SUMMARY

• Senior software engineer with over 30 years of programming and analysis experience in fast - paced agile environments.
• Outstanding analytical and technical skills acquired during military career and honed throughout professional experience.
• Quick to learn new programming languages, concepts and technologies.
• Exceptional skills at all phases of the software development lifecycle from design to implementation.
• Quality driven and initiated many standards that included HTML5 validation, increased Junit test case development and code coverage, refactoring
• Eclipse profiler plugin to eliminate bottlenecks and reuse standard code modules, and increasing test case coverage with Robot frameworks and Selinium2 libraries.
• Migrated legacy software written in C/Motif to web based software that was browser neutral.
• Initiated the design and lead a team during the implementation and deployment phases of the software migration.
• Over ten years of experience with MVC development including components of JSP, JavaScript, JSON, JQuery, Data Access Models (DAOs).
• Experience in X12 data format for submission of patient encounter data for reimbursement by Federal Medicaid.
• Experience with programmatically populating Form 1500 with vaccination information for patient billing and state reimbursement purposes.
• Experience with HIPAA regulations and understanding the importance of being compliant.
• Fluent with multiple programming languages: HTML, Java, Perl, JavaScript, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL), XML, JSON, JQuery, Struts I.
• Worked with Git, SVN, and CVS for source control.
• Java development experience with Apache SOAP and Xerces, JDBC, Servlets, SOA/REST, JNI, JSP.
• Working knowledge with Java frameworks such as Hibernate, Object-Relational Mapping, JPA Annotations, Struts 2.
• Familiar with many development methodologies, including Refactoring, Agile, Kanban, Structured Architecture, OOP, Iterative.
• Over twenty years of experience with Java Development from version 1.02 through 1.8 including Core Java, JNI, JDBC, Servlets (web services).
• Over fifteen years of experience in development and deployment with Java Servlet Containers using Tomcat.
• Over seven years of experience with PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS.
• Over eight years of experience with PostgreSQL including command line interfaces for backup, restore, SQL queries.
• Over eight years of scripting experience on Linux and CentOS using perl, bash, custom apps.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Solution utilizes Apache, Tomcat, CGI programs, and Java servlets. XML was used to transfer data from the server to the client.
• Threading was used to separate the more time- consuming functions from the User Interface.
• Design and implementation of a communication layer using a Java application on the server (running on Linux/CentOS) which connected to various .NET web services.
• The WSDL2Java tool was used to generate the XML data transfer portion of the implementation to enable integration with multiple ERP platforms utilized by customers within the targeted market.
• Design and implementation of the database migration from CISAM to PostgreSQL, enabling enhanced capabilities and greater stability in products.
• This resulted in quicker time to market following database migration and removed requirements to manually rewrite code.
• Design and implementation of an installer for the product on SCO Unix, Linux, and CentOS.
• The Linux and CentOS installer included the introduction of RPMs (Redhat Package Management) to efficiently build and install the various modules of the product suite.
• This was a combination of scripts using BASH and Perl along with specialized programs written in C.

Confidential

Field Service/Quality Service/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation, and enhancement of an installer for the product on Macintosh computer platforms.
• Designed, implementation, and enhancement of a software defect tracking system using Apache, Perl, and MySQL utilized by multiple departments within the organization.
• Design, implementation, and enhancement of a QA checklist and integration into the intranet increasing QA efficiency and decreasing time to fix for critical issues.
• The test procedures ran test suites against the product on HPUX, AIX, IBM Risc, and DEC Alpha operating systems.
• Evaluation and prototyping of the conversion of the current product running on UNIX with MOTIF to the first available versions of Java using JDK/JRE 1.0.2 and 1.1.

Confidential

Sergeant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibe for designing, implementing, and supporting multiple systems running on a Sperry-Univac computer written in Cobol, Fortran, and Assembly Language.
• Creation of operations manuals, user guides, and maintenance manuals for applications and databases.
• Performing many “hot” tasks such as extracting data from a dozen or more mainframe computer tapes and having the data available the following morning.
• Computer science training including the completion of multiple fast-paced courses for Advanced COBOL, Report Writer, Fortran, Assembly Language, and Advanced Analysis techniques.