Omar Roa Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Illinois, US

I am on a temporary work assignment in the Enterprise Technology Learning Space. I am technical mentor for the Software Development Institute, a program that enables members of ET/InfoSec/Innovation Group to gain new skills around Software Development. I mentor aspiring software engineers with learning javascript and software engineering fundamentals.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

Lead Engineer of 7 software engineer team that created consumption tools of transactional data for various analytics teams around the enterprise. Primary focuses were maintaining and sunsetting various legacy tools while creating modern consumption patterns in AWS for downstream consumers to own.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

Member of agile software team that developed and maintained a data pipeline with supporting utilities for State Farm transactional data into an Enterprise Data Lake for consumption.I trained an external team to maintain solution during sunsetting process to move on to higher priority work. This included various presentations, mentoring, and updating of.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

Currently working on a team that utilizes the Hadoop Tech Stack. Our team primarily focuses on create data pipelines which deliver data to a Hadoop Distributed File Cluster which later gets analyzed by our downstream partners. We use Hadoop, Spark, Oozie, Behave, Python, Scala, and Java. We also have some REST services that we've created and maintain that.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

I was part of the campus recruiting team for Southern Methodist University. We tried new ways to recruit with successful results. Our methods allowed us to get to know our intern candidates more personally than before. This allowed us to further ensure we had candidates who were not only technically apt but fit our company culture. I also organized our.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

Worked on DevOps enablement team which focused on Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration. We created and maintained Jenkins pipelines. I also was a lead for our Automated Acceptance Testing framework (Java/Spring/Selenium) which allowed for Integration and Systems testing for a heavy traffic website. I also became lead for our Environment Build and.

Bloomington, Illinois, US

• Automated test cases by creating scripts in JAVA using Selenium, Maven, STS.
• Leveraged Continuous Integration by using Jenkins.
• Helped onboard three other interns by assisting them with workstation set up.
• Collaborated with offshore team to get technical help.

Dallas, TX, US

• Worked at the Hart Center for Engineering Leadership
• Assisted staff with special projects throughout the school year.
• Worked on a software solution to automate process for administering surveys to new undergraduate and graduate students.

Dallas, TX, US

• Rendered 3D reconstructions of a Mosasaur skull on Amira Software to create virtual facsimiles of the skull for 3D printing and distribution.

• Tested and documented new and current software to ensure quality control before software launch.
• Collaborated with other departments and Independent Business Units on special projects.
• Assisted with new web application incorporating Javascript and KendoUI API.

Dallas, TX, US

• Supervised and led up to 21 students in various engineering labs.
• Created and maintained course materials with professor for Introduction to Engineering and Digital Circuits classes.
• Supported students and answered questions on course materials; promoted open communication with students.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed up to 25 employees.
• Handled employee development, orientation, on-the-job training.
• Maintained and serviced a fleet of four commercial speedboats.
• Performed architectural narrations along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan for groups of up to 130.
• Entertainment Cruises Local (3x) and National (1x) MVP award, chosen from shipmates in nine cities, based on exceptional customer service and outstanding job performance.