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Austin, Texas, United States

Senior developer on account and card services team, responsible for working with architecture lead and business process owner to design and implement system enhancements spanning a complex set of back-end components, micro-services, and consumer applications.• Successfully completed challenging assignments that delivered core functionalities related to accounts, cards, and card owners in company software.• Worked in a scrum-based agile team with QA team and others to scope work, develop solutions, mentor junior developers, and provide testable software to meet business requirements.• Spearheaded efforts to investigate and fix failing regression tests that resulted in a 50% reduction in test cycle failures.

Austin, Texas, United States

Lead developer on a project at client (Fiserv) that implemented data encryption/decryption of data at rest in several existing legacy applications.• Within the first 90 days, led a three-person development team in the enhancement of the Nasco DRS application to implement encryption of sensitive data, including: o Encrypting all sensitive data elements in the database (via an application that was later converted into a script).o Sensitive data that appeared on the User Interface (UI) was decrypted after it was read from the database and then encrypted before it was saved to the database.o Application was updated such that any sensitive data that was logged was now written in a structured format containing encrypted values.• Also, within that three-month timeframe, conceived of and created an application to encrypt and decrypt sensitive values and files containing sensitive data elements so as to support development and operations teams when dealing with encrypted data.• Completed analysis and began development on the encryption implementation for DDA Feds (a web service) accessible via REST or SOAP.• Extracted the mapping component from the previous encryption effort into a separate project that could then be consumed by the existing projects and the new project.• Expanded and enhanced the mapping component to support extended requirements, including an XML file-based configuration.• Created a separate log parsing utility to consume, analyze and parse log files so as to identify potential sensitive data by application, client, and field.

Reston, Va

Leader of the development staff for the DISS Enterprise responsible for hiring, training, providing guidance, managing assignments, and reviewing and assessing team members. Also scoped work to fit release schedules and tracked and reported on progress. In addition to lead responsibilities, served as senior developer to triage issues, improve code base, fix defects and review changes. • Overhauled issue workflow process that resulted in a 50% reduction in the number of steps. Subsequently tailored JIRA to conform to the project and process in place. Regularly scope, organize, and track development tasks using JIRA issue & project tracking system.• Completely re-wrote the reporting module which had been a regular source of problems. After the re-write, the reporting module was completely stable and rarely required maintenance.• Spearheaded the effort to convert the Change Management System from SVN to git, a change which eliminated the frequent merge issues that had been plaguing the project.• Revamped the data service layer in all applications using Java Generics to consolidate and simplify the classes so they conform to a common standard using common data service and object classes.• Revitalized unit and integration tests that had languished and re-wrote the testing infrastructure for the integration tests. Also overhauled a headless testing module that improved performance ten-fold.• Created an automated Status Dashboard utility that integrated with Jenkins to regularly report on the Status of builds and deployments for the local development and test environments.• Enhanced and revised the structure of application exception classes, internal logging mechanisms, common date and formatting utilities, and unit and integration classes.

Mclean, Va

Designed and developed secure software solutions for defense information systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards and driving innovation in cybersecurity measures to safeguard sensitive data.• Provided technical guidance and support for various new efforts associated with the DISS applications.• Created an independent screening application using components of the existing application together with enhanced custom code that was fully functional.• Investigated the integration of an ESB into the existing application.• Used Mule ESB to develop components that provide for integration with external systems to exchange and update subject data.

Mclean, Virginia, United States

Core member of a small development team that built a browser-based content management system (CMS) and media website. The bulk of the systems were written in Java using the Spring Framework including Spring Data JPA with QueryDSL and Hibernate 4.0 on top of a Postgres database.• Developed the initial architecture for the application based on Spring MVC, ReST, and Spring Data JPA best practices.• Wrote significant portions of the application from front-end controllers to service implementations to model and entity classes, and many of the other resources in between.• Additionally, integrated Shiro for authentication/authorization, Orika and Dozer for object mapping, Jackson for object - JSON mapping, Lucene for searching, Joda Time integration.• Also integrated the application with various third-party social media platforms including Facebook (using RestFB), Twitter (using Twitter4J), Google and Dropbox (using their APIs), and Gigya to handle logins with social media.• Built RSS feeds, sitemap generation, and most of the test harnesses to support the JUnit testing.

