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Bristol, Ct, Us

Farmington, Ct, Us

1. Team lead for three person team working with consultants to port an ETL application for patient referral tracking from Netezza to Hive. Later technical lead for team with alternate consultants. 2. Developed Hive SQL scripts and several Hive UDF's and UDAF's. 3. Wrote Java map/reduce tasks and streaming map/reduce jobs using Bash scripts 4. Wrote bash scripts and Java program to ingest data into HDFS.5. Helped administer the Cloudera Hadoop clusters for this project and other projects, including role based access control and SOC compliance steps.6. Wrote Oozie, Airflow, and Luigi workflows to manage the ETL, backup, and distribution phases.7. Developed gradle build scripts

1. Redesigned the system that translates binary documents (PDF, etc) to HTML or text using Oracle Outside-In. Later modified the system to use Apache Tika. 2. Developed a system and API to re-score meta-search results using Discovery's real-time alert module (Java and C/C++). 3. Designed and developed the API and implementation of the real-time document submission and indexing system. 4. Developed the authentication API and layer used by Discovery web interface and search module. Supports LDAP and database based authentication. 5. Wrote JMX based monitoring system to monitor each component. 6. Modified all non-third-party components to use SLF4J and Logback. 7. Developed and maintained the build system in Ant, Maven, and InstallAnywhere. 8. Maintained and updated the data source ingestion and index build system. 9. Worked with team to integrate Apache ManifoldCF into the data source ingestion system.10. Updated services to use Java Service Wrapper or YAJSW. 11. Multiple projects to customize Discovery for customers or contracts. 12. Developed the Java API for the search system and the client and server side implementations. 13. Modified the batch search processing system to support unlimited size batches. 14. Maintained the previous version of the search service. 15. Ongoing support for customers (FBI and DHS) and QA.

Contract development on a rules based, automatic bid manager. Designed and implemented a program to evaluate rules to bid on paid placement key words at several search engines. The program also updated and deleted bid entries at the search engines.

1. Gathered requirements, designed, and implemented in Java with two other engineers the new web e-commerce site and internal management tools.

Development on single sign-on internet purchasing system:1. Implemented billing system and servlet based billing report interface. 2. Developed batch settlement program to tally purchases and sales for each client and to generate a statement for each client.

1. Designed and implemented in Java a web crawl server that ran multiple, independent crawls of specific web sites. 2. Developed a java servlet UI and JDBC back end to input database content. 3. Developed requirements, design, and implementation of the document submission API and system.

1. Developed in C++ with a team a topology class hierarchy for the Image Understanding Environment (IUE). 2. Ported the IUE to multiple platforms. 3. Helped develop a fiber detection application. 4. Contract development in Java for Clickshare Service single sign-on web purchasing system

1. Helped developed a packet video conferencing system and IP streams gateway. 2. Developed a SCSI driver in C for a mobile, military network. 3. Developed in C for the distributed scheduling Wideband IP Satellite Network on the highly parallel MIMD BBN Butterfly computer.

Ba, Mathematics

Ms, Computer Science