WORK EXPERIENCE

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Senior Software Engineer

• Lead Architect Lead architect for the Distribution Solutions division, which includes five high performance Scrum teams both locally and off shore.
• Provide architecture oversight for development of over seven high value applications including the Vision application.
• Established design, development, coding, and testing standards for al development efforts.
• Guided and supervised the conversion of al applications from Dimensions to GIT source code repository. Conversion included major changes to the production deployment process, including the establishment of a dua production server environment that allows production code to be tested offline while in a production environment and then flipped to online without impacting client activity or suffering SLA penalties.
• Established a new automated testing framework based in Junit, Cucumber-JVM and Selenium. The framework has recently been adapted across other project teams.
• Supervise three senior leve engineers and one entry leve developer as part of the overal architecture team. The team is responsible for the architecture road map which includes: application server support, production support, research and development of new technologies and frameworks, security audit responses, developer training and mentoring, code reviews and overal safety net for over 25 development and support staff.
• Consult on numerous projects outside of Distribution Solutions and at the enterprise level.

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Software Engineer Park KS.

• Assigned to design and implement an Accounts Payable feature in the company's flagship software Fastrieve document repository and workflow systems.
• Worked with interna clients in gathering feature specifications and continued to work closely with clients during the entire development life cycle.
• Worked as part of agile team of senior engineers each assigned to a specific pillar of functionality within the Fastrieve application.

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• IT Specialist/Architect/Trainer Served as part the Architecture Office staff for the Farm Service Agency. Primary duties include design, implementation and education of the Farm Service Agency's System Development Life Cycle. SDLC
• Assisted in oversight of the agency's Quality Assurance Plan, reviewing application artifacts providing formalized feedback using Quality Contro Review process.
• Aided in the SDLC transition of the SDLC process away from the Rationa Unified Process RUP to a more streamlined process in an effort to make software development more reliable and repeatable while remaining compliant with al government standards, mandates and directives.
• Worked directly with project teams to effectively focus requirements gathering and analysis efforts implementing the SDLC Process methodologies.
• Provided technica assistance to project Change Contro Boards, and Information Bulletins.

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• Architect II Worked with a smal team to update and integrate an existing Nexte address book system into the Sprint online service software. Software was used in to transport contact information from the Nexte iDen phones to a new Sprint CDMA phone.
• Duties included research into legacy Nexte systems to locate the correct code for the current production release of the application.
• Stood up the legacy integration and deployment environments.
• Updated and test legacy build and test scripts.
• Updated code with new contact transfer functionality.
• Provided support for Testing and Certification and production Tier III support .
• Leveraged the following technologies:EJB - Enterprise JavaBeans, MDB, ANT,Sun Solaris

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• Software Architect: Sr - Java Developer Member of a three person Architectural/Development team responsible for the analysis, design, and development of a Farm Loan servicing application used to maintain al the farm loans issued by the government.
• Extensive use of design patterns, J2EE, JSP, CSS, Struts, XML, XSLT, Hibernate, SQL
• Current development tools include Rationa Software Development Platform, and SQ Server
• Responsible for UI design and implementation of a Loan Servicing application. Design challenges included creating a dashboard style reminder and workflow system that provided a high leve of information regarding al the Farm Service Agency State Offices and county services centers.
• Project efforts including the creation of a workflow, rules, and UI metadata database engine.
• View State engine to provide a user required cookieless bookmarking system.
• Data Driven user interface allowing rapid workflow and rule changes without requiring code changes.
• Leveraged the following technologies: RSA - Rationa Software Architect, SQL-Sever 2005, Struts framework, Tiles, jUnit Cactus Test Suite, Ant, XML, XSLT

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Support Analyst /Developer

• Worked independently analyzing, designing, and the implementation of fixes to Clinica Trials production application
• Member of a four person production support team responsible for 24x7 support for al user trouble tickets
• Trouble tickets resolution involved direct data manipulation within the application's database. Al trouble tickets had to be resolved in less than 24 hours to minimize the impact on the business
• Supported and enhanced in house clinica trials support application. Worked with business owners to revise current production application to better meet the needs of the business unit.
• Assisted in troubleshooting efforts and fix patches to production system.
• Designed and integrated a Specimen Discard System into main clinica trials software, including al database changes.
• Leveraged the following technologies: EJB -Enterprise Java Beans, Stateless and Session, MDB, Xdoclet, Ant, Python, Oracle 10i, MyEclipse, Solaris,JBOSS

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Java Developer Mo.

