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Security Improvement: Migrated applications from using credentials in configuration files to Azure Managed Identities.Security Refactoring: Transitioned the security stack from a custom solution to Azure B2C and MSAL.Application Enhancement: Implemented health check endpoints to monitor application status.Build and Deployment Optimization: Established build pipelines, resulting in faster builds and deployments.These achievements demonstrate a strong focus on enhancing security, efficiency, and reliability in software applications.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Designing and implement custom blockchain solutions.

Detroit

Worked on the OTA (over the air) solution to manage and update vehicle software.Participated in the migration of an existing system to an event driven architecture. This included refactoring existing micro-services to use spring-integration and supported the maintenance of a development Kafka cluster.Developed a product to describe, validate and manage configurations for microservices as they get deployed through the pipeline. This minimizes costly misconfigurations before they happen.Developed a product to trace messages as they flowed through the system through various pub-sub messaging platforms in order to help developers and QA with debugging, testing and monitoring.Created many new micro-services using Spring projects such as spring-boot, spring-integration, and spring-data deployed to static virtual machines and PCF.

Southfield, Mi

Implemented REST services and batch jobs using Spring Boot and various other Spring modules.Created many successful online promotions for top tier clients using Perl and in house frameworks.Created an API for 3rd parties to access promotion data using Java technologies such as jOOQ and RestExpress.Mavenized Java applications on legacy build frameworks.

• Co-created Knappsack, a mobile application management suite.• Developed multiple mobile web applications using JQuery Mobile and various Spring frameworks.• Deployed and managed distributed web applications utilizing much of Amazon’s web services (AWS), such as Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation and DynamoDB.• Developed portions of the user interface and web services for the Chapter 33 benefits management system used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Charleston, South Carolina

• Integrated disparate systems utilizing SOAP based web services. This includes design of schemata and orchestration of various technologies.• Trained junior software engineers and new hires in application specific frameworks and development practices.• Lead successful high profile features through the entire development life cycle.

Charleston, Sc

• Successfully designed, documented, and implemented hundreds of features for existing, large scale health care administration applications. • Internationalized an application to support the needs of multilingual clients. This includes writing a properties file editor with SWT in order to manage translations, the addition of dozens of new tables, and the refactoring of core business logic in order to handle user configured text.• Developed an email notification framework utilizing the Quartz job scheduler and JMS based jobs in order to send client's valuable emails concerning their user's data.• Worked on the critical support team and was responsible for resolving show stopping issues.

Aiken, Sc

• Developed AerTrax, mobile phone GPS tracking software utilizing J2ME technologies.• Developed JobTasks, mobile phone job management software.

Aiken, Sc

• Wrote VB modules for Microsoft Access to parse student surveys and generate viewable HTML files for a wide range of users.• Created and edited vital print jobs for administration using JCL in a VMS environment.