Stephen Quarshie Email & Phone Number

United States

Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States

Led a team of 15 developers to develope enhance and maintain the Personal Investor web portal used by over a 30 million people to manage investment portfolios

Introduce Java web technologies and new generation application development techniques while leading efforts to improve the performance and maintainability of existing Java based applications.

• Work on a team responsible for maintaining and enhancing the company’s Personal Investor site used by 2.7 million users to manage their investment portfolios.
• Executing performance analysis, identifying application bottlenecks and developing solutions to resolve performance issues
• Heading an effort to take existing code and write behavior based test that will test behaviors as specified in the business requirements in an effort to reduce the introduction of defects as a result of enhancement or.
• Managing the delivery of high value application enhancements and application defects for the business to include analysis, coding, testing and elevation
• Leading the implementation of training framework to cross train developers on the products the team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing

• Worked in the pre-paid debit card division were we managed, maintained the supported the card issuance and loads processes. We were also responsible for the maintenance of web applications used internally by client.
• Developing solutions to unique client needs that did not exist in the current workflow
• Maintenance and support of the bulk load card issuance and load processes written in Java
• Supervising an off-shore support team of 6 developers/analysts in troubleshooting and resolving issues in the process
• SiteScope monitoring of our internal and external web applications to ensure consistent uptime inline of the established SLA’s

• Worked on a team made up of a BSA, a tester and 3 Java developers; including myself, to convert VB applications into JSF web applications. My role included:
• Leading the 2 developers in the coding of the JSF application
• Working with the BSA to document requirements based on analysis of the existing VB applications
• Working with the BSA and business users to verify and confirm requirements
• Working with the tester to develop test cases
• Developing models using IBM Rational Rose

• Java DeveloperWorked on a team to develop a solution that will provide clients with on-demand access to policy and claim reports: A solution that would replace the manual copying, binding and mailing of hard-copy.
• Developing a JSP user interface that would connect to a Hyperion BI server, authenticate a user and based on authorizations serve the user with a list of reports they have access to.
• Installing and configuring an Apache Tomcat server locally and on the development and test servers
• Working with the reporting specialists to fine tune the BI server configurations to achieve better throughput ASP, VBScript, VB, DeveloperAs a VB developer I worked on a number of projects with VB related projects to.
• Developing a terrorism risk calculator with VB for accessing the company’s exposure to potential claims as a result of terrorism. The solution would integrate data from various sources and use third party tools to.
• Developing a VB process for creating test data used in application testing

Masters, Mba - New Ventures & Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelors, Computer Science, Mathematic

Activities and Societies: Track & Field, Phi Beta Delta, National Deans List, Magna Cum LaudeDeveloped the schools first computer cluster.

High School, Computer Science

General Certificate of Exams Advanced (A) Level, London Economics; Mathematics/Statistics; Computer Science General Certificate of Exams.

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