Lead Engineer helping drive value for clientsRole Responsibilities:• People Management• Delivery Leadership• Delivery ContributorProject Highlights:Animal Waste Management SectorWeb modernization of organization's signup form, and creation of administrative dashboard that interfaces with their contracted CRM system. Leveraged Twilio as a communication platform.Tech Stack: NextJS, Node.js, TypeScript, Moleculer, REST, GCP Services, Twilio PlatformKey Responsibilities • Back-end development consisting of creating service layers for business logic, exposing endpoints using Moleculer, developing adapters to facilitate invoking third-party APIs, minor to moderate front-end deliverables using NextJS, and persisting data with GCP storage services• Completed manual, unit, regression, and smoke testing of the application using Postman, using Jest/Mocha/Chai/Sinon/Nock frameworks and libraries• Coaching and mentoring a remote and distributed on-shore scrum team of two. Mentoring and coaching largely covered the topics of professionalism, career development, computer science topics, as well as the release process and how it scales for larger engagements

Senior Consultant in Dev Lead rolesRole Responsibilities:• Team Process Improvement• Individual Contributor• Team Leading and ReportingProject Highlights:Financial SectorServed as dev-lead enablement across multiple scrum teams, while working as an individual contributor for a single team, building a new investment platform for a major financial company. Project used Spring Boot backend development & integrations, RESTful APIs, and Angular front-end.Tech Stack: Java 11, Spring Boot, REST, Angular, AWS, PCFKey Responsibilities:• Developed Spring Boot RESTful APIs, as an integration between the front-end and other RESTful APIs• Ensured strict compliance with OpenAPI 3 using Spectral linting• Addressed code quality issues identified by SonarQube & Veracode• Performed minor Angular front-end work & reviewed PRs• Provided reporting for executive review & weekly metrics• Led 11 consultants with coaching, mentoring, & onboarding• Assisted QE tasks: test plans, perf testing with jMeter, and documenting results• Used Splunk for logging & visualization, and LaunchDarkly for feature-flaggingHealthcare SectorCo-led a 10-month project as a development lead replacing legacy middleware with a suite of approximately 125 SOAP microservices using Spring Boot. Team consisted of around 20 developers.Tech Stack: Java 11, Spring Boot, SOAP, REST, OpenShift, DockerKey Responsibilities:• Contributed deliverables using Java 8, Spring Boot, SOAP, MapStruct, and JPA/Hibernate for auxiliary SQL DB• Defect Resolution• Participated & facilitated ceremonies and backlog maintenance, solutioning, reports, PR reviews, & KTs• Demoed work for acceptance every sprint for the entire team• Ensured code quality by passing SonarQube• Worked with QE to aid developers with automation test development and hands-on automation work• Developed POC using REST, SOAP, and socket• Production Releases• Utilized Postman, SOAPUI, JUnit/Mockito, and JMAQS for testing/automation

Java Consultant delivering great softwareRole Responsibilities:• Individual Software Contributor• Thought Leadership and Process Improvement• Continuous LearningProject Highlights:Financial Sector As an individual contributor for a large financial client over six months, worked on key deliverables including the development of a time-saving Spring Boot utility, creation of database views for MarkLogic, and implementation of Cucumber tests using Gherkin for validation.Tech Stack: Java 8, Spring Boot, MarkLogic DBKey Responsibilities:• Developed a time-saving Spring Boot utility• Created and maintained database views for MarkLogic• Implemented Cucumber tests using Gherkin for view validation• Manually utilized Kafka to ensure functionality• Managed personal branch dev environment deployments using Jenkins• Utilized existing Docker configurations containerization• Used and modified data-driven tests using Mocha/Chai• Interacted with and modified MarkLogic instances using Ruby scripts

Software DeveloperHighlightsTelecom SectorAs an individual contributor within a team, developed a full-featured set of green-field microservice internal utilities using Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Batch, including data loaders, extract generators, and validation tools. Leveraged Cassandra DB, Jersey, and integrated with an Angular user-interface while providing professionalism coaching to team members.Tech Stack: Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Batch, JPA/Cassandra DB, Angular• Developed microservice internal utilities using Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Batch• Collaborated with front-end engineers to integrate back-end microservices with Angular• Implemented data loaders, extract generators, validators, and RESTful endpoints using Jersey• Contributed to microservices for automatically deferring customer billing in emergencies• Provided professionalism coaching for team members

Computer Science Teacher for the Sims Academy of Innovation and Technology, part of Barrow County School SystemCTAE Educator:• Designed and implemented a complete curriculum for upper-level course that prepared students to take the MTA: Software Development Fundamentals certification exam, as well as meeting state requirements for course standards. Course used C#, Visual Studio, and Unity.• Utilized and adapted a curriculum based on code.org resources for a mid-level course that included understanding binary, switched packet-based networking, layers of abstraction, data visualization, sequencing/selection/iteration, basic JavaScript programming, as well as social issues such as internet censorship and net-neutrality.AP Educator:• Implemented College Board approved curriculum for teaching AP Computer Science A, meeting the requirements for collegiate intro to Computer Science course. This course, taught in Java, included such topics as principles of OOP, recursion, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, basic data structures, Big-O notation, and fundamental sorting algorithms.General Educator Duties:• Adhering to the Georgia Teachers Code of Ethics• Taught professionalism and soft skills as part of being in a College and Career Academy• Responsible for about seventy-five to ninety students per semester. This included student safety, safe and harassment free learning environment, classroom management, mentoring, educating, class discipline, inspiring, formative assessments, summative assessments, meeting with parents, documenting absenteeism, measuring student growth and achievement, and setting up student success.

Technical AnalystBarrow County Board Office Employee Information Technology Services:• Provided end-to-end technical support on computer systems, interactive whiteboards, digital projection, and other technologies. This included hardware installation, troubleshooting, and repairs; software imaging; initial system setup and deployment; virus detection and removal.• Provided support for basic network issues including switch closets, connectivity issues, cable management, cable testing, wireless infrastructure, and helped with field support for the networking team.