TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Expert at developing Core Java / Confidential applications
• Experienced with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Requirements collection, object oriented analysis, design, programming, deployment, and maintenance.
• Windows, Unix/Linux
• Eclipse, IntelliJ
• JUnit, EasyMock, Mockito, Test Driven Development
• Subversion, Maven, Clearcase, CVS, Perforce
• Servlets, Tomcat, JBoss, JSP, XML
• Working knowledge of Hibernate and SQL, Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL
• JIRA, Crucible, Confluence
• Confidential, JasperReports
• Math and science

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Team member for developing both the client and server sides of company's cutting-edge trading platform.
• Resolved JIRA issues by changing Java / Confidential code, fixing defects and adding new features.
• Participated in full software development lifecycle including code reviews with Confidential .
• Consulted with peers and independently solved problems in a timely fashion under the Agile process.
• Wrote unit tests with JUnit and EasyMock and integration tests.

Engineer, Systems Division

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with many server-side teams to expose new functionality as they developed it.
• Successfully worked within Confidential 's SDLC "scrummerfall" processes.
• Independently consulted with architects and users to learn of needed enhancements and document their requirements. Presented overall architectural plans and paper mock-ups for approval.
• Presented object-oriented analysis with block diagrams and basic UML.
• Presented initial object-oriented design with pseudo-code, locating existing code for business entities and identifying where new coding was required.
• Produced time estimates for coding and delivered in a timely manner.
• Wrote detailed test plans and worked with QA to clarify them, fixing any defects before release.
• Deployed the release to users and assisted them in its use.
• Performed real-time production support on the trading floor and in the operations center.
• Independently developed several research tools & prototypes and demonstrated them to management.
• Extensively documented and communicated my work to other developers.

Lead Java Software Engineer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Utilized advanced regular expressions to generate XML.
• Recruited and mentored a new developer into the project.
• Liason to management and accountable for progress.

Senior Software Developer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Team member for developing the company's main BPM product RMS, which has a server/client architecture implemented in pure Java on Windows.
• Spring RMI was used to implement specialized application-level services between the Confidential clients and a web application on a Tomcat server.
• The Confidential client was organized into wizard modules and manipulated with drag and drop Confidential .
• Large amounts of data could be presented with a spreadsheet made performant by a multithreaded cache on the Confidential client.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Programmer for new ultra high-throughput screening laboratory.
• Designed an informatic framework of fundamental business entities, and coded their associated Java Confidential viewlets.
• Coded the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm and presented the fit using Confidential, embedded in a JBoss web server environment.
• Prototyped various statistical treatments with Mathematica, demonstrated their use at meetings, and coded the approved ones in Java.
• Developed a major Confidential application that allows the user to view and navigate chemistry spaces where the coordinates of the points are formed from molecular descriptors.
• Developed an Eclipse plugin for Confidential chemists.

Java Software Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Self-taught J2EE architecture, developed on a web server with Tomcat with a MySQL backing database.
• Actively participated in Atlanta Java User Group meetings while organizing and leading one of its subsections.
• Traveled to customer sites and coded Java errant chemical structure correction plugin handlers into a JBoss-based web application.
• Developed a public facing web site for a small sign company using dynamic HTML on Tomcat. Performed host administration tasks such as configuration and back up.
• Refactored a Confidential configuration utility that installed a radiology software product
• Developed a Confidential front-end audio product similar to iTunes that manages audio samples for a voice recognition engine backend (Nexidia).

Part-time Instructor

Confidential, Kennesaw, GA

Responsibilities:

• Head instructor for two general chemistry laboratory sections during my convalescence period.

Lead Software Engineer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Developed two major Java applications as project leader with a junior programmer by establishing requirements, performing object-oriented analysis and design, and implementing in pure Java.
• Developed specialized mathematics and algorithms for optimal speed, perspective, lighting, depth cueing.
• Wrote an extensive context-sensitive hyperlinked online help system for Library Explorer.
• The second application called JDVS is a remote front-end GUI for a complex legacy Unix application.
• JDVS interviews the user from a web browser (not unlike TurboTax), and then translates their answers into a Unix command line, which is then executed on any available remote compute servers.
• Researched and developed (C/C++ on SGI/Irix and Linux) novel non-grid based CoMFA-style methodology in collaboration with Confidential .
• Coded partial least squares (PLS).
• Experimented with various algorithmic methods to generate grid points, including the dot surface of the receptor binding surface.
• Investigated canonical orientation of aligned molecules of a test set.