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San Jose, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Holding multiple roles:Team Lead (Scrum Master) Role:- Drive story definition, estimates with team- Conduct Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, planning, demos, etc.)- Responsible for end-of-release activities (build release branch, release candidate builds, third-party library license compliance reporting, etc.)- Responsible for capacity planning, release estimates, cut-line negotiationArchitect Liaison Role:- Participate in various architecture meetings- Communicate the architecture vision and decisions to the team as needed- Provide feedback about incompatibilities of the Kafka architecture with larger architecture proposals- Updated our team's REST component to comply with the OpenAPI architecture initiative and trained our team on the changes Senior Software Engineer Role:- Research upcoming initiatives (such as multi-tenancy)- Drove adoption of ZStandard compression codec for Kafka, across multiple teams, to support a performance improvement initiative- Wrote Docker container script that leveraged Zookeeper's Dynamic Reconfiguration feature, to fix scaling problems in our Kubernetes deploymentSecurity Champion Role:- Build and maintain Threat Model document- Run security scans and negotiate with Security Lead about which items to address in the release- Remind team about security best practices

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

(Spin-merged to Micro Focus from HP Enterprise)Currently enabling customers to have more control over their security events by building features for ArcSight Transformation Hub. Contributions include:- Writing REST APIs that talk to Confluent’s Kafka and to Kubernetes- Script to make container environment variables easier to update versus via YAML- Improved stability by fixing issues and implementing features, such as k8s liveness probes New feature: Instant (ArcSight) SmartConnector Deployment- Drove technical design and implementation of feature, improving ease of use and reducing setup time for customers when installing multiple ArcSight SmartConnectors.- Integrated Ansible into product by writing playbooks and Python filters to manage remote silent installations from ArcSight Management Center.

Houston, Texas, Us

Worked on Connectors team for HPE Security ArcSight.- Improved application security by integrating a new FIPS-certified Java provider in the Connector framework.- Continually improving application security, in the role of Security Champion, by finding and fixing security vulnerabilities, attending cross-team meetings, and learning about the latest threats.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed and implemented new infrastructure and features for a new application, HP IT Operations Compliance (ITOC).Domain: Distributed Systems, Cloud, Virtualization, Compliance, Enterprise Application- Collaborated with a colleague on the technical design of the Intelligent Scheduler / Maintenance Windows feature, with the additional requirement to make it a third-party library.-- Implemented and delivered the major requirement in 4 months, making the 1.0 release.- Designed and implemented a Planner component for the Intelligent Scheduler in ITOC.-- Designed / implemented a flexible framework to add Scoring Factors to the Planner.-- Designed / implemented a prioritization algorithm for the Planner.-- Named on patent application 62/188,461; for: Intelligent Scheduler for Resource Policy Implementation.- Contributed to the CVE Vulnerability patching application within ITOC:-- Wrote a Python wrapper for S3 (AWS) Boto libraries for connecting to OpenStack’s Swift.-- Wrote a YUM adapter for distributed dependency analysis.-- Wrote backend code: REST, service, and data repository layer, for many APIs.Technologies: Java, REST APIs, Querydsl, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Postgresql, Flyway, Gradle, Eclipse, Mockito, Review Board, Linux, Quartz, JGraphT

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for new features, and ownership of existing features, in the Audit and Remediation module of HP Server Automation (software for DevOps).Domain: DevOps, Distributed Systems, Cloud, Virtualization, ComplianceProject – Corsec FIPS 140-2 Certification for GUI (3 months)- Adopted RSA BSAFE libraries in Server Automation UI client, for compliance with Corsec FIPS 140-2 security standard.- Webstart, Jar signing, Java, security APIs, TLS/SSLProject – ESXi Compliance (6 months)- Technical lead for this new feature- Drove feature technical design from concept through implementation, documentation, and training of support engineers- Provided project estimations, staffing needs, initial scope- Quickly came up to speed on VMware concepts and technology amid loss of team’s domain experts- Interfaced with cross-functional team members, local and remote- Worked with a large customer for feedback on our proposed feature- Overcame technical and operational hurdles to provide the customer-requested functionality on time- Back-end and Swing client- Java, Python, PowerShell, PowerCLI, security APIs, Windows BAT files, Linux shell scripts, VMware ESXi 5.x, Weblogic, Concurrency, ScalabilityFix Defects (6 months)- Helped drive defect count to zeroProject – Python Upgrade (6 months)- Started to learn Python- Upgraded Python to 2.7 in huge code base- Re-implemented a customization of Python’s Zipfile module to support file streamsTraining / Defect Fixing (5 months)

