Initially a member of a small team of senior developers producing Java/Spring microservices for the Viya platform. I designed and we coded eight microservices that were built upon a common platform that was evolving continuously. Simultaneously providing developer support for customer issues to tech support.- Lead the effort to rewrite seven of the microservices in Go and deploy all of them on Kubernetes. - As a member of the API Center of Excellence, I reviewed REST API designs and ensured consistency with SAS guidelines and standards.- Designed numerous APIs for our team. - Rewrote the first microservice while learning Go and working with the core Go team at SAS as they built out the platform library on which our Go services are built.- Contributed repeatedly to the Go platform library. - Provided Go support to other developers within my department and across R&D.- Contributed heavily to the rewrite effort.Became team lead after assisting in building our team to eight developers and two testers.- Act as subject matter expert for team members, all of whom are much newer to the codebase.- Primary point of contact for customer issue resolution.- Act as team manager whenever our manager is unavailable or on vacation.- Key participant in developing and refining our agile software development practices.- Member of the GenAI Engineering team, tasked with designing an enhanced proxy layer to external GenAI services that will be used by internal applications and services.

Member of a team of five developers producing Factory Miner, a new Java/Spring application that would become a part of SAS 9. We architected and designed the application from scratch. Developed our own agile software development practices based on Scrum.

Responsible for much of the mid-tier and back-end software for our distributed simulation-workflow execution solution. - JavaEE expert on a team of approximately eight people. - Ported our system from WebLogic and WebSphere to JBoss and TomEE. - Originally developed using pre J2EE and early J2EE concepts and technology, I have slowly been migrating much of that to use modern JavaEE APIs and features.- Developing new SOAP-based (JAX-WS) and RESTful (JAX-RS) web services. - Migrating EJB2.x Session, Message Driven, and Timer beans to EJB3.- Migrating EJB2.x Entity beans to JPA.- Implementing new features.- Integrating with other systems.- Utilizing SCRUM agile software development methodology.- Transitioned support of legacy system to team in India.- Provide technical support to India legacy system development and support team. - Developed GWT application for administrative monitoring of J2EE system.

Lead a team of four developers, a DBA, a Report Writer, and Business Analyst.• Lead the customer to define the final business rules and user requirements.• Designed the application schema of over 110 tables.• Detailed design of application including five major modules.• XHTML/JavaScript prototypes for all application web pages (over 105 JSPs).• Object-oriented JavaScript based on the prototype.js library.• Two custom tag libraries to support authorization and data versioning.• Support for deployed modules while developing others.• Maintained Spring and iBATIS configurations.• Customized ABATOR to generate iBATIS data access layer objects to meet our needs.• Custom iBATIS data access objects too complex for ABATOR to generate.• Planned, installed, maintained and upgraded the JetBrains TeamCity continuous integration server.• On-the-job training in Struts, iBATIS, Spring, SQL, Java, JavaScript, etc.Mentor for the development team.

Web Application Developer -Developing and providing enhancements for three different web applications. All of these applications were developed and Deployed on a WebLogic server using various versions of an in-house developed, J2EE framework. The first application was developed using JSP, Servlets, and JDBC; the second using Struts, JSP, Servlets, and JDBC; the third using Struts, JSP, JSTL, Custom Tag Libraries, Spring, and iBATIS. Each of these applications had different user communities and differing levels of pre-defined requirements and design.

Cheetah Technologies was acquired by Acterna (my next employer) in August.

USS Hawes (FFG-53)Charleston, SCDCA, ASWO, MWR, OOD, EOW