Senior software engineer on a six member team that completely overhauled the beta version of the company's online financial planning application in seven months. The team followed the scrum approach to agile development and work was time-boxed into two-week sprints. Coded roughly one-fourth of the rich client application, which was written in Java and XML using the GWT framework and UiBinder on the front-end. Also built out part of the client-server RPC interaction based on the GWT RPC mechanism. Updated the server-side portion of the application as well including implementation of business tier processing and enhancements to the persistence model. The back-end enhancements encompassed changes to the MySQL database, and the development of DAOs and entity classes with annotations using Spring and JPA.

As Program Manager, oversaw a four month effort to replace the sole data provider upon which the industry's leading Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) product was built. Worked with external vendors and all contributing internal functional teams to ensure that the quality standards in place were maintained and the project was delivered on time. The effort was considered an unqualified success by all.

Part of a small team that built the industry's leading Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) product (an identity verification service). The application used public record information to generate authentication questions for end users to answer in order to verify their identity. Overhauled report infrastructure for both legacy and BiRT-based reports. Followed test-driven development process in coding new system functionality. Helped design and develop a significant portion of the user interface, including transaction entry, user and account management, system customization and utilities.

Participated in the production support activities of the project including the monitoring of batch processes, diagnosing problems, and engineering solutions to correct those problems. Identified bottlenecks, redundancies, and reoccurring errors within the batch processes that could be corrected. Streamlined several of the modules within the system to eliminate redundant processing, reduce memory leaks, and to speed overall processes. Resolved several problem/change reports to implement user requested enhancements and bug fixes.

Developed application to assist the US Postal Service in tracking the operations of various mail processing equipment across multiple locations.

Led small teams in creating thin-client web applications that codified government regulations and supported safety standards. Also helped design and write infrastructure software that formed the basis of the company’s various application systems and contributed to the development efforts of other applications as needed. All projects used an object-oriented approach towards development adhering closely to the SUN J2EE specifications. Applications were web-based (using HTML and/or JSP pages), coded in java, and used a relational database (Microsoft SQL Server) on the back end. XML and JDOM were used heavily throughout to make the system more modular and provide greater flexibility. All applications were developed and deployed on a JRun 3.0 App Server and used Apache’s Ant build tool. Some of the projects used the TopLink object to relational database mapping tool and others strictly used the JDBC 2.0 API. All projects were able to meet tight deadlines on a regular basis.

Led small teams in creating thin-client web applications that codified government regulations and supported safety standards. Wrote entire persistence infrastructure upon which codified regulation application was built.

Small Loans: Led team in gathering requirements for a new loan product. Effort included mapping underlying business process, identifying needs of potential users, writing use cases, developing prototype web screens, and designing an object model. Developed an internal project web site to track progress, identify issues, and present specification feedback to business users.MCODES: Core member of various teams that successfully developed three web-based application systems. Systems were used to assist in underwriting loans, acquiring loans on secondary mortgage market, and tracking operating statement information on properties. All systems were developed using Apple’s WebObjects and EOF, were written in Objective C and ran in both UNIX and Windows using a SYBASE database. Gathered requirements, wrote use cases, designed infrastructure components, developed GUI web pages, developed application layer modules, and coded, tested, and revised major portions of all three projects.

Led a small team in gathering requirements for a new loan product offered by Fannie Mae.Mapped underlying business process, identified needs of potential users, wrote use cases, developed prototype web screens, and designed object model.Developed internal project web site to track progress, identify issues, and present development specification feedback to business users. Senior Developer, Multifamily Committing and Delivery SystemCore member of teams that successfully developed three web-based application systems.Participated in requirements gathering sessions, wrote use cases, designed infrastructure components, developed GUI web pages, developed application layer modules, and coded, tested, and revised major portions of all three projects.

Analyzed, designed, coded, and tested software changes to the Management and Accounting Reporting System (MARS). The MARS system was designed to provide adhoc reporting capabilities through the generation of dynamic extract programs. The MARS software is written in COBOL and NATURAL II, uses the ADABAS DBMS, and runs on an IBM mainframe.Using Knowledgeware's Application Development Workbench (ADW) CASE tool, defined the requirements for a system designed to monitor and coordinate the maintenance of and enhancements to several EPA software systems. The requirements were documented in a series of data flow diagrams (DFDs), entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), process specifications, and a data dictionary.Performed a requirements analysis to study the development of a reporting system designed to alert CFTC staff of major market moves and clearing members/large traders that hold positions which put them at financial risk.