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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Lowell, Ar, Us

Lowell, Ar, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Full stack software engineer and tech lead working in the Financial Communications space. Worked with Java, J2EE, MDB, Oracle, Docker, Liberty, Kubernetes, PKS, Concourse, MQ, Jenkins, Git, and Maven- Tech lead and mentor for associate developers- Solutions Architect involved in designing and implementing solutions across the enterprise platform- Lead DevOps engineer for the application group responsible for creating Continuous Integration jobs- Work with support teams to identify processes for application production support- Assist QA teams with test case development and automation

Boston, Ma, Us

Full-stack Security Assurance Engineer providing technical leadership for creation of automation capabilities, and leading consulting activities for the development teams on best security practices to incorporate into their agile processes.-Solutions Architect and Software Engineer responsible for the creation of software capabilities to support dynamic security scanning, real time log auditing, and static code analysis-DevOps Engineer responsible for incorporating Security Software into development teams existing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Groovy-Create and maintain a Security Testing program that empowers development teams to include security requirements as part of their definition of done in story planning as well as guidance for building security test cases-Security Architect involved in Security Architecture reviews of systems and processes with the goal of identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities-Security Consultant to developers for employing best practices for security in design, coding, and testing efforts

Boston, Ma, Us

Full-stack Software Engineer providing technical leadership for the development of a suite of customer-facing web and mobile applications for the eServices Fidelity platform.Lead design and development of a suite of applications that provide web chat, email and video capabilities to Fidelity customers and phone reps. Work directly with Product Architects and senior development resources, as well as other technical and business stakeholders across the organization in a SCRUM Agile environment.Drive the adaptation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development DevOps principles .Mentor junior developers and ensure high code quality by performing code reviews, providing guidance, developing standards and managing work allocation within SCRUM Agile project teams. Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages of current development tools and methods against alternate solutions, technologies and methodologies while working independently or with technical partnersSupport product release activities (QA, deployment); participate in product installation & post install support. Skills:Oracle, Web Services, XML, Java, J2EE, SQL, HTML, Java Script, Spring Framework, WSO2, Sonar, JaCoCo, JQuery, JSON, Ajax, backbone,js, Spring MVC/Spring Core/Web Services (SOAP/REST), UML, System Architect, Archimate, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Udeploy, Git, Stash, Sourcetree

Boston, Ma, Us

Work closely with the project manager, systems analysts, architects,other developers to design, build, and test the features of the Interactive Messaging platform,which encompasses IBM/Unica's Enterprise Marketing Management Software.Skills:- Perform complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects while workingunder tight deadlines- Represent and articulate technology solutions to business and system partners- Use Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, multi-threaded JAVA and Tomcat, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, Dojo, Spring MVC, Spring Core, Hibernate. XML, Integration with SOAP WebServices : JAX-WS, SQL and store procedure

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

- Project Manager in Corporate Audit Services - Anti Fraud Dept responsible for Fraud Investigations- Subject Matter Expert over Continuous Monitoring and Data Forensics to detect internal fraud

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

- Technical Lead over rewrite of Dimensional Clearance System from PL/1 to Java- Worked with SMEs to define system requirements- Co-developed solution with software vendor in Sweeden

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Responsibilities/Accomplishments: - 2007 BNSF Achievement Award Recipient for Warm Bearing Detector System project for reducing train derailments 80% in 2006 for a cost savings of 6 million - Project Lead in charge of Trackside Detector Systems managing workload of 3 developers and 8 offshore contractors from 2005 - 2008 - Technical Lead in charge of application development of Trackside Detector Systems from 2008 - 2009 - Lead Developer on the development and integration of ILOG J Rules into the Warm Bearing Detector System and Web Services to report Car Repair data to industry systems - Led software development effort to create a consolidated system for Mechanical desktop users to improve car maintenance and detector alarm response time by 60% - Represented the technical interests of BNSF by participating in the EHMS IT Focus Group consisting of IT personnel from each major railroad and the American Association of Railroads

Dallas, Tx, Us

Responsibilities/Accomplishments: Developed and implemented company product - Case Manger Pro. Used ASP, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL Server 2000 to create the object oriented web-based application pages. Point-of-contact for technical issues for major customers and law firms

Master Of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science