Independent consultant providing custom software architecture and development services to a variety of clients with a focus on the defense and insurance industries. Major projects include custom J2EE software development utilizing Spring and the Tomcat application server platform.

Technical lead overseeing the evolution of a premier commercial machine-learning platform so that it can be used in the Federal intelligence and defense spaces.

Worked with the federal intelligence community to adapt Oracle’s Big Data Discovery product to their unique needs. Researched and implemented enhanced search and analysis capabilities to meet the customers’ mission needs. Pioneered big data techniques for transforming and enriching wide varieties of semi-structured and unstructured data. Served as a liaison between the intelligence customers and the commercial product engineering teams.

Responsible for the design and development of intelligence community specific technologies built on top of the Oracle Endeca technology stack. Supported the deployment of a federated search technology that enabled real time search of over 4 billion records from over 90 disparate back end systems. Worked with sales engineers and on site consultants to support the use of commercial search technologies in the intelligence communities.

In charge of developing new technologies based on the core Endeca product line for addressing the unique needs of the federal government and intelligence agencies. Personally designed and implemented the Endeca Aggregator which provide the ability to scale the search technology to massive scales. Developed the Big Data Forge product that vastly sped up data ingestion and indexing times by leveraging the power of MapReduce and other Hadoop centric technologies.

Responsible for the research and development of technologies for distributed online collaboration and visualization and its application in the fields of intelligence gathering and threat assessment. Senior engineer responsible for the development of a human intelligence web application that was named JTCD of the Year by the Pentagon in 2008. Participated in the development of a graphical Java application used by the US Army for monitoring the status of their global networks and assessing any potential threats and intrusions. Architected a robust data pipeline technology for processing of intelligence data feeds with extensive database, GIS, and XML capabilities. Produced an AJAX based web application for monitoring pipelines deployed via JMX.

Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the web services and middleware tiers for the next generation of the company’s product architecture for its online information services. This was an XML driven J2EE architecture deployed on the JBoss application server platform. Designed a distributed services architecture that allowed functions such as user authentication, searching, and document retrieval to be seamlessly and independently scaled and evolved as performance and product needs changed. This architecture allowed for the integration of various new and legacy technologies with minimal impact on the client tier.

Core member of a start-up company developing a new enterprise application architecture and its first product, an enterprise revenue-planning package. Designed and implemented the integration of the Java Expert System Shell (JESS) to serve as a business rule engine for the core architecture. Developed a notification service that provides support for multiple message transports. Implemented a graphical tool to allow a user to quickly develop and test rule sets for deployment into the application architecture.

Responsible for the technical architecture and development of web sites and their backend integration for a variety of clients. Designed and led the implementation of a complex integration between Net.Commerce and several legacy backend systems for a large scale B2B and B2C multilingual web site.

Responsible for managing the development and enhancement of the company’s core product, FormWorks, a modular high-volume document imaging platform. Served as architect and technical liaison to several key customers. Oversaw the design and development of the next generation of the core product line from the requirements phase to implementation. Managed a team of developers working with a wide variety of software technologies. Served as the technical architect of the imaging system for the Department of Education’s Financial Aid Processing system. Wrote a GUI-based management software for the workflow product that was designated "Product of the Year (1996)" by Imaging Magazine.

Consultant working on a prototype of Windows based diagnostic software for the new Pinball 2000 platform.