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Teaching Business Information Systems OPIM 3103 and Business Software Development OPIM 3401

Lead team of developers to develop and maintain the Kuali Financial Systems Application

* Lead team of developers in designing, architecting and developing a new Java web application for virtualizing web services.* Managed the provisioning of new JBoss EAP and MySQL application environments. This involved the implementation of build, deploy and continuous integration services.

* Team Lead and architect for an agile development project involving the training of the IBM Watson artificial intelligence computer system.* Utilize Optical Character Recognition and PHI Redaction technologies for processing medical record information.

* Design and Implement new architecture for an existing J2EE application using Spring MVC, Spring AOP, JQuery, JSTL and other enterprise frameworks.* Implement a portal modernization reference architecture utilizing the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform.* Architect and design web portal for maintaining Military Treatment Facility MOU data.* Architect and design Bi-directional batch transfer process between UnitedHealth application and the Department of Defense.* Research and development for new technologies and frameworks for use in application development. Technologies include Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, iBatis and other open source frameworks.

* Lead team of developers to design, code, and implement a new J2EE Health Technology Pipeline application. * Design, code and implement pharmacy benefit modeling and forecasting features in a J2EE application.* Research and development for new technologies and frameworks for use in application development. Technologies include Spring, Cocoon, Hibernate, JQuery and other open source frameworks.

eDistribution Broker Portal * Develop small business quoting application. * Upgraded and modified existing portal application to use Struts 1.1 framework. * Develop content management framework to communicate with Vignette APIs. * Design, code and implement delegation administration application. * Develop key accounts request for proposal process. * Develop small business alternate renewal quoting application. * Maintain Tivoli Access Manager Policies to support entire portal.

* Develop billing and reconciliation intranet application.* Maintain and support security infrastructure for all eCommerce applications.* Integrated new and existing applications into Single Sign On architecture.* Develop web services for applications to interact with security resources.* Develop on demand registration process to allow users to validate and gain access to internet resources.* Real time validation against back end systems for data validation.* Implemented using J2EE MVC framework and Struts / Tiles Taglibs* Design, code and implement administration tool to allow delegated access to users.* Develop batch process for maintaining primary administrator user base.* Implemented using J2EE MVC framework and Struts / Tiles Taglibs* Develop and maintain web sites for participants and plan sponsors of multiple retirement products.* Develop XML architecture for B2B data transfer using servlets and xerces technology.

* Responsible for development of new call center application using OO and 3 tiered architecture methodology * Create and maintain Visual Basic Presentation and COBOL and CICS business and data access layers of application architecture * Set up and maintain IIS web server * Develop ASP web pages for web reporting application

* Production support for Central Eligibility Database * Create and maintain COBOL, CICS, and Visual Basic programs utilizing embedded SQL to access DB2 tables * Create ad-hoc programs and queries to support production needs * Trouble shoot abends

* Created Microsoft Access database and front-end for report generation and documentation* Help desk support for distributed systems* Created mainframe problem tracking system using SAS