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Software Engineering Manager in the Core Systems Software group. Since taking on the role of a manager, have driven to completion the entire product lifecycle of the Virtual Wisdom 4.1.0 product: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, documentation, beta release, and GA release. Currently manage a local team of four engineers and a London-based team of five engineers. Responsibilities include:● Project management (release management, planning, scheduling, staffing)● Hiring (recruiting, interviewing)● People management (offering continuous feedback)● Mentoring● Help fine-tune Agile software development, design and code review, and product release processes● Scrum leader for four different scrum teams

Senior Java developer in the Core Systems Software group. Probe Proxy Framework● Design and develop a Probe Proxy Framework offering core functionality common to all Virtual Wisdom software probes- Job scheduling- Probe configuration management (CRUD operations, persistence)- License enforcement- Error reporting● Framework is used by all three released software probes and two additional probes under development● Technologies and platforms used: Java, Thrift, Quartz Scheduler, Eclipse, Maven, Git, Vagrant, ZypperProbe Proxy SDK● Design and implement an Eclipse-based SDK for generating software probe proxies● Generates Java code and Maven project files conforming to APIs of the the Probe Proxy Framework● SDK bootstrapped the development of two software probes, reducing development time by months● Technologies and platforms used: Java, Eclipse, Java Emitter Templates (JET)Unit Testing● Spearheaded a project to encourage better unit testing of our Java code● Achieved 100% unit test coverage in Probe Proxy Framework code● Educated team on best practices and tips + tricks for achieving better unit tests● Technologies and platforms used: TestNG, PowerMock, Mockito, JaCoCo, SonarQube, JenkinsVI Hackathon Winner● Paired up with an intern and won the first Virtual Instruments Hackathon● Implemented a "Code Deployer", which allows a developer to deploy local code changes from IDE (Eclipse, IntelliJ) to a virtual machine running the Virtual Wisdom product● Sped up product development time by reducing deployment and testing overheadOther responsibilities include:● Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Software Probe Management component of Virtual Wisdom product● Scrum Master for three scrum teams● Participate in design and code reviews

Santa Clara, California, Us

Senior Java developer for TIBCO Active Matrix product.Active Matrix Administrator Pluggability Framework● Designed and implemented an extensibility framework for Active Matrix Administrator component● Allowed 10+ TIBCO products to integrate with the Web, backend and data tiers of Active Matrix productActive Matrix Command Line Interface● Designed and implemented Ant-based command line interface for Active Matrix product● Allowed for automation and remote scripting of product● Leveraged by QA team to write all functional tests for Active Matrix productActive Matrix Host Platform Adapter● Design and implement a Java API to abstract the underlying host platform running the Active Matrix product● Support JBoss, WebSphere, and TIBCO Host implementations of the APIActive Matrix Administrator Unit Test Framework● Designed and implemented unit test framework specially suited to testing Administrator component● Leverage Spring IOC container and mocking of J2EE components to facilitate dependency injection and access to persistence and messaging APIs● Used to develop hundreds of unit testsTTests● Designed and implement JUnit-based test framework for TIBCO BusinessWorks product

Masters, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science