SUMMARY:

Sun certified Java Developer with 12 years technology experience in consulting, new product development, and operations. During last 10 years, lead or senior developer in numerous Java projects, utilizing J2EE architecture with SOA, web services, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, XML, and XSLT. As Solution Architect for internet start - up, honed design and troubleshooting skills. International MBA, banking experience, consulting background, and lead J2EE developer role strengthen grasp of business and political issues, requirements and design analysis, and effective communication. Global perspective developed by 4 years in foreign countries, 2 years Spanish-only work in Chile, and participation in multi-cultural project teams.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Java
• J2EE
• Websphere
• JRun
• Tomcat
• SOA
• Web Services
• AJAX
• SQL Server
• DB2
• Informix
• Oracle
• MQ
• DataPower XML Appliance
• Struts
• JSTL
• Hibernate
• Ant Scripts
• CVS
• ClearCase
• Unix
• RPC
• Linux
• XML, XSLT
• HTML
• SQL
• Regex
• UML
• Eclipse
• WS
• JBoss
• Spanish - total fluency English - native

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Successfully fixed a production issue that was unresolved for many months. Blackboard sold one of the solutions to a client.

Confidential

Senior Developer, Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Due to productivity and personal initiative, only team member to contribute in two projects simultaneously.
• Consistently finished ahead of schedule challenging assignments, involving extensive proof of concept development and implementation, for a team managing single sign-on security for 40 applications.
• Created web services clients, utilizing varied approaches, including Axis 2, jax-rpc, and jax-ws. Successfully built security layer for username token and authentication, including dual authentication and nonce. Created and implemented prototype server-side web services in jax-ws for the next generation single sign-on Confidential application.
• Performed development on authentication security for 40 different corporate websites for 3 million user base. Authentication system consists of secure web services on Red Hat Linux communicating with Sitminder.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Due to productivity/quality of work and interpersonal skills, submitted for promotion to Tech Lead.
• Senior Developer. Participated in development of a Struts application with SOA. Data layer included web services, with AJAX and Hibernate. Performed design, implementation, and documentation. Utilized Oracle, WebLogic, J2EE, Struts, JAX-RPC, Hibernate, Graphviz, Ant and ClearCase.
• Demonstrated leadership, including productivity, difficulty, and conflict resolution. Volunteered for the most difficult technological requirements, including web services components and third party software.

Confidential

Web Developer, Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Created a reusable, grid reporting architecture, utilizing advanced sql, stored procedures, and functions to retrieve data from Oracle.
• Wrote hundreds of sql statements for application reporting modules.
• Contributed to Java web application with Struts-like infrastructure, designing and implementing several modules.
• Shared on call, deployment, and troubleshooting responsibilities for Java applications on Linux, with Tomcat and Apache.
• Provided clutch support, including occasional maintenance in the middle of the night.
• Won friendly competition against fellow senior developers, completing high stakes production fix.
• Managed and documented aspects of MQ infrastructure for team.

Confidential

Lead Programmer, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Within elite agencies focused on complex data integration, managing development for several J2EE applications.
• In a politically charged environment, fostered warm relationships with colleagues representing business. Demonstrated excellent communication, integrity, and a conscientious determination to define and meet their functionality requirements. . Extensively gathered and wrote requirements. Partnered with project managers to meet or exceed goals.
• Simultaneously contributed to multiple projects, including development, documentation, and maintenance. Designed and implemented numerous MVC, JSP/Servlet applications, utilizing Tomcat and WebSphere
• Documented projects, creating user and technical manuals to outline deployments and architecture.
• On several projects, created extensive SQL for DB2 and Informix. Constantly utilized jdbc, connection pools, and SQL for application development and bug diagnosis.
• On several projects, utilized XML, XSLT, DOM and XMLBeans to digest, analyze, and format data.
• Extensively utilized regex to parse detailed and unpredictable data records.
• Administered J2EE applications in WebSphere 4, 5, and 6 on AIX. Attended IBM for WebSphere and AIX. Designed Ant scripts to package and deploy code.
• Managed production applications on Unix, including logs, basic vi editor, and numerous commands.
• Frequently employed MQ in trigger applications. Managed application queues, resolving problems with Q tool and MQ Administrator program, mqmonntp.
• Administered IBM XML Appliance, creating web services. Extensive use of XSLT and ffd to parse flat files into XML.

Confidential

Solution Architect, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Contributed business and technical ideas to a start-up company with a vision to revolutionize the trucking industry through on-line collaboration and bidding.
• Solution Architect for a Model-View-Controller, JSP/Servlet based transportation industry application, designing and implementing numerous modules. Performed hundreds of modifications and bug fixes.
• Performed as SQL Server DBA, managing and writing advanced stored procedures.

Confidential

Independent Consultant, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Performed crisis troubleshooting for J2EE application, resolving all bugs preventing deployment to production within one week.

Confidential

Professor, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Developed strong presentation and explanation skills. Honed already patient, empathetic approach for expounding ideas at the level of my audience.
• Received positive reviews for Object-Oriented Programming in Java course. Emphasized practical skills through programming-only projects and tests. Based on performance, received offer of full-time position.
• Taught object-oriented design with UML.
• Led team of three developers for a secure, intelligent internet portal, integrating with 5 applications and internationalization for 11 markets. Three tiered application, with WebSphere on Sun Solaris and Sybase.
• Involved in all aspects of code: utilities package, jdbc, business logic, jsp, and servlets.
• Drove design stage lasting initial two months of project, conducting strategic analysis of client needs and writing a 150 page Method 1 document outlining architecture and requirements. Converted requirements into UML documentation.