Nathan Davis Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

DevOps engineer working with world-wide health care company. Responsible for managing IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture implementations in multiple environments. Responsible for architecture and management of WebSphere eXtreme Scale deployments.DevOps engineer managing multiple linux-based systems.Managed multiple DevOps installations, including BitBucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, and git.

Austin, Texas

DevOps engineer working with world-wide health care company as IBM PureApplication System architect. Led effort to automate rapid deployment of WebSphere and DB2 based virtual systems on PureApplication System platform. Managed several hundred virtual systems. Developed and deployed custom patterns types. Advised team on configuration, development, and deployment in virtualized environment. Assisted with migration off of PureApplication System to open-source virtualization platforms.Responsible for management of WebSphere eXtreme Scale installations. Created convenience scripts to help developers manage their environments. Advised developers on best practices for using in-memory databases.

Austin, Texas Area

Pure Application Systems SWATResponsible for installation and maintenance of IBM PureApplication Systems integrated hardware / software at customer sites worldwide, and delivering detailed education. Worked directly with customers to perform hardware and software problem determination and resolution on customer production systems. Primary Level 3 (detailed) support interface, ensuring problem reports from customers were being worked by appropriate developers. Actively worked with the Level 2 support, customer, and development teams to ensure timely resolution for customer problems.- Ensured all product problem reports were resolved in a timely manner.- Resolved many customer problems directly, primarily hardware, networking, virtual machine deployment framework, and Linux configuration, without involving development engineer. This allowed the developers to concentrate on improving existing functionality and creating new features.- Developed Java code to automate reminders for problems that were in danger of missing time-to-service commitments, resulting in an immediate and significant improvement in response times.

Austin, Tx

AIM Customer ProgramsTeam lead or key technical team member for customer beta programs for IBM middleware products, such as WebSphere Application Server and IBM PureApplication System. Team was responsible for developing and presenting eduction material for new features; acceptance testing software deliveries before providing to customers; and providing detailed technical and operational support during beta programs.- Led teams responsible for developing and presenting education material covering new or improved functionality introduced in the betas. Used this material to educate customers on the product during the beta period and converted to on-line education modules, resulting in a significant reduction in customer problem reports.- Ensured delivery of quality beta code to participants across multiple products and releases. - Developed Java, C++, and Python sample code for driver verification and customer education lab exercises. Used these to ensure driver quality and to provide customers with hands-on education on product features.- At the end of early programs, provided skills transfer and technical updates to internal support and marketing teams, as well as select external customers. All sessions received consistently high marks on quality of material and presentation.

Austin, Tx

Business Partner Technical EnablementWorked with Customers and Business partners to ensure their proposed software system architectures made best use of IBM software products, and to promote their adoption of WebSphere Application Server. Provided technical education and product updates. Required detailed application-level knowledge of WebSphere family, MQSeries, and DB2.- Provided solutions to a wide range of application integration issues across multiple industries and architectures, increasing third-party support for IBM WebSphere Application Server.- Answered customer technical questions about the workings and operations of IBM products. - Defuse several critical situations at major customers by working with both customer and IBM development teams to identify sources of the problems and develop an acceptable solution.

Austin, Tx

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)NIIIP/SHIIP/SPARSWorked with US government sponsored consortia of manufacturing industry companies to provide proof of concept systems using cutting edge standards-based technologies to reduce cost and shorten manufacturing cycles. Worked primarily with nuclear submarine manufacturing contractor. Technologies evolved from OpenDoc/DSOM to Component Broker (pre-1.0) to EJB running on WebSphere Application Server. - Converted Java/CORBA prototype system to use EJB-like interface on Component Broker within weeks of availability of the EJB 1.0 spec. - Pioneered use of EJB Environment variables to support deploy-time configuration and use of reflection to abstract common functionality into parent classes. - Investigated using CORBA interceptors to support business rules and fine-grained security. - Implemented JMS 1.0 over IBM MQ (now WebSphere MQ) a full eight months before IBM product group.- Demonstrated ability to use JMS in a BMP entity EJB to access IMS data.

Austin, Texas Area

Technical support for object developers world-wide. Subject matter expert in OS/2 application development, VisualAge C++ and VisualAge for Java, SOM (including Workplace Shell), and OpenDoc. - Developed and presented courses in object-oriented programming fundamentals, increasing customer self-sufficiency and satisfaction with IBM products.- Assisted with development of base code for OpenDoc runtime in spare time to help improve product quality and reduce time to market.

Clear Lake, Texas

Verification for life-critical space shuttle on-board flight software. Software process definition and documentation interface for verification team. - Drove conversion of critical documentation from paper to on-line format (BookManager) to ensure latest updates were always accessible on-line, a key to obtaining ISO9001 certification.- Investigated uses for expert system and neural network technology to improve reliability of Space - Shuttle Flight Software and related ground support systems. - Developed an Ada code generator for what became IBM’s “The Integrated Reasoning Shell” expert system demonstrating the flexibility of both the product and the Ada programming language.- Designed and developed multimedia tools and educational programs using C++ to demonstrate the value of the then-new concept of computer-assisted learning.- Pioneered innovative use of full-motion video and hyper-link technology for education delivery before the World Wide Web.

Baytown, Texas

Modified legacy COBOL programs to implement new functionality with minimal changes to existing code. Wrote new COBOL programs to implement new feature requests.

Ms, Software Engineering

Bs, Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Chemical Engineering