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Domain: CRM, Billing, J2EE, Enterprise SoftwareAs our team's Scrum Master:- Lead sprint stand-up, planning, review, and retrospective meetings- Monitored capacity, velocity, burn-down, etc. to make proactive changes- Facilitated resolution of impediments- Kept team focused on agile methodologyAs an Application Developer:Project - Expose Services for Mobile Device Consumption:- Wrote REST service code to wrap backend CRM services- Tomcat, Weblogic, Maven, REST, EJB, Java, Amdocs CRM/BillingProject - Assist SI:- Tour of duty with our solutions integration division- Customized an order flow for a major cable operator- Java, JavaScript, CRM schema design, SQL viewsProject - UX Ramp-Up:- Environment setup, training on REST server- jQuery, HTML 5, AJAX, Gradle, RESTful API'sProject - Search Vendor POC:- Helped score search engine results for KPI-based vendor comparison- Researched open source KM vendors- Drove development of a simple servlet-based KM tool to curate a corpus for indexing by a search engine- Wrote a handler for unmarshalling XML documents- Spring, JMS, jQuery Mobile, tinymce, JSON, JAXB, SOLRProject - Amdocs Retail Interaction Manager:- New product with flashy UI, enabling store agents to handle phone subscriptions without calling a call center- Wrote code for the UI and server-side commands- Wrote an MXML merge tool for merging out-of-box baseline code with customer code- Designed a Format Locale framework to allow different formats (Date, Number, Currency), based on locale selected at login- Wrote a simulator for a Credit Verification API- Adobe Flex, ActionScript, Cairngorm framework, XML, MXML, JavaProject - Amdocs Device Care:- New product enabling call center agents to perform operations on customer's mobile devices- Designed/coded the Catalog Sync component to sync device information to CRM- Implemented several Smart Client UI forms and server-side code- Java, Swing, schema design...

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

On-site installation, customization, integration, and customer consultation on the Amdocs CRM product suite.Projects:- Worked on-site for a telecom customer in France, mentoring developers to customize Amdoc's thin client for a pre-sales prototype- Worked for Engineering, writing Java Beans for Billing Manager, for Clarify. The beans process incoming billing data (XML), apply business logic, and update the database. Tools used include JBuilder, Perforce, MS Enterprise Manager.- Worked on an upgrade and data migration project for a large auto manufacturer in LA, with focus on SQL stored procedures and various DOS and VBScript scripts.- Joined an internal project, partnered with CGEY, to build a thin client healthcare vertical applicationDelivered a presentation on XML at Nortel’s Inform 2001 conference. Demonstrated how an order from any database program could be added and updated in the Clarify database using XML with confirmations returned in XML. Used Microsoft’s ASP and the XML components from IE 5.x.

- Joined this Clarify consulting company to be part of a new web development group- Trained to implement Extensity.- Customer project: -- Self-trained on Silknet (Kana)-- Wrote VBScript scripts (Silknet business rules)-- Created MSSQL stored procedures and triggers.-- Set up a web subscription mechanism (ASP, database access) for users to receive emails about updated Solutions in subject areas of their interest.-- Set up a system for synchronizing primary keys and some data fields between the U.S. and a server in Italy.

- Designed and developed a web application (sole developer), used by paying customers- Client-side JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), MS SQL, MS Access, database design, XML, HTTP Compression, etc. - Developed a small, packaged application in MS Access.

- Provided analysis, design, installation, and customization on SalesLogix (http://www.dmcsoftware.co.uk/saleslogix/).- Work included user interface design, creating custom tables and fields, report design, end-user training, and custom script writing in SalesLogix VBScript.- Custom scripting work included territory realignment, database imports/refreshes, etc.

- Provided IT support for 122 users spread across several sites