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Denver, CO, US

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Lead, code, and solve problems.

Louisville, CO, US

• Led the development efforts to create a new hospital/supplier solution from the ground up.
• The solution leveraged Java Spring Boot Tomcat services deployed into an EC2 instance onAWS using PostreSQL, Angular, Lambdas, RESTful APIs, GitHub, and Bamboo.
• Led the development efforts around performance testing of the application. This included theintroduction and coding of the locust.io performance tool. Performance tuning was donequarterly.
• Individual contribution was 40% and offshore lead was 60%. I helped with the quarterlyplanning, design, and code review of features initially while contributing individually as thequarter went on.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Worked with the product team in delivering features as requested by the customer in an agile environment. One large feature was the research and integration of machine learning, as developed by an acquired company.
• Lead the development efforts in migrating SQL Server running in an EC2 instance to a PostgreSQL RDS instance. This included everything from research, to proof of concept, to creating and documenting the AWS instances.
• Tested stories once they were completed. This included creating performance tests with Locust, writing unit tests with JUnit, and creating selenium BDD test cases for browser automation tests.
• Managed the CI process with Jenkins, Bash, Python, and auto-deploy scripts using Slack Bot.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Worked with the operations and development team to automate and improve processes in an Agile environment. My position involved working primarily on the Java RESTful Web Service layer to implement solutions to other teams using technologies such as JSON, XML, Liquibase, Docker, Fitnesse, and React.

Louisville, CO, US

• Worked on the team that designed and developed our EIPP (Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment) system from concept to production deployment.
• Our system included technologies such as AWS, SmartGWT, REST, Hibernate, Spring, Protobuf, JMeter, GIT, Apache Tomcat, JUnit, TestNG, Oracle SQL, WSDL, Axis2, ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Subject matter expert for our entire eInvoice web service application.
• Experience in turning the system into a distributed, highly available J2EE solution. This included using pagination for performance gains and modifying the system to use multiple nodes.
• Development involved using object oriented design and programming skills and J2EE Design Patterns.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and using Scrum practices.

Spartanburg, SC, US

• Lead Software Engineer for Wabtec's entire car maintenance and repair billing software system (CRB).
• Developed and maintained features for the CRB Java Client.
• Using Visual Studio and C#, developed features for the Windows Mobile version of the client application.
• Implemented the Bluetooth communication layer between the Windows Mobile device and hand held RFID reader.
• Developed and maintained features for Tomcat, Mule and middleware servers which used stored procedures and Hibernate to manipulate the Oracle database.
• Interfaced with the database team when developing application solutions involving database changes.

Chicago, IL, US

• Using object-oriented technologies, develop and maintain the next generation Java based conferencing server application.
• The server was developed on a Linux workstation using various open source tools like Eclipse, eUML, the Eclipse Test and Tools Platform Project, etc. and deployed on a Linux server.
• Helped scale our current conferencing application and test suite by performance profiling and basic code optimization to allow for more users.
• Using the Swing component library, designed and developed an off-line log reader to make debugging of server problems easier.
• Resolved software programming issues to meet quality guidelines and project schedules.

San Jose, CA, US

• Designed, developed, implemented, and debugged enterprise class SAN Management software application programs using the Java programming language.
• Leveraged object-oriented technologies and concepts, such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Design Patterns.
• Created a network communication layer using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), XML-RPC, and RMI over TCP/IP.
• Assisted in refactoring efforts of the application.
• Led the design efforts of a unit test plan using JUnit for our latest Java based management software.
• Documented the software application functionality during all phases of the software design process.

San Jose, California, US