownership of a customer facing application that was crucial to timely delivery of their media files.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Designed and prototyped a microservices platform and framework.* Used the Play framework to accelerate development and deployment tasks.* Used AngularJS to prototype new application UIs to allow for separation of concerns.* Managed a team of frontend and backend developers.* Highly skilled in identifying and fixing issues within in all stages from development through production.* Used Java/JSP along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build a GUI frontend for a web application deployed in Resin, Play and Weblogic environments.* Deployed development and production enviroments in both Amazon Webservices and in a legacy datacenter.* Used AWS RDS and EC2 to migrate a legacy application from a traditional datacenter to the cloud.

Greater San Diego Area

Joint Effects Model (JEM) Software Engineering Manager• Provided technical guidance and coordinated activities between Northrop Grumman and subcontracting teams.• Provided technical support and guidance to customer’s technical staff for technology insertion decisions and strategies.• Highly skilled in identifying and fixing issues within development and production environments.• Used Java/JSP along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build a GUI frontend for a web application deployed in JBoss and Weblogic environments.• Used JMS to communicate between web application server and backend legacy data models.• Used Apache Axis to develop and consume Web Services--both for generating and consuming WSDLs.• Used JAXB to create Java classes to represent XML schemas developed by internal and external developers.Joint Translator Forwarded (JXF) Software Engineer• Participated in requirements definition, design and development activities for message forwarding software.• Designed and implemented Graphical User Interfaces with Java Swing.• Consumed XML messages using XML Beans. XML schema and instances were generated by a third party.• Developed network components based on Military Protocols--both binary and XML/text messages.• Created installers to package applications for deployment on various C2 systems for both Windows and Solaris environments.

Greater San Diego Area

• Developed in house test utilities. These were mostly written in Java and AutoIT scripts.• Developed test strategies and implemented test cases and plans for execution. Test cases included performance and functional testing.• Created and tracked schedules for testing tasks.• Tested on multiple platforms including Windows 2000/XP and Sun Solaris platforms

Ms, Software Engineering

Bs, Computer Science