William Goff Email & Phone Number

Valley Forge/King Of Prussia

Design and develop java enterprise solutions using the latest J2EE design patterns and methodologies.

Lead software engineer for mulitple projects. Design, develop, and test web applications using best industry java j2ee practices.

Lead Software engineer for multiple projects. Design, develop, and test web applications, using best industry java j2ee practices.

Designed and developed NightSurf, a role-based system that allows users to run metrics, reports and ad-hoc queries against the a large Oracle database. NightSurf’s ad-hoc query capability is used when no other tool can answer the analyst’s question. It allows users to schedule re-occurring queries to re-run at given intervals. It also allows users to retrieve extremely large result data sets. The system allows both user and administrators to cancel problem queries. Design and development Banyan, and its sub-systems to include various Enterprise Java Beans (3.0 compliant), Web Services (JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, JAX-RS), and Web Application (Java 1.6, Spring 3.1, EXT-JS 1.2). Re-designed Banyan and all its sub-systems to make use of modern J2EE design paradigms. It is the main entry point to access the various communications databases. It allows its users to view and export the data in various formats. Re-engineered Banyan, which was a severely flawed system that needed to be restarted on a weekly basis, to a system that now rarely needs any attention. For example, one of the sub-systems needed to be restarted every 4 hours, because of poor design; after it was re-designed it has been running without problems for over a year. In addition, this system now allows users to cancel queries. Oversees all design and development of the Dishfire Middle Tier to include the Dishfire Web Service (JAX-RPC, and JAX-WS). This system is designed to query four instances of the Dishfire Database; it then combines these results into a single coherent result set. I was tasked to replace the former lead developer, who was missing deadlines, and could not get his design to function properly.

Oversees all design and development work on Checkmate. Currently redesigning a legacy system, moving it from C/MOTIF to a J2EE architecture. Find and evaluate new ways to geographically display data to the users via a web based client. Find and evaluate new ways to get the latest hardware vendor’s product information into the Checkmate database. Rewrite cron jobs to make use of Oracle 9I in the retrieval of user’s security information from the agency’s security database. Recommend new hardware and software for the Checkmate team.

Helped contractors working for other agencies to write programs that can connect to the NSRP system via a web service, allowing other agencies the ability to get data in a timely manner. Wrote a Java package that propagates user preferences in XML to and from the user’s home directory. Researched and wrote multiple Java packages that take Java Beans and produce XML files as well as take XML files and produce Java Beans via the use of Castor (open source Java libraries from ExoLab). Designed and wrote XML mapping files that make the most out of Castor’s capabilities to manipulate Java Beans and XML files. Designed and developed Java Server Pages (JSPs) to interface with a secure web service to process Java Beans and XML files. On the client side the user sees XML files that they can manipulate and send back to the web service via a secure Web Server. These XML files are then unmarshalled by Castor back into Java Beans to be processed by the Web Service. Procured and installed Secure Shell (ssh, ssl), becoming the resident expert on the way in which to send encrypted files across a network securely. Wrote shell scripts that make use of Secure Shell’s encryption capabilities to transfer files via the use of public/private keys ensuring security of the data being transferred. Wrote a database connection-pooling package that will allow for the pooling of multiple connections to multiple databases. Identified and fixed numerous threading problems within existing Java classes. Identified and fixed numerous Java Swing bugs in existing Java classes.

Technical lead in GUI development and database extraction applications for the National Security Agency. Work included design and developing GUI interfaces to extract data from a Sybase (12.0) database. Java 1.3 swing components were used for the creation of the user interface. JConnect 5 was used to extract the information from the database. Created specialized GUI components that allowed users to print JComponents directly to the printer using the Java 3D Graphics package. Implemented a capability to allow users to import and export data directly to the file system (from UTF8 to ASCII and back). Utilized Java’s native interface API to do bulk copies directly into the Sybase database dramatically optimized the importing of data. Development included consideration for simultaneous users, performance loading, and GUI screen standardization.Instructed team members in the design and development of the GUI’s and underlying business logic. Instructed team members on optimization and threading techniques as well as memory utilization techniques. Developed common routines by the team members to increase performance and decrease memory usage.Instrumental in architectural decisions relating to conversion of information to web interfaces. Enhanced and optimized Cron Jobs and Perl Scripts for Dynamic HTML content. Content included textual and graphical information from complex database schema.

Developed web content using Java (1.2), Perl, HTML. Developed complex SQL queries into a Continuous PerformX database. Developed a training application that connected to a legacy Oracle database and MOTIF driven programs. The application was built to run independently of the main system.

Developed a multitude of applications using Java, C, and C++ via the Rogue Wave Software Library , X, Motif, and Sybase. Created UNIX Bourne Shell scripts and maintained all of GOLDPOINT’s web pages using HTML and Web SQL. Maintained a Sybase database with over 1.5 million rows of data. Responsible for ensuring data integrity as well as establishing age off requirements. Created associated documentation including user manuals for new and existing programs. Provided help desk support for users of newly generated programs and procedures.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Aa Degree; Diploma, Implied Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Implied Computer Science

Diploma