• Conceived, designed, developed, tested and successfully deployed ERSR Electronic Repository for Security Requests an Information System Security requesting and user access repository using J2EE 1.4, JSP, CSS, XML, XSLT, and IBM Reference Architecture.
• ERSR was created for use by the Farm Service Agency Field offices and the Farm Service Agency's Information Security Operations Help Desk, to consolidate the requesting process into a single source, eliminating the paper system that was being used.
• ERSR reduced government mai costs as users were notified via emai instead of the paper based notification, which was sent via U.S. Mail.
• ERSR effectively reduced request-processing time by 94 and completely eliminated the need for the paper based request form.
• Designed and deployed the DB2 database to support the application functionality including user authorization and repository functions.
• Integrated Section 508 requirements for visually impaired users in the JSP design
• Utilized Java Design Patterns in the implementation of Hibernate, which resulted in reduced code complexity and application response time.
• Designed and implemented a Java Rai or Transport framework for data transport between architectura layers, greatly increasing code reusability and reducing the overal number of redundant Java classes.
• Designed and implemented a user session data storage framework which illuminated the need to store session information in hidden fields on the JSP, a violation of security best practices, or within the user session on the server, leading to reduced bandwidth and freeing server resources which increases application scalability.
• Designed a data driven framework that allowed changes to be made to deployed J2EE web application JSPs on the fly, without code alteration or application restart, using an integrated administration interface. This design also included complex JSP validation and user selection dependency rules.
• Designed an XML/XSLT emai generation utility that allows application owners to alter emai message format rules without requiring code alterations or application restart.
• Implemented an SS secured SAX Web Service for retrieva of sensitive employee information.
• Used severa Java GUI development tools including IBM Websphere 5.x , and Eclipse
• Extensive experience with JNDI and JDBC, with DB2, SQ Server, Oracle 8i-10g, and MySql
• Developed a USDA Externa Partner Data Steward Web Interface using Struts with Hibernate connected to a SQ Server database,
• Experienced with Struts, Hibernate, XML, XSL, SQL, PL/SQL, JSP with CSS
• Responsible for application FISAM Compliance: Certification and Accreditation C A and Disaster Recover DR documentation
• Providing technica details about application design and interaction with other enterprise leve applications. C A is a part of the U.S. Government FISMA process that must be completed before an application can be moved to production.
• Acted as the technica liaison between the application owners and the C A Team to ensure al required documentation was complete and accurate.
• Create Use Case scenarios and provided test cases to Acceptance Testing.
• Team Leader for Information Security Operations ISO , which controls access to USDA Farm Service Agency FSA Mainframes and Web applications, over a 100 applications and systems overall.
• The ISO team consists of four contract staff and one government employee.
• The ISO supports over 30,000 users located in every state and territory of the U.S. and processes over 44,000 requests for access, password resets, and application troubleshooting.
• ISO provides multi-tier support for FSA systems and applications
• Maintained and updated an in house MS Access request tracking system, which was later replaced by the ERSR application.
• Authored an ISO White Paper about request processing improvements, which introduced the concept of ERSR.

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• Application Developer Network Manager Developed a MS Access VBA application Price Quoting system in direct support of the company mission.
• Ported out limited versions of the application to Patterson Sales customers
• Implemented a manufactures cross-reference too using direct table relationships and a simplified version of Soundex.
• Installed a Windows 2000 client/server network
• Acted as office manager, provided customer quotes, filed, shipped and restocked warehouse inventory valued over 100,000.00