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◆ Architect and technical lead of two 10+ person teams and one 5+ person external team creating point-of-sale applications that run on ELERA and TCx Elevate platforms.◆ Instrumented Apache Ignite to provide failover and data synchronization to in-store servers as a reliable two-node cluster with connectivity monitoring and automatic restart attempts.◆ Worked with UX team and gathered direct customer feedback to create UI design for Android application that manages self-checkout terminals in grocery stores and architected solution using Vue.js and Typescript.◆ Designed REST API for microservices running on TCx Elevate Platform using OpenAPI 3.0.◆ Wrote bash scripts to deploy and run Docker images that launch Spring Boot apps to in-store servers.◆ Designed mock server implementation using NodeJS to enable remote development team.◆ Instrumented NGINX for failover and ingress.◆ Created all client and server certificates and KeyStores that enable secure communications between in-store servers and Azure cloud services.◆ Trained development team in Guadalajara, Mexico on all aspects of TCx Elevate.◆ Rotating scrum master involved in all aspects of Agile SDLC.

Rtp, Nc

◆ Led 10+ person global development team to create full-function point-of-sale app for grocery stores supported across multiple locales and sold in multiple countries.◆ Created and managed OSGi platform that contained both open-source and custom Java micro-services.◆ Designed and implemented internal MQTT message broker with Eclipse Mosquitto and Eclipse Paho Client.◆ Implemented installs for 4690/TCxSky (Linux based OS) and wrote python scripts to manage all aspects of the software lifecycle.◆ Created all user publications in Markdown◆ Wrote Jenkins Jobs using Declarative Pipelines to run Maven builds and publish to NEXUS.◆ Created custom Maven plugins to streamline install package creation◆ Created Maven archetypes to assist in creating new projects◆ Helped create CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to test using SonarQube, Ansible, Selenium, and Cucumber.◆ Created Maven VuePress plugin to generate custom websites for user’s guides from Markdown documents.

Rtp, Nc

◆ Worked with architects across multiple teams and direct customer interaction to design and implement curbside pickup app for national grocery chain.◆ Designed and implemented Java adapter between Web2.0 front end using Apache Freemarker templates to translate REST API calls/JSON to legacy C++ point-of-sale systems using SOAP/XML.◆ Used JavaPOS framework to communicate with point-of-sale peripherals like scanners and printers.◆ Hired and led 6 person team.

◆ Design Lead – Smart Cloud Storage Access. Designed the User Interface bridging One UI and Unified UI guidelines to create a simple, elegant user experience. ◆ Design Lead – XIV Enterprise Storage System. Reviewed and improved existing UI. Interfaced with external customers to test use cases and further improve the UI and system setup. ◆ Design Backup – SVC/Storwize. Interfaced with external customers in the US and UK to test use cases and improve the UI and out-of-box experience. ◆ Design Lead – Cross Product – Designed a usage recording solution currently being implemented across all Storage products that will allow customer UI interactions to be tracked, collected by IBM and analyzed using products such as Tealeaf and Glassbeam. ◆ Effectively communicated designs to worldwide, remote teams. ◆ Member of Invention Review Board.

◆ Team Lead/Scrum Lead – Lead a cross-department, cross-site team developing a new Dojo based framework for IBM Systems Director. ◆ Technical Lead – Lead a cross-department, cross-site team of 20+ members developing a new, cross-product, converged web UI and the new face of IBM Systems Director. ◆ Console Stack Owner – Responsible for defining and reviewing the look-and-feel of new web UI’s across a 200+ developer organization. Included interfacing with the User Technologies team and the User Centered Design team and interviewing existing/potential customers. ◆ SWAT Team Member – Part of a small task force organized to respond to technical and design problems that arise in a large development organization. ◆ Accessibility Lead – Worked with the AVT lead to adhere to CI-162 requirements. ◆ UI Team Lead – Lead a team of four members to maintain and update IBM Systems Director’s Swing-based UI framework. ◆ Helped create and maintain the Software Distribution plug-in for IBM Systems Director. ◆ Received first invention award and first plateau award for invention disclosures.

◆ Active Mobility Client project – Helped create a JavaScript API around both custom and native GUI components on WinCE and RIM devices using C/C++. ◆ Active Studio project - Designed and implemented a visual editor for creating graphical interfaces on wireless devices using Java/Swing. ◆ Desktop Application Browser project - Designed and implemented an administration client for the HiddenMind Mobility Server using Java/Swing. ◆ Helped create and maintain a rich, custom GUI toolkit that extended Swing.

◆ Team Lead - Designed and implemented a file-transfer plug-in for IT Director. Oversaw the work of one other person. ◆ Created prototype design and completed implementation of IT Director 1.0, which eventually became IBM Systems Director. This project involved writing GUI and server code in both Java and C. ◆ Designed and implemented a Java-based PDF browser, the IBM Book Browser, so that all server documentation could be shipped on Compact Discs instead of printed books. This software saved IBM money for each server sold. ◆ Wrote and followed testing procedures for LAN Access product.

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