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Oakland, Ca

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Wrote guidelines and examples of RESTful Java web services* Built web services for data about people, places, practices, projects* Designed and built RESTful web services with Java, JAX-RS, JAXB, JSON* Designed and built persistence layers with JPA, Hibernate, EclipseLink* Designed and built persistence mappings with JPA, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL* Built JPA annotated model class code generation with Hibernate tools* Designed and built persistence tests with JUnit, Spring, JPA* Designed and built web service API tests with JUnit, CXF, Spring* Developed both WAR and JAR (SpringBoot) based deployments for services* Deployed services with Glassfish, Tomcat, and also AWS via OpenShift, Heroku* Shepherded Java web service migration from Glassfish to Spring Boot* Developed build processes with Maven, GitLab Pipelines, Nexus* Documented and published service APIs with Enunciate* Collaborated with other team members using Trello, Jira, Confluence* Collaborated on service deployment automation with Ansible, GitLab* Built service deployment pipelines with Ansible, Bash, gitlab-runners* Participated in Agile project planning

Nomadic

* Designed and built the Hoot Smalltalk programming language* Hoot is a language that integrates the best features of Smalltalk and Java* Hoot is a variation of Smalltalk that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)* Designed and built a Hoot Smalltalk compiler with ANTLR, StringTemplate, and Java* Designed and built standard Smalltalk classes with Hoot (and some Java)* For details, see https://gitlab.com/hoot-smalltalk/hoot-smalltalk

San Rafael, Ca

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Designed and built an account token web service with Java, CXF, Spring* Built and maintained e-commerce web apps and services with Java, Struts* Designed and built Java libraries for cryptography, including AES and DUKPT* Designed and built Java libraries for authentication, data access, file management* Developed multiple Java builds with Maven, Ant, Jenkins hosted at CloudBees* Developed a build for Android app with Maven, Ant, Jenkins hosted at CloudBees* Managed builds and deployments to test VMs in AWS through CloudBees

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Designed and built a speech recognition service with C#, WCF, EduSpeak* Designed and built enrollment web services with C#, WCF, and Spring.NET* Designed and built account domain classes with C#, LINQ, and NHibernate* Participated with Agile practices: CI, Scrum, Domain Driven Design* Designed and built test harnesses with NUnit and TestDriven.NET* Developed build scripts with NAnt

Dragnet applies face recognition technology to prevent fraud at financial institutions* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Designed and built fraud case management web services with C# and WCF* Designed and built a fraud data archive with C#, NHibernate, PostgreSQL* Designed and built fraud data correlation tool with C#, XAML, WPF* Designed and built fraud domain classes with C#, LINQ, NHibernate, Spring.NET* Designed and built image annotation tool with C#, XML* Designed and built web services with C#, WCF* Adapted batch processing systems to use Spring.NET and Quartz.NET* Built human interfaces for population maintenance and search* Tested algorithms for watch list maintenance and population search* Designed and built test harnesses with NUnit and TestDriven.NET* Created build system with NAnt, NUnit, CruiseControl.NET* Introduced Agile practices: Scrum, Domain Driven Design

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Designed and built frameworks and components with C# and .NET* Designed and built extensive test harnesses with NUnit* Led a weekly software design study group* Participated in daily Scrum meetings

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Co-architect / builder for a real estate contract management system* Designed and built frameworks with Java, JBoss, Echo, Castor, XML* Designed and built extensive unit tests with JUnit* Participated in a weekly software design study group* Participated in daily Scrum meetings

* Served as a lead software developer* Co-architect / builder for a web-based automobile retailer / broker* Designed and built partner finance messaging with Java, XML, XSL* Designed and built internal finance systems with Java, JSSE, XML, SOAP* Designed and built parts of the main web site with Java, WebLogic, Oracle* Participated in a weekly software design study group

Santa Monica

* Designed the Bistro (Smalltalk) programming language* Bistro is a language that integrates the best features of Smalltalk and Java* Bistro is a variation of Smalltalk that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)* Designed and built a Bistro Smalltalk compiler with ANTLR and Java* Designed and built standard Smalltalk classes with Bistro (and some Java)* For details, see https://bitbucket.org/nik_boyd/bistro-smalltalk/src/master/README.md

* Served as a lead software developer* Co-architect / builder for an internet-based service delivery system* Designed and built a distributed service infrastructure with Java, CORBA* Designed and built a template-driven web page creation tool with Java

* Served as a lead software developer and mentor* Co-architect for a platform used in ATM and home banking systems* Designed and built smart card interface libraries with C++, Java, JavaCard* Built an experimental digital media exploration tool with Smalltalk, C

* Designed and built various insurance rating systems with COBOL* Commercial general liability, casualty, fire, marine, and farm* Managed product development, production, and distribution* Communicated with and supported customers

* Designed and built business systems with COBOL, Pascal, Assembler* Commercial insurance, school data, personal organizer, word processor

No Degree, Mathematics/Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computer Club, Chess Club After working 6 months part-time with my first software employer, I withdrew early.

High School Diploma, Math And Science

Graduated with High Honors, Early Admission to UCLA through Advanced Placement Tests