SUMMARY:

Using current broad technical knowledge and using an understanding of business rules that drive processes, I seek to develop original, creative responses to new and existing problems in software engineering. Using solid fundamentals in languages and tools, I am committed to continuous personal and professional development, for the provision of more informed and more innovative service in software development. To be a star provider and a developer that understands the ten - thousand meter perspective.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ajax, Websphere 7.0, Websphere 6.0, Javascript, Java 1.5-Java 7, JSP/Servlets, J2EE, JSF, RAD
• Using all of the above technologies on a daily basis to integrate new functionality in and make changes to client web applications based on project requirements and change request details respectively

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Using Java Spring technology: Aspect-Oriented Programming, Configuration beans, Injection
• Development of web-accessible Business Area Service Interfaces for back-end logic
• Multitier architecture training and review
• Conducted agile methodology training
• Eliciting requirements and providing input into design phases for services based on compiled best practice information and patterns and practices
• Constructing Junits with minimum 80% code coverage
• Configuring service parameters and beans via Spring (XML)
• Large-scale CMIPS healthcare project for the state of California.
• XML, APIs, SQL (DB2), Struts foundation
• Leveraged Cúram 5.0 framework
• Earned Cúram 5.0 certification
• Scrum software development methodology
• Coding in JAVA: fully-realized development life cycle activity and scope.
• Rational Rose UML modeling of custom data structures and classes, automated builds
• Front Controller Pattern, AbstractFactory pattern.
• Took instructions and requirements from design documents to full-scale realization on a daily-basis.
• Learned and practiced software change management as it drives team agility through Borland Star Team software.
• Developed understanding of foundations of struts framework.
• Learned, assimilated, and earned certification on Cúram social-enterprise framework for Java developers.

Confidential

Software Developer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Researched and produced training materials and presentations for navigation and use of Vignette Systems in the translation process wrote complex test scripts for automated workflow processes after researching system inputs, developing and understanding use cases, assimilating business rules, and producing desired outputs.
• Contributed to solution of coordinating LDAP with the Vignette System.
• Analyzed Marriott.com Content Management System and developed a comprehensive, exhaustive reference describing directory structure and function of nearly all content types in the system

Remote Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• J2EE adaptation of a VBScript prototype for the Microsoft Outlook View Control with JSR 168 portlets
• Apache Tomcat 5.5 web container.
• Analyzed requirements, studied OVC documentation, learned VBScript, produced working prototype implementing reference-able Global Address List, calendar, authentication, and inbox controls.
• Acted as liaison between development team and client in implementation and deployment stages.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development of a GUI-based custom registrar application in core JAVA (swing).
• Following waterfall methodology for iterative development, went through software development life cycle with the client to develop a robust, intuitive, and user-friendly solution to student registration (involving date-manipulation, custom calendars, and persistent data objects).
• Involved heavy use of the Netbeans 6.1 IDE.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a J2ME (Java Mobile) application that communicates with Skype login (through extraction of key information from URLs).
• Translated and interpreted client source code (skeleton code) from php and pseudocode into JAVA to gain understanding of requirements.
• Utilized built-in phone graphics and features to build-out complete menus to expose the functionality being developed.
• Involved heavy data manipulation.

Confidential

Software Development Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Development of a custom healthcare web application portal for physicians.
• Initial exposure to server-side application programming with J2EE using MVC design pattern.
• MySQL Database used, along with an Apache Tomcat web container.
• Participated in iterative site design, integrated Java Mail and weather into core site model.

Confidential

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Learned abstract, string representation of musical patterns (Parsons Code) for subsequent pattern matching using a distance algorithm.
• Later, used, legally reverse engineered, and developed a variety of software tools in C, C++, and JAVA - in various environments (including Unix) - to develop a distributed (parallel computing / “divide and conquer”) approach to the identification of various music formats (wav and mp3) from disparate, segmented databases.
• Involved sockets, spawned processes, bidirectional pipes, Java Sound API, MPI (message passing interface), de-compilation, and of course, presentations and documentation.
• Worked on the core application in Unix (bash shell; over a rocks cluster).
• Reverse engineered several open source software packages (Choirfish and MelodyHound) to attain some functionalities.