Heavily involved in the development of Luxid Navigator, a winner of the CODiE award, including backend and frontend architecture design and development. All systems are hosted on Amazon AWS and we act as developers/system admins responsible for maintaining all Amazon instances.Backend technologies involved in:MongoDB, Solr, Java processes for a variety of needs such as crawling content from the web and other various data curation processes.Frontend technologies involved in:Luxid Navigator Web Application built in GWT (Google Web Toolkit).In-house curation and editorial Web Application built in GWT.

- Helped Johns Hopkins University with the development of Data Conservancy Service. Tasks included, but not limited to, addressing Stripes UI bugs and enhancements. Heavily involved in the development of ingest pipeline of BagIt submission information packages. The pipeline is a multi-threaded multi- staged service developed in Java. Stages include extracting the package, content identification, verifying and creating checksums for the package, extracting metadata from the package and its ORE Resource Maps and therefore creating appropriate business objects and finally ingesting it into thearchive backed by SQL and Solr for indexing and searching.- Involved in enhancement and improvement of in-house archiving software SDB (Safety Deposit Box)such as upgrading content identification software and creating new ingest workflows using JBoss.

Object-Oriented programmingDesigning, writing code and modules using Java and Perl for content manufacturingProcess re-architecture, enhancements and pipeline designApplication development expertise, including command based apps and WebApps using GWT (GoogleWebToolkit)GUI designCreating, Managing and Supporting MySQL, MongoDB DatabasesExtensive experience in Linux environment and SVN/CVS repositoriesHandling metadata in Tagged ASCII, MARC, SGML and XML formatsKapow Robot Development software for Content WebCrawl Supporting, maintaining and enhancing previously written modules and code Reading, writing and parsing XML files and schemas.Creating XML Catalog Files and DTDs (Document Type Definitions)Project Management experience, managing internal departmental projects such as Platform Bug Fix Packages and companywide NPD (New Product Management) projects and on-time delivery of all projectsWebsite maintenance: Mainly in PHP. Includes modifications to the main company website, new pages to accommodate new company work flows such as submitting formsExpertise with Bug Tracking tools such as JIRA and ClearQuest.Expertise with Redmine.MS Sharepoint websitesCuadra STAR editorial system

Daily tasks include solving different issues regarding the company’s products coming in from the customers via email and phone. Issues include but not limited to:AccessIP AuthenticationSearch AssistanceAccountsEncrypted Links GeneratingProxy SettingsAccomplishmentsIn December 2009 was awarded the ProQuest “Shining Star” award for:Taking responsibility for key Illumina database updates and specification changes Managing the Illumina Bug Fix Package releases Most importantly, driving the on-time delivery of the Illistrata Sub-siloing project which Mark Hyer, VP of Secondary Publishing described as “must have” for retention of A&I sales in 2009 In December 2010 was awarded the ProQuest “WOW! Internal” award for:Taking responsibility for data delivery (80 databases, approx. 100 million records) to the all new MorningStar platform.Played multiple roles: Software Engineer, Project Manager, Content Analyst and Content QA.In December 2011 was awarded the ProQuest “WOW! Internal” award for:Completely taking over a new acquired product from transforming the raw format to the desired output and managing the workflow.Replacing a 20 year old inventory system in ARev with a newly built application using GWT as the front-end and MySQL as the back-end.In light of numerous team vacancies, has substantially increased responsibilities to ensure that the overall production of the team does not suffer. Multiple promotions within the company for performance.

Responsible for the 2007 World-wide Fixed Asset Inventory, duties include:Collecting Asset Forms from employees from all over the worldUpdating the databaseCreating multiple queries in the database to get the desired dataFiling the forms in a proper orderResearching for the reliable Asset Disposal Companies and Foundations to dispose or donate old assetsAssisted members of the team on various department related